shaving

[Morrisonker]

ok, so when you shave (legs, face, whatever) the hair just keeps growing, or at least gets a lot longer then it was preivously. Why is this? Why does the hair stop growing at a certain length if it's been plucked or waxed out but not when it's been shaved?

[**desires**]

When you shave hsair its like getting a haircut, the hair grows faster for a while. When you pluck or wax it pulls the hair from the root, so the hair has to regrow, just like a weed. i hope i helped you out.

[bernardo]

It does stop growing, even when it's been cut. The hairs which ahve stopped growing fall out and start again at the root.

[New Forester]

No, it doesn't grow faster, thicker or otherwise more when you shave or cut it. Hairs are dead tissue -- the follicle in the skin cannot "know" what has happened to the rest of the hair. What happens when you cut hair very short is that you are cutting hairs in all stages of their cycle. This includes those which are growing fast as well as those which have stopped at full length. When you cut it longer, more of the hairs have already reached their final length, or are near it and so are growing slower. There are other hairs which are growing fast, but these are not yet long enough to be those you've cut. Shaved hairs will of course continue to grow from that day, only stopping when they would have been full length anyway.

[cudgie]

When you shave, the end of the hair is split so when it grows again the hair becomes two hairs, so it appears longer and thicker but it isn't.  When you wax, this damages the nerve endings, so if you keep on doing this, after a while the hair will eventually stop  growing.