Shaving hair (wherever on the body) ultimately causes thicker hair growth. Does waxing have the same

My wife swears that it DOES cause thicker hair growth (just like shaving), but a so called beauty treatment expert recently decreed, during a home visit, that this is not the case.

Shaving hair (wherever on the body) ultimately causes thicker hair growth. Does waxing have the same effect?

NO NO NO it actually weakens hairs and makes them finer.

Its like cutting grass, if you mow it it will grow back stronger, but if you uproot it it is unlikely to grow as well

Shaving hair (wherever on the body) ultimately causes thicker hair growth. Does waxing have the same effect?

no because your not cutting the hair, your pulling it out at the roots and are actually weakening the follicle. you wax enough and the hair will cease to grow back at all. shaving doesnt make hair grow thicker either, it just appears that way as your blunting the hair from cutting it so it doesnt have the fine tip. its all a myth. it looks thicker and feels thicker cos of the way its cut with the razor. but your wife is wrong and the beauty expert is right. thats why she's an expert and your wife isnt.

Shaving hair (wherever on the body) ultimately causes thicker hair growth. Does waxing have the same effect?

well there are good things about waxing and bad things about it. It does tend to hurt alot more than shaving and the hair is gone for a longer time but when it comes back its usually harder hair then it was before. If you have a big problem area then i suggest gettting it lazerd it last for ever and you dont have to think about ever again once its gone and it doesnt hurt that mcu

Shaving hair (wherever on the body) ultimately causes thicker hair growth. Does waxing have the same effect?

Your wife is wrong. There is no scientific evidence despite repeated studies that demonstrate shaving off hair causes it to grow thicker. Waxing would not do it either.

Visible hair is dead tissue. Cutting off dead tissue could not stimulate the hair follicle to grow any more than if you caressed that hair with a 10 dollar bill. The razor is not some magic wand that waved over a hair follicle produces some unique reaction.

Shaving hair (wherever on the body) ultimately causes thicker hair growth. Does waxing have the same effect?

No, waxing makes the hair eventually grow back finer and it's alot less noticable

Shaving hair (wherever on the body) ultimately causes thicker hair growth. Does waxing have the same effect?

Shaving doesn't cause thicker hair growth. It LOOKS like the hair is thicker, especially when it's short stubble, because its flat at the end not tapered (so each hair is a flat-ended cylindrical shape rather than a long thin cone). Waxing probably doesn't have the same effect as it takes the hair right out, so the follicle is starting again with a new, tapered hair.

Shaving hair (wherever on the body) ultimately causes thicker hair growth. Does waxing have the same effect?

no waxing does not cause hair to grow back thicker . only shaving. but waxingg hurts.like hell .but sometimes worth it.

Shaving hair (wherever on the body) ultimately causes thicker hair growth. Does waxing have the same effect?

waxing nor shaving makes hair grow back thicker. its a myth. waxing, if anything makes hair take a long time to grow back, shaving within a few days

Shaving hair (wherever on the body) ultimately causes thicker hair growth. Does waxing have the same effect?

no

Shaving hair (wherever on the body) ultimately causes thicker hair growth. Does waxing have the same effect?

Not true. I am a professional cosmetologist and I hear that a lot from my customers. I don't know who has been spreading that rumor, but they're wrong. When you wax, you are ripping the hair out of its follicle. Depending on the growth stage the hair is in (every hair is at a different stage at the same time) then you are going to destroy the follicle and that follicle will no longer produce hair. It takes a long time to see a big difference in the amount of hair growth because of the amount of hair follicles over the body, but over time you will notice less growth than when you start. Check out Wikipedia.

Shaving hair (wherever on the body) ultimately causes thicker hair growth. Does waxing have the same effect?

OK, this is how I understand it.

Shaving does not cause more hair growth but with repeated shaving over time it can cause the hairs to become coarser and possibly cause re-growth to become faster due to stimulation of the follicle.

The reason that hair shaved just once or twice seems coarser when it re-grows is not down to stimulation of the hair follicles but because you see the blunt cut end re-growing and not the natural pointed tip which comes back after waxing.

Just thinking "aloud", it would be interesting to study pairs of men preferably closely related and close in age (to at least partially eliminate genetic and other variation), one who never shaved his face and one who had been shaving for years to see if this bears out in reality. Is male facial hair naturally coarser, thicker and faster growing than elsewhere on the body or is it down to constant shaving?

I have read that waxing can, in some individuals, increase hair growth but I don't know that's more hair, faster or coarser or a combination of these things. However, for most people (including myself) the exact opposite is true, that is, less, slower and finer re-growth. This is due to follicles being damaged by ripping the hair out.

I appreciate that this was a more complex answer than you probably expected but I hope this clears up your debate.

Shaving hair (wherever on the body) ultimately causes thicker hair growth. Does waxing have the same effect?

waxing makes hair thinner