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...and INSISTS that trimming your hair will make it grow faster.
I explained that if he thought about this rationally, he would realise that it isn't true, but he wasn't having any of it.
When you shave your face, the blade is touching the skin, and stimulating the root, so I can see the logic behind regular shaving producing thicker, fuller facial hair.
But to trim the ends of the hair on the head (which is many, MANY inches away from the root is nowhere near a comparable situation) and thus will have no effect on growth rate.
Sigh. It's no wonder so many people fail with growing hair when myths like this are perpetrated.
Luke. (14 months NO TRIMS - except for one. ;)) And that is all.
Beard are not made fuller by shaving as trimming hair does not make it grow faster. Guys who start shaving the face early do so because the beard is growing in thick anyway, not because they started shaving it. The amount of facial hair growth is also dependent upon the person's genetics, and not whether or not it's shaved or not shaved. If it did, wouldn't shaving your head make your scalp hair thicker?
I've often wondered why more guys don't grow or fail to grow beards either.
It's good to trim your hair so that the split ends don't travel up the shaft to the root.
Neither of them >really< stimulates hair to grow to any significant degree. A lot of people think shaving makes the hair grow back thicker/faster/fuller/etc. because they start shaving in their teenage years, and then notice as the months go by that they have to shave more and more often. But that's actually caused by the effects of puberty (that and the fact that hair is often darker and thicker at the root, making short hair like stubble sometimes >seem< thicker). I started shaving (somewhat) regularly about two and a half years ago, and only had to do it every week. Then after about six months, it was twice a week, and a year later, about three times weekly. Now if I want to keep free of stubble, I have to shave every day. But, that would be true even if I had never shaved before and just cut my beard off yesterday.
I suppose that's the theory out the window entirely then! :)
Good news.
both of my sisters and several friends (includeing a longhair one) believe this and no amount of explanation can convince them.
"well why does your hair know when to stop growing" they always say and i always tell them about terminal length and how your hair only grows a certain length but they cant seem to get it.......im prolly just bad at explaining it
