is it true when you shave your chest, the hair grows back longer and thicker?
347925
It grows back normally, but with little pimples and a lot of itching.
740125
The hair DOES help keep the area cool. It allows air to circulate, and the sweat evaporates, keeping you cooler and drier. Don't shave - you'll get zits and rashes and bumps and look like a holdover from the 1990s. Nobody cool does that anymore.
1128173
No, when you shave all hairs gets the same length in addition to be cut off diagonally. This makes you think they are thicker and stiffer! \n\nYou can either wax it off. You really have to bite your teeth together - ouch - but it lasts for 4 - 6 weeks before hairs grow out nicely. If you keep up this procedure, hair growth will lessen because some of the hair roots will be destroyed.\n\nOr you can use chemical cream to remove hair. When you shower, cream on - lasts for 5 minutes  - "shave" it off with a smooth plastic think that comes with the package. This will last for a week or so, but hairs will grow out nicely, not stiff and harsh.\n\nWell, good luck to you....
682667
I have heard that in order to keep the hair it re-grows you have to keep using it, I'm curious to know also.
461420
Because your hair grows faster when you cut it.
39325
just start shaving anyway, you will be shaving off the peachfuzz so to speak and then the more you shave it, the thicker the hair will grow and it will come in darker as well.
1075122
Well, someone can shave it for you, I would recommend going to a salon, and let them wax it, it doesn't grow back as thick or as fast.
160966
I have shaved in the past, but I prefer short hair and so now I just trim it.  That's what I'd recommend.
309081
The idea of hair growing back darker, or thicker is simply a wives tale.  Especially in regards to waxing.  Every time you wax it is pulling out some of the hair follicles. A percentage of these follicles will not grow back.  In effect, over time the hair will grow noticably thinner.
1072792
is it BIOLOGICALLY impossible for your hair to grow back thicker - it is just an illusions as it pokes thru the skin.\n\nI shave b/c I like to feel CLEAN!  pubic hair actually makes you unclean as it holds in sweat, bateria, and other unwanted things that could make you smell and grow things you don't want.  seriously!
683885
No, the hair grows from the follicles in your scalp.  The hair hanging out is technically dead.  That's why it doesn't hurt when it's cut.  However, it appears you're hair grows faster when you cut it because the split ends are cut off & while you're hair grows at different rates in different hairs, when it's neatly trimmed, it looks better & it seems to look like it's growing faster afterward.  But it's just an illusion.
1638
it's all genetic.  If your Dad has chest hair, you probably will too.  If he's pretty bare, you are likely to be too.  I guess if your Mom has heavy facial hair (eww) you could tell if you are likely to grow some hair on your chest.  But there's a lot of variety out there.  I have more than I'd like, but you may still get some yet.
597742
NOOOOOOOOOO, it will only grow back worse!!!\nBesides anything I have shaved, made me feel like a porcupine having sex for 2 weeks.\nHair is there for a reason, let it do its job!!
1140339
It may never grow back.  Probably won't actually.  If it does start to grow back, it will take several months before it is completely grown out again.
1064090
a few hairs, niceee, a little more...sexy, more than that..a bit too much, a whole lot of chest hair that continues on your shoulders and down your back...ewwwwwwww Shave time. Good luck hun
693387
well i don't know if you are male or female, but i don't see a reason why your parents would be mad at you for shaving except maybe that the hair grow back stranger once you start shaving with a razor. maybe you want to try depilatory shaving cream.
326752
Grow older.  As a man ages his facial hair growth increases.  But not too old as hair begins to grow thinner again as it begins to grey.\nMassage increases blood supply to the folicles and speeds hair growth, although a face massage is wierd.\n\nShaving does not encorage growth of hair - the reason why there is an old wives tale that it does is that hair grows thicker and darker all the time (until old age) so the new growth appears to be thicker only because it would have been that thick anyway if it had been left alone for the amount of time the hair will need to grow back.