Does Shaving Make Your Hair Grow Back Thicker?

No. You are born with a certain number of hair shafts. The shafts are located below the skin, and the hair grows out of them. The cutting that you do with your razor above the skin does not affect the hair shafts below the skin.

If your hair feels like it is growing back thicker, it could be because when you cut it, you create a flat edge at the end of the hair strand. When your hair grows, it naturally has kind of a pointy edge, which feels less coarse than a sharp edge.

- Stacy Davis, sgrahamhunt@gmail.com

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