Who has never heard By pulling out one white hair, two more grow “, OR ” You have to cut the ends on a full moon night to strengthen your hair »? In the category of beauty myths, those involving body hair are the most numerous. And there is one that has a particularly hard life: according to a large number of testimonies, shaving and waxing modify the structure of the hair, making it thicker or thinner depending on the technique used to lighten the skin.
However, there is nothing! A dermatologist explains why people can have that impression and why it’s wrong, once and for all.
It’s a fact: Shaving your hair doesn’t make it thicker
In a video posted on Instagram, Dermato Drey account dermatologist Audrey answers the question we’ve all asked ourselves at least once: does the razor make the hair thicker, darker, coarser? And the explanations of the health professional are very clear.
“Shaving, trimming, cutting a hair or hair does not send any information to the root of the hair. It then continues its normal growth, at the same rate as before.
When a hair is cut at the base, that is where it is naturally thicker, when it grows in the following days, it will feel prickly to the touch. This is what gives us the impression that it is stronger, especially since it is darker because it hasn’t seen the sun yet.
But in the long run it will look exactly like a hair from an unshaven area.
You would have understood that: shaving does not change the DNA of the hair, it only gives the impression of thicker and darker hair for a few days, the time for regrowth.
If you decide not to shave or not to wax at all, the hairs that will replace those that were previously shaved will grow back in a completely normal way, no thicker or darker than before the blade passed.
Another fact: Wax has no effect on hair regrowth!
Another urban legend has it that depilation with wax would allow hair to be refined in the long term, even contributing to their total disappearance.
Again, as the dermatologist explains in this one-minute video posted on the Dr.Good! account, this myth is unfounded:
The wax doesn’t end up depleting the hair. It’s just that over time the hormonal impregnation decreases for women, so some areas decrease [fournies]such as the legs and other areas [deviennent plus denses]. [C’est ce qui donne ] the hair on the face.
Thank you doctor, for these explanations to the hair!
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