Does tweezing or shaving cause hair to grow thicker?

Question

So at a slumber party, my friend just suddenly started tweezing my leg hairs. I started freaking out because not only do i not have any thick hairs on my leg, but also because i heard from one of my other friends that tweezing the hair causes the hair to grow out thicker. That didn't make any sense to one of my other friends because she thought that shaving your hair would make it grow thicker. We couldn't agree on anything so we decided to post this question on yahoo answers and get a professional answer....thank you!

Answer 1

No, no, absolutely not!!  This is such an old-wives tale, I would think no one believes it any more!  It's absolutely ridiculous.

Tweezing (pulling out individual hairs) cannot make the hair grow thicker.  If anything, you may actually pull out the living root (rarely) and the hair cannot grow back.  Or the follicle may close in a bit and the hair will grow back finer than before.

Shaving also has no effect on the thickness of hair.  It can't.  It only cuts it off at the skin surface, and the hair will still continue to grow as it did before.

One thing you should remember is that your hair will get darker and thicker as you get older.  This happens whether you do anything to it or not.  If you start shaving or tweezing young, then of course it may appear to be darker, but that was going to happen anyway.

If it bothers you, then remove the hair.  If not, then just leave it.  It's only in north America that we have this thing about body hair.. other cultures don't mind it at all.

Answer 2

NO ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT... it just seems like it because as the hair starts growing back especially when you shave it creates sharp blunt ends which makes it seem thicker when really it isn't it is just not as fine as the softer hair that is grown out  

Answer 3

yes it does. This year I started getting electrolysis and the woman was mad at me because I've been waxing my eyebrows since I was twelve. So, yes.  

Answer 4

Tweezing and shaving do cause your hair to grow thicker... i do not recommend it. Try waxing.

Answer 5

No it doesn't,

when you tweeze you have to make sure the hair is pulled from the root.

If you break the hair it  my grow back thicker. and restore it self.

shaving just cuts the hair so the hair must grow back.

waxing is the best because it takes the hair out of the root.

how to make home made wax?

all you need is water lemon and sugar.

it will also take off the dead skin cells...

This is how we make it in India.