Waxing

[minimoya]

If you wax your stomach or chest, or even lip and chin (which would hurt like hell), would it grow back more prominent than previously? Is it like shaving in that light? Or does grow back like it did when you started puberty?

[Living For Love]

Generally, if you wax, it will grow like it did when you started puberty, kind of, yes, but like you said, it will hurt a lot.

If you shave using a normal razor or an electric razor, more hair will grow on the same spot, but it won't grow thicker, faster or darker, comparing if you didn't shave it.

Waxed hair will grow slower than shaved hair (this is obvious, though, because if you shave them you only cut the hair, while waxing you're actually pulling the hair out, and it will need more time to grow again).

[Hermes]

Hairs grow in a cycle. Each hair folicle starts growing a hair, the growth gets faster and then as the hair approaches its final length the growth slows down and stops. Later that hair falls out. In any patch of hair some folicles will be at one stage of the cycle and others at another is a complete mix.

If you shave you cut the hairs off close to the skin. The hairs are still growing and the ones that are first to become visible again are the ones that are in the fast growing part of the cycle. It is perhaps this that leads to the myth that shaving makes the hair grow faster.

Waxing pulls the hairs out but the hair folicles are able to recover from that. The first hairs to appear will be from those folicles that were in the resting part of the cycle just about to start growing a hair again so the hair will appear more slowly.

[ddbumblebee]

I thought that if you wax it grows back less and less???
I've never done it though, no need to, there's nothing much to wax haha

[reiddec2]

DONT WAX you should get an electric razor and TRIM

[CrazyPerson101]

DON'T WAX ( I mean if you want to you can but I don't recommend it ) It HURTS like WHOA DON'T DO IT