Stronger, healthier stubble??

[shaver-j]

Hello all - I have been wet shaving for about 3 months now. My face is much better, I always had problems getting a good shave and with irritation, particularly on my neck.

What's interesting, is that it seems my facial hair is stronger than before - not thicker growth (I don't think), but my stubble seems stiffer and thicker. I am not complaining, it's just an observation. I feel my face is much healthier, I spend more shaving and taking care of my face now - could this actually be - that my hair is healthier??

Most converts talk about the health of our face in general and skin irritation improving, but I haven't seen much on facial *hair* health?

Any thoughts or personal observations?

shaver-j

 

[ackvil]

When I was 12 I had "soft" hair on my face. Since the age of 14 it turned wire-like. As I get older the hair on my head seems to have disappeared (just like the eye glasses I can't find) while the hair on my face is stronger and more wiry.

 

[danparker77]

I think it is more an "illusion". With cartridge razors they cut at an angle (kinda feathering the end of the whisker) while a DE lops them off at more of a straight cut. Think it just feels that way since there is more surface area after being loped off than cut at an angle where there is less surface area on the tips. That make sense to anyone else?

 

[rafikz]

Interesting ....

 

[Absolute Mustard]

I think it is more an "allusion". With cartridge razors they cut at an angle (kinda feathering the end of the whisker) while a DE lops them off at more of a straight cut. Think it just feels that way since there is more surface area after being loped off than cut at an angle where there is less surface area on the tips. That make sense to anyone else?

DE blades still cut at an angle though

 

[mr. s]

DE blades still cut at an angle though

Well assuming you give it a 3 or 4 pass shave, it would be more of a straight cut. A single WTG would cause more of an angled cut.

Sounds like it makes sense, no?

 

[Crixus]

Is it possible that the stimulation our brush gives the follicles themselves actually makes them sprout a better hair? Wild guess.

 

[Go West Young Man]

Is it possible that the stimulation our brush gives the follicles themselves actually makes them sprout a better hair? Wild guess.

If that was true, our wives would have gorilla legs!
No, seriously, you can't change how your hair grows, that's genetically programmed. Diet and environmental factors can play in as well, but there's not a direct line correlation there.

The OP is seeing hairs cut flush against the skin, which look thicker in cross section, that's all.

 

[RF1963]

If that was true, our wives would have gorilla legs!
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So you met my ex wife

 

[stevethetree1991]

I actually experienced the same thing. It's not that I'm growing more hair, it just feels stiffer and stronger, more whiskery almost, got a little more prickle quality to it. Is that what you're experience was?

 

[Drubbing]

Whichever way DE shaves, it cuts differently to a cart, and therefore produces a different stubble feel when it grows back.

Your facial hair can't be trained to do or be something else through shaving, or using various face care products or whatever.

 

[shaver-j]

I actually experienced the same thing. It's not that I'm growing more hair, it just feels stiffer and stronger, more whiskery almost, got a little more prickle quality to it. Is that what you're experience was?

Yes, this is the experience. I used to take breaks from shaving more often, since my face had to heal. Now I shave more often, but when I do take a 2-3 day break, that's what my facial hair feels like! - it's crazy. I just chalk it up to a healthier face!

 

[Loric]

Another possibility is that your smoother closer shaves last longer, and the presence of stubble many hours later feels more pronounced after a full half day of blissful faceterbating???

 

[slpknt10l03]

Another possibility is that your smoother closer shaves last longer, and the presence of stubble many hours lather feels more pronounced after a full half day of blissful faceterbating???

 

[Not The Original Kermit]

Back in highschool i had a buddy who swore the reason why he hadn't started to grow a beard and the rest of us did is because he'd never shaved yet.

he believed that if you shaved, then your facial hair would grow in thicker. I never had the heart to tell him that he was just a late bloomer. ran into him some 13 years later and he still had a baby face, I asked him if he had started shaving yet.

unfortunately, what you do to your facial hair, leg hair or wherever else won't alter how quickly it grows, how thick it grows etc.

 

[Drybonz]

My beard has been like wire for years. My razors often complain of whisker burn.

I did notice the other day, however, that since I have been DE shaving my stubble feels more "even" or consistent, when it grows out a bit, as opposed to feeling slightly "patchy"... which is an improvement, IMO.

 

[kingfisher]

A lot of people have noticed the same thing.

I think it's a combination of the way the DE razor cuts the hairs (making it SEEM like they're stronger) and that fact that once you start DE shaving and hanging out on B&B you pay a LOT more attention to your facial hair than you ever did before.

 

[Drybonz]

once you start DE shaving and hanging out on B&B you pay a LOT more attention to your facial hair than you ever did before.

+1 to the point where it's probably not normal.

 

[Pkrankow]

Back in highschool i had a buddy who swore the reason why he hadn't started to grow a beard and the rest of us did is because he'd never shaved yet.

he believed that if you shaved, then your facial hair would grow in thicker. I never had the heart to tell him that he was just a late bloomer. ran into him some 13 years later and he still had a baby face, I asked him if he had started shaving yet.

unfortunately, what you do to your facial hair, leg hair or wherever else won't alter how quickly it grows, how thick it grows etc.

While the growth is not altered, the long hair has worn tapered, and the shaved hair is thick and blunt when it is grown to stubble.

Phil