Worrying for no reason?

[MOVIESTAR]

Hi everyone. Hope your all well.

I'm enjoying my shaving but I think i'm having a problem!

When I shave my neck, I make sure I shave just the hair, not below the Adams apple. But everytime I shave the hair, hair starts to grow where there wasn't any before.

If I'm not making any sense then I will try and explain the best I can. If I shave just above my Adams apple, hair will start growing below it. Even if I haven't shaved that part. Hair just starts growing for no reason. I don't understand because I havenot shaved that part.

Any help?

 

[Gravy]

You must be getting older. I've got hair growing in all kinds of places I never would have expected.

 

[blackfoot]

Is it that hair grows there, but had and didn't need shaved? If that is the case, you may notice it because it has time to grow and is uneven from the rest. If that is not what you meant, I have no idea.

 

[dpmtherrien]

The only thing you can do is work on your technique for these new to be shaved areas.

 

[warlandsboy]

You may be just noticing it more heheh.

 

[Uncle Erik]

I wouldn't worry about extra hair unless it starts appearing during a full moon.

 

[MOVIESTAR]

I understand but I don't want to shave the whole of my neck. I wear a shirt and tie to school and the hair stops at the Adams apple. But now it's starting to grow below it.

 

[blackfoot]

I understand but I don't want to shave the whole of my neck. I wear a shirt and tie to school and the hair stops at the Adams apple. But now it's starting to grow below it.

They are probably right. It is likely age reminding you its there.

 

[Verderer]

I understand but I don't want to shave the whole of my neck. I wear a shirt and tie to school and the hair stops at the Adams apple. But now it's starting to grow below it.

This is pretty much off-topic, but I have noticed that most (assumingly) native English speakers on this forum use the word neck when they refer to area which I (as a non-native speaker) would refer to as the throat? When reading posts like these I always get confused, why are people shaving their necks, and isn't that pretty difficult?

But I guess the neck refers to the front also, not just the back? Thus the term hung by the neck until dead? Is it wrong to use throat in this connection (shaving that is, not hanging)? Just asking in the interest of improving my everyday English.

 

[Drubbing]

I understand but I don't want to shave the whole of my neck. I wear a shirt and tie to school and the hair stops at the Adams apple. But now it's starting to grow below it.

Seinfeld had the same problem. So he started shaving below the neck and more hair appeared lower and lower. Next thing he knew he was shaving his chest because he could work out where his chest finished and his beard started. It's scary and lycanthropic.

you could always wax. We won't tell anyone.

 

[brian1g]

I wouldn't worry about extra hair unless it starts appearing during a full moon.

Then there was 2 in my wolf pack

 

[MOVIESTAR]

Then there was 2 in my wolf pack

Ha ha ha. The Hangover.

 

[Emmett]

This is pretty much off-topic, but I have noticed that most (assumingly) native English speakers on this forum use the word neck when they refer to area which I (as a non-native speaker) would refer to as the throat? When reading posts like these I always get confused, why are people shaving their necks, and isn't that pretty difficult?

But I guess the neck refers to the front also, not just the back? Thus the term hung by the neck until dead? Is it wrong to use throat in this connection (shaving that is, not hanging)? Just asking in the interest of improving my everyday English.

I've wondered this myself (and I'm a native speaker). I consider that area to be the jaw (hence the demarcation of the jaw line, and the neck to start from the crease where the head meets the neck and on down. I think the more common usage is to consider everything below the jaw line as the neck.

 

[Emmett]

Aren't you pretty young? Hair increases as you age. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you'll probably continue getting hairier for some time.

 

[The Nid Hog]

You guys have to get rid of the notion that you only shave below your Adam's Apple. Whiskers don't care about your arbitrary decision--they're going to keep growing. Before you know it, you'll have a seamless pelt from your cheekbones to your collar bones. Unless you want to be a neckbeard, you gotta shave where it grows.

Just be glad that this is all you have to deal with now. There's going to come a day when you're wondering how your back got so shaggy.

 

[Go West Young Man]

1. If you're still in school, then you're young enough that hair is going to keep showing up in random places. You can't influence hair growth by shaving, it just does what it wants to do and you have to deal with it.

2. Once you start learning proper wetshaving technique you just start noticing things about your face you never noticed before. You're paying a lot more attention to the area and it's only natural that things you overlooked before become very apparent.

 

[baba]

Hi everyone. Hope your all well.

I'm enjoying my shaving but I think i'm having a problem!

When I shave my neck, I make sure I shave just the hair, not below the Adams apple. But everytime I shave the hair, hair starts to grow where there wasn't any before.

If I'm not making any sense then I will try and explain the best I can. If I shave just above my Adams apple, hair will start growing below it. Even if I haven't shaved that part. Hair just starts growing for no reason. I don't understand because I havenot shaved that part.

Any help?

As you age you tend to grow hair is some places that had not had hair before...ears, nose, back, and yes perhaps even lower on your neck or throat.

The point is if you don't like hair growing in those places, then you will have to find a way to get rid of it. Shaving is one option, and contrary to some thinking, you can not cause hair to grow by shaving it, and you can not make hair thicker by shaving it either.

If shaving did somehow change the follicular structure of a hair and added more follicles, millions of men with bald heads wouldn't be so bald anymore and people that shave their faces and legs everyday would look like wolfmen and wolfwomen.

Shaving does blunt the edges of the hair, and this is what I think fools many people into thinking that hair grows back thicker, but really it's just the way the hair feels to the touch. Instead of tapering to a point the way a grown hair does, a shaved hair is blunt and a bit more jagged, so it may feel like it is thicker but it really isn't, it's just that the tapered part has been cut off.