Does Cutting Your Hair Make It Stronger And Grow Faster?
There are many hair myths. From how often you should shampoo, what ingredients you should avoid in your products, to what causes hair loss. Cutting your hair it make it stronger, or grow faster, is simply another. But why?
As Philip Kingsley states in his book The Hair Bible, your hair is not like a lawn or rose bush where cutting can stimulate fresh growth.
It is probable this myth originated from shaving- a man shaves and within twelve hours his skin feels stubbly again. The more it’s shaved, the more it seems to grow. The beard become stronger from puberty onwards due to hormone activity, but the assumption is that it has become stronger because it has been shaved so much.
Another way of looking at this is to compare your hair to bamboo cane: a long cane bends a flexes easily, whereas the same cane cut shorter feels hard, inflexible and stronger.
In addition, cutting your hair shorter evens out the lengths, but your hair is not naturally all the same length and, moreover, the ends have less volume than the roots so when it is cut it appears to be thicker.
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