• Question: It is true that when you cut a hair it grows with more intensity? If yes, why?

    Asked by MarcS to Carrie, Cedric, Ellen, Ines, Rupert on 14 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Ellen Williams

      Ellen Williams answered on 14 Mar 2017:

      I had heard this but didn’t know if it was true or not… a little google search reveals actually it isn’t true! Which makes sense… been as your hair grows from the roots and you are cutting off the ends which are the other end of the hair. Your hair grows about a quarter of an inch a month apparently 🙂

    • Photo: Carrie Ijichi

      Carrie Ijichi answered on 14 Mar 2017:

      I agree with Ellen! Very wise.

    • Photo: Cedric Tan

      Cedric Tan answered on 14 Mar 2017:

      Hi MarcS, this is actually a myth. The reason why person would think as such is because people get older at the same time and hence produce darker hair or grow hair at places that never had hair before.

    • Photo: Rupert Marshall

      Rupert Marshall answered on 15 Mar 2017:

      If our hair was made of grass then yes it might be true. But our hair is not grass – even if you dye yours green!

      If you cut your hair once a week it will not grow faster than if you cut it once a month. One study got people to shave one leg every week but not the other leg. After a few months they measured the hair growing on each leg. There was no difference in its thickness, its width of how fast it grew. I’m just glad they didn’t shave my leg.

      You can read more about why hair does not get thicker or grow quicker here:
      https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-if-you-shave-or-wax-your-hair-will-come-back-thicker/

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