FUNdamentals., mhm. Options

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Fundamentalidities. Yes. I made up a word.

First of all, I'm sick and tired of people thinking that shaving causes hair to grow thicker, or massaging causes hair to grow faster, and people who post so-called information that they picked up from their friends who probably made it up in their head.

So. Here goes.

Hair

Growth

Ever single hair follicle in your body goes through two phases - a growth phase and a resting phase. The growth phase is when there is an actual hair growing out of the follicle and a resting phase is when it's dormant, i.e. hairless. The growth phase for the scalp is about 6 years, compared to the growth phase of eyebrows, which is 3-4 months.

Stimulation of blood does stimulate hair growth, but there is really nothing you can do to control how fast it grows.

Oil

There are sebascious (oil) glands that secrete out of the hair follicle and are meant to keep the hair healthy. If they weren't there... then your hair would be brittle and would fall off. That's why it isn't a good idea to over-wash your hair.

Hair Removal

Permanent hair removal involving electrolysis - This involves using electricity to kill the hair bulb. And yes, this IS permanent because without your hair bulb, there is nothing to make hair. If you want this treatment for, say, leg hair removal, be prepared to visit them several times because of the general growth cycle of hair (see Growth)

Waxing/Plucking - This form of hair removal actually rips the hair out of the follicle. This does NOT cause permanent hair loss in most cases.

Sometimes when females pluck their eyebrows, they notice a small red dot where their hair used to be. This is because you damaged your papillae (indentation into the base of your hair follicle), which provides a place for capillaries. So the red dot is the blood from the ruptured capillaries. This doesn't cause hair from not growing from that follicle ever again, unless you also damaged the nerves in that area.

Shaving - The natural hair that grows out of the skin and is visible to the human eye tapers off at the end. When you shave, you shave the tapered-off section off, so when the hair keeps growing, it gives off the false impression of being "thicker."

Hair does NOT grow back thicker after you shave it.
Hair does not MULTIPLY after you shave it.

Shaving does usually cause ingrown hair.

Hairless Trivia

We have no hair on our palms, soles, lips, nipples, and external genitalia.

Balding

The thinning of hair as a person grows older is normal for both males and females. Remember the Growth cycle? As you grow older, the resting phase for hair becomes longer and the growth phase for hair becomes shorter. It's natural.

Balding (for men) is genetic.

Monoxidil - An anti-balding product. It doesn't REGROW hair. What it does is it overrides the genes that tell the hair to fall out, therefore keeping the hair that is ALREADY there in place.

Sweat, Oil, Pimples

Body Odor

I actually read a post somewhere over here that went on about how hairy armpits created more body odor.

No.

Body odor comes from your apocrine sweat glands which are located in the axillary and anogenital areas (armpits, pubic region). They basically release a fatty sweat and when that sweat is decomposed by bacteria, a gas that we call "body odor" is released. These sweat glands empty into the hair follicle and whether or not we have hair there does NOT control the production of this sweat.

They start working during puberty and are most active during stress, pain, and sex. You can eliminate the smell by showering, deodorant, and anti-persperant.

Acne

Pimples, blackheads, and whiteheads are always located at a hair follicle because of the sebacious glands that secrete out of it. We produce this oil to keep our hair healthy and to protect us from bacteria. It isn't found in palms or soles.

Whiteheads - when we produce too much oil, it fills up the follicle. The white that we see is the sebacious oil.

Blackheads - it's almost the same thing as a whitehead, but the darkness is a result of dirt in your follicle.

Pimples - is when your sebacious glands get infected, mainly due to dirtiness, too much oil production, etc.








And I'm too tired to write anything else. I was going to get into skin, but I guess I'll save that for another day?

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wow. what a lot of useless information. lol. my dad knows like all kinds of this stuff. like stuff where it doesn't really matter if you know it or not. lol. unless your like learning it in a class or something.

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Psh. I love "useless" information.

[x_curse_of_the_c...]

lol. so does my dad.

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Well, i like this so called "useless" information. It's really good to know. i thought shaving makes hair turn thicker.



this is hard for me to understand o___O

[i]Waxing/Plucking - This form of hair removal actually rips the hair out of the follicle. This does NOT cause permanent hair loss in most cases.

Sometimes when females pluck their eyebrows, they notice a small red dot where their hair used to be. This is because you damaged your papillae (indentation into the base of your hair follicle), which provides a place for capillaries. So the red dot is the blood from the ruptured capillaries. This doesn't cause hair from not growing from that follicle ever again, unless you also damaged the nerves in that area.

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When you pluck your eyebrows, sometimes there's a red dot that shows up.

That's blood because you ripped open the bottom of your hair follicle (the papillae) which has capillaries.

[HakunaMatata]

This isn't useless information; she took the time to write this out for others just in case. Thanks for putting this up. (: