Facial hair - Men's Health Message Board

Scarface666 · 09-12-2003, 09:40 PM

I have a problem. im 19 and can grow facial hair under my chin, grow side burns and moustache but have no facial hair on my cheeks and chin. Now in order to grow hair there shall i not shave for a while and see if hair sprouts out or should i regularly shave there? Im very lazy with shaving sometimes i shave regularly and other times i leave it for weeks. Could that be why? Does shaving encourage growth or it that bull?

Thanks for your help.

Darkfur · 09-13-2003, 11:05 AM

Can't say for sure, but that shaving-to-grow-it thing is a bunch of bull I believe. Hair is either growing or not growing. Men's beards are different. I know guys in their 20's who have facial hair similar to what you describe. It's not a problem really, it's just how they are. By the sound of it, if you had a ferocious beard you'd hate shaving it anyway. Consider yourself lucky?

I grow hair in all the places you describe, just not a great density of them. I'm kind of restricted to having just a moustache because of it. When I was your age, my facial hair was weaker than it is now. Yours might still have some maturing to do.

focus · 09-14-2003, 11:06 AM

Shaving has no impact on facial hair growth (or any other hair for that matter). That's all old myth.

At 19, your beard may still be filling out. I know mine wasn't fully developed then. By about 20-21, mine was fully filled in.

Also, not all guys can grow a full beard, and that's normal too. Its all genetic. If your father has a heavy full beard, you probably will have one too. If not, you probably won't.

bigtexan · 10-16-2003, 08:52 PM

Count your blessings on that. I started shaving when I turned 12. You have saved a lot of money that I had to spend on razors and shaving cream at an early age. Most razors do not work well for me at all, and my job requires me to be clean shaven except for my mustache. Having a very fast growing beard has a lot of disadvantages as I well know.