Does Shaving Make Your Beard Grow Faster?
Men either love wearing a beard or treat it as a chore. Shaving, or simply carrying a great set of facial hair, is a passion, and more than that, an attitude. Whether your job demands a clean shave or lets you grow something worth looking at depends entirely on your own situation. On top of that there is what you want for yourself. Some men want a beard. Others regard it as a burden.
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Beard growth attracts more myths and tall tales than almost any other subject, and most of them promise to speed it up. Does shaving make your beard grow faster? Do home remedies help? Or is it time to break out the heavy chemistry? Plenty of things are supposed to work, but do they? Today's Charlemagne Premium blog post takes on exactly that: shaving and its effect on beard growth, and the question "does shaving make your beard grow faster?" With any luck we can clear a few legends off the table. Enjoy the read, gentlemen.
The beard: a mark of masculinity, and a fashion accessory for centuries
As we said at the top,
most men are waiting for the moment they can finally grow one. Worn as an expression of your own masculinity, or as a current trend that you would rather set than follow. A beard offers almost endless ways to underline how a man carries himself and put him in the right frame. No surprise, then, that men start willing their beards to grow faster from a young age. But whether you actually end up growing that facial hair is not purely your decision, it comes down to a few factors, which we will get into now.
Shave early and you will be wearing a full beard sooner
Above all, heavy or light beard growth is a question of genetics. So does shaving make your beard grow faster? Start here: plenty of young lads are already shaving daily, ideally, at the tender age of thirteen or fourteen to get rid of the dark fuzz, and to everyone else's dismay that daily shave does not always happen during puberty. Others never reach full coverage at all and can practically shave hair by hair with nothing more than warm water. Shaving gets put forward as the fix over and over. But does shaving make your beard grow faster?
So what is the truth? Does shaving make your beard grow faster?
To answer "does shaving make your beard grow faster" the short way: no. Your hair, on your face, on your head, anywhere else on your body, could not care less how often you shave it. So you can put the question down for good. The impression that the hair comes back thicker afterwards is purely a matter of how you perceive it, and that is where the whole thing is buried. It is simply that you notice hair growing on a patch you have just shaved, unlike hair that is quietly getting longer where there was already plenty of it. We can say with a clear conscience that not one of us takes a set of callipers to his beard to record what each fresh new day has delivered in growth.
As you have now read, the myth at the heart of "does shaving make your beard grow faster" is nonsense. The question is a farce. Some men, sadly, never get full coverage on their face in their lifetime. Very much the minority, though, and that is our small offering of hope to end on.
So we will assume that sooner or later, since patience remains the strongest tool there is, you will have solid growth to call your own. The styles and shapes that come with it will of course need the right regime. The grooming products and tools for that are waiting, as always, in the Charlemagne Premium shop. Have fun.
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