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Uneven facial hair
ilmmad
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Alright, so to preface this, I should let you know that I'm 18 right now.
Just over a year ago, I started getting hairs on my face. I'm a guy so that's pretty normal. My sideburns got longer, and I got those creepy chin hairs teens have. It started growing up my jawline soon enough, and this is where the problem lies: it's only really one up one side of my face (my left). There is a decent amount going from my chin to my sideburns, but only on the left. On the right, I have very sparse hair there. Very sparse. I could pass on shaving every 2 days and my right side would look fine, but my left would get hairy and I'd look like a bum.
I understand I'm still young, and my facial hair keeps getting denser and covering more area, but it seems like nothing is happening on my right jawline. I'd like to know if I will ever grow denser hair there, or if I'll be doomed to shave forever to keep from looking like I'm trying to grow a half-face beard. Is there anything I can do to make it grow, like yell at it? I heard Mozart helps your plants so maybe I can aim some heavy metal at my face to encourage it?
Just over a year ago, I started getting hairs on my face. I'm a guy so that's pretty normal. My sideburns got longer, and I got those creepy chin hairs teens have. It started growing up my jawline soon enough, and this is where the problem lies: it's only really one up one side of my face (my left). There is a decent amount going from my chin to my sideburns, but only on the left. On the right, I have very sparse hair there. Very sparse. I could pass on shaving every 2 days and my right side would look fine, but my left would get hairy and I'd look like a bum.
I understand I'm still young, and my facial hair keeps getting denser and covering more area, but it seems like nothing is happening on my right jawline. I'd like to know if I will ever grow denser hair there, or if I'll be doomed to shave forever to keep from looking like I'm trying to grow a half-face beard. Is there anything I can do to make it grow, like yell at it? I heard Mozart helps your plants so maybe I can aim some heavy metal at my face to encourage it?
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some people claim success with hormones and testosterone, but that's iffy at best
some people claim rogaine can be used on your face, which i don't think works
Just... get used to shaving for a very long time.
I'd just say give it time, but sometimes that's just how it goes.
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You don't touch where your hair is actually growing from when you shave, so it won't grow in thicker and it won't grow in faster if you shave. You're just removing the hair you can see.
nope
it's also partly because the sharp end of the hair caused by cutting it is a lot more noticeable than a blunted end
The main advantage of trying to grow a beard is that you can be lazy and just trim the edges every couple days. If you're too lazy like me to go perfectly clean-shaven and can't grow a real beard, just rock the electric trimmer stubble.
my beard is full. as is his.
but, we are italian, so maybe it just eventually grew in.
Hair grows in cycles, with individual follicles alternating between active and inactive. If you don't shave over a given set of cycles, your hair will fill in, but the average overall length will not increase that much. If you shave constantly, then each cycle starts "fresh" and so the difference in length is much more noticeable, but it would still take just as long for all the other hairs in your beard to fill in.
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However, trimming it all to the same length means most people don't notice that the hair on my right side is quite a bit more dense than that on the left.
I think in high school I just kept usual Goatee because the sides weren't filling out. In college I started just doing a full on short beard. Give it some time, I don't think I was able to pull it off till I was 20.
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I'm doing pretty well at 25, but it's pretty damn curly.
I also prefer to keep the razors dull and it's always with great hesitation that I use a new razor. I try to keep hair in the razors to dull it even more. Every couple months, I'll knock the hair out of it.
Not having to shave is no curse. Women aren't into hairy guys. And the money saved on razors is substantial. I got a free box of razors from Gilette around the time I was 18. I don't know, they just sent it. They must have had my data from somewhere that indicated I was about 18 so they sent this crap out hoping to hook a young consumer. Those five blades about four years.
I remember buying some more razors in about 2001. It was a package of Gilette. Buy five get five free. Sweet. Those lasted until about 2007. Would have been longer but they got moldy in some shit place I was living.
So then I bought one of those Headblade razors because I planned on shaving my head. It came with like 20 razors. I ended up not shaving my head, but I use it for regular shaving now. And as long as I don't lose them or they get moldy, those 20 razors are basically a lifetime supply.
Total amount spent on shaving supplies in my life = maybe $30
Dude, I feel you, I'm 21 and I feel like a pubescent teen in terms of facial hair. It remains in permanent dirty stubble mode. I'd recommend shaving at it, unless you REALLY want facial hair but what's the point if you can't have a Pei-Mei beard? I've got an electric shaver that lets me clean up the ugly looking stuff in about five minutes when I get too lazy to do a proper wet shave (which is most always), and it works pretty well to making me look (fairly) clean shaven with minimal effort.
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I can grow a satisfactory "chin strap," but I've tried many times to let a full beard grow in with no luck. The cheek areas are just too sporadic.
At your age, whatever you do, don't just let shit grow in and hope for the best. Shave often. It will encourage a thicker beard in future years, and it will keep that dirty teen mustache look away, which is revolting.
Now, I'm not trying to be a dick, that's my advice. Let me explain...
With an electric razor, well in my experience at least, it will cut through fine facial hair and cut/pull coarse. As fine hair is cut it will eventually become coarse and thus thicker, and with the coarse hair the pulling-but-not-pull-out action stimulates follicle growth through repair. You will, most likely, get fine hair in all the normal facial places, so this should lead to an overall even beard, though it will take time.
The 'suck it up' part in the first sentence is me saying that until you get used to the shitty razor yanking on your face, it's gonna hurt.
it slightly alters the ends of your hairs from a natural rounded tapered look to a sheared off cut
but that goes away as it grows and wears
but no, it's not true
the only think that alters how fast your hair grows/how thick your hair is is really just genes