Thick Hair: Fact or Fiction?

This is a fiction based on a fact. What it is is that babies are born, and continue to grow, very fine hair. When they're about a year old something changes and they generally start to grow a thicker hair strand. So if you buzz a one year olds head, it appears that it made them grow thicker hair. I buzz my kids hair at about a year, even my girls, to get rid of that baby hair because it tangles so easy and to even it out because the bald spot they get on the back of their head usually has started to fill in by then.

I have never heard such a thing, but it sounds a little crazy to me.

Hi, S.. I'm a hair stylist and IT IS NOT TRUE! It would appear to be thicker because all of the hair would be at the same length, but keeping it trimmed regularly will have the same effect with out having to shave it! I hope this helps!

This is a cultural tradition but it isn't true. Hair grows from the root so cutting off the end won't make any difference- the root won't even know you shaved it. My mother-in-law is from Vietnam and they shave babies' head there- for the first year of my daughter's life I was scared I would come home to a bald baby!

definitely fiction.

if this were true, bald men all over the world would be shaving their heads in an attempt to get more hair. :)

we do buzz my son, but only because we like it.

Our son had very fine hair when he was a baby. He is now 17 year and his hair is so think it is hard for him to wear anything but a buzz. It is hereditary as far a I know.