20 Yr Old, No Facial Hair

LegacyUser

Hi Guys,
This is a stupid problem but means alot to me. Im 20 Years old and in my last Year In College. I have brown hair and have some hair under my armpits and private area. But on my face i have fair hair. Not really proper facial hair . More Like Bum Fluff!! Im wondering is there any thing i can do to speed up me getting facial hair?? Tablets? Pills? Home Remedies ?? Thanks

JackieO

20yearold wrote: »

Hi Guys,
This is a stupid problem but means alot to me. Im 20 Years old and in my last Year In College. I have brown hair and have some hair under my armpits and private area. But on my face i have fair hair. Not really proper facial hair . More Like Bum Fluff!! Im wondering is there any thing i can do to speed up me getting facial hair?? Tablets? Pills? Home Remedies ?? Thanks

Why????

Honestly I don't think this is something that girls will even be too worried about and lets face it - in 10 years time you'll be wishing back the days when you didn't have to shave every day.

THink of the lovely skin you must have right now.

Nevyn

Shave you fluff and it will grow back thicker.

LegacyUser

Yeah But its just being bugging me for a while!! I look quite young and girls think im 16 rather than 20. So Is there any soloution?? I heard that one about it growing back thicker but its not working??

LEIN

My brother is nearly 24 and he has a little fluff on his chin.

Its a pain in the arse anyway having to shave every few days so enjoy it while it lasts!

Aidric

As someone has already said you'll be cursing the fact that you have to shave every morning as soon as it happens. Just enjoy it for now and don't worry, I don't think women mind too much. Guys with fair hair and complexion are nearly always late bloomers anyway.

Kinetic^

It will come in time. Shave what you got and it will grow back thicker. Repeat.

Shaving is a pain the hole anyway!

JackieO

Honestly, facial hair is not going to make you that much older looking. You'll also be grateful of that young face some day (sorry I know thats not much consolation right now!).

LegacyUser

this is quite funny, there's this guy in my collge with a bit of fluff on his chin, which he refers to as his 'beard'! so unbelievably adorable!!
[i'm a girl, not a gay]

anyway, to the point- most girls prefer clean-shaven guys anyway, so the lack of thick hair really shouldn't be an issue!

Tragedy

I would kill to not have to shave.

KILL.

Relax

Phlann

Shaving does not make your hair grow back thicker, folks! You will find this myth debunked on any number of websites out there. Hair is not living tissue, it doesn't know that it's been shaved and therefore there is no reaction to this stimulus. It just keeps growing.

It is the follicle that controls hair thickness and colour and shaving has no appreciable effect on the follicle, as far as I'm aware.

Facial hair turning from fair and thin to coarse and black is a process which usually happens naturally over time (but it might not - not every man can grow a beard, Tiger Woods can't, apparently).

LegacyUser

I just get nagged at by my gf if I grow a beard...

Then again, I like to grow it sometimes to annoy her. muah

But yeah unless you like fatty foods and metal music, then be thankful you're clean shaven.

JackieO

Phlann wrote: »

Shaving does not make your hair grow back thicker, folks! You will find this myth debunked on any number of websites out there. Hair is not living tissue, it doesn't know that it's been shaved and therefore there is no reaction to this stimulus. It just keeps growing.

It is the follicle that controls hair thickness and colour and shaving has no appreciable effect on the follicle, as far as I'm aware.

Facial hair turning from fair and thin to coarse and black is a process which usually happens naturally over time (but it might not - not every man can grow a beard, Tiger Woods can't, apparently).

Don't agree that shaving does not thicken the regrowth..........I stand to be corrected by science though

Phlann

JackieO wrote: »

Don't agree that shaving does not thicken the regrowth..........I stand to be corrected by science though

I would be amazed if there was even a single serious scientific study into this since, without wishing to offend anybody, it's an utterly ridiculous suggestion.

I mean, it's like suggesting that your fingernails grow back thicker when you cut them! They're both nothing more than dead tissue.

The hair follicles on your legs/face/arse/wherever are governed by the exact same principles as those on your head. Saying that shaving will cause these hairs to grow back thicker is the equivalent of suggesting that getting your hair cut will cause the hairs on your head to grow thicker.

Because that's all you're doing - cutting hair. Doesn't matter how closely you're cutting it, it's all the same.

I'm assuming you're a girl here but when you run your hand over your leg a day or two after you've shaved it the hair feels thicker, not because it is, but because the individual hairs are sharper and pointier than normal. Leave it a few days and they appear soft again.

The darker colour you probably noticed appearing in your teens had nothing to do with shaving, just puberty.

I know this is getting slightly off-topic but I don't want the OP to be getting false hope from all this.

wandatowell

Man I work in the Military and I would murder to not have to shave 5 days a week. One of the best part of the weekend for me is not shaving. Enjoy every second of your freedom.

Red Hand

Thaedydal wrote: »

Shave you fluff and it will grow back thicker.

No it won't. Urban myth. Hair is not like a rose bush.

OP, a practical suggestion might be to start excercising more? Might increase your testosterone levels?

o1s1n

JackieO wrote: »

Don't agree that shaving does not thicken the regrowth..........I stand to be corrected by science though

Two things happen when you hit puberty. You start shaving and masturbating. Coincidentally, two other things happen. Your facial hair gets thicker and your penis grows.

(See where I'm going with this?)

Neither practice is linked to the effects seen. It's down to chemical changes brought on by puberty.

For some annoying reason though, the shaving myth just won't go away..

Anyway OP, there's nothing you can really do other than wait. It'll come eventually. How many late twenty/thirty something guys do you see with baby faces?

I don't think there's a whole lot you can do really.

I just came into say that the "shave and it will grow back thicker" thing isn't real.

Nice little article on it:


http://www.helium.com/items/888198-shaving-hair-does-not-grow-back-thicker

Dord

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

No it won't. Urban myth. Hair is not like a rose bush.

Exactly. Shaving doesn't increase hair growth.

Creamy Goodness

I like the way people automatically assumes he wants stubble for a girl

Zangetsu

I was the same as you up until a year ago (21 now). If you really want facial hair just shave when the bum fluff gets a bit long and let it grow back. Then shave again.

One thing I'll say to you is that shaving is a pain in the bollox... Your face will itch, it will look sh!te if you don't groom it enough and the ****er will keep comin back... More hassle then its worth but I like it (I now leave it as pubie fuzz so I don't have to deal with it, look at your balls, that will be on your face lol no joke!).

Don't be in such a hurry with these things, it will happen when it happens, you will be longing for the days where you didn't have to shave...

Cheesey but the grass is always greener on the other side

randylonghorn

Op, as someone who has to shave twice a day to look even reasonably tidy, I envy you!

If it hadn't grown in elsewhere, I'd probably have a bit more sympathy.

But my serious advice to you is: enjoy it while it lasts!

Overheal

Thaedydal wrote: »

Shave you fluff and it will grow back thicker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqfSub088jE

I'm the same OP at 21, I wouldn't worry about it. Had one friend started growing his at 14, the mad ginger bastard :pac: Im sure plenty people would trade not necessarily having to shave every week.

edit: for record, im off for a shave now. Check back in a week.

ur a lucky guy to not hav to shave.... i had to shave before work yesterday and again before i went out last nite. twice a day is takin the piss like.. ur lucky, you dont want facial hair

Linoge

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

No it won't. Urban myth. Hair is not like a rose bush.

OP, a practical suggestion might be to start excercising more? Might increase your testosterone levels?

You can also take some zinc and magnesium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_Monomethionine_Aspartate

Wibbs

You could just simply be built that way. It may have sod all to do with testosterone levels. I have high test levels(medical thingy) and there is more meat on a butchers pencil compared to me so big muscles are not a given. Plus my beard grow veeeeerrrry slowly. OK I got facial hair pretty early on, but, if I shaved today I wouldn't have to shave for at least a week. I didn't get much body hair until my mid late 20's either. I know men in their 30's that have a bit of a tache, a touch of a downy goatee and not much else. Nothing wrong with them at all. Everyone's different.

partyatmygaff

Im still in secondary school and have been shaving since i was 13

Pain in the @SS it is.... Everyone thinks you have a skin problem every morning after you shave because of razor burn.

Be thankful, being 13 years old and walking around with a beard was annoying to say the least.
I now shave every day and have gone so much as to get a 200 euro electric shaver and expensive luxury shaving cream just to avoid razor burn.

(Body hair all over too which i shave to prevent me turning into a gorilla )

so in short....
Your lucky to not have to shave

yawnstretch

Enjoy it dude - why can't people just be happy with how God makes them?

There was someone bitching about having rosy cheeks the other day looking for medication.

I hit on my gf cos she has rosy cheeks. SEE THE BENEFITS. Embrace it man.