What is shaving?

What is shaving?

Josephine Wackett (Skincare specialist - Principal, Steiner Beauty Training) gives expert video advice on: What are the advantages of shaving? and more...

Shaving is a good method to remove hair for short-term. It's the perfect method for men to remove the beard hair on their face, using either a wet razor or electric razor. The essence of shaving is that it cuts the hairs, all of them, where the razor is used at skin level. But by the next day, because hair is growing continuously, there is stubble, there is re-growth. For men on the face that's fine because they expect to shave, if they are clean-shaven, on a daily basis. But for women who are shaving their legs or their underarms, they may well have to shave on a daily basis, which they can find quite tedious. It does not affect the hair growth at all. It can't. It makes finer hair feel stubbly. There is a myth that shaving makes the hair coarser. It doesn't. It simply makes the hair which is there more easily felt because of the surface level being cut off squarely. You have the stubbly, bristly effect from shaving. The hair growth isn't changed in any way, shape or form.