I had been developing facial hair for a long time before I learned to shave. (I had outpaced my peers in the “noticeable ’stache” department.) However, it was very thin, light, and wispy.
Today, it would take me a few days to grow a mustache that’s darker, thicker, and a more dominant facial feature than the one I had developed in the year or two between puberty onset and first shaving. Had I never started shaving (and maybe just regularly trimmed), this upkeep would not be necessary, yet by reading the “misconceptions” list, I would have unwisely dismissed this possibility.
Also [rot13 for moderate squick] gur cngpurf bs yrt, purfg, naq nez unve jurer V unir cerivbhfyl funirq vg bss ner abj guvpxre, qnexre, naq shyyre guna gur fheebhaqvat nern, juvpu pna’g or nppbhagrq sbe ol choregl.
Hi, my bad for replying an old message, but it’s just to share an educated observation, you say that had you never started shaving you wouldn’t have such dominant and strong mustache, but that falls in the same casistic mentioned by the commenter abve you, growing up and puberty, of course, like many more or less start shaving when the facial hair becomes annoyingly visible but still in the fluffy phase, then continuing the same process which led it to become this visible and the aesthetical, perceived or not need to shave, it keeps becoming more robust, like it would have done anyway. It’s the same reason chest hair which many or most don’t shave, especially in past (completely legit preference either way), becomes first visible, then more robust, same for leg hair.
The shaved hair is just more blunt, but it actually got more robust and thicker for unrelated reason in such case.
I had been developing facial hair for a long time before I learned to shave. (I had outpaced my peers in the “noticeable ’stache” department.) However, it was very thin, light, and wispy.
Today, it would take me a few days to grow a mustache that’s darker, thicker, and a more dominant facial feature than the one I had developed in the year or two between puberty onset and first shaving. Had I never started shaving (and maybe just regularly trimmed), this upkeep would not be necessary, yet by reading the “misconceptions” list, I would have unwisely dismissed this possibility.
Also [rot13 for moderate squick] gur cngpurf bs yrt, purfg, naq nez unve jurer V unir cerivbhfyl funirq vg bss ner abj guvpxre, qnexre, naq shyyre guna gur fheebhaqvat nern, juvpu pna’g or nppbhagrq sbe ol choregl.
Hi, my bad for replying an old message, but it’s just to share an educated observation, you say that had you never started shaving you wouldn’t have such dominant and strong mustache, but that falls in the same casistic mentioned by the commenter abve you, growing up and puberty, of course, like many more or less start shaving when the facial hair becomes annoyingly visible but still in the fluffy phase, then continuing the same process which led it to become this visible and the aesthetical, perceived or not need to shave, it keeps becoming more robust, like it would have done anyway. It’s the same reason chest hair which many or most don’t shave, especially in past (completely legit preference either way), becomes first visible, then more robust, same for leg hair.
The shaved hair is just more blunt, but it actually got more robust and thicker for unrelated reason in such case.