# After years of waxing hair off, what happens when you stop?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 23, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-years-of-waxing-hair-off-what-happens-when-you-stop/393446 "2007-02-23T23:29:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![DecafDonut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DecafDonut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DecafDonut)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-years-of-waxing-hair-off-what-happens-when-you-stop/393446/1 "2007-02-23T23:29:24Z")

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What sort of hair grows back after someone has been waxing for a long period of time and then stops? Is it thicker? Lighter? Coarser? Just the same?

I’m mostly interested in chest/back hair, but I’d be interested in hearing about all different situations.

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-years-of-waxing-hair-off-what-happens-when-you-stop/393446/2 "2007-02-23T23:42:05Z")

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Generally thinner, due to the damage done to the hair follicles by the waxing. [cite.](http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic503.htm)

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**Author:** ![Spezza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Spezza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spezza)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-years-of-waxing-hair-off-what-happens-when-you-stop/393446/3 "2007-02-24T00:40:38Z")

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What about when only plucking has been involved? Same answer?

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**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-years-of-waxing-hair-off-what-happens-when-you-stop/393446/4 "2007-02-25T01:18:36Z")

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Plucking is pretty permanent as well. I once had a sort of mono-brow look and plucked it. Less and less came back and I haven’t had hair above my nose for decades now.