I'm cursed with rough beard and very sensitive skin since I was 14 -.-" Lucky you guys that can afford to shave daily or every other day without it being problematic.
For delicate skin, an electric shaver is ideal. A conventional shaver, when it cuts the hairs, also cuts a thick layer of skin along with them. This doesn't happen with a hair clipper, which leaves a little bit of beard behind, nor with an electric shaver, which cuts the beard completely through to the skin. Finally, you can use a mild soap to wash your face.
If it was "cutting a thick layer of skin" on the face, no one would shear their beards off since it would be one pool of blood.
There are special bandaids for the face for this reason. The skin there is delicate and not as thick as the palm of your hand or on your feet.
Could also be an overreaction to the product you use to shear with though.
I was also told that if you shear regurlarly the hairs will start to grow faster, meaning youll have to shear more often. Not sure how accurate this is though.
I meant, a thin layer of skin, not a thick layer. I have personally noticed that the manual shaver, along with the hairs also cuts something else but I was not very accurate above. Thank you for correcting me.
However, in the case of sensitive and delicate facial skin, the below is enough to cause redness, dermatitis and other annoyances that are completely avoidable with an electric shaver.
The blade in fact, passing over the skin, stimulates cell turnover by removing the outer layers, the "dead" cells, responsible for graying. In addition, it promotes blood circulation in the superficial capillaries, restoring elasticity and tone.
I think the belief that hair grows more often if cut more often is wrong, because hair has its own growth cycle and lifespan.
Maybe it looks that way to people because they focus on them too much, and as soon as they grow a little bit, it looks like they've grown fast.
Hair life cycle
Our hair follows a specific growth cycle by going through three main phases:
Anagen Phase: the actual hair growth phase, in which the hair bulb produces the hair fiber;
Catagen phase: during this phase the follicle begins to lift off the scalp and the hair prepares to fall out;
Telogen phase: it corresponds to the period in which the old hair falls out and the new ones have yet to start growing back.
Obviously, each hair goes through these three phases at different times and this is the reason why we never observe the formation of bald patches.
The Anagen Phase is the longest phase of the hair's life cycle and it is the length of this phase that determines the length of our hair.
The hair growth phase can last from 1 year up to 10 years.
This period of time can be different for each individual because the duration of the Anagen Phase is determined solely by genetics and cannot be influenced by external factors such as haircut.
However, averaging out, for most people the hair growth phase ranges from 3 to 5 years.
Normal growth corresponds to an elongation of about 0.3-0.5 mm per day.