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  2. We Ask a Derm: Will Pulling Out a Gray Hair Really ... - AOL

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    Plucking hair out over time can cause scarring and damage your hair follicles. While some mild trauma in the area tends to be fine, repeated trauma can permanently affect the ability you have ...

  3. Got Bumps on Your Scalp? Here's How to Treat It - AOL

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    Plus, when skin is damp and hot (as it is in the shower), it can be easier to damage hair follicles. Plucking and waxing hair can also contribute. Pre-existing skin conditions: ...

  4. Plucking (hair removal) - Wikipedia

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    Eyebrow plucking. Plucking or tweezing can mean the process of human hair removal, removing animal hair or a bird's feathers by mechanically pulling the item from the owner's body. In humans, hair removal is done for personal grooming purposes, usually with tweezers. An epilator is a motorised hair plucker.

  5. Trichophagia - Wikipedia

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    Trichophagia's loosest definition is the putting of hair in one's mouth, whether that be to chew it or suck on it, with the strictest definition being that the hair is swallowed and ingested. Trichophagia is most closely associated with trichotillomania , the pulling out of one's own hair, and thus any symptoms of trichotillomania could be ...

  6. Hair removal - Wikipedia

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    Hair removal can cause issues: skin inflammation, minor burns, lesions, scarring, ingrown hairs, bumps, and infected hair follicles (folliculitis). Some removal methods are not permanent, can cause medical problems and permanent damage, or have very high costs. Some of these methods are still in the testing phase and have not been clinically ...

  7. Why You Should Never Pluck Gray Hairs, According to ... - AOL

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  8. Irritant folliculitis - Wikipedia

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    Irritant folliculitis is an inflammation of the hair follicle. [1] It characteristically presents with small red bumps in the skin at sites of occlusion, pressure, friction, or hair removal; typically around the beard area in males, pubic area and lower legs of females, or generally the inner thighs and bottom.

  9. Does Anyone Else Pluck Out Their Gray Hairs? - AOL

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    (Hers was putting grape jelly on a stack of Saltines and eating them in the kitchen while reading fashion magazines...which, to me, seems like a fine thing to do in the company of others.) My