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Ingrown hair is a condition where a hair curls back or grows sideways into the skin.The condition is most prevalent among people who have coarse or curly hair. It may or may not be accompanied by an infection of the hair follicle (folliculitis) or "razor bumps" (pseudofolliculitis barbae), which vary in size.
In many cases, areas on the human body that contain vellus hair will begin to produce darker and thicker body hair during puberty, such as the first growth of beard hair on a male and female adolescent's previously smooth chin; although it may appear thinner on the female. Androgenic hair follows the same growth pattern as the hair that grows ...
Hair can appear on a woman’s chest, arms, back, stomach, and face, so if you notice chin hair popping up all of a sudden, it could be a sign of hirsutism or another underlying endocrine disorder ...
The hair follicle is an organ found in mammalian skin. [1] It resides in the dermal layer of the skin and is made up of 20 different cell types, each with distinct functions.. The hair follicle regulates hair growth via a complex interaction between hormones, neuropeptides, and immune cells
Dr. Gabriela Soza, a dermatologist at PFRANKMD by Dr. Paul Jarrod Frank, tells Yahoo Life that laser hair can be an effective treatment for chin hair, as long as “the hairs are pigmented ...
The quantity of hairs depends on hair colour (before graying): [7] [8] an average blond-haired person has 150,000 hairs, a brown-haired person has 110,000, a black-haired person has 100,000, and a redhead has 90,000. [9] Hair growth stops at death; the illusion of growth after death is due to shrinkage of the skin by drying. [10]
In this edition of Bazaar's Notes from the Beauty Department, one editor unpacks her family's peculiar beauty rite of passage: chin hair.
Ingrown hairs resulting from pubic hair shaving can cause folliculitis where the hair follicle becomes infected; or give rise to an inflammatory response known as pseudofolliculitis pubis. [68] A less common cause of irritation is genital lichen planus , another inflammatory disorder.