Does shaving facial hair make it grow faster for women? Dr. Attenello emphasizes that shaving your facial hair won't make hair grow faster for anyone, man or woman. Besides genetics and health ...

While your body does have ways of governing the maximum length of different types of body hair, all of your hair grows at roughly the same rate. No, shaving doesn’t help grow a beard.

John, from Gifford in East Lothian, estimated that his beard would take at least three months to grow back. He said: "I'm now having to shave twice a day because the hair grows so quickly.