The fact is that your hair (any hair...anywhere) grows from below the skin in the follicles. All that shaving the surface of the skin does, is to cut off a growing hair, leaving a sharp edge. A hair that is not shaved thus, has a fine pointed tip, which feels softer. So...whether you shave or not, will not make your hair grow faster or thicker. Before chemo, I used to sit on my dead straight hair. I had it shaved to a #2 to avoid the trauma of metre long hair falling out in clumps. After that, I left my head alone and soon was blessed with much peach fuzz. This turned into an old fashioned hairy mango pip. That then changed to my Albert Einstein phase, with a mass of silvery white curls which exploded from my head looking as if I'd stuck one of my metal knitting needles into a plug socket. I then had to cut my hair very short again in preparation to brain surgery. It's now salt and pepper ...a lot more salt than pepper, to my shoulders, and just a wave, but no more maniacal chemo curls which I miss.