By Mesmerising Beauty Team
Gosforth salon
Mesmerising Beauty is one salon at 77 High Street, Gosforth, NE3 4AA. Use the live treatment list before booking because service details, prices, and durations can change.
Where This Myth Comes From
The idea that waxing (or shaving) makes hair grow back darker or thicker is one of the most persistent beauty myths, and it's worth unpicking why it feels true to so many people:
You notice growth you used to remove daily If you've shaved your arms for years, you may never have seen your hair at its full natural length and colour. When you switch to waxing and let hair grow between appointments, you're seeing your natural growth properly for the first time in a long while — which can feel like a change, even though nothing about the hair itself has altered.
Timing coincides with life changes People often start or change hair-removal routines at the same times of life that natural changes happen anyway — and body hair can genuinely change over the years for reasons that have nothing to do with waxing. If the two coincide, the wax gets the blame.
Cut hair feels different from grown hair Shaving slices hair off bluntly at its widest point, so shaved regrowth can feel coarse as stubble emerges. Hair that has regrown naturally after waxing comes through with its natural fine tip. Neither method has changed the hair — they just leave it in a different state.
What We Will and Won't Claim
Here's our honest position, because we think salons should be straight about this: we don't make claims about how your hair will grow back — in any direction. Not darker, not lighter, not thicker, not finer, not slower. You may read elsewhere that waxing makes hair grow back finer over time; you may equally read that it makes hair coarser. We'd encourage you to treat all of those claims with the same healthy scepticism.
What we can say accurately:
- Waxing removes the visible hair from the root. That's the treatment.
- Your arms stay hair-free until visible regrowth appears. How long that takes varies genuinely from person to person.
- The characteristics of your hair — colour, texture, density — come from your own biology, and are not determined by how the hair was last removed.
- Regrowth experience varies. Some clients feel their regrowth is soft, some barely notice it, some notice it sooner than others. All of that is normal and individual.
If Your Hair Genuinely Has Changed
If you've noticed a real change in your arm hair over time — noticeably darker, coarser, faster-growing, or appearing in new places — the honest advice is that this has nothing to do with waxing, and it's worth a conversation with your GP. Hair growth can change through different stages of life, and occasionally a change in body hair is something a doctor will want to know about. A beauty salon is not the right place to diagnose or explain it, and we won't pretend otherwise.
What we can do, whatever your hair is like, is remove it cleanly and professionally when you'd like it gone.
Choosing Between Removal Methods
Setting myths aside, here's a fair comparison of what each method actually does:
Shaving cuts hair at the skin's surface. It's quick and can be done at home, but the hair is still there just below the surface, and stubble reappears as it grows through.
Waxing removes the hair from the root. The skin is left completely bare with no stubble at the surface, and stays that way until visible regrowth — with timing that varies by person. It involves brief discomfort during the treatment and needs the hair to be around 5mm long to work well.
Depilatory creams dissolve the hair shaft at the surface. Like shaving, the root remains in place.
Laser and IPL are light-based treatments aimed at longer-term hair reduction. They're a different category of treatment altogether, with their own suitability considerations — if you're considering them, research providers carefully and ask about consultation and patch testing.
None of these methods changes the colour of your hair. The choice comes down to how you like your skin to feel, how often you want to think about hair removal, and your budget — you can check our current price list for what arm waxing costs today.
Professional Arm Waxing at Mesmerising Beauty
Mesmerising Beauty serves clients from one salon at 77 High Street, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 4AA.
For current treatment prices, appointment times, and availability, use the live booking route: