Hey, my first post here, so I’d like to briefly introduce myself first.
I’m male in my mid 40’s. I actually quite like my body/face hair (and my loved one really loves it) with one exception, which is genital area. After years of trimming and shaving down here decided to try more hardcore and permanent methods. Now after few months of plucking and some IPL, I’m going to end up with the ultimate solution - electrolysis. As one of my life’s main themes is DIY, I’ll do it my way, which involves constructing my own device and learn the actual process with my partner.
Ok, that’s it for now, brief introduce’s over 
When I first started with plucking, it was a great mystery for me why the hair I just removed seems to reappear 2-3 days later. I’d expect it to regrow after something like 4 to 6 weeks, so there’s something off here. Now I know that hair that’s above the skin level amounts to just about 20% of total follicles in that area, and remaining 80% are on standby, just sitting below the surface waiting for their moment to start growing. And the hair that I see regrowing isn’t the same hair I just plucked, rather it’s their neighbor that was somehow triggered to enter its next life phase. All that means, that should be some mechanisms in our bodies that coordinate that. After some research I found very interesting publication, that I couldn’t find mentioned here on HairTell (correct me if I’m wrong), so I think it’s worth mentioning and discussing.
https://www.archive.niams.nih.gov/newsroom/spotlight-on-research/plucking-hairs-dense-pattern
if there is something wrong with above link, just google for “Plucking Hairs in Dense Pattern Can Prompt Hair Regrowth”
quote:
“In the study, Chuong and colleagues plucked a total of 200 hairs in different configurations from the back of a mouse. When the hairs were plucked sparsely from an area more than 6 millimeters in diameter, the hairs did not regrow. However, when hairs were plucked densely from areas with diameters between 3 and 5 millimeters, the plucking triggered extensive hair regeneration—from 450 to 1,300 hairs—with some hairs growing outside of the plucked region, as well. The ability of the follicles to sense a certain threshold of lost hair and then initiate a collective response is called “quorum sensing,” a behavior that likely occurs in other tissue and organs besides the skin, the investigators suggested.”
So definitely mother nature have developed such mechanisms. If it works for mice, we can expect there could be something similar in humans. Of course it would be tuned differently, different amounts of hair and area triggering that effect, and I think it’s very interesting topic to discuss here. Maybe some of you want to do some experiments and maybe find some differences in regrowth when plucking on some small confined area, and plucking the same amount of hair sparse distributed on larger area?
And BTW, it brings a little smile to my face when I imagine group of serious scientists that are sitting in their lab, waxing hundred or so mice to “do science” 