Pulling hair can be quite painful, yet cutting hair is not painful.?

pulling = ripping out living cells

cutting= snipping off dead cells

Pulling hair can be quite painful, yet cutting hair is not painful.?

There is great diff. in cutting and pulling of hair

Pulling hair can be quite painful, yet cutting hair is not painful.?

Cutting hair occurs at the end of the hair shaft. Pulling hair occurs at the root. That's why it's painful. Try explaining that to a 4 year old who is afraid to get her hair cut ...

Pulling hair can be quite painful, yet cutting hair is not painful.?

Because you are pulling it out of your living skin dermis.

you hair is dead, so it cant hurt, but the scalp hurts because something is being uprooted from it

Pulling hair can be quite painful, yet cutting hair is not painful.?

Please!!!! Of course pulling is painful, Duh!

Pulling hair can be quite painful, yet cutting hair is not painful.?

Nerve endings are on the surface of your head, but not actually in the hair. Hair is dead tissue converted into a substance that helps keep your head warm. But your scalp is still alive, so it can feel pain.

Pulling hair can be quite painful, yet cutting hair is not painful.?

That's probably because your hair doesn't really have any feeling in it; the pain you experience from your hair being pulled is a result of the hair being connected to your head, which is sensitive.

Pulling hair can be quite painful, yet cutting hair is not painful.?

Its bc at a hair solon they make you feel conftable but when your pulling up your hair your just trying to get it done in time.yournerves on your scalp is getting pulled and its uncofortable but when you getting your hair cut your just getting dead cell off

Pulling hair can be quite painful, yet cutting hair is not painful.?

do you not understand why? Is that really your question? My 3 year old can answer this one. I would let her if she could spell

your hair is dead.. but the folicles attatched to your head are not..

need I say more?

Pulling hair can be quite painful, yet cutting hair is not painful.?

when you pull a hair it hurts because on every straid of hair at the top of root of it their is a small piece of dna, so when you pull the hair the dna has yo come out of the skin. When you cut hair their is no dna!

Pulling hair can be quite painful, yet cutting hair is not painful.?

pulling out hair is WAYYYY more painful then juss cutting it