8 Body Parts You MUST Resist Picking, Popping, and Plucking

Don’t pluck gray hair!

Yanking out a renegade gray won’t cause two or ten more grow back—total hair myth. When a strand grows gray, it means that specific hair follicle is producing less melanin, a pigment that gives hair its hue. Plucking it isn’t going to magically summon the surrounding strands for revenge, but it may cause some trauma to the follicle. And when it grows back gray—because it always will—pulling it out again and again may lead to infection or scarring of that hair follicle. Color it, cut it if you must, but stop plucking. You should never, ever touch these parts of your body.

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