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Because there are no nerves in your hair or nails. When you pull on them you are making the hair pull on your scalp, which contains nerves and can thus cause pain. Cutting your hair doesn't touch any nerves, so it doesn't hurt.

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Micheal Hoeger

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Why you do not feel pain when you cut your nails?

Because there are no nerves in your hair or nails. When you pull on them you are making the hair pull on your scalp, which contains nerves and can thus cause pain. Cutting your hair doesn't touch any nerves, so it doesn't hurt.


Which body parts you do not feel pain when you cut down?

Your hair and fingernails do not have nerves, so you can cut or clip them without pain. If you clip your nails back too far, there are nerves in the flesh underneath the nails that can cause pain. The top layers of the epidermis can take shallow cuts and scratches with little to no pain. This layer is very thin. It is what peels off when you get a sunburn.


Why pulling hair out of head is hurt but not cutting?

If you pull a hair, you pull it from your skin, where nerves are located - nerves make you feel pain. On the other hand, hair itself doesn't have nerves


Why does it hurt when you pull out a strand of hair from your head?

When you pull out one of your hairs from the root, it hurts terribly because there are nerves in each hair root, which allow you to feel pain.


Why can you cut hair without felling any pain?

Hair is dead. Only alive at the roots; hence you pull out your hair and it hurts, but you cut it and feel nothing


Why men like to pull hair?

men pull hair so they can feel like they're the ''MAN'' and the girl is proably a freak and likes it


Pulling on hair can be quite painful but not cutting the hair explain?

When you pull on your hair it hurts your scalp because your hair is connected to it.When you cut your hair it doesn't hurt because your hair doesn't have nerves.When you pull on hair you also stretch it out which can cause you hair to have weak spots.When you cut it you cut it from the bottom so it is still able to grow without damage. Pulling of hair is pain because hair follicle is surrounded by nerve endings which can detect the movement of pulling of hair. Whereas cutting the hair is just cutting the shaft which is dead, keratinized epithelium, and doesn't have nerves. Therefore this does not hurt.


Carpenter's hammers are commonly used to?

Hammer nails or pull nails.


Why pulling hair is painful than cutting?

To understand this question you need to understand how 'feels': Your hair techniqually is dead, no blood flow goes to it meaning there are no nerves, muscle etc. So if you hair can't percive touch how can you still feel it; it is not the hair feeling it your scaple. When you pull you hair you are lifting up your scaple, and you brian thinks this is not good and 'tells' the neurons, to 'fire up' and start recongizing pain however when you get your hair cut there would be little pain because the blades cut clean meaning they don't tug at the hair. Hope this helps!


Do lions pull in their claw nails?

Yes.


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Why does my cat pull on her nails?

Cats pull on their nails to keep them sharp and healthy. It is a natural behavior for them to maintain their claws and remove the outer sheath of the nail.