Shocking simulation shows what really happens when you pluck a hair from your skin

There are fewer things more unsightly than a stray hair poking out of place where you don't want it - that is, until you've seen this shocking simulation.

A pesky unwanted hair or two can be a real nuisance and beauty blunder, and in the battle against the peach fuzz, you might be tempted to eliminate the threat with a trusty pair of tweezers.

You might not even think anything of it beyond a slight sting of pain. In fact, you might get a rush of satisfaction from a good pluck.

'Over plucked' eyebrows have even been a trend in itself throughout the late 90s and 00s, dubbed 'barely there brows.'

However, if this terrifying simulation is to be believed, many who rocked the thin brow some 30 years ago might have found they have very little hair left to work with.

Zackdfilms, whose YouTube presents a portfolio of weird and wonderful animations of real life stories and explainers that is celebrated by his 19 million followers, is behind the viral simulation which makes for a hair-raising watch.

The video starts by revealing 'most' people reach for tweezers to pluck out unwanted hairs, describing it as an 'easy way' to remove them.

However, it also reveals what really happens beneath the many layers of the skin, where the root of the hair sits.

"Plucking actually rips out the entire root," the video continued.

"This damages the follicle, which can cause the new hair to grow in at an angle."

Why you shouldn’t pluck hairs

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If that's not warning enough, the simulation shows an apparently upset and pulsating follicle where the hair once nestled in.

A new hair is then shown invading the space but swirling around in the wrong direction and failing to pierce through the skin.

Ideally, our hairs need to break through the surface of the skin - lest they become trapped underneath and grow to a bulbous size, which sometimes looks worse than the hair did in the first place.

Zackdfilms continues that it can 'get trapped under the skin, resulting in irritation and ingrown hairs.'

"And if you continue to repeatedly pluck like this, your follicles can become so damaged that it can no longer grow hair," it warns.

According to the NHS, ingrown hairs aren't inherently dangerous but do look like blistered, itchy bumps.

They can be painful and even contain pus, and are most likely to appear on the face, neck, legs, armpits, chest, back and pubic area.

On the more severe scale, the Mayo Clinic warns ingrown hairs can lead to a bacterial infection, predominately caused by scratching, hyperpigmentation and even some scars or keloids.

Meanwhile, if you've ever been left wondering what happens if you're swallowed by a whale, how a tooth can kill you, what's hidden under your bitten fingernails or how shrunken, decapitated human heads were once made, the social media simulator has all the answers for you there, too.