Facial hair

MissAdventure

Life is cruel.
I've never really had eyebrows, and I'm going bald, but my chin hairs are flourishing.

? I’ve lost most of my head hair through chemo but still have hairs on chin !!

They seem to have the knack of avoiding whatever it is you try by lying flat until the coast is clear, then popping up, victorious, to give a 2 finger salute.

I remember some sixth form girl (chatting about which teachers they used to be scared of ) saying “miss X ….when she got cross the hairs on her chin wobbled”

Made me double check mine each morning !!

Yes it is, but it takes time, especially if you have dark strong hairs.

When I started electrolysis in my 40s I went weekly for a year or so and then gradually as the growth got weaker went less often. I now have ot once or twice a year.

The problem is your face is covered with fine hairs so as one crop of coarse hairs are removed, more fine hairs become coarser, not cause and effect, but part of the ageing process. So as each group of new hairs become coarse, they need removing

I am blessed with strong luxuriant hair on my head, it has thinned very little. The downside is, it is luxuriant elsewhere as well, although body hair has reduced considerably in the last five years.

I can remember seeing old ladies with beards when I was a child, and I am so glad electrolysis has enabled me to avoid the same fate.

MissAdventure 2 finger salute

It's so true though!

I still have a good head of hair, and I have worried at times that various medical stuff might have caused hair loss but it hasn’t. My eyebrows have become thinner thanks to thyroid disease but that has worked in my favour. My chin though is another story! I find it easiest to just spend 5 minutes checking it every morning and tweezing out any offending hairs. Dab on a little skin serum to prevent any irritation and I’m ready for a snog, erm I mean a morning kiss with Mr.B

I have one silly hair that grows near my mouth. I pluck it when I see it’s grown again.

I epilate my upper lip, it’s a bit ouchy at first but now I’m used to it.
It literally takes seconds.

Happiness causes facial hair growth. No hair growth at home but as soon as you sit down for a nice romantic meal or arrive at a party or sit in a cafe for tea and cake with friends out they pop. Growing half an inch immediately.

I used to get threaded regularly, then they broke through that too quickly, so I plucked. The chin hairs just brought their friends along to party. During Lockdown I got away with shaving a couple of times a week, huzzah for masks! Now I have a quick swipe every morning.

When I had chemo 9 years ago, I was as bald as Uncle Fester - but the chin hairs persisted. On the plus side, so did my eyebrows and eyelashes...?

TheodoraP

MissAdventure 2 finger salute

Where's the like button!!!

I bought a little facial epilator on ebay, quick buzz every week or so and problem solved. It's effective and I've had it for a couple of years now with no problems recharging. If a particularly stubborn hair remains, I tweeze it out!

There’s a facial epilator called Whizzit, which works really well. Painful the first few times you use it, but you do get used to it and hardly notice it.

My MiL had a hairy chin. She also had dementia. She used to love it when I plucked her chin. Would sit for ages whilst I plucked away, never complained although it always looked a bit red when I’d finished! Win win really as I am a bit of a ‘picker’. I’ve only got my own chin to go at now and it’s not very satisfying.
Perhaps I could be of use to other hairy ladies - chin only though……

I had several sessions of electrolysis before the first lockdown, but haven’t had any since. The hairs on my chin and upper lip have come back, but there’s not as many as before. I shave the hairs off now as I don’t want to have electrolysis at the present time because I’m a wuss. It was uncomfortable, but just this side of bearable!

I had electrolysis on my chin every 6 weeks for years, but it was a never ending battle - my beautician told me it is only effective on a follicle during a growing phase so it could take several visits to stop that follicle producing? And then more take over ………
Anyway I now have a chin wax every 6 weeks (lots cheaper!) and use tweezers in between!

Yes why is that Exdancer the hair on my upper lip remains stubbornly black as well.

Theodora I use Nair facial hair remover but then apply Savlon cream so it doesn't burn.

Epilators are fine for light growth but not for really coarse growth.

I shaved my chin hairs off yesterday, and the buggers are coming through again today!!!

Enough to feel, but not enough to be able to do anything much about.

I have one thick hair above my lip - regularly plucked out - and lots of 'peach down' on my cheeks.

Beware the facial epilator, though! I got one to tackle the down but neglected to stretch the skin taut first. Result? It somehow grabbed my chubby cheek and attached itself firmly. Shock horror and panic, followed by carefully pinching and pulling my skin away from it!

Maybe, one day, I'll try using it again?

M0nica

Epilators are fine for light growth but not for really coarse growth.

I agree!

Some of the posters on here could earn good money as stand up comediennes - great responses ?

I'm fortunate enough to have fine, white hairs (to match my head....), so inly occasionally have to use an epilator or shave. I have a very strong magnifying mirror so use that in good light to hunt out the horrible little b*ggers. However there is a particularly bramble-like little lurker which sprouts out of a mole on my cheek. As soon as that is just long enough to be grabbed by tweezers, it is summarily evicted. What is horrifying, is that although the outer bit is so short, the bit that comes out is so long I swear it's longer than the depth of my cheek?

I use a Braun Silk Epil. It wasn’t cheap but it is excellent for all over body hair depilation. I use it on my face whenever I feel a sprouty hair and it does work. Saved a fortune on waxing so far.