Excess facial hair

Thank you ladies! Some very interesting comments. Think I will give it a miss and investigate other possibilities. Have tried various things but am still in front of the mirror with the tweezers every morning!

ngc4725 I have looked at some reviews before and posted you a link.

www.amazon.co.uk/Hair-8800-Removal-System-Pink/product-reviews/B003U8GIB4?pageNumber=5

After needing this treatment from my late teens (a family problem come from my PGM.) I eventually started regular treatement n my early 40s. With the same salon owner I still see.
She spent hours on me 20 mins a time to start with to get thngs under control. and I still go about every two months just to keep clear.
When laser treatment came in it was so much less painful. There are still a few left now but it's not worth doing IPL.
annsixtys observations on "I thought it was only me" ring true to me.

It's not to me the first "embarrasing problem" I have discussed on a GN thread with others affected. This is where GN is great.

As I posted upthread, you can get the same item for around £35 on ebay - but I agree, the reviews are iffy!

Phoenix one has to delve very deeply indeed on line to get the price of NoNo and the company is selling it for £199. I have also googled it and it only came up with 3 stars. I personally would not buy it.

The reviews for Nono are interesting to say the least....and not in a good way! Apparently the 'money back guarantee ' is nigh on impossible to get, so I think it's truly a buyer beware.
Threading might be an option? I've started having it instead of waxing- it's cheaper, less painful and lasts longer!

The online prices seem to vary wildly! Boots sell it for around £190, Argos a bit cheaper (special offer), but you can get exactly the same No No 8000 hair removal system on ebay for £32-£35!

I have noticed that the price isn't mentioned, which rather puts m off!

I would love to know how much it is!

Hello ladies. This is my first post so please be kind! Looking at the posts on facial hair and the range of problems we seem to be facing and the ingenious ways of resolving them! Has anyone tried this NoNo thing that is constantly advertised on the TV? Does it really work? I am guessing its expensive as they don't tell you the price but if it really works as they say........

Amazingly I have discovered that I have hairy big toes - weird - I used my new WizzIt on them and it worked a treat. Am pleased with the Wizzit which was mentioned on Gransnet a few weeks back - I was finding it difficult to actually wax under my chin where several rogue hairs were forming a life of their own. I have always waxed using sugar wax and have found it very good for upper lip - but seemed a bit odd to put it on my toes!! Lack of estrogen in later life has a lot to answer for. One good thing - I seem to have almost no underarm hair these days - so maybe it is finding a new home.

When I started electrolysis laser treatment wasn't available. By the time it was I had reached the occasional electrolysis stage and there seemed no point.

It is also not available in my local town and I have been visiting the same beautician for the last 20 years so I decided to leave things as they are. My last treatment was in late September and I do not expect to need another one until well into the new year.

Have had electrolysis on my upper lip and chin for some years, then recently my daughter encouraged me to try laser treatment - boy what a result, wish I had done it years ago! Only one session 6 weeks ago seems to have cleared most of the hairs and I am just about to have another session to mop up a few stragglers. Expensive, but then so was electrolysis every fortnight and the laser treatment is so quick and easy to tolerate. Just make sure you go to a reputable clinic with up-to-date equipment.

Flickety effective yes! But when laser treatment eventually came in that it was much less painful. Doesn't work for white hairs though.

It really is one of those things that you feel only affects you until it becomes a topic on here and the sense of relief is great that it is not just you. My problem seemed to start after BC when I was on Tamoxifen but the age I was then obviously contributed. I just home wax with tweezers daily but find the soft down harder to deal with than the stiff hairs.

I have found electrolysis very effective. Each hair usually takes several treatments to be destroyed and, of course, hairs in other hair follicles are constantly coarsening and sprouting, but without it I would have a beard to rival my husband's while, with electrolysis within a few years of starting treatment I only needed a treatment every couple of months and now only go a few times every year, in between times I can just forget about it.

Prior to electrolysis hair growth was a daily pre-occupation and needed some form of treatment twice a week.

Yes Flower I do get that strange hair every so often - sometimes on a cheek and sometimes right under my chin. I agree that the speed they appear is amazing.

I pluck the odd few BUT does anyone else have this strange phenomenum strange thing happen. Every now and then I see to produce in a night or a day a very very long fine hair, usually from my cheek bone or my collar bone area. It is almost paranormal - just springs from nowhere and I know it wasn't there the day before because I pluck and search like Bulldog Hammond.

I've been told that electrolysis has a one in three chance of working on each hair. It depends on the stage of growth. I go to a beautician who uses threading on my face and chin. My mother has her lip and chin waxed. Whatever method you go for make sure you take painkillers first. Let's not pretend - all of these methods are uncomfortable

I've struggled with facial hair all my life. I had a relief from it when I was on the anti-baby pill. I had electrolyisis in my 20s and it has left my chin in a bad state like the skin of an orange! Fortunately this appeared only as I grew much older and I have got used to it. I use a microwave wax and in between use tweezers as there are still odd hairs growing. Sometimes when I'm tired and fed up with it I wet-shave.

Thanks Ladies. Helps to know others have this dilemma too. Think I'll have to look into some of the alternatives suggested.

Sorry granny can fly did not mean correct you. I was nervous of waxing my elderly clients arms so used cream was huge success !

I use good after wax cream one laryngitis very red skin aloe Vera helps.

Everyone skin different to be honest I never linked threading so naughty of. Me don't offer it.

My lovely beautician waxes and she has a weekly session in the local care home. Whenever I think I should go I bump into her in the oddest places. I suspect she is a psychic as well. She also raises enormous sums for charity and supports budding artists .

celebgran - you're right to correct me, of course wax has temperature settings. Some of my clients have very fragile, papery translucent skins with the veins very close to the surface. I wouldn't dream of waxing skin like this at any temperature. I guess I use "heat" as the excuse!

I think it's important that clients can make the choice that suits them. My DD can't stand having her top lip threaded

We offer both waxing and threading. Threading is more popular. Both threading and waxing can make sensitive skin angry and red, but it's usually a therapist error.

Not all salon treatments are the same. How good the treatment is depends on the quality of the machine and how experienced the therapist is. The IPL machines that you can buy are not as good as salon treatment - we get clients who have abandoned theirs in favour of treatment with us.

In my salon we have a £20,000 machine (that we service regularly and replace every 2-3 years) and 13 years experience. There is no comparison.

A decent salon will do a free consultation (you might have to pay for a patch test) Ask them how well your hair is likely to respond to IPL, if they explain that your hair will be tricky to treat, you probably won't find a home use machine any good.

You could try having just one treatment (don't get suckered into paying for a course) and see what difference it makes. You should have a noticeable reduction in regrowth, if not, don't go back.

After 3-4 treatments you might have 50% less hair and all the hair should be finer and less noticeable and you might be perfectly happy with that. There is a point where the hair that remains is difficult to treat, you get diminishing returns, so if you want a perfectly hair free result you will need lots of treatments. This is where the grade of machine makes a difference - it's the last bit of hair that's the hardest to treat.

I guess that the best financial option would be to get 50% of the hair removed by salon treatments, followed by home use machines to get rid of the next 25%, followed by salon treatment for the last bit - so you'd be replacing say three salon treatments with maybe a year of home use. But to be honest, everyone's hair is so different that what would work well for one person would be no good for another.

Either way, stay away from groupon offers. You'll only get inexperienced salons and newly qualified therapists, practicing on the "deal" customers. You can be scarred with a salon machine used inexpertly without proper supervision so don't take a risk.

Warm wax is never too hot granny angry threading can leave skin vulnerable and sore I find, waxing gives smoother finish, I have 80 year old client and waxing suits her very well. You need to have good thermostatic wax heater

Shysal please don't be embarrassed I have client who uses electric razor regularly on her chin I wax her lip she did not want to pay for frequent wax sessions! The hair is coarse and dark on her lip and waxes off beautifully!
It is shame your therapist was not good have never had that happen. When I was training a stupid student did not test temperature and burnt my chin so I know how painful that is. If temperature checked and set should not happen I always recheck with client couple times that it feels ok!

I come from a family who have luxuriant thick dark hair, which is very slow to go grey. That is the up side. The downside is that with that comes facial hair, OK for the men, not so hot for the women.

I started plucking hairs out in my late teens, migrated to depilatory creams in my late 20s and started electrolysis around 40 when I began to need to use depilatory creams more than once a week.

I have been having electrolysis now for nearly 30 years, weekly to begin with but after the first six months it became fortnightly and then monthly. I now go as and when I think I need a tidy, maybe three or four times a year. Painful, yes, but effective, very. But over the years I must have spent thousands of £. It cost £6.00 for a ten minute session when I started and now costs £15.

DD, with the same problem, tried laser treatment but was not impressed. She uses tweezers and a razor.