The bearded lady

My granny used to say 'Pride must abide', Anya!

Honestly, you get used to the sensation - after all, it's plucking many hairs out at once so it's bound to be a bit painful. But at least you are in control.

Thanks, Wizzit reviewers and reviewers to be! I have splurged £1 on an Epistick in the meantime, which should arrive by the end of the week - like you Charleygirl, I can't imagine how anyone can make a profit on this little gadget. The Wizzit looks like a bargain too. Though I'd pay more for a guaranteed pain-free solution....

Starling, when I was once considering using a normal razor, a friend told me it encouraged growth and threw in a cautionary tale about her MIL who ended up with a very fine beard that way. I don't know whether that's just a myth (I use a razor elsewhere and this doesn't seem to apply), but it scared me off.

Sitting here giggling reading all these comments, glad it's not just me who cries after threading. Last time I went to the nice eyebrow lady she offered to do my moustache and I was a bit taken aback as I hadn't realised I had one - I must go check my face in the magnifying mirror I just bought.
The hairs on my chin always grow in the same place (come to think of it, that makes sense) and I forget to pluck them 'til I find myself picking at them and then can never find the tweezers (teens in the house) until I get desperate and go searching.
My daughters used to have a go at me for fiddling with my chin hair, so I pointed out they'll be doing it one day, as I remember my own mum doing the same.
Look forward to the Wizzit feedback

Hair seems to grow back coarsely after a shave because the end of the hair is now blunt from the cut, uncut hair drifts to a fine point.

I once tried an epilator on my legs and found it both ineffective and painful so I stick to a razor there. I did ask my beautician why hair on my face gets coarser as I get older while hair on my legs grows much less than it did. It seems hair does grow less strongly as you get older and eventually even the hair on my face (if there is any left) will stop growing as well.

Not sure about that - my MIL had a noticeable beard right up to her death at 97!

OK my whizzy thing arrived and I've trialled it!

Verdict:
1. on the fine hairs on top lip it was great. A little bit eye-watering but not much. I decided to only do a quick whizz here as they are not a problem and (my logic anyway) if I did too thorough a job they might all grow back at the same time and I don't want that. So will do a little whizz now and then.

2. on the courser hairs in the chin, harder to find them and get them out. They are far and few between but I perservered. I think on a fine, sunny day when I can see them clearly with my 10x scary magnifying mirror I'd prefer to use tweezers. But on dull days or for that irritating one you find at night, or for those with poor eyesight then this works well with a bit of practice.

3. I've shaved a line up my leg too!

4. Pain. Minimal. Yes, worth getting.

I saw those, and wondered whether to get one for my sister, who has hairier problems than me. But then wondered if she would take it as an insult. She's a bit prickly.

I did wonder if I would still have hairs on my chin at 97, I had hoped they would be gone by then. I get about one a month, and a good mirror and good tweezers are fine. What annoys me is that occasionally, even having dabbed something on afterwards, a spot erupts either on the site before or after the extraction. It drives me mad.

(sorry, the mason cash thread is taking over my life!)

Jane always exfoliate afterwards especially on your chin. It stop the hair follicle from blocking up and causing a spot.

Aha... Is that what it is.

Ana I cancelled my Amazon order for two Wizzits (saving on the postage) and have ordered one from Ebay using your link, and saving some money! Thanks for that

It's the first thing I've ever bought off Ebay!

If you get into the habit of always checking both sites before you order something, you can often save a couple of pounds on one or the other, especially when it comes to postage.

Why do you need two? One in each hand?

This is somewhat pesamistic (sp!) I know, but I do worry a bit about if I get ill and incapable - of growing a beard whilst lying on my sick bed!

You are not alone! My friend's mother has Alzheimer's and she says that this once proud woman now has hairs on her chin, hair that she rarely lets anyone touch, furry eyebrows and so on. She is offered help but won't take it. She says obviously her mother no longer cares, but visitors who haven't seen her for a while tend to recoil. I don't like the thought of making my family recoil.

MiL took a photo of me still asleep when DS was only a month old, staying with them in their house in Belgium after 5 hours stuck on the Ring and no sleep during the night with a breast-feeding baby who I couldn't produce milk for as I was so tired. I look older in it than I do now. It was really scary.

I once bought an epilator for my legs, one with an ice cooling attachment. The pain was too much for me, I just couldn't stand it. The Wizzit is only mildly uncomfortable, probably because it only takes a few hairs at a time, having a narrow head.

whitewave I could not agree more! I had an accident 5 years ago and was blue lighted to A&E, admitted, surgery etc. My only thought was where can I get hold of tweezers or last resort, a razor? It was very difficult because nowadays patients are not shaved pre operatively. I was pleased to get home 11 days later!

Sat drinking coffee with my d.i.l. this morning, resting my chin on my hand, when I suddenly felt a great monstrosity of a hair, it was HUGE,
like a cactus in the dessert! I'm sure it wasn't there when I did my make up earlier. I wonder if d.i.l. noticed it,- she was looking at me oddly......
I agree, whitwave, what happens if we are ill or infirm???
I'll stick with tweezers, I think. Don't like the sound of electricity or threading or sugar-wotsit or wizzits.

Anya No, not one in each hand, the P&P for one was more than it cost, but if I had two then the postage was free!
I'm a Gemini, I like to have two of lots of things!

Not chins, though...

Ana

What...? A perfectly reasonable assumption, I'd have thought!

Has anyone used hair removing cream on the chin? I bought some the other day but haven't used it yet.

Yes and ended up with a rash the next day and little result.

Ana I can dream can't I?

Margsus I've tried it several times and never again! Nearly took my face off the last time.

Shut up Ana!