DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME

And hopes that dosent fall in the dinner she is stirring

Aha Ana yes indeed, another option!

phoenix - or

E) Whips the Wizzit out of its packaging and advances determinedly upon Earl, saying she's glad he's noticed he could do with a bit of tidying-up 'down there'!

That should read.... "It doesn't really"..

Laser treatment is far less painful than electrolysis and I have have found it more effective, but it still needs repeated treatments. I dobt reeal work on the white hairs though! Needs dark hairs to work best

Ariadne's is out of stock, Ana reading the reviews, one chap bought it for his wife, conjures up all sorts of scenarios...................... Just picture the advert :

Man kisses wife goodbye and leaves for work. Camera shot of him walking down path looking perplexed (this is indicated by furrowed brow) voice over "Gee, I sure do love Dolores, but I've noticed she has started to grow a mustache" (American spelling and pronounciation) "How can I tell her without making her upset?"

Gets on train, still looking perplexed. Another man enters the carriage "Hi Earl, you're lookin kinda glum, what's up Buddy?"

"Oh Chester, I'm worried about the little lady, she seems to have a problem with facial hair, but I just don't know what to do!"

"Why Earl, I had exactly the same thing with Betty Lou, I bought her a Wizzit, solved the problem in no time!" (Pulls out a Wizzit, which he just happens to have in his pocket)

"Chester, you old son of a gun, I think you have solved the problem!" (They punch each other playfully on the shoulder)

Later that day, Earl bounds grinning through the kitchen door where Dolores is at the stove wearing one of those frillly edged aprons that tie around the waist and are no use whatsoever at preventing any form of foodstuff becomint attached to your blouse.

Dolores "Hi honey! My, you look mighty pleased, did your boss give you a raise?"

Earl "Why no Dolores, but I did stop by the store on the way home to get you this gift" (hands over the Wizzit)

At this point you may choose your own ending. Does she:

A) Simper prettily
B) Gasp with amazement at his thoughtful gift
C) Unwrap it and start using it with no regard as to the hairs dropping onto the food she is stirring
D) Clock him soundly on the bonce with the frying pan

Phoenix....yes that just it and Oh the knees don't like it!

I use this:
Wizzit

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007Y0C4C6/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

If Phoenix can be so efficient (well, she is!) then I'd better try.

It's called an epistick, but some others come up if you Google "hair removal". The instructions are in Chinese, but since even I could see how it worked, that wasn't a problem!

I have got a "thing" for ripping out plucking facial hair, and it is wonderful, especially if you have little clumps of hairs, or too much downy stuff. It works on the threading principle, and is a long, strong, tightly could spring with a plastic handle at each end. You stretch it, place it over the hairy bits, let the spring close then pull up.

AND it cost under £2.00!!! Of ourse, I can't remember what it's called, but it's from Amazon. I'll go and have a look and tell you later.

Perhaps one of these is the answer?

www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=illuminated+magnifying+mirror&tag=googhydr-21&index=aps&hvadid=9509771945&hvpos=1t3&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1611896481467106838&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&ref=pd_sl_1p47ewrkjp_b

Hilda I know that feeling! When I was with exdh the windows in our cottage were rather low. The only way to get decent light was to kneel on the bedroom floor in front of the window

Yes Phoenix......light is the key. I am going to have to sort out a place in this house where I can put on a face (tis only once in a while) trouble is this is a little barn conversion and the windows are very non standard, some diddy some huge but not always in the right place. Gosh that sounded very Morcambe and Wise!!

My dd uses it for excess hirsutism. I think it's modererately successful but does not seem to be permanent. Sorry, should have said laser.

I have been using Nair hair removal cream on my chin and moustache for a couple of years. The first time I used it I think my body went into shock as it took about a month for the hairs to reappear. Now however, I could do my chin every couple of days (I resort to plucking instead and use the Nair about once a week). Has anyone tried either laser treatment or electrolysis and found it successful or knows someone who has? I wouldn't mind the cost for a permanent solution.

HildaW getting the right light can be tricky! I found that the best light was in my home office, (south facing window) so my makeup is in the second drawer down of the desk!

Deedaa The eyeliner I use is like a felt pen, (Boots 17 range, the one supposedly for bright young things!) Lancome do one too, but it's about 3 times more expensive.

One of my problems is that in the morning showering, cleaning teeth etc etc is all done sans glasses and this means I always have the impression that the bathroom is neat and tidy. If I go upstairs later in the day I will have the glasses on and I instantly realise the bathroom needs cleaning AGAIN.
It always reminds me of the lovely book we used to read to our daughters at bedtime....'The Owl who was afraid of the dark'. One chapter is about an old lady who said 'Dark was kind' meaning she did not see the threadbare carpets and worn out sofa - and as I now mentally add 'The wrinkles and droopy bits'. In a gently lit bedroom and whilst not wearing my glasses I can look really quite glam. The trouble is that if I need to put a face on at night to go out, boy the complications of getting the lighting and mirrors just right to cope with mascarra etc its such a performance.

Gosh I haven't risked eyeliner for ages phoenix although I do pencil a line under my lower lashes. I read somewhere that this was necessary if you wear glasses and it does seem to work.
My main problem is the hairdresser. I have my glasses off while she's working and have to take her word for it that she's got it right. It is sometimes a bit of a shock when the glasses go on again!

Smol I had included them on my Christmas list, but I think I must have been naughty, as I didn't get any

phoenix have you seen the magnifying specs that you can buy for putting on make up the lens lifts up or down on each side so that you can do each eye whilst plucking waxing painting at a time ...they come in different strengthsxx

Do you know, I'd forgotten that I wrote this!

Still holds true though.

I should have been braver when putting on full eye make up last week for the interview. (yes, I've got lazy, only wear make up for interviews now, my excuse is that I am saving a fortune in various make remover lotions, cotton wool pads etc).

I used my "ordinary" magnifying mirror, rather then the x10. Either my eyesight has got considerably worse or I'm so put of practice re putting make up on that after every stroke of the liner, shadow, mascara etc I had to put my glasses on to make sure that I had managed to :

A) Get it more or less in the right place

B) Not have the liner so heavy that I looked like Amy Winehouse's aged Aunt (or for us older one's Dusty Springfield, and by the way did you know that you can rearrange the letters in her name to form the words "Findly Drip Gusset?)

C) Ensure that each made-up eye bore at least a passing resemblance to the other.

Well I have a 10x magnifying mirror, in fact I have TWO.

I thinks they are great, yes they show every little blemish but they make putting on makeup really easy.

My second one is for taking away with me.

Long trousers, big woolly scarf, bobbly hat. I try to never inflict too much flesh on the public at large!

Burka?