Threading, plucking or waxing ?

Crumbs Falconbird tweezering your legs deserves a medal!
I bought one of those epilator things, first few times I nearly gave up but now only need to use every couple of weeks.
Apparently you can use it on your upper lip......one attempt and never again, eye watering wasn't the phrase, absolutely excruciating! Would be a good instrument of torture.... !

When I was a young woman I had really hairy legs. I was a brunette and my legs were covered with almost black hairs.

From the age of about 30 to 35 I plucked every hair out. It took years but it was so worth it and 95 per cent of them never came back.

When I was about 19 I set about my thick dark eyebrows and made them look like Twiggy's at the time - never regretted it.

Had several disasters with hair dye and bleach, including green hair that had to be reprotenised.

I'm allergic to hair dye now (and a lot of other things) so my hair is all grey) I miss messing about with my hair as my mother used to put it. I was a red head for awhile, had blonde streaks, a curly perm, you name it I tried it.

Happy days.

Hmmm - as we say in my native Yorkshire, there's nowt as queer as folk!

Ummm, well apparently the friend thought that Anne was a common name and not befitting to her status (goodness knows what that was) Maeve was a lovely woman which is more than I can say for her snooty friend. She was nicknamed Mrs Bucket after a while. Poor Maeve was also banned to an empty 'cell' for snoring and because she had a streaming cold, AND she had lent the 'friend' her knickers!!!

Don't ask, ? That's like a red rag to a bull - now we are dying to know why!

I may have said this before in other hairy stories. I work as a volunteer on an island once a year. I had gone onto the island this particular time and, horror of horrors, had forgotten to pack my faithful tweezers. I had visions of a hairy beast welcoming the visitors onto the island by the end of the week looking like a witch (not that bad really) I noticed that on particular lady who was also volunteering had left her see through makeup bag on the windowsill of the shower room. There before my very eyes were a pair of tweezers. So now and then I would sneak them out of the bag and tweek replacing them without her knowledge. I didn't feel too bad when I found out that she had forgotten to pack any knickers and had to borrow a couple of pair from her friend Anne who she insisted called herself Maeve for the duration of the week. Don't ask!

If I do my own the satisfied feeling is too often followed by a sinking feeling when I realise I've got the lopsided look....

Do you find you look at people's faces and want to get the tweezers out on them ?

I agree Flowerofthewest there is a satisfied feeling that comes with every hair removed.

I love a good pluck, never go anywhere without my faithful tweezers. (chin and other stray hairs )

Threading for eyebrows, lip and chin. It's a bit uncomfortable but doesn't last long and is kinder to the skin than waxing.

I haven't plucked mine for years. Just pencil them into a nice shape

When I was younger, I used to pluck mine. Over the years they have stopped growing back, so I have quite neat eyebrows all the time. That said, the remaining ones do grow longer nowadays, so a little trim with the scissors is sometimes called for.

I think that the hairs that I used to pluck from my eyebrows have re-routed and now surface above my top lip, and as I've started plucking there, goodness knows where they might move to next. .

Why do I only see my chin whiskers when they're really long? It's almost as if they spring out of nowhere!

I have no problem with my eyebrows. It's my chin whiskers that bother me. I pluck them out with tweezers. I wish I could find electrolysis locally.

Mine aren't all that thick and rarely need a hair tweezered out, maybe one a fortnight. However I do get the odd long one, so I trim them all by simply brushing them upwards and cutting across any that look too long.

As they are blonde, I use Boots' 30 day mascara to colour them and my eyelashes. I did it this morning in fact. It makes such a difference to how I feel about myself when I wake up early in the morning and look in the mirror. I look almost human!

Heavens above! - do people really do all these things? - it sounds gruesome!

I have thick dark brown eyebrows and occasionally tweeze a few out when I start to look like Nigel Lawson - but otherwise I leave those who look at me to do so at their own risk!

well said, my feelings exactly.

I use Elizabeth Arden brow shaper, just right for me, I think it is good to give the brows definition as it seems to lift the face.
I tweeze them myself!

I grow 2 bushes but they are threaded regularly. The problem is that the girl never gets them looking the same, I always have to point out where she has gone wrong.

I have mine threaded by a lovely Turkish lady, it costs £5 or £8 if I have have my upper lip done as well. It takes 5 minutes, and makes your eyes water a bit but not any more painful than waxing.

What eyebrows? Like tanith mine are so sparse I have to draw them. I use mid brown pencil as greying hair is dyed light brown/dark blonde.

I did used to over pluck them years ago

My eyebrows are so sparse now I dare not pluck... I just use a pencil and gel combination to darken them slightly, nothing worse than dark eyebrows when ones hair is white/silver it looks very odd.

Waxing definitely, have got Alistair Darling look so need to be kept in check before looks more like Dennis Healy's!

Thatbags everyone to their own.

Someone I know quite well has very bushy eyebrows and I long to launch my tweezers on them, nothing over the top just smartening up a tad.

I quite like the idea of having them tinted Teetime do you have to choose from a lot of colours ?

Definitely recommend waxing, but just make sure the operator isn't overly zealous... bald brows aren't a good look! I never touched mine for years apart from tweezing the odd stray hair, but once I got older and they became a bit free range I decided they needed taming. Waxing is quick and only very mildly uncomfortable.