Hair on my chinnychinchin

I have electrolysis because of the quantity of my facial hair. I first found coarse dark hairs on my face when I was 20 and resorted to electrolyis when I was 40. Initally every week. Now I am in my 70s, I go every two or three months. The problem is, as one set of hairs is removed othersappear.

Facial hair is the down side of having really thick dark hair on my head which, as DD commented, has yet to show any sign of getting thinner. Having a friend my age who now has very thin hair indeed. I am happy to deal with the facial hair in return for my luxuriant barnet.

I thought it was just me who is bothered about nose hair. Never actually removed any though. I'm definitely getting a few whiskers above my lips on each side. Not sure if they are noticeable though because they're pale.

I have a lot of pale downy hair on my face, mainly at the sides near my ears. Does anyone else have that and do you do anything about it?

Growing old is not for the faint hearted is it!! I am grateful that DH Now needs to wear glasses as he doesn't see me as clearly as he once did.

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I get the odd rogue hair, but being fair,nothing to trouble me really,just one that I will pluck out now and again.

At least I haven't got hairs growing out me earoles(yet!)

Isn't it GROSS growing old?!

Seriously, I do sometimes have a problem with nostril hairs myself. I use a battery-operated mini-razor thing meant for eyebrows to get rid of them sporadically, but as with shaving moustaches etc. it means the hairs grow back blunt-ended and look even more bristly...!

Ha ha!

Don't try it on your nose hairs though, wot!

Wizzit previously recommended on at least two previous facial hair threads! Cheap enough to try it and discard if you don't like it. I find it invaluable.

What about when you have to pluck your nose before visiting the dentist!! Oh, the shame!

This all depends on how coarse you hairs are. Electrolysis works, it may take several goes but the hairs do weaken.

If you have a lot of dark ones try IPL laser treatment it is more expensive but quicker for large areas. It does not work on white hairs.

Plucking is painful but hairs grow back fine. Shaving leaves harsh stubble and you get the blunt stem of the hair showing as it emerges.
I would suggest trying threading. It seems to be increasingly popular.

Yes I have and it is so painful. I find waxing less so.

I get my eyebrows threaded as it is painless compared to waxing but I haven't tried it on my moustache facial hair ( yes it does sprout overnight). Has anyone tried threading for this?

I just pluck, as and when . I find they're very bristley , so usually feel them before seeing them, or Mr Finn politely points them out, and I'm very grateful!

I pluck mine. I have quite a few now, and the job is taking longer. I would love to be rid of them permanently. Does electrolysis do this, or do you have to have several sessions? Is it expensive, and worth doing? I hate my whiskers!

Teetime- you wuz robbed- I can have all of that done for under a tenner.

Old age is beckoning!!! I have one of these epilator thingies for the legs and use it along my chin occasionally. Works a treat, isn't painful at all and it takes ages for the hairs to sprout again.

oh and eyebrows - not all off just nicely shaped. £24 the whole job.

I have mine waxed (and lip) every few weeks. Shaving definitely seems to make them thicker and coarser and my eyesight is not good enough to pluck them- waxing gets it all off nice and smoothly.

I have a few these days (Im nearly 49). I shave them off in the bath with a BIC every couple of days!

If I hadn't been having electrolysis off and on since I was 40, I would have a beard to rival DH (who has had a real Captain Birdseye beard for decades).

How fortunate are those that have a few hairs that can be dealt with by tweezering now and again

Oh the joys of age! The worst thing is when you find a really long one but nobody had the courage to tell you it was there!

Same here! I have a good pair of tweezers and an illuminated magnifier and a magnifying mirror and hopefully keep on top of my 'Granny whiskers'.