Ladies, what do you do about your mustache?

Happily, mine is still light enough that you can’t see it unless you get really close. I do have a friend that used to bleach hers, though, and she’s got a semi-dark complexion… Bleaching is not your friend if you have darker skin!

I really should go back and get some electrolysis done again. It’s really the best thing to get rid of it. Right now I either pluck or shave. When I wax it is very irritating and sometimes I get a pimple afterwards for a few days (this is the only area I have trouble with waxing).

Wax and if there are dark hairs, I laser them off. I’ve also done electrolysis. I have NO interest in sporting facial hair.

Thanks to my Sicilian Maternal Grandfather and Calabrese Paternal Grandparents, I grow TONS of body hair

Thanks to “Jenny” at the salon, I don’t have to walk around with a moustache, unibrow or side burns (waxed off bi-weekly)

Thanks to a really good razor, I don’t have the embarrassing bikini line problem

I have very white (transparent maybe) facial hair that has gotten denser as I’ve aged. I used to ignore it, but my mirror screams at me when that fuzzy stuff is backlit. At present, I’m using the cream depilatories, but I’ll likely start an aggressive electrolysis or laser hair removal regimen soon.

@picante Just a “buyer beware…” Before you fork over tons of money for laser, do some research to make sure your hair can be lasered. Traditionally, only dark hairs on fair skin are affected by laser and some companies will charge you for laser treatments even when they know the treatment won’t work.

Thank you, Linguaphile!

I have tried waxing, depilatories yet laser seems to take care of it best .. and yes Linguaphile is right, laser is mostly effective on people with fair skin and dark hair. Also make sure you do a test patch before so in that way you’d know how your skin reacts to the treatment and how effective it is on you.

I just trim the longer hairs on the sides with cuticle scissors. I waxed the whole thing one time. Later, I found out that having peach fuzz is a good thing– my foundation wouldn’t adhere (for lack of a better word) to the skin that was hairless, especially in the summer.

After trying bleach, wax and laser, I shave what occasional grows. Bleach looks ridiculous if your body hair is naturally dark. Wax left me with pigment spots after the area lost a tiny bit of skin which made a faint scab which left a darker skin beneath because I have crazy pigment skin to begin with, oops. Laser works fantastic but hurts like crazy because I have freckles and lasers hurt the shite out of dark skin areas but at least it got rid of most of the fuzz to where I only have an occasional few and shaving works fine. Contrary to what people think, shaving doesn’t make hair grow in thicker strands or denser patches of strands. After 20 some years, I’d be Chewbacca by now and I’m not.

i had no idea this was such an issue for ladies. sorry you have to deal with this. but please, keep doing whatever it takes to deal with it

I have tried them all. I generally bleach the whole top lip (and chin) and pluck the longer ones that grow near my mouth. I have waxed and delipo depilatitiaititi used cream to remove the hair but they both irritated my skin leaving me with a red tache instead of a dark one.

Sigh. Who’d be a woman?

Once a month, I have these really sweet Asian ladies pour this hot sticky goo on my eyebrows and my upper lip and mercilessly rip all that hair out.

Why is it that I can get tattoos and piercings, but waxing makes me cry?

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies Yeah, hair removal is one of the least talked about “secrets” even among women I think. I am pretty sure every women thinks for sure she has more of a hair growing in the wrong places problem than any other woman.

What about the freaky really long, really thin, really fast growing single ones that grow
1. on my neck
2. on my eyebrow
3. on my cheek

I hate when someone spots one on me and, thinking it’s a loose hair, tries to pull it off only to realise with horror that it’s still attached to me.

do you ladies have to deal with the renegade ear and nostril hair like we fellas do? crazy buzzards flying out from the inside and other crawling in from the outside too

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies For myself those are not a problem. But, I do have some weird long hairs as @Stinley describes below my chin. I still cannot figure how the fuck they get so long without my husband or myself noticing sooner? And, some stray hairs on my breasts near my nipples. Funny, I have always had fine hairs between my breasts, and when my thyroid is whacky they fall out. I actually like when they are there as a sign I am in balance.

Plucking, usually. Shaving creates stubble, which is less than sexy or feminine when kissing someone. I have a feeling maybe guys wouldn’t notice so much, due to their own stubble, but when you’re kissing another girl, it’s definitely noticeable.

I’ve been ponderinng giving waxing a try and now that I know you can get waxing machines (♥ @noelleptc ♥), I will probably give that a try. Get it all at once and be done with it for a few days. Otherwise, it’s really such a pain in the ass!

I used to use Nair, but it burned like holy hell and left a red mark for days. I stopped using it when I discovered microwaveable wax. It has to be the kind of wax that is hard when cool. I tried that gooey, syrupy stuff once, and it was not only a terrible, sticky mess, but also it didn’t work AT ALL.

I think women get “unslightly hair” everywhere- different places for different women, and I completely agree with @JLeslie. It’s never discussed and I didn’t realize until I was well into my 30’s that other women struggled with that, too. I only found out because I happened to join a group of women in menopause and they were joking and laughing about hair moving from down there to their chin as they got older. (jaw drop) They all seemed so liberated and comfortable with joking about it—I decided to take a cue from them and relax—not relax my regiment, no, but relax my worry.

1. Waxing works best, however it can hurt, or even burn(which can leave red marks or even light scabbing).
2. Plucking is good if it is just stray hairs.
3. Hair removal creams leave red on your face and don’t work for some women, but if they do work for you (they do for me) you will be very happy with the results.

Too much of a wimp for waxing or threading, so I just shave it. Felt embarrassed at first and then got over it!

@Stinley I AM WITH YOU! Where do these things come from? I wake up, and bam, there is some foreign long-ass hair sticking out of my chin! This is my problem!

There’s not tons of them, though, so don’t go thinking I am some sort of porcupine.

This thread makes me super glad my stache hair is invisibly blonde & short. I get those stray long ones in other places, though. Pluck those puppies as soon as I notice them!

@noelleptc it will not grow back thicker, but it will have a blunt edge, which makes it more stubly. Your hairs don’t know they have been shaven, so shaving does not affect hair growth.

Wax.

@noelleptc You started shaving your leggs because the hair was increasing. That myth about shaving causing more hair to grow is easy to convince people because they start shaving when the hair is getting thicker. Puberty, as women get older, etc.

@noelleptc They do not grow in thicker, more hair does not grow. Neither is true about shaving. It feels thicker sometimes because the razor cuts a straight line across the hairs, while waxing and plucking means they grow from beneath the skin with a more pointed tip, so the hair feels softer.

I rock it. (nah I’m kidding, what mustache?)
(wax) shhhhh

You could just shave the hairs you do not want on your body. Shaving does not make the hairs grow more hairs. It will make the hair more thicker and may be more darked in color. If that was so then men that start going bald could shave theie head and more hair would grow back. You would not need to make wigs or hair transplants

@athenasgriffin Waxing should not leave red marks. You are putting it on too hot. It only has to be barely warm and just slightly thinner than peanut butter.

Someone needs to explain to the hair on my daughter’s legs that it’s just a myth that shaving is the reason it went from peach fuzz to thick dark wiry hair. See, I think I jinxed the whole situation by threatening her with the thicker darker hair on her legs, if she started shaving them, because, um the peach fuzz she had is now dark wiry hair on her legs

Also, waxing leaves the skin irritated and red because it pulls at the skin AND pulls out the hair, so I can see red marks

I love it when people try to discredit other peoples’ experiences, if someone here says that waxing makes them red, it does and if someone here says their leg hair got thicker after shaving it, it did… why do some people have to dismiss those experiences, what was it all in their heads? Psychosomatic redness from waxing, psychosomatic thickening & darkening of the hair from shaving? (me thinks not)

@christine215 No one said redness doesn’t happen from waxing. How old was your daughter when she started shaving?

@Skaggfacemutt I beg to differ. Waxing leaves red marks all the time. It’s not that the wax is too hot, it’s that your skin is irritated by having all those hairs yanked out of it. The wax is warm when the ladies put it on my face, not hot. The hair gets ripped out and subsequently, when I walk out of the waxing room, my brows and upper lip are red. It usually lasts about an hour.