Facial hair is cool, if it’s on a guy. Women typically try to avoid getting facial hair at all costs, and there’s a reason for that. It’s a guy thing. Only guys are supposed to have “staches”, and women, well, we look pretty ridiculous when we have them. I get that hair around my upper lip all the time, and it seems that one of the lovely side effects of getting older has meant, for me anyways, that it tends to come on a lot more frequent basis, and needs to be plucked, tweezed, or lotioned up with some sort of hair removal cream at a much higher maintenance schedule than it used to be.
You see, as we get older, and even when we’re younger, us women have hormonal fluctuations, and because our hormones “get confused” more and more as we get older and need more attention to getting balance through health diet and exercise, we tend to see more facial hair and also hair in places on the body where we really don’t want to see it.
You can also wax your facial hair. Any way that you’re pulling the hair out by the root will do. I personally like to use my awesome tweezers that I also use on my brow line, even though I’ve noticed those are not growing as much as they used to.
When you pull the hair out by the root, this means that it won’t grow back out of that particular follicle again, so that’s a good thing. If you’re averse to plucking because of the pain and discomfort and redness it causes, then you can certainly look into a gentle body hair removal cream as well. These creams penetrate down into the follicle and damage, making it not grow back for several weeks, so you’ll have no hair in the treated area for a lot longer than shaving, which tends to also make the hair grow back both darker and thicker.
This sensitive area, the upper lip, is touch to pluck. Often times I’ll find my eyes watering when I’m plucking in this sensitive area, so check out the other options if you really can’t stomach plucking or tweezing this sensitive area.
