How Hirsute Are You?!
[ 28 March 2008 ]
“What have you found the be the best solution for facial hair? I don’t mean advice on how to grow a beard, more like how to remove that irritating little strip of hair on the upper lip. I’ve used bleach, then moved on to a cream hair remover, and am now thinking about getting it professionally waxed. I have my hesitations though. In the past month I got a monroe piercing, and don’t feel too comfortable with someone dripping hot wax around it, followed by possibly yanking it out! While I would love to just get some sort of laser surgery and never have to worry about it again, it’s not really in my price range. So, possibly with the help of your readers, what is the best method for facial hair removal?”
Ahhh yes, facial hair. Moustaches & chin hair & other unsightly sproutings, otherwise known as the bane of women everywhere! (Well, except for JD Samson from Le Tigre…)
Your removal method will depend on your growth. For this reason, I have devised a little quiz…
When I look in the mirror, I…
Notice a little bit of fuzz if I lean in close & squint (1 point)
Can see little dark bits at either corner of my mouth (2 points)
Have to stand back so my moustache doesn’t touch the glass (3 points)
My normal hair removal method is…
Not applicable — I don’t need to do anything to it (1 point)
Cream bleach or hair remover (2 points)
Lawnmower/prayer (3 points)
My facial hair has impacted on my life in the following way:
I don’t think it has (1 point)
My boyfriend once mentioned it so I keep it in check (2 points)
I was offered the part of “bearded lady” in my school play… every year (3 points)
Your score
Between 1 & 3 points: Glabrous Gal
Lucky you! You have a minimal amount of facial fuzz & so you’re in the enviable position of not having to do anything to keep your upper lip looking luscious.
If you have a little bit of what they call “peach fuzz” (this is normal, by the way), don’t be tempted to shave, wax or otherwise fiddle about with it — while some people think this doesn’t affect the thickness or darkness of the hair, others swear up & down that it will forever alter the way it grows. If you can stay hassle-free, do! It’s not worth it!
Between 4 & 6 points: Sprouting Sweetheart
You probably have a few dark hairs on your upper lip. Before you start despairing, rest assured that you have many options, among them bleaching, waxing, threading, cream hair removal & electrolysis.
Bleaching & cream hair removal are both things you can do at home with kits from the supermarket. It takes less than ten minutes & is a very easy way to get rid of your mo. However, depilatory cream can make you feel a bit “stubbly” as it grows back, which isn’t a great aphrodisiac. Also, if your skin is quite dark, think before you bleach your hair! Some bleaches turn the hair totally white, while others (like Sally Hansen) come in a few different tones to match the skin. When it comes to either of these hair removal methods, be sure to buy a gentle brand (again, Sally Hansen is good), because the formulas can be quite harsh on sensitive skin.
A lot of people swear by threading (which is also great for eyebrows) as a removal technique, which pulls the hair out entirely but is more gentle than waxing.
Waxing is probably the most painful route, but also the most popular! It lasts a long time, about 3 or 4 weeks, but reactions to waxing are common (such as breaking out all over the waxed area) — so if you’ve ever had a bad reaction to a wax before, you might want to try beeswax or an alternative method of hair removal.
Electrolysis is the permanent option, & works by sending an electrical pulse down the hair follicle. You will usually need between 4 & 6 sessions to see results. It is the most expensive option, but also the most effective. Be sure to research a good salon before you have it done, as it is a fairly serious procedure & can result in scarring when done improperly.
If you only have the occasional dark hair, a pair of tweezers might be your best friend!
Beyond 7 points: Piliferous Paramour
If you feel more fuzzy than fabulous, don’t worry! You are not alone! There are lots of things you can do to counter your hair growth.
Cream hair removal, waxing, threading & electrolysis are all excellent options for you. I would recommend electrolysis first of all, since after only a few (usually between 4 & 6) sessions, you should find the hair growth has stopped entirely — meaning you never have to think about it again! Hallelujah!
Waxing & threading would be joint second runners-up in terms of recommendation, since they remove the entire hair follicle, allowing you three to four weeks of hairless bliss.
Cream hair removal or depilatory cream is also an option, though it will require more upkeep than any of the other methods. On the plus side, it’s something you can do at home.
Women with dark upper lip hair often find themselves sprouting on the sides of their faces & chins, too. Whether you choose to remove all of the hair or only some, it’s worth talking to a great beautician to see what they can do for you.
Hirsuitism is actually a medical term & can be a symptom of some kind of disease, like Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) or some other adrenal-linked medical condition, so if you’re worried about it, you might want to get it checked out. Usually though, plentiful dark facial hair is just the result of having fabulous Middle Eastern or Mediterranean women in your family tree!
Having said all of this, what you decide to do (or not do) about your facial hair is your choice. There’s no reason why you can’t just rock it like Frida Kahlo!
P.S. If you’re feeling down on your fuzzy foliage, check out Flickr’s Hot Girl Mustache & fake moustachioed girls groups!
Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala
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I think proper serious moustaches on women are hawt! The ladies pictured that “Hot Girl Mustache” Flickr group look pretty damn cool, IMO!
I just looked in the mirror and tried to imagine myself with a moustache. I think I wanna find a brown eyeliner now and draw one on, hehe.
I love drawing mustaches on myself.
I’m a lucky Italian, pretty hirsute, but naturally blond.
I wish what I had was a full on Bert from Sesame Street style unibrow. Than I would totally rock it. But instead I have just enough dark hair on pale-ish skin between my eyebrows that if I leave it alone, my face looks perpetually dirty. Hence I wax. But just a little for tidying, because I like the general look of my eyebrows.
Oh, and those mustache groups are awesome! Thank you so much for sharing.
When I read this I immediately thought of this photoset on Flickr – flickr.com/photos/liselotte/se... - hooray!
My faint girl-stache is like the only blonde body hair I have, it’s weird. The rest is dark brown. I guess I’m glad, because I am far too lazy to deal with hair removal on my face in addition to everywhere else I choose to remove it.
That hot girl moustaches group has some seriously hot pictures in it O_o
You guys rule. Your moustache lust totally thrills me!
Oh, hair issues, don’t get me started on them.
I shaved myself from head to toe when I was 7 because of bullying. :(
I don’t really have that much facial hair, so I’m lucky. My suggestion for this person is to get her stache threaded. I get my eyebrows done, and it’s quick and cheap (around $5 for brows). I’ve seen lots of people get their entire faces threaded, and I doubt they’d have a problem maneuvering around her monroe.
I have a little bit, and I’ve tried tweezing it and waxing it on my own (and failing), but the only time I’ve actually had it done was when I already was going in for a facial (my very first one), and, while I was already on the table, eyes closed, she offered to wax my lip too. Well, okay… WHOA. Not only did I break out, but my lip just felt too smooth and too weird.
I’m pretty much okay with my lip hair, though — I tweeze it a little if it’s really bothering me, but I don’t think I’ll be waxing it again. Maybe threading it and then tweezing to upkeep, but I wouldn’t wax it again.
What a charming way to write about a usually sensitive topic! Your (and the iCiNG community’s) approach to life is awesome. And I am going to check out those Flickr pics asap!
thankfully i’m a redhead and have incredibly pale body hair – it means i have to dye my eyelashes and eyebrows, but i barely have to shave! :3
I really wish I could grow a mustache. Actually, ideally I’d grow big bushy sideburns first.
Great post, Gala. I love how you’re open to girls rocking some facial fuzz if they want to.
This is also a totally timely post, as I am going to sport an awesome ‘stache at a drag disco tonight!
I used to get my lip threaded but it made me break out pretty badly every time – very upsetting and far worse than the only-sometimes-visible hair. Now I just ignore the barely-there ‘stache and occasionally ask friends to confirm that it isn’t holding me back socially.
If you should choose to do something about hair removal on you face threading is possibly the best way to go, as waxing, over time, can leave the skin dry and scaly. It’s generally quick and easy too,(if the threader knows what they’re doing).
My mum, my sister and I wax weekly, bi weekly at most. My mum is almost hairless (yeah, I don’t know why she waxes either) but my sister and I got the hairy genes from my dad.
It was annoying at first but now it’s part of the girl time at the house on Sunday ;).
Kisses.
Thank you for dealing with this so tactfully! I thought myself ugly for so many years and was given so much grief about it at school because of my facial hair.
I’ve recently started getting IPL. I have PCOS and crazy crazy hormones, so i’ve been dealing with it since I was 14 (25 now!). Laser may be expensive, but if it’s really a problem I think it’s well worth it. It makes a huge difference. Electrolysis didn’t work for me.
Just a heads up – while Laser works wonderfully with body hair, mustache hair is incredibly resilient and does not seem to go away with it – or if it does, it’s usually back with your next period!
(based on an incredibly non-scientific research of everyone I’ve ever met that has had laser on their ‘tache – but then we’re all mediterranean!)
I go for bleach/tweezers myself!
Brooke, are you on the Dianette pill?
For anyone who is wanting to try Electrolysis but is cringing at the price factor- call around your local beauty schools! I go to Elite Beauty School in Albany, Auckland, for $5 a session. I’ve been getting my chin and upper lip done there since about November last year, and although it does take some patience the results are definitely worth the waiting time. The only downside is that doing the upper lip can hurt quite badly. The upside of that is that it only needs to be done every 4 weeks or so, for about 4 sessions.
The students are well monitored and will have had practice before. They usually go in seasons of 6-8 sessions with a break of a couple of months in between seasons. I’ve been so satisfied with the results and really happy to not only be getting the treatments at a hugely smile-inducing rate, but i’m also making sure the girls get enough practice in to pass their exams- often they can’t actually find enough models!
i love your approach on this hairy topic… everyone has annoying stuff like random hairs, so let’s just deal with it! haha.
on a lighter note, i was about to buy a stick-on Monobrow set from Iko Iko yesterday! haha.fun!
I’m half Italian/half Filipina, so the “hairy-ness” from the European side is somewhat cancelled out by my non-hairy Asian genes, haha
And JD Samson from Le Tigre is a transvestite? Wow you learn something new everyday! I love them
I used to get teased because I had hair on my upper lip. >.< But I no longer am thanks to Sally Hansen! And that’d be awesome to have a unibrow like Frida Kahlo. I’m the same as Jessie Mae up there..Enough hair between the eyebrow to make my pale skin look dirty!!
I tweeze, daily, like a mad woman, for my chin that is. Upper lip, not so much, its the chin that gets me I don’t want a beard, I never bothered with it until (i was 22) and a kid made an innocent comment. Since then I’ve been obsessed with it. I don’t really notice it on anyone else but I feel super subconcious if i can see anything or feel anything… I make it be-gone. I even have a 12x magnifying mirror mwahaha !
Oh Gala what a timely post. I was just about to break out the mirror and tackle mine. I think the killer about moustaches are they’re considered so unfeminine. I mean, a big moustache is the sign of a ‘real man’ {I’m thinking huge handlebar bikie one tehee}, so to be growing even the littlest of ones can be really depressing. I’m glad I’m not alone in my little bubble of moustache removal every couple of weeks.
However, I wanted to ask what other girls did about their arm hair? Personally I also seem to have an abundance and I’m hesitant to shave or wax, as I’m not sure how I’ll feel about regrowth, so I bleach mine. It’s really a pain though! I also have some little hairs on the base of my fingers, like near my knuckles {as gross/strange as that sounds}, does anyone else do anything about these? I generally try to tweeze them, but they can be sneaky little things to get rid of with only one hand.
Oh the pains of body hair!
Lauren – I’ve been shaving my arm hair for 4-5 years now and I don’t consider it a nuisance at all. When it grows back, it’s not like leg hair — the stubble that will grow is very soft. I only have to shave every 3 days about and it’s easy, since I have to shave my armpits anyways, I just shave my entire arm up to my armpit. It takes about 2-4 minutes for me in the shower!
Same with the little knuckle hairs D: I just shave them away. Although mine aren’t that noticeable, they can still be annoying. They take FOREVER to grow back in.
:D Hope I helped!
thank you thank you thank you gala for doing a post on this.
i hate my upper lip hair and waxing usually works for me. but on my teen budget it’s too pricey to do it regularly so i have to use that Nair depilatory cream for the face.
word of warning: i have to use it weekly and it ALWAYS leaves my skin with a weird rash like red marks :’( i guess id rather have a rash than a big ol’ mo.
how i wish i could afford laser hair removal/electrolysis… anyone know the approx cost?
ps. re LAUREN: i epilate my arms and underarms and legs. hurts like hell but completely worth it!
Hey Gala! I don’t know if you’ve heard of Earth Hour before, but it’s happening March 28, 2008 from 8-9pm. If you’ve never heard of it, what it is is a movement started by the World Wildlife Fund in 2007 where for one hour the entire city of Sydney turned off their lights for sixty minutes. It worked incredibly well and is going global this year in 2008! If you have heard of it, well then this is just a reminder to do something great! :)
Here’s a little video for more information:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_c5K7Jdw9E
Moustaches suit women a lot more than they suit men, if that flickr group is anything to go by! And, honestly, if you can grow one, why not rock it? It’s yours, after all!
Tanya – a rough estimate of laser hair removal on your upper lip is about $75 a session. It may take up to 10 sessions though, and they are spanned out every 4-6 weeks. This is according to one of my local beauty parlors. Hope that helps!
Thanks for mentioning PCOS, the Diane 35 pill has an androgen blocker that helps to stop the not so fun symptoms like hirsutism (and acne too, bonus points to anti-androgens!).
Waxing and threading pulls hair out by the root.
So after awhile, you’re going to break down the hair folicle and eventually it’ll stop growing in so thick, but again this happens after years and years of work.
Atleast this is what I learned in school.
I personally haven’t had a problem with facial hair, eyebrows/mustache/anything. And I was never really good with waxing while in school. I get too nit picky and then I get afraid that I might rip someone’s skin off. That Freaking Hurts. So I stay away from all that. It’s all tweezing for me!
Up until recently I was shaving my arms, and it doesn’t take as long as anything else i do. It really is part of my routine, real fast and easy. I shave my pits every day, and my arms I would do about every 2-3 days. At first it’s weird, but after awhile you get used to seeing no hair there. I love how it feels. Smoooth! Now I’m just lazy and I don’t even shave my legs as often as I used to. I’d rather be in bed =D
Vanda, no I don’t take Dianette. I take Spironolactone which is particularly great for my hormonal acne (I have got ALL the horrid symptoms of PCOS). I had laser on my upper lip when I was 17 and it’s been great until I started getting dark hairs again a year or so ago. I’ve also started getting hairs on my chin, so i’m getting laser in both spots. Though apparently I am the perfect candidate because my hairs are dark and my skin is very very fair. So…
I was my own eye brows and upper lip. I do it about once a month, I’m used to it now so it doesn’t really hurt much.
Forgive my ignorance, but what does threading involve? I’ve never heard of it. Is it just another word for epilation?
I [b]wax[/b] my own eye brows and upper lip. I do it about once a month, I’m used to it now so it doesn’t really hurt much.
Forgive my ignorance, but what does threading involve? I’ve never heard of it. Is it just another word for epilation?
I actually have a monobrow, although since it’s so incredibly light you can’t actually tell. In fact, so is all my body hair and thus I look like a shaved ape. So ladies with visible body/facial hair, ROCK IT, for heaven knows I can’t!
maybe we can think of our hair as fur…
why do only women remove their fur?
threading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threadin…
PS. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…
so funny that you wrote this today cause just last night i was fed up with staring at some little dark hairs on my upper lip i went out and bought some depilatory cream. it worked sort of ok..i still had to tweeze a tiny bit. but i think i’ll give something else a try next time.
Thanks for the opinions girls! I think I’ll give shaving my arms a go when it gets a little chillier. That way if I manage to fail I can hide them under long sleeves and decide if I’ll continue.
Lauren — I shaved my arms for years & just stopped about a month ago. Growing them back is a pain in the butt! I don’t think it’s worth it unless you’re really really dark, which I’m not.
Apprently laser works the best and is the most expenisve.
(25 – 40 quid a session, and they make you have six sesions) It dosent hurt, and its gone for life. Im sold!
no, i dont particutarly love waking up the next day after spending time with a boy i like and getting a sore neck from avioding his gaxe bc you rember you fogot to deal with your mooostauche.
You can wax it yourself, dont pay people to do what you can do yourself for a fraction of the cost and 0% embarasement. Pratice. And no it wont hurt – Warm wax and talcon powder!
I wax my underarms too..it feels intriguing
i used to have the same problem when i was a teenager. heck, i still spend a fortune in wax sessions (i’m spanish , and my mother, despite being a blonde, is also on the hairy side). but if that helps, my mustache is nowhere close to what it used to be 10 years ago. now it grows less, it’s weaker and not so darker anymore. plus my skin no longer breaks (it used to be a situation when i didn’t know which one was worse: the dark mustache or the awful spots after waxing…). so yeah, i recommend wax, it weakens hair.
what a great topic! when i was a teenager, i tried bleaching and dilapitories, but now i just tweeze every now and then. it’s very manageable and i’m far more secure about it now! i used to be SO embarrassed when i was younger but now it’s just part of my regular beauty rituals :)
Glad to see this talked about – I’ve got some very stubborn dark and pointy hairs on my chin and for a while there they made me so self conscious I quite forgot to walk with my head held high.
I got a fabulous epilator, it does wonders for my legs (seriously, 3 weeks of hasslefreeness and the re-growth isn’t stubbly!), and it came with a special face-attachment. It does take care of the business, is more thorough than tweezing. But here’s what gets me: Leghair? Gone for three weeks. Face hair? Cropping back up in two or three days. How, why?
Buggerall.
how about body hair? Thats always a problem, especially during swimsuit season. I don’t mean around your unmentionables either. I mean like backhair, armhair, tummy hair. I actually have tummy hair its really weird. I know you can get it waxed but i’m afraid that i’ll be laughed at by the people at the nail salon and also im a bit young and questions might arise as to why i want a body waxing.
dinah : I don’t know I Have that problem with tweezing too, does face hair grow faster, or maybe the folicles are closer to the surface? I really don’t know but I want to get it all electrolised someday.
aaratimontser – People at the salon are professionals they won’t laugh at you. And I think especially with the back hair, its the only way to go if you really can’t stand to have it, (its not like you could shave your own back hair with any kind of precision. ) Only other option I can think of is permanent Lazer hair removal, but I think honestly unless its really dark and think backhair and tummy hair isn’t that noticeable… I had a friend who use to bleach her tummy hair (to ‘motivate her’ to get flat abs) when we were in high school. I’ve never had a body I want to show off so I don’t bother with any of that.
When I first discovered Frida Kahlo’s work, she immediately became my idol for love, pain, and YES, facial hair! I think the reason why people always find her to be such an icon of sexuality and femininity is because she holds herself with such confidence that her eyes draw people in. Similarly, a few years ago I realized that simply being aware of your own face will draw attention away from the stray dark hairs – I can’t explain it, but there’s such a difference between being self-aware and staring dully into space!
Also, there are some clans of Asians with typical “Mediterranean” traits, haha. It makes the “hairless Asian” stereotype totally fall flat.
dinah and kay – It’s because facial hair is constantly growing, each hair for itself. While some hairs are being taken out, there are more that have been growing under the surface that crop out in a few days while the newly-taken-out follicles are taking their turns to grow underneath the skin.
Great article – sensitive yet hilarious! And the comments are awesome: well done, ladies&gent(s).
Haha, I forgot, I have a picture in that first flickr pool!
I have a faint little girlstache that doesn’t really bother me, but lately I’ve been thinking about waxing it regularly because I’ve been wanting to wear lipstick and lipstick plus girlstache don’t quite look right to me. Though, for some reason, I always thought it worked quite well on Summer Phoenix when she appeared as Mathew Lillard’s new love interest at the end of SLC Punk.
Reading this though, maybe I’ll try threading instead.
Hah! ansi, thanks for the info. Oh well, I’ll just keep on bringing on the tweezing action. Can’t really complain about that fact, can I, when I quite like a guy with a beard? g
i’m hawaiian and excessive hair sucks.
is it normal for my lip to bleed when i tweeze?
bettyoakes — Hmm, I’ve never bled from tweezing. Are you holding your skin taut as you pluck? If not, you should be!
Thanks for writing this. Perfect timing.
Does anyone else break out all over where they tweeze?
e — I don’t, but I’d recommend holding your skin taut, & making sure your fingers & tweezers are impeccably clean! You might like to swab the area after you’re done, too, with apple cider vinegar or toner or even a few dabs of tea tree oil.
just out of curiousity has anyone tried the no
hair removal device?
It’s this new thing i found that they sell at sephora but i’m hesitant to buy/try it because I have no idea if it works…
by the way gala, this is an amazing topic and I was delighted to see it!
I’m envious of those who embrace their hair because I in no sense am proud… (I have dark course hair)
well anyways this topic really opened my eyes! .
thanks gala!
i was thinking it was because my skin was dry maybe.
i also thought i should keep my skin relaxed.
bummer i drool when i hold my lip taught D:
e- definitely wipe your skin i do hot water and some mild soap. it cools off the redness and keeps away break outs.
i hate upper lip breakouts.
Ahhh, Gala, thanks a ton for this article! I’ve just been thinking about my own problems with a light girl-teen-stache a ton lately. It’s actually very light, but I’m so terribly pale that it’s very noticeable on me!
I’m thinking I’m just going to try bleaching it for now, and if that doesn’t seem to work out so well for me, maybe see about getting it waxed or threaded. A bit too much just to tweeze, unfortunately. D: (I definitely have some annoying hairs on my chin to tweeze, as well).
I wish I could rock a ‘stache, though, geez. But a boyish look is just not becoming of me. It would be counter productive of me trying to be all girly! (But, man, if I could grow some sexy sideburns… I would be all over that scene.)
But I am totally loving all the people here supportive of girls with moustaches. \o/ You all totally rock my world. It’s good to see that not everyone thinks it’s just gross or whatever. It’s terrible vexing for people like myself, with combination problems; like in my case — too much body hair (thank goodness the majority of mine is pretty light, though), horrible acne, some form of eczema we think (haven’t gotten in with the dermatologist yet), and sensitive skin! Very troublesome.
And as for shaving arms… I shudder to think about it. I did it once back in middle school because I thought my arms seemed hairier than everyone else’s. But, ugh, what a bother. I’m too lazy to bother with getting rid of ALL of that hair! Hairy arms are nothing to be worried about, I think, eesh. If it becomes part of “the norm” for women to shave their arms… I’ll just lose all hope for women, sigh. So many expectations of us to conform to society’s standards of beauty.
Some people were talking earlier about knuckle hairs and, ugh, I have the same problem. On both the base part of my finger and the middle section. Hideously embarrassing since I am hideously vain about my hands, haha! (It’s the nails — I have fantastic nails and paint them interestingly.) So I keep them shaved up well, since it takes no time at all to shave them while I shower, and they aren’t all that noticeable when growing back in — by the time they’re noticeable they’re present enough to shave again!
And oh goodness I just went on and on and on. This is just a very close-to-my-heart topic, haha.
i LOVE that people here are so enthusiastic about girl-moustaches!
i never understood shaving arms because i came to terms with my hair real early.
but one time i got a little too adventurous with one of those electric hair trimmers in kindergarten.
shaved arms legs and side burns
haha i was really cold for a month.
Hey everyone! I just thought I’d throw my 2 cents in here. I always read but never write so it’s about time to start joining in ;)
I think the only way to go for facial hair if you have to deal with it is threading. It’s so cheap and it’s the best way to go. It doesn’t hurt as much as waxing (although it takes longer to get through all of the hairs), it doesn’t leave your skin all red forever like waxing does and it doesn’t pull on your face skin so you don’t have to worry about it causing wrinkles or loose skin.
For those who don’t know what it is, it’s a technique where thread is twisted around itself to entrap the hairs and then pull them out. I think it’s super cool. (I’m still really excited about it since I only discovered it a few months ago) :D
I adore my mustache, no way would I ever part with it. Sometimes I secretly wish it was thicker.
i stopped shaving my legs and only occasionally shave my armpits. i’m pretty confident with my body hair 80% of the time! i wish people were more liberated about it though coz it really only is hair, it’s not harmful, it’s just stupid societys facist beauty standards that some people care about.
also i am hirsute because of having PCOS! sometimes i shave my upper lip(which i know is REALLY bad seeing as it just grows back and all but it’s a nice temporary fix) and sometimes i just let it loose!
girls with REEEEAL mustaches can be totally hot, though i love the fake mustaches as well but where’s the flickr group with REAL mustaches JD styles?