Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: Bee
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 12:49 PM

That's right, Becca - ye're naught much more than a child! That little fuzz is just a sign of having reached adulthood. You'll notice most men (with some awesome exceptions) are unable to grow a decent beard until they are at least thirty or forty.

Although I do so love to see young men in all their glory, growing out those first trimphantly wild and shining beards, accompanied by delightfully ragged flowing hair... smooth skin... rippling muscles...

oops. Said all that out loud, didn't I?

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: Becca72
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 12:39 PM

"having valiantly achieved post menopausal maturity"


I just turned 36!! I'm at least a decade from menopause! :-)

Of course, I have no facial wrinkles, I don't need glasses, I don't pee when I sneeze or laugh, and I just got my first grey hair within the last 8 months so maybe I shouldn't complain too much about a little peach fuzz on my upper lip...

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: Bee
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 12:20 PM

I wish it wasn't such a set in stone taboo for women to manifest a little facial hair (or other body hair). I was briefly acquainted (around 1980) with a thirtyish woman who insisted, on principle, in not shaving her facial hair, which in her case was a short, curly, sparse, dark chin beard. She got no end of grief over it, was taunted in the streets (invariably by young men), could not find employment outside of a restaurant kitchen, was pressured by her doctor to seek psychiatric counselling.

Sometimes I think a woman, having valiantly achieved post menopausal maturity, ought to insist on a fashion regime designed, not for looking as youthful as possible, but for complementing the various cosmetic effects of aging. As the eyebrows grow bushier and the wrinkles more pronounced, what's to say that the aesthetic aimed for should not include the balancing visual of a mustache or beard? The effects of gravity are usually manifested in a drawing down of the entire face, so that a woman may appear to be unhappy or frowning because of the slight downturn of the mouth, emphasized by deep vertical grooves at the corners. A mustache might give the area a lift, a visual counterpoint, a happier and truer aspect.

I'm only half joking.

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: GUEST,Monique
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 10:24 AM

He charges me 45 euros (= ±US$65 / £33.5)- some charge much more- but I like that much more than feeling I'd end being able to scrub my sink and bathtub or having my folks feeling they'd kiss a wild asparagus plant

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 09:04 AM

It's true, the older you get, the stronger that gravity gets Becca.

G

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: kendall
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 09:00 AM

Beca, I hate to tell you but it keeps on falling!

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: Becca72
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 07:53 AM

Laser treatment every 8-10 weeks for over 2 years? At that price? I'll stick with my little shaver pen, thankyouverymuch. My 'stache is fairly thin and is my natural hair color...for the stray 2 or 3 dark coarse hairs on my chin I'll stick to tweezers.


Once I turned 30 it all fell to shit, man...

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: GUEST,Monique
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 02:33 AM

Laser is indeed the best. The trouble is that the laser ray is driven by melanine and so the older you are the whiter your hair the lesser efficient it is. The best configuration is dark hair and very white skin but we can hardly change the color of our hair and of our skin. No sun for soooooome days as the skin remains photosensitive for some time. Besides, if your facial hair is normal and dark is one thing and if your hair is more man-like I'd say -chin and upper lip- is another thing. Which means that if it's a hormonal issue, you'll still need to go now and again. I've being going for two years now, about once every 8-10 weeks, some still grow though much thinner, the big white ones can only be removed by tweezers, wax or electrolysis so far.

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: Bee
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 04:33 PM

Ah, but rock chick, when you are older your skin sometimes thins to the point where lasering becomes an option fraught with peril - or so I've heard.

I have no 'stache, and my eyebrows are still under control. It's the beard I mind, and shaving's my solution.

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 06:16 AM

Hair today and gone tomorrow.

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: GUEST,Guest rock chick
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 05:33 AM

Well I don't have any facial hair but laser treatment is far the best, expensive, but depending on the amount of growth you should only need a few sessions. Mind you make sure you use someone who can recommend a company to use.

When I get older and if it should appear then I will be straight of to my laser clinic.

rc

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 03:58 AM

We know all about Brillo pads kendall, we pour milk on them and eat them for breakfast.

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: Megan L
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 06:12 PM

Aye mind you sometimes ye wid be safer if ye wur at their back :)

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 06:08 PM

It's great to be Scottish, and to know that when you're in any sort of trouble whatsoever, you can always rely on a fellow Scot to back you up, right or wrong.
G ¦¬]

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: Megan L
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 05:36 PM

Or you could always dae whit MacKenzie dis and glue the spare bits on top

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 05:05 PM

Leave it grow and it will soften Cap'n, the hair on your head [what's left] hasn't been cut off almost square and it's longer too.
G

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: kendall
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 05:02 PM

If shaving doesn't make it grow in thicker, why is it that the hair on my head is thin and whispy, and my beard is like a Brillo pad?
For you Brits, a Brillo pad is made of steel wool, it's for scrubbing pots and pans.

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 01:39 PM

Very good Mr Happy, but he's in Dundee not Glasgow.
G

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 01:34 PM

Hairy and moustached and proud of it!

LTS, it's not so much about the boiling as the cackling in anticipation....

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 09:09 AM

They think so highly of DD in Glasgow, they erected a statue of him!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Desperate_Dan.jpg

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 06:52 AM

Use a blowlamp and scraper, like Desperate Dan!

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: Jeanie
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 05:46 AM

Same as Becca72 - after suffering skin reactions to electrolysis (as a teenager), then later using creams etc., I started getting rid of the hairs by shaving them off many years ago and I agree, they don't come back any thicker or darker.

In fact, I don't know whether anyone else is finding this: I find that, now the menopause is over, I'm remarkably less hairy (including arms/legs) than I was in my teens through to my early 50s. Hooray !
Another strange thing: though I've only yet got the odd grey hair on my head, my *eyebrows* are going very grey, almost white ! What a curious thing the human body is . . . .

- jeanie

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: mouldy
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 04:28 AM

Wax - and the eybrows too! Any strays get plucked.
unfortunately, when you get to my age it goes with the territory!
Unfortunately, I take after my dad a bit, and he had Dennis Healey eyebrows!

I have decided that if the day comes when things get too bad, or my skin won't take it, I'm going for the professional electronic permanent solution!

Andrea

ps - I have also been known to get my forearms waxed!

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 04:11 AM

...I think a waxed moustache would be good- think Hercule Poirot!

RtS
(I'll get me coat...)

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Feb 08 - 07:29 PM

Thread originator - Crone-like is a state of mind, not a state of body.

If you think it would be fun to shut the screaming kids up by boiling them, then you're not quite there yet.

If you think you could give them something to scream about by boiling them, then you are well on the way to becoming a crone.

Boil the lot of 'em that's what I say!

LTS

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Feb 08 - 06:42 PM

Tweeze... or I would if I could find my bloody tweezers.

So far, it's just a little darker blonde smattering at the corners and the odd rogue bristle - I'm THAT age.... but soon, ah all too soon it'll be the full blown 'tache and then I'm off to join the circus!

LTS

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Feb 08 - 06:05 PM

If I could grow facial hair, I would. I would LOVE to have a mustache... which, interestingly enough, is plural in French.

I've had my eyebrows ripped out by Indian (dot, not feather) women wielding thread which they twist and then yank, now THAT hurt...

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: bobad
Date: 06 Feb 08 - 04:35 PM

Claim: Hair grows back darker or thicker after it has been shaved.

Status: False

Snopes

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: Irene M
Date: 06 Feb 08 - 01:57 PM

Wax was useless. Tweezers OK, except when the hair arrived, my eyesight left home! Epilator does the trick. Am thinking of maybe just running away and joining the circus.

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: Becca72
Date: 06 Feb 08 - 01:37 PM

I have some pretty serious allergies and thus cannot wax, bleach or dipilitate (sp?) facial hair. I have a small pen-like shaver (can't remember the name of it...) that works just fine. Been using it for several years and the hair does not grow in thicker or darker (I believe this is an old wives' tale anyway).

I once had my eyebrows waxed and I reacted so badly to the wax that my eyes swelled shut for the better part of that day. NOT worth it.

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Feb 08 - 01:29 PM

It didn't do Frida Kahlo any harm.
Giok

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: polaitaly
Date: 06 Feb 08 - 01:29 PM

WAX (and cry....)

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: Peace
Date: 06 Feb 08 - 01:13 PM

"Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?"

"'stache": never heard it called that before . . . .

Subject: RE: Ladies - Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Feb 08 - 12:53 PM

Or alternatively...

Subject: BS: Wax, tweeze, or shave that 'stache?
From: GUEST,looking very crone-like
Date: 06 Feb 08 - 12:45 PM

Ladies of the Mudcat

if you have unwanted facial hair
what do you do about it?

Does shaving make it grow
back in thicker and darker?

Have you ever tried waxing?

Electrolysis or laser?