Embarassing question .... facial hair

[Early Bird]

Whether it's bushy eyebrows, a few stray hairs, or a bigger area .... How do you get rid of female facial hair?

I read a thread on another board. There seem to be 3 avenues:

* waxing
* shaving
* prescription drugs and/or laser removal

I've tried #1 and #2. Does anyone know an inexpensive source for #3?

Any other techniques?

[Early Bird]

BTW, I called my primary and 2ndary medical insurance -- neither one covers the drugs or the laser removal.

[Early Bird]

p.s. It really torques my jaw that something like Viagara (for men's sexual disfunction) IS covered, but the Vaniqa (drug for female facial hair) isn't.

[Scattymum]

My SIL had laser teatment for hair under her neck and above her lip, I never noticed she had any but it really bothered her, she shaved for a while, or plucked but her skin suffered from this.

The laser treatment was fairly expensive and had to be done over about 3 months, I think she went every 2 weeks. She did say that it was very uncomfortable to get done and the area was very inflamed the day she had it done BUT she said it was well worth it and she was delighted with the results, she still goes back every so often to get a follow up treatment as I think it takes quite a while to get every hair

I cant really help you with the price, treatment would vary from salon to salon,

I did have a friend that used to use hair removal creams and bleaching

[nodmicks]

We wax it at the salon I work in. For alot of peopl the more the wax the thinner it seems to grow back in.

[Tara2126]

I need to wax I'm too embarrassed to go though. I pluck now and I have facial hair under my chin. I hate it!

[Jayne]

I use a depilitory creme and pluck away...

[canadian gardener]

tweezers. But not cheap ones. Really good ones. I use the ones that came with the serger, they are the best for grabbing a hair and hanging on, while I yank it out by the roots.

I'm thinking of investing in another tweezer for my purse.

I found that after 40, I sprouted a bunch of chin hairs that sprout out of a couple of moles.

I know some people think ripping hairs out of moles isn't safe but I've also read that it doesn't make a particle of difference.

SO

I don't give a rip if it gives me cancer in that mole, (we will blast, burn, carve or otherwise deal with that if it ever happens)

but I REFUSE to look like the old crone with the moles and hairs sprouting every which way. Regardless of how politically correct crone dom may be as an celebration of female aging.

I hate it.

So I yank merrily away. I don't smoke, so this is like MY risk factor that I can live with.

[Englishlady]

I agree with Margery the odd few sprouting hairs I have are actually very fair, but in the right light, they can be seen and I refuse to look like and old goat even if I act like one

I pluck 'em with a good pair of spring hinged tweezers

[canadian gardener]

ROFL Karen, did you see that scene in My Big Fat Greek Wedding where the mama is getting her chin hair tweezed by a relative on the big morning.

I'm so there!

[Jellybeanz]

I just wish I knew once and for all whether shaving facial hair makes it grow back thicker. Creams make me break out and since I have "peach fuzz" on the upper lip area , I can't really pluck them all out.

Oh and I never had a problem with this till after 35, jeez then I started sprouting hairs like a billy goat.

[Darlene]

Why is it that hair grows well where you don't want it and not where you do want it? My hair on my head is thinning but the chin hairs & moustache still grow with wild abandon and get shaved off. It's not fair!

[Jellybeanz]

LOL that is so true Darlene. I am surprised I have any hair left on my head, the way its falling out. I wish I had appreciated my nice thick head of hair and hairless face when I had it.

[Missy]

I will be discussing Vaniqa (sp) for hair problems with my doc when I visit on the 28th

Dipilitoriy (sp?) creams burn like crazy, shaving is a tepmprary fix, later on I feel like dh's face!! plucking is horrible and i miss them...plus i hate waiting till they are long enough to pluck. I bought myself Noxema Eyebrow and facial shaver not long ago, and i don't go anywhere without it. It works on stray leg hairs, plus i can check real quick before getting out of the car if i have a face hair to get rid of.

It drives me mad. I am hoping to get the perscription.

[pkellyc]

I pluck, my sister waxes hers. I have tried the creams they take the skin right off my face.