<p>I was googling about this; a lot of it is cultural, as you can see in this image, facial shaving for women in Japan seems commonplace: </p>
<p>[Ladies</a>’ Shaving | Japan Visitor Blog - Tokyo Osaka Nagoya Kyoto](<a href=“http://japanvisitor.blogspot.com/2006/10/ladies-shaving.html]Ladies”>Japan Blog - Tokyo Osaka Nagoya Kyoto: Ladies' Shaving)</p>
<p>I’ve been googling around and found several sites that describe how Japanese women shave their faces because they want to eliminate all peach fuzz. So I guess I’ve just been trendy without even knowing it.</p>
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<p>I agree with this even though I love salons, and especially “my” salon, which doesn’t do threading. I may have to investigate threading.</p>
<p>cross post lol</p>
<p>When I’m at the local place getting a manicure, I see girls who look like they’re 17 or 18 march up to the booking lady and ask for a lip wax, which is what your D would need. Costs around $15 bucks and they’re done in 30 seconds. I haven’t heard of anyone D’s age doing shaving or laser hair removal (although I’ve heard some girls requesting that as a graduation gift).</p>
<p>The only thing I’ve heard you need to be careful of is if your D is taking any acne medicine for her skin (like Differin) that makes it really sensitive to waxing.</p>
<p>One of the women at my salon does threading but I haven’t tried it yet. </p>
<p>The OP should take her daughter and get it waxed. It takes 30 secs. The waxer usually has a lotion they apply to take away the redness after. </p>
<p>I tried doing it at home but it’s messy and I couldn’t do it as well. In between waxes I tweeze any strays that pop up.</p>
<p>For those that have done threading how often do you have to get it done? Have done my eyebrows and usually just maintain it myself afterwards. What about bleaching? Not a fan of waxing since the last time it stuck a little too well and caused a layer of skin to be taken off too!</p>
<p>Honestly, if shaving made hair grow in thicker or darker, don’t you think we’d all be shaving our heads every couple of years? The same thing with plucking gray hair. If it really made two grow, we’d a) be plucking like crazy and b) have eyebrows like Cro-Magnon Man.</p>
<p>my youngest has her eyebrows threaded. You can’t even see my eyebrows until i have them dyed- hers are just a tad darker, but she and her friends go for " treatments" as a bonding experience I guess. She has had more mani/pedis than I ever have & I used to work in a salon.
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<p>When my daughter’s were younger (early teens), I took them to get it waxed off but both girls have had it permenently removed now (graduation gifts) with laser (a series of 5 or 6 treatments spaced about 3 weeks apart). My girls love the new laser hair removal technology and both want to someday get their legs and underarms done too. Laser is expensive (but it varies from clinic to clinic) but cheaper in the long run than a lifetime of waxing every 3 weeks.</p>
<p>How long do you go before getting re-waxed? I always think it will be easier/less painful if I wait for my eyebrows to grow in, but in the meantime, the thick unibrow is NOT attractive.</p>
<p>Those of us with PCOS are also familiar with excess growth (love that extra testosterone).</p>
<p>Question about waxing: after the first time, don’t you have to let a certain amount of hair regrow before there’s enough for the wax to grab the next time? In other words, is there is some period of time when the 'stache has regrown enough to be seen, but is still too short to be waxed?</p>
<p>BTW, if you think peri-menopause is a problem with facial hair, just wait until menopause! I never had a single visible hair on my upper lip my whole life–now I have to bleach once a week. I have very fair, sensitive skin, so I’ve been afraid of waxing, and I’m too cheap to consider the permanent solutions. (And if hair has to be dark for laser to work, that means not bleaching, which would require me to go into hiding for the duration!)</p>
<p>I would recommend bleach.</p>
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Now see, this is the opposite of what I have experienced. I bleached for years and years starting when I was a teen. Now I haven’t done it for at least 5 years, maybe more.</p>
<p>The stray chin hairs are what really bother me.</p>
<p>Amazing how long this thread has grown in only a few short hours. Everyone has this problem, no one talks about it IRL.</p>
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<p>It’s funny how women seem to get one or the other. I have it on my upper lip, my sister on her chin (we’re a year apart). I did find a really long one on my chin the other day. Hoping it’s not the start of something. A friend gets upper lip hairs and chin hairs. Ugh!</p>
<p>On the bright side, I rarely had to shave my legs until recently because the hair was blond, sparse and downy. I guess the facial hair is pay back for all those years of not having to shave much.</p>
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<p>Yeah, a few older ladies have told me that facial hair removal pretty much becomes a daily chore after menopause.</p>
<p>I shave my upper lip every couple of weeks and have been doing it for a couple of years. I pluck my few chin hairs but every so often run the razor over it as well.</p>
<p>However, I shave my legs twice a year it that, shave my armpits about three times a year and have no hair on my arms. When I had a cardiac cath, the nurses laughed at me because they didn’t have to shave anything and I have never done a Brazilian or a bikini wax. I’m lucky because I have dark hair and eyes and could have easily been hairy.</p>
<p>I thought about a threading but my friend at work did it and she looked awful for two weeks. My little disposable razor leaves no mark and it doesn’t grow in coarser or thicker, just the same as it always does.</p>
<p>I shave my legs so infrequently that it never even occurred to me to teach my daughter how to do it or even that she might need to. She’s got lighter hair and skin than me but she got her dad’s side’s hairiness. When she was about 16, she asked for a razor, etc. for Hanukah.</p>
<p>When my darling, darling boy child was in third grade, I received a call from his teacher. One of the spelling words for the week was mustache and the teacher was explaining that men have them on their upper lips. My dear, sweet child (who by the way is still alive) piped up and said: “My Mommy has a mustache!” The teacher was so amused that she thought it warranted a call. Hmmmm.</p>
<p>I have tried everything. For a young person, I would use wax for a while and then decide whether something more permanent is worth it. I am now older and trying to decide the same thing.</p>
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<p>This idea that a waxing will last a month? Umm, no.</p>
<p>When I turned fifty, my very best friend in the world bought me one of those super-magnifier mirrors. At least before that my eyesight was going too, so I couldn’t see them…</p>
<p>My mom had coarse, dark upper lip hair and always hated it. She did the laser treatments ~10 years ago. It doesn’t get them all, forever, but she is really pleased she did it.</p>
<p>I didn’t know there was so much hating on shaving a woman’s upper lip. I’ve been doing it for years. A couple of quick swipes, about 3x week. Use only hot water on the lip and razor, no cream. The razor isn’t always super sharp either. Never had a problem. It takes care of the problem cheaply and is painless. If I have some really coarse hairs I see, I tweeze them. It seems like most of the posters so adamant against shaving are not the ones who are actually using the practice.</p>
<p>Never have been much in favor of the bleaching, since the hair is still there. I want them all gone, all the time, so I don’t think waxing would work as well, plus I’d have to go somewhere to get it done.</p>
<p>I use the razor they sold on tv or sell in CVS/Walgreens that looks like a penlight. It uses AAA’s and easy to use. I wax but I don’t want to do it all of the time- expensive and the hairs grown back quickly. It’s not gotten darker.
My younger D has the dark hair growing there. She has one of the razors but she’s doing laser on the underarms and bikini. It would be nice to say it’s done in 5 or 6 times but with both girls, it re-grew over the winter, almost to the point of starting all over. The younger one has had a rash on her face and when we got to see the Dr instead of the PA, its a hormonal issue and he put her on a med (not the pill) so we’ll see if it all slows down- this unwanted hair.
She has had waxing but does prefer the little razor</p>