is it bad to pluck your upper lip hair? not only does it hurt, but i also heard someone say that hormonally wired hair will only grow back in thicker strands from plucking. upper lip hair looks bad on me, but it's not like HRT won't fix it.
hormonally wired, I haven't heard that one before. but in my opinion if that is so and it was hormonally wired then I would think
that androgen blockers would also have its effect, but I don't believe that the hair would grow back thicker even without HRT.
I have plucked my upper lip hairs and you are right princess it does hurt BAD, but the only thing I was concerned with and still am,
is whether or not plucking would cause scarring so I don't do it too much. I know how you feel though I really hate seeing the hair there
but I would hate having it gone and there be pitted scars even more.
I pluck my whole face at lease two time a month and let it grow back. Some of the women on both sides of my family lost their eyebrows from plucking to much. So I am a plucker just hoping that If I keep it up maybe it won't grow back. It hurt like heck the first few time, but it has changed in texture. Some hasn't grown back, yet most of it does. Some got darker, but not near as corse as it was before. I havn't had any scaring at all. Pluck along the jaw line seems to help with shaving that area more close. Just under the corners of my lip I got back hairs in that area went away after plucking it few more times. It is becoming a habite for me over time. It get easyer over time. I hope this help it did for me, pluck the hair in the derection that it grows. light bleeding seems good. Higher chance the hair bulb came with it. Little clear round thing on the end of it.
There is no truth to the rumor that hair grows back thicker if you shave, pull or try to remove it. It is simply emerging from the first layer of skin and it was previosly cut so it has a flat head, instead of a natural point.
Plucking can damage the root making later electrolysis harder if not impossible.
Quote from: Janet Lynn on October 07, 2010, 12:40:10 AM
Plucking can damage the root making later electrolysis harder if not impossible.
Too late. LOL
I guess that I will be plucking for ever tnen. lol. If that is a fact than I hope that no one else does it. I am going to keep on doing it though. I havnt had any scaring.
I'll let you know. ;) I had been plucking and epilating (yeah yeah yeah, I know epilator is not designed for the face) my upper lip, lower lip, and chin for a little while. Just (finally!) started electrolysis. It's going okay even if it hurt like hell!!! :o It's killing me resisting the temptation to carry on plucking waiting for my electrolysis session. Even though I have (relatively) slow facial hair growth, there's so many and they're so long! I can just quickly get rid of it.... No bad girl, bad girl!!!
That's OK, I have been thinking of doing the epilator myself.
I pluck my upper lip hair when I'm at uni as I don't have the time to get eletrolysis then. It's just part of my evening routine there like 10 that appear each time most of them have been killed anyway (having cleared my upper lip 2.5times before with electro) it's just those odd ones that refuse to die.
However in the weeks following upto electrolysis stop plucking to give the lady targets.