I've been bleaching my upper lip hair for years but now they are getting thicker as I'm going into my mid-40's.

I've started using the Sally Hansen wax strips but they don't seem to get every hair and I end up having to tweeze a bunch that don't come out.

To those of you who have the same *problem* ... LOL ... What do you use that is relatively hassle-free, low pain, and inexpensive?

I shave mine and have been for about 10 years, it hasnt grown in thicker or any fairy tale like that, its fine
blonde hair but it still bothers me.

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I have had my upper lip waxed....ONCE. It was extremely painful-way worse than eyebrows. It was fairly cheap though-maybe $7 or $8 dollars @my local nail salon.

I've been going to an electrologist since September. Mine started as me wanting to get rid of those weird random facial hairs/chin hairs that kept sprouting up. They probably weren't noticeable except to me - I had to examine my face every morning, and tweeze 1 or 2 hairs on most days.

I go to the electrologist every 4 or 5 weeks - it's $2.00 a minute, and she zaps each hair for 10 minutes.

I have gotten rid of all the weird random hairs - she doesn't even find them anymore, and I haven't plucked them in ages. Now she's been doing the hair above my upper lip - I agree - they are thickening since I reached 40!

I don't think I'll be seeing her by summer anymore, and I'll have spent about $20 every month from Sept to June, I'm imagining... more than worth it to me, but I'm sure not everyone would want to bother.

The pain is minimal - it's more uncomfortable as she's doing it than painful, and there's no pain immediately afterwards.

I suggest going to a 'good' salon and getting a wax. A good waxer will NOT cause pain. We charge $4 for the upper lip here. I am often told how "GENTLE" I am. The majority of my clients are lip waxing. Hope that Helps. **PS that stuff you buy in the store, like the sally hansen is not strong enouigh to give a good result and it is also way more painful than a professional wax. Good Luck!

Same here...just use a daisy razor...They are really fine and can hardly be noticed, but I know that they are (were) there...Only have to do this once in awhile...I do the same with my eyebrows...Have never had any problems... ~Lisa

I use the Nair for face. It's a PITA if you ask me and I've seriously thought about going the electrolosis route. Do you have to keep going back forever??

I bleached for years then starting removing the hair. Now I like to have it waxed it's inexpensive (especially for a cheapie like me who gets it at 50% off!).

I have a mustache that would make a young man proud. And I have a beard or what I call goat hairs. I just pluck those. Hey I am an Italian I have hair in places that most people don't even know exist. LOL

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I used to bleach but had too many allergic reactions to the bleaching stuff so I shave now . I also pluck those annoying little chin hairs.

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I shave too. My niece and her mother-in-law does. Now that my sister found out that's what we do, she's shaving too. It's simple. Doesn't take but a second. No pain. I just do it every morning in the shower.

I have a friend who is in her seventies and her upper lip is not a problem but her chin is. She is verging on bearddom. Has anyone had their chin waxed? And is it painful?

Isn't it a pain to have all this hair? I don't have much on my arms, but if I didn't shave my pits and legs at least every other day...yikes is all I can say. My Mom's slowed down and pretty much stopped once she went through menopause...so there is hope yet! All of my kids have hairy legs...oldest DS who is 16 hates it...blames me for the bad genes. ~Lisa

Salon lip wax. After all these years, it doesn't hurt at all. I guess there's no feeling left there.

Your Mom probably hasn't been through menopause all that long then, because from what I can tell, you lose hair on your legs but it moves to your face. I now have about 8 hairs on my legs, that I can see, but I keep sprouting new ones on my face in odd places. Life is not fair.

I go to the electrologist every 4 or 5 weeks - it's $2.00 a minute, and she zaps each hair for 10 minutes.


Thought this was interesting where you said $2 per minute, then each hair for 10 minutes, ummm that's $20 PER HAIR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Could be expensive for some people...........



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You are so right, they move all over the place I call them misplaced eyebrows

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Well, ladies...you know...when we're young we worry about becoming our Moms...Eventually our bodies change & we have so much hair on our faces that we think we're becoming our Dads...LOL

I hate the fuzzy hair above my lip and while it is not colored, the makeup I put on seems to make that area darker. I use the No Tweeze wax. You can get it at Sally Hansen supply stores and seems pretty effective for me. I agree with another poster that says those wax strips are not strong enough. Those things are just a waste of money for me.

Too funny! Hee hee... ~Lisa

I can't believe we are having this discussion, but then again, I'm glad I'm not the only one! I am truly horrified by it! I use Nair above my lips, and pluck the ridiculous chin about every other day. I have made my daughters promise me than if anything were to ever happen to me, or I stopped caring about it, that they would insist that it be removed! I remember an aunt when I was growing, she had WHISKERS, and I guess it didn't even bother her because she never did anything about it!!! Yuck!!!

I don't have the lip hair. But I do have these thick black hairs below my chin. I am not sure if it is considered a chin or neck hair, but there are like 3 or 4 of them and I end up using the wax on them when I am finished doing my eyebrows. They are really annoying and only showed up a few years ago (I'm 46). I sure hope this isn't what I have to look forward to..LOL.

i don't have a lot, just a few...but i hate them! went to an electrolysis place twice for treatments..they said if i went like, 4 times they would guarantee it was gone and would do future treatments free if anything grew back...ok, well on my 2nd appointment she zapped near a dental filling (omg that hurts so bad when they zap something near a tooth filling! ugh!) i actually passed out from the pain..when i woke up like 10 min later there was the scared looking tech, with a doctor next to her, standing over me and looking down at me..dr was talking to me and asking if i was ok, tech was babbling in the background that i must have passed out 'from hunger' and 'must have forgotten to eat breakfast today' i told them i have never passed out before in my life and i certainly am not weak from hunger, that just hurt soooooo much... ugh. never again!

I didn't think that I implied that she spends 20 minutes per hair...I better clarify!

No - she probably tends to about 7 per minute - so probably makes about 70 zaps in that ten minutes. I didn't even see more than 8-12 hairs that were noticeable to me prior to any of these appointments, but she looks under this insanely bright light, and up very close.

She also mentioned something fascinating to me at one of my appointments - when ladies pluck their own facial hair, it grows back darker and darker and thicker and thicker. This pattern doesn't stop. However, when ladies pluck their own eyebrows, these eventually stop growing back. Also, the white hairs inside your eyebrow don't grow back if you pluck them. Which means, if you are like me, and you have a habit of finding white eyebrow hairs and you pluck them when you find them, eventually we end up like the little old ladies who have about 4 or 5 hairs left per brow. That's how they get to that point, according to my electrologist. So it's killing me, but I'm leaving my random white eyebrow hair in tact!

Wow, I haven't noticed the white eyebrow hair, but the chin hair is just the worst....