I've had severely hairy arms since childhood. It was so freakishly noticeable that most everyone I encountered had a comment about it. When my crush in the 5th grade teased me about needing to shave my arms, I about nearly died of embarassment. I was always apprehensive about shaving them because I didn't want to have what my friends called "rat skin" (completely hairless arms). But my gorgeous bff (who has noo arm hair issues whatsoever), took the plunge and shaved her arms in middle school to encourage me to try it. I did and it was the best decision I ever made! I love how smooth and girly my arms feel lol.
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I wish I had hairy arms instead of chin hair. On my forearms I have unnoticeable, short fuzz whereas on my chin I grow a beard just like a man.
At least one good thing about beard growth is that a great deal of effort has gone into designing razors specially for dealing with male-type beard growth.
I think a lot of the trouble, distress and problems that so many women find in dealing with moustache and beard growth springs from trying to avoid dealing with it in the same way as men do. If the growth is very light, then other methods may work quite well, but if it's moustache and/or beard growth on a male scale, then it seems logical to deal with it in the same way that almost all males do.
Hi Joy,
A man's type electric razor is the only method I haven't tried,yet to deal with my facial hair. What worries me most is the noise it makes but perhaps I could find a way to keep my privacy while using it. I feel tempted to try it because nothing works any more. After tweezing and shaving with a wet razor, the hair is still there and I have goose bumps and small pieces of dead skin that won't come off despite shaving with a new razor. Do you think that an electric razor would get me rid of those?
Of course, if I decide to try an electric razor, I'll have to save some money because it's not in my budget now.
Hi Joy,
A man's type electric razor is the only method I haven't tried,yet to deal with my facial hair. What worries me most is the noise it makes but perhaps I could find a way to keep my privacy while using it. I feel tempted to try it because nothing works any more. After tweezing and shaving with a wet razor, the hair is still there and I have goose bumps and small pieces of dead skin that won't come off despite shaving with a new razor. Do you think that an electric razor would get me rid of those?
Of course, if I decide to try an electric razor, I'll have to save some money because it's not in my budget now.
I realise that everyone's different and what suits one person may not suit another. There's also the fact that your skin takes a few weeks to adapt to any new form of hair removal.
Men's-type electric razors are designed to work with short, coarse, stubbly hair -- so it's really a question of what sort of beard growth you have. If it's thin, fine and long, then a men's-type electric razor isn't going to be no use to you. However, if you've got the sort of coarse stubble that most men have, then it should work well. Generally, if you've got beard growth that's heavy enough to shave every day, then a men's-type razor should work well.
The noise can indeed be an issue -- some can be very noisy. The Philips Norelco models are usually considered to be amongst the very quietest and can hardly be heard over the sound of, for example, running water or a radio.
With regard to the effect on your skin, all I can say is that I've got extremely sensitive skin and that the Philips Norelco models are much gentler than any other way of shaving I've tried, either other makes of electric razor or wet razors.
I think the biggest problem is probably that in your market it may be a lot more expensive in relative terms than for us in the US and I wouldn't want to encourage you to spend money and then find that it didn't suit you at all.
I think that what we know as Philips Norelco used to be called Philishave in the rest of the world and are now just branded Philips in most countries. I think that in most markets they have a cheap battery-powered model which sells for under $15 US. Not quite as good as the top-end models which can sell for several hundred dollars, but they're good enough to see whether the general idea works well for you or not and would be useful to slip into your purse in any case for shaving away from home. It might be an idea to see if you can get one of these in your home area -- I've seen them in the supermarket pharmacy sections in some other countries. I've had a look on the internet and see that the model sold in Europe seems to be the HQ40 -- Amazon in the UK do it for £10 which is about the $15 price range http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B0000VH8RM. Why not try a Google search for
Philishave HQ40 battery shaver
and see what you find in your own local market?
Certainly for me -- and I've had male-type moustache growth since puberty and male-type beard growth for the last 14 years or so, shaving is no more trouble than cleaning my teeth in the morning.
I did have the whole hairy face thing going on, was really bad, but then ive had 6 sessions of laser treatment on my face, And it is ALL GONE!! Seriously....its worked brilliant for me, no more having to shave and cover up my face, im so happy with the effect it has had on me!
I realise that everyone's different and what suits one person may not suit another. There's also the fact that your skin takes a few weeks to adapt to any new form of hair removal.
Men's-type electric razors are designed to work with short, coarse, stubbly hair -- so it's really a question of what sort of beard growth you have. If it's thin, fine and long, then a men's-type electric razor isn't going to be no use to you. However, if you've got the sort of coarse stubble that most men have, then it should work well. Generally, if you've got beard growth that's heavy enough to shave every day, then a men's-type razor should work well.
The noise can indeed be an issue -- some can be very noisy. The Philips Norelco models are usually considered to be amongst the very quietest and can hardly be heard over the sound of, for example, running water or a radio.
With regard to the effect on your skin, all I can say is that I've got extremely sensitive skin and that the Philips Norelco models are much gentler than any other way of shaving I've tried, either other makes of electric razor or wet razors.
I think the biggest problem is probably that in your market it may be a lot more expensive in relative terms than for us in the US and I wouldn't want to encourage you to spend money and then find that it didn't suit you at all.
I think that what we know as Philips Norelco used to be called Philishave in the rest of the world and are now just branded Philips in most countries. I think that in most markets they have a cheap battery-powered model which sells for under $15 US. Not quite as good as the top-end models which can sell for several hundred dollars, but they're good enough to see whether the general idea works well for you or not and would be useful to slip into your purse in any case for shaving away from home. It might be an idea to see if you can get one of these in your home area -- I've seen them in the supermarket pharmacy sections in some other countries. I've had a look on the internet and see that the model sold in Europe seems to be the HQ40 -- Amazon in the UK do it for £10 which is about the $15 price range http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B0000VH8RM. Why not try a Google search for
Philishave HQ40 battery shaver
and see what you find in your own local market?
Certainly for me -- and I've had male-type moustache growth since puberty and male-type beard growth for the last 14 years or so, shaving is no more trouble than cleaning my teeth in the morning.
Thank you, Joy. I think it's a good idea to start with a cheaper model and to see whether it works or not before spending a lot of money. As a teacher in an Eastern European country (Romania) I earn quite a low salary and I must think twice before spending a lot of money on things that I might regret later. If it worked, it would be a great relief.
