Vlal

Ladies,

How long does it take for you to feel stubble after you wax?

I used to find waxing good because I could last a reasonable length of time with smooth feeling legs. Now, if I wax in the morning, my legs feel slightly stubbly by evening - how is this even possible? I can see I got the root of the hair... so surely that's ridiculous time frame? I don't find waxing any better than shaving or epilating

Vicky-Louise

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joyblack

The hairs you got out from the roots are not going to be back for quite a number of weeks.

But there are plenty of other hairs that you didn't get by the roots.

Waxing can't remove hairs that are not yet above the surface of the skin and there are probably plenty just at the surface of the skin which, if your hair growth is heavy, may come through within hours. Those in the normal course of growth, however, would be expected to have a fine, tapered, not-too-bristly end, though if your hair growth is very coarse, even a relatively fine end can feel bristly.

Waxing can also result in hair breaking off just below the surface and I suspect that this may have happened with some of the hair that's feeling particularly bristly.

Whilst most women in America have leg hair (not true of all women everywhere as many Asian women from outwith the Indian sub-continent have none) high levels of testosterone lead to increased amounts of leg hair and cause the growth to be both heavier and courser. It may simply be that whereas previously it was more like typical female growth, now with increased testosterone the growth pattern of your leg hair is becoming much closer to what you would expect to find in a male.

Birdsong

I don't wax my legs, but do my face . . . I have a week or so before I get the strays I have to start plucking again. . . . by the third week, I need it again. I am having to wait 3 and a half this time round b/c my gal is booked, and I'm way fuzzy, need to pluck some more just to be presentable . . . can't wait to get it done again.

Ihavfaith

I don't wax at all. Waxing pulls the hair out from the root therefore making the hair grow back stronger and thicker, and also faster. I am getting ready to get electrolysis done to my face and I was instructed not to wax because of those reason. Waxing also stimulates more hair growth.

joyblack

I agree. One of the reasons I shave my face.

Birdsong

I really haven't wanted to shave my face . . . it is probably just some kind of thing I have, I dunno . . . . didn't know that about wax though . . . is that really true?

joyblack

If your facial hair growth is very weak and is not hormonally-stimulated and if your hormones are within the normal female range than waxing may, in some circumstances, cause the hair root to be weakened or destroyed.

If, however, your facial hair growth is hormonally-stimulated and your hormones are not in the normal female range but have high levels of free testosterone, it's very possible that repeated waxing will actually stimulate hair growth and eventually cause the growth to be at distorted angles and coarser to the point where it may become impossible to remove the hair by waxing at all.

One of the effects of PCOS on some women is to bring about male-type beard growth. If your facial hair answers that description, then waxing is unlikely to be satisfactory for you.

The main "problem" with shaving is the "male" associations with the idea of shaving one's face. However, if it's male-type moustache and beard growth one has, then, for some of us at least, shaving makes good sense. And with a men's-type electric razor it's both quick and easy.

mistyr

There is a lot of misinformation here.

I'm a long time waxer. I think I may have been around age 12 the first time I waxed, and I'm almost 31 now. My growth is thinner now in some areas than when I began, and thicker in others. While repeated waxing of the coarse hair will not cause it to go away permanantly, it won't cause any more to grow either. It's just another means of removing it. Much of the fine hair that I had in my teens has disappeared in area's that have been waxed regularly. It probably lightened up due to a combination of hormones shifting and frequent removal by the roots.

I have not suffered any extra growth that I can blame on waxing. How the heck would anyone be able to prove that they were ever supposed to have more or less growth anyway? There is no way to know. All of us who have excess hair have "hormonally driven" excess hair. Without the extra hormones, the hair would never become an issue for us.

I've had relatively good results with long term waxing. While it is a fact that I have hair growth, waxing has allowed me periods of time that are relatively low-maintainance. I have a good texture of skin, no ingrowns, no shadow showing. While waxing I've been able to touch up with tweezers between, and it's been my little secret. I've had much, much, much better results with waxing and epilating than with shaving. I think my skin looks much more feminine and pretty with wax than with shaving.

I can appreciate an respect that everyone has their own means of removing and dealing with the hair, and not all methods work for everyone. I don't wish to see anyone NOT try something that could potentially be to their benefit because they were not given correct information. In short, waxing may or may not be something that works for you, but there is no way that it can make you grow more hair. Hair will not grow unless it is already there. If this were correct information, then some cysters would be waxing their heads to encourage the growth. It just doesn't make sense.

There is simply no method of hair removal that effects the amount of hair you grow. You either have facial hair, or you don't. Shaving won't make it any more than what it already is, waxing won't make it thicker either, or nair. or threading. Hair cannot / will not grow where it does not already exist. End of rant...

Anyhow, to the OP...
You might want to try a different wax. Some are better for longer, finer hair, and those products won't grab onto the shorter, coarser hairs. I like Surgi Wax Brazillian because it does get those little short hairs.

Or it is possible that the hair has cycled in such a way that you just have some growth going on all the time. If that's the case, you might try shaving for a few weeks until there is more growing above the skin, and then wax it all at once.

Vlal

Yeah I think I need to wait and then wax all at once or I am just out of sync! Also, I didn't think about trying another type of wax, so that's a good point and I think I will try that.

I have had quite good success with epilating, however, I just find it does take me a long time. I am not the most patient person!! I don't mind shaving, but I would rather do something that leaves me a little longer before I have to reattend to the hair, which is why I was attracted to waxing and epilating.

Thanks for the replies.

Vicky-Louise

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Furbabies: Millie, Yorkie, 3 years old

Auntie to 3 furbabies: Cleo (Rescued dog), Asher (Papillon) & Pippin (Rescued kitten, now a big lazy cat!)

I am a pescatarian and on a low-calorie, healthy diet trying to incorporate as many low-GI and low-carb ideas as possible. I am also excercising - mainly by doing workout DVDs and walking our 3 dogs.

jeminijad

Yes! I have waxed for 5 years now, tweezed for much longer than that- and the hair is certainly not any worse, and may be better. People swear that shaving makes your hair coarser and more abundant, and we've learned that isn't true- waxing is just the same. There may be a few people that react poorly to it, but for many women it is a longer lasting, more palatable solution than a shave or Nair.

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Birdsong

Thanks, ladies

joyblack

I think it's very important to distinguish between "may" and "will". What happens with some people sometimes doesn't happen with everyone always.

That's a helpful report of your personal experience.

I think that all you can say for sure is that with you there's no evidence of these things happening or not happening as the case may be. There may be some women for whom even coarse hair may disappear permanently after a number of waxings -- and equally others for whom finer hair has been stimulated into coarser growth. But those other possibilities don't invalidate your experience

As you say, there are probably several factors to take into consideration.

Ethnicity comes into it as well, when you consider the effects of normal testosterone and estrogen levels. If you had been a pure-bred native-American Indian, you could have any amount of testosterone but wouldn't be likely to have moustache or beard growth. Even the males have next to none. On the other hand if you were a female from the Indian sub-continent, you wouldn't necessarily assume that your hormones were out of whack if you had a small amount of moustache or sideburn growth.

I'm very glad it works well for you. What do you do about the period immediately before you wax, when the growth is above the surface?

Waxing does not cause new follicles to develop. In some instances (n.b. not necessarily all) waxing may (n.b. not necessarily will) stimulate follicles which are not in the growing phase to move into that face. The trauma of waxing or plucking can also provoke a rush of blood to the traumatized area bringing an increased supply of testosterone But of course it doesn't create new hair follicles. It can affect only existing follicles.

mistyr

I think there is a lot of difference between a little extra hair, and the type of hair growth the ladies with PCOS have, regardless of eithnicity. Judging from what I have read on this board, I think it would be safe to assume that a lot of us have more than a small amount of extra growth. The PCOS hair tends to move beyond the usual places like the upper lip and hairline. IMO, there is a difference in being a hairy girl and the type of hair that many of us have.

I'm 1/4 Native American. Too bad the hairless gene is not a dominant one Ironically, my forearms and lower legs have less hair than the typical woman. Even though my natural hair is nearly black, my arm hair is blond and barely visible, and hardly enough to feel. Once in a while I see a dark colored one pop up, and I just yank it out while I'm waxing.

For time between waxing I tweeze. I can get just about anything that is long enough for me to feel with the tweezers. In a case where I see the black dot but can't feel it, then a dab of MAC concealor will take care of it. I take about 5 minutes each morning for daily touch ups. I have a little led light that I use to see everything on my skin. I don't retouch on Fri, or Sat. For about the last 6 months it is light enough to let it go a day or two, but it hasn't always been. My routine is to wax every Sunday, even if it appears that I don't need it just yet. There are always some thinner ones to be dealt with. Also, areas where I don't have coarse growth, I don't tweeze, just wax the fuzzies once a week, and then they never become a problem. Prior to going on Spiro, I waxed every 3 days, with no touch-ups between. It grows a lot slower now.

I should also mention that my extra growth is limited to my chin and neck. I do have a few coarse ones that pop up in other areas, but they are so scattered that they are not that difficult to manage.

Unfortunately, I've had to give it up so that I can have laser removal. I'm shaving for almost 3 weeks now, and I hate it. My skin feels weird, even when it's smooth. I've never felt so unattractive in my life. I'm very afraid I'm going to get that tranny/drag queen look to my skin before the first laser treatment.

jayssababy

I notice regrowth after about a week. It is frustrating because then I have to wait for it to grow longer to be long enough to be waxed again. I can't decided which is a better removalmethos. I just know waxing hurts a lot!

serah

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