I've been doing a lot of reading about various forms of hair removal, and I am getting so much conflicting information
I was considering threading the fine blonde peach fuzz on my face, but I am scared to do so, because I've read a lot of articles saying that any form of hair removal that pulls the hair out by the root (waxing, tweezing, threading) makes the hair grow back coarser and darker. But I've also heard some people say it grows back finer and less dense after those kinds of hair removal.
I don't have hirsutism on the sides of my face - just peach fuzz - but sometimes it bothers me a lot. It would be absolutely terrible if that peach fuzz grew back in sticking out instead of lying flat, and was thicker than before.
What are your experiences with threading/tweezing/waxing? Specifically for the peach fuzz hair, does it grow back at a different angle, or coarser?
Pulling hair out at the root usually makes it grow back finer and more blonde. Shaving or hair removal creams usually makes it grow back thicker and darker.
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yes i share u your fear from getting coarser hair with repeated hair removal methods.my gynecologyst warned me alot of times during my first appointment after getting dx not to remove hair frequently as it will get coarser and i will have to use laser then..
i don have long experience in that as i dint usually have problem of facial hair but lately and with diagnosing of pcos ....hair was growing on my face ,it is not coarse or very dark but it is long fine and visible esp chin and really make me crazy sometimes...so i started to get threading (painful but i get used to). i did it 6 times ...but it didnt make hair coarser until now.the problem i have that im intolerant to hair removal in any way ..i break out easily
we need experiences from women who used these methods for long time...
I have waxed my face for years, and the hair has gotten THINNER, some of it has not come back at all.
My mother is a cosmetologist and told me that removing hair by the root (tweezing, waxing, etc) usually results in finer, thinner hair over time, although it could be a very long time before you notice. Basically as you pull the hair out you are damaging the follicle, and eventually it sorta dies and quits producing a hair.
Good luck!
Stacie M
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I have waxed my face for years, and the hair has gotten THINNER, some of it has not come back at all.
that's encouraging. do you wax the peach fuzz on the sides of your face too? that's what i want to remove. it's not noticeable dark or thick hair. it's soft and lies mostly flat against my skin. how long did it take until you noticed it getting finer? also, how often do you wax?
sorry to ask so many questions thanks for your response.
For the peach fuzz on my face, I use one of those mini-electric razors. Just buzz over it lightly. It doesn't actually shave it down at the root, so it comes back the same. I do mine once a week and don't have any problems with it. The idea is to make it less noticeable, but not to make you totally smooth.
Now, I've been waxing and plucking my chin hairs for several years now, and they've gotten darker and coarser. DH has actually commented a few times that when we met my chin hairs were pretty soft, but now they're prickly and bristly. That seems to contradict the idea that plucking makes it softer. I'm not sure what to do. They grow so fast that I have to pluck several times a week (which hurts ). If my summer classes aren't canceled, I think I'm going to have lazer done.
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Pulling hair out at the root usually makes it grow back finer and more blonde. Shaving or hair removal creams usually makes it grow back thicker and darker.
Shaving hair absolutely DOES NOT make hair grow back darker and thicker. There is categorically NO WAY that slicing off a hair at the surface of the skin will affect its pattern of growth or texture.
What happens that makes people THINK it is growing back darker and thicker is two things. 1. The hair that grows back has a blunt, cut end which makes the hair look thicker than if it had the normal tapered end a natural hair would have.
2. When you shave an area, all the hairs in that area start growing back from the same level at the same pace, and that makes it look like there are more hairs. Before, they were probably at slightly different lengths.
Sometimes someone who shaves facial hair notices that they start getting more facial hair. It is an incorrect assumption that the shaving is causing it. That person was probably going to grow more hair anyway, and what they are seeing is the process of more and more hair converting to terminal dark hairs. That would have happened anyway without the shaving.
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we need experiences from women who used these methods for long time...
That would be me. Shaving my facial hair for oh, about 15 years, has never made it come in thicker or coarser or darker.
I have waxed my eye brows for many years, and they are coming in lighter. BUT that DOES NOT MEAN the two developments are related. They simply happened at the same time. As we get older, often our eyebrows thin some.
The time or two that I was insane enough to be overly excited about mere peach fuzz, and I used an electric razor on it, it came back the same. Peach fuzz.
Everybody needs to stop worrying so much about whether the removal methods are going to make the hair worse. This is all a lot of old wives tales. Your hormonal status, you genetics, your age, you general health, your meds....those will influence the way your hair grows. How you remove it WON'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Obesity, very mild hirsuitism now almost gone with age and met, seriously thinning hair. Regular cycles on met.
Diagnosed with diabetes 8/2003
Everybody needs to stop worrying so much about whether the removal methods are going to make the hair worse. This is all a lot of old wives tales. Your hormonal status, you genetics, your age, you general health, your meds....those will influence the way your hair grows. How you remove it WON'T!!
That's generally true, with the exception that when hair is plucked out (by whatever means) it does tend to stimulate the follicle into the anagen phasae of growth. If the plucking is repeated often enough it can distort the angle at which the follicle lies and in some areas of the body, especially the moustache area, make the hair more noticeable.
Oh, I did want to mention, especially since the upper lip area (I refuse to call is mustache LOL) was brought up above...
While I have waxed for many, many years (chin, eyesbrows, neck), I only recently did my upper lip (in the last year). I am amazed! For years I have been bleaching it, but after waxing a few times, I would say 50-75% of the hair did NOT come back. I am ecstatic! But, it does hurt like H*LL!
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I've read that hair doesn't change by the way you remove it and that this has been a myth for a long time. If hair does change, it's from your hormones and your body not from the removal method that you use. That makes sense.
I've read that hair doesn't change by the way you remove it and that this has been a myth for a long time. If hair does change, it's from your hormones and your body not from the removal method that you use. That makes sense.
I don't know about this. I believe that by repeatedly removing a hair by the root, you are damaging the follicle and it will eventually quit producting hair. Isn't that basically what laser does, kill the follicle???
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That's another myth. You can pull hairs out over and over again and they're not going to stop growing.
I don't believe that is a myth. I have seen it on my own face. My mother is a cosmetologist and sees it alot with women who wax alot. I don't think it is sudden, but it DOES happen.
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Could you ask your Mom if you have ever scene anyone hair get worse. Because I got my getting slowly darker mustache waxed once and it seemed prickly when it grew back in, but yeah it hurt. Now I have been having my eye brows waxed for awhile and I have noticed that the eyebrows are growing in more sparce. I am glad you guys made this thread because I have been trying to decide if I want to wax my face especially since I noticed my eyebrows growing less hair.
waxing/tweezing/threading - worsens hair growth? 
). If my summer classes aren't canceled, I think I'm going to have lazer done.
