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Shaving my hairy chin

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tigerdriverII · 21/04/2013 22:23

I do feel I should nc for this, but cba.

Is it bonkers to have used a razor to get rid of the hairs on my chinny chin chin? Plucking isn't getting it. Hair is light in colour, I am not expecting heavy stubble!

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Drywhiteplease · 21/04/2013 22:42

Don't do it! They will grow back coarser! If its that bad can't you get electrolysis?

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Rosesforrosie · 21/04/2013 22:43

Hair removal cream over whole area?

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BOF · 21/04/2013 22:45

Noooooo- anything but shaving. Threading?

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TheConstantLurker · 21/04/2013 22:47

Bonkerz. I pluck or thread.

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tigerdriverII · 21/04/2013 22:47

I've already done it.....

Hair is mainly white (nice). There are just so many of them, I am plucking for what feels like hours every day. Probably 10 mins every other day, really.

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MooncupGoddess · 21/04/2013 22:48

Veet is your friend. Or threading if you're brave.

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tigerdriverII · 21/04/2013 22:49

Shit. Is it really madness? Can I turn it around after one ( very satisfying) shave.

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MrsBertMacklin · 21/04/2013 22:50

Facial wax strips work on the general fuzz / light hair (not painful, as the area is so close to the bone), but they won't take out the bristly-type hairs. Takes me 2 minutes to whip off the fuzz, keeps it at bay for a month.

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HelgatheHairy · 21/04/2013 22:51

I use an epilator. Hurts like hell but quick and effective.

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Fluffycloudland77 · 21/04/2013 22:51

I use cream for this.

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orderinformation · 21/04/2013 22:52

Please tell me more about epilators. I am very hairy there and is awful. How much does it need to grow to work? Don't mind pain but would mind red bumpy bits.

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5318008 · 21/04/2013 22:53

do see your GP

you can be prescribed a cream to inhibit facial hair growth

don't be embarrassed, go and make an appt

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5318008 · 21/04/2013 22:54

*excessive hair growth, sorry

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thenightsky · 21/04/2013 22:55

epilating and plucking are the same thing, just one is quicker than the other. How many hairs are we talking... half a dozen or a thick bush? I sympathise, as a coarse haired jewish ancestral person.

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cocolepew · 21/04/2013 22:58

I usually use cream but have shaved because Im a lazy arse.

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TheConstantLurker · 21/04/2013 23:03

Don't worry op one shave won't matter too much. It will be coarse as the cut hairs grow in but if you can hold on until they are long enough to thread or epilate

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tigerdriverII · 21/04/2013 23:14

531. I am not going to the GP. I think the NHS has better things to do than sort out my looks!!!

I'm not that hairy, I have seen worse, by a long chalk. But I have a fairly hairy chin and I'd like a really nice smooth one. I know you are all saying no shaving but it did look nice this morning, and I have no nasty hairy chin or shadowy moustache. Yet.

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HelgatheHairy · 22/04/2013 11:59

The hair doesn't have to be very long for the epilator, in fact it hurts less if its not that long. My hair is black and coarse but 30 seconds with the epilator once a week (or fortnight if I forget) and I'm sorted.

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sue52 · 22/04/2013 13:11

I had laser treatment. After about 4 treatments, they were zapped. I get the odd one now and then but tweeze the blighter out.

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BastardDog · 22/04/2013 13:22

Wax strips for the fine hair on my lower face. Plus 5 minutes a day plucking the coarse dark ones from around my jawline and under my chin. I tried electrolysis, but didn't find it very effective.

I'm a beautician and its surprising how many women shave.

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MortifiedAdams · 22/04/2013 13:25

Oh dear. There is a strong possobility they will grow back in dark.

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HoneyStAngelo · 22/04/2013 14:02

Pound shop do something which I can only describe as a fine sandpaper mitt!

You put it on your finger, use circular motions, skin is left exfoliated and smooth, no fuzz. Probably wouldn't work on coarse hair but light fuzz it does.

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practicality · 22/04/2013 14:48

Vaniqua cream from GP. is worthwhile. Why do you think you are not worth the attention of a DR.? You may have PCOS and that has other health implications so it IS worthwhile.

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kneedeepindaisies · 22/04/2013 14:53

I've just had my chin threaded. It's lovely now. Please don't shave!

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TattyDevine · 22/04/2013 16:38

I second an epilator. I don't have chin hairs yet but my mother assures me its only a matter of time

But I have an epilator and it works on hairs the size of a grain of sand so definitely the way forward and you don't have to be able to "see" to do it (once again this is not yet a problem for me, no you probably, but my mother assures me that I will not only become hirsute, but be practically blind in due course)