11 year old girl facial hair

[Castlebutnotahaven]

I have an 11 year old girl who is developing a little moustache - I’ve noted it more recently and it’s definitely getting dark. I bleached and then waxed my facial hair since I was a teenager so it’s not surprising she’s developing one.
my question is around how others deal with it? I don’t want to start her waxing and I think she would be totally resistant but are there any long lasting painful options people can suggest?

This is a great approach. Just bring it up as a common thing that also happens to you, and she can leave as is or these are the options for hair removal and you'll be happy to fund / book appointment / help her with them.

Speaking as someone who was an incredibly self concious bullied girl, raising these things as embarressing puberty talk you're stammering through red faced as an adult, or worse just ignoring it, will reinforce these topics as big and embarressing things. The best way if possible is to normalise it.

And if you haven't already do a pad drawer in bathroom she uses and mention it's there when she starts needing them. Getting my mom to buy pads while being too embarressed to tell her my periods had started is another terrible memory.

Oh and a little off topic, but if you think she might be self concious about things like this there's a book series that's a sequel to the percy jackson and heroes of olympus books. It's the trials of apollo. There's this great spunky 13 year old girl as a main character. She's like an actual brat of a kid unlike most book or TV 13 year old girls. Facial hair, odd fashion sense, uses the back of her hand to wipe her nose instead of a tissue. Delightfully flawed. I liked that it showed her as an actual child and just normalised things that happen about that sort of time such as the facial hair.

Can you afford laser treatment? I have had facial hair that can't be lasered off and it's been the bane of my life. Dark hair on pale skin can be effectively lasered off and you need to shave it anyway before treatment so it is kept down.

If affordable, maybe you could go together?

Apologies for re-igniting an old thread. My DD is 11 and has very obvious hair growing above her top lip. We have discussed it for a while and she now wants to do something about it. Does anyone have any recommendations of products to use for either bleaching or hair removal? Something gentle and appropriate for her age?

Bumping for you!
My dd just bleached hers once and it's fine now.