What age did you notice tyour top lip becoming hairier ? And how do you tackle ?

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Is cream the best ? Will it then feel stubbly and Itchy

is it best left well alone ?
I mainly notice it when washing my face as the face wash kind bubbles up in the area !
it’s fair in colour so it doesn’t stand out too much
bit mean also notice it if I use make up like foundation

chin hair i pluck but i use jolen on my top lip so i dont get stubble

I'm very pale with dark hair. Teenage years were embarrassing trying to hide it all. I bought a home IPL machine years ago. Best money I've ever spent. Now my arms/upper lip/sideburns and chin are nearly hair free. Maybe once a year I pull it out again and go over the areas but it's mostly under control now. It doesn't work for blonde hairs though.

About age 11. I have PCOS. I don't give a shit about it now, and could happily grow and wax it à la an old timey army major or strongman and not care, but I've been getting it waxed so long it's a habit. If you do go that route hot wax rather than strips, it's more effective and less painful.

From 2 years old! 😆😆

Oh those bloody hairs you can't see properly until you're looking on your car mirror outside!

They have become more prolific and abundant with age, can't keep up with the buggers! I found waxing didn't get them all and also u have to wait for them to get longer.

Now, I use an epilator around my chin area and just pluck the stragglers. I did try dermaplaning and my skin was so smooth and looked glowing afterwards but it doesn't last long. Xxx

In my thirties I paid for several sessions of electrolysis. It was expensive, quite painful and the hair all grew back.

I then had it waxed a few times. Quite painful but effective. I gave that up because I have a small scar on my upper lip from having a mole removed, and the waxing pulling at my skin seemed to make the scar quite angry and red, as if it was doing some damage.

The third method has been the one that suits me 100%. I got a little Flawless Touch device (actually a shaver, though they don't call it that), specifically for the upper lip area ... £20, I think. It takes about 10 seconds once a week or so (or whenever I like). Completely painless, no appointments to book, no extra cost other than a tiny battery every so often. Doesn't irritate my skin at all, and I'm very fair skinned, so that's a big plus for me.

Mid teens as dark hair and fair skin, it was very fine but from a distance there looked like a shadow. I have naturally very full lips so draws attention to it. I used Nair face hair removal (thin layer of Vaseline first) that works very well but only lasts a week or so.
I now use an IPL at home, if you are dark haired it is a lifesaver! Absolutely painless and once you have used it once a week for 12 weeks, I can stay hair free for months. I’ve saved my legs twice since Christmas!

Early 40s. Also grew a mole just under chin that sprouts quick growing dark hairs. I tend to just pluck, slanted tweezers and just work my way along top lip ( no mirror) most of it is fine but there’s maybe half a dozen quick growing thick hairs mixed through. I can feel them if started to grow through. Mortified if I forget and realise in a meeting.

I was a teenager. I wax it myself. Do it every two weeks or so, no drama at all. Use veet facial wax strips.

I'm 64 and I have no hairs on my upper lip. I do, however, have 4 on my chin.....

Top lip is fine, the bristles on my chin though... Tweezers and a x10 mirror in the bathroom are my constant companions.

The chin thing is weird. I’m fairish but the chin hairs started late 40s. I can go weeks with none and then I’ll get 4 that get plucked and regrow by morning. They’re not that visible but I can feel them. Often I make red marks trying to get them and that looks worse than the chin hair! 🤦🏼‍♀️

I have deal with my sister that if either of us is ina coma, the other will pluck the chin hairs!

Daily ritual - my trusted 12x magnifying mirror, tweezers and phone torch. Searching for the little (& sometimes not so little ) blighters on top lip, chin and neck. Now at 60ish it’s those rock hard grey ones that start off as a little lump on my chin and suddenly become a whisker. And every so often I find one that I’ve never seen before but is about an inch long !

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Just buy wax strips

Pluck, do t get many, 52

I wax mine myself every 6 weeks with a Veet wax strip. It’s so easy.

Braun facial epilator - game changer…

I pluck them using the car mirror in my driveway. They showed up at around 38 years old.

I have a deal with a friend that we’ll tell each other if we start to walk around with a beard or something. Never thought of the coma situation. They are absolutely awful.

Me too. I've been shaving mine since I was about 12 and in nearly 40 years I've had no stubble and I have dark hair. Quick, easy, painless and cheap.

My tache and beard are fine and fair but plentiful. I use a facial blade which also does a nice exfoliation. Any coarse hairs get plucked. Once you have honed your technique it can be quick and make up goes on like a dream. Regrowth is fine not stubbly.
https://www.lookfantastic.com/p/tweezerman-facial-razor/12873712/

Great question, OP.

I (66F) have really sensitive skin so waxing has never worked well for me. I used to dye with Jolen, until a cheery German lady at my open air swimming pool asked me why I did that and why not try electrolysis. Gotta love that frank and uninhibited Continental approach.

Now I have turned into my mother and shave after my shower.

@JohnAdamsIknowhim does vanqa work and how do you get it

Hairy as hell over here!
tried everything. Laser, electrolysis, waxing, plucking, shaving

the thing that is brilliant / effective for now is electrolysis for my face. Have removed the problem entirely. I go to a lady in Harley St who is the best electrolyst I have ever experienced. She does trans clients so very practised. Bad ones are oh so damaging on the skin

laser was brilliant when younger for the pubes running down my inner thigh and back of the leg and bikini line - disappeared in two sessions

good luck all hairy ladies. It’s a curse (if you don’t like it..)