'peach fuzz' on face? :-\

[socksandsandles]

So fed up. Have noticed that this has really increased lately. Far worse than it's ever been. Am in mid thirties. Three children. Must be a hormonal shift, I guess?

Well if it makes you feel any better I'm 26 and I have a full on pube that grows just under my chin, I secretly feel weirdly proud when it gets quite long then I pluck the bastard out, only for it to reappear a few weeks later.

My younger sister has fuzzy peach skin... I think it's lovely, as does as our other sister. We used to stroke her cheeks because of it when we were little.

My face has become noticeably more hairy over the last few years... I'm 37 soon, but no children so can't blame those hormones!
I carry tweezers in my work make up bag now.

I've always had fair fuzz on my face, you can't really see it, just feel it. Marilyn Monroe had it too and apparently it helped her get that luminous quality in some photos, the peachy fuzz gave a diffused glow to her face.

Ever since I read that it hasn't bothered me!

yellow

Another poster recommended these for keeping fine eyebrow hairs tamed. I ordered them and they arrived a few days ago. To be honest I don't find them great for eyebrows as they're a bit big to be accurate. But they're AMAZING for my face fuzz!

In response to a post above I have a No No.

In my experience it's bad value. Not as good as a professional wax on legs - despite the hype not much different to shaving.

On my face it was useless. It essentially burns off the hair and the part that does that can't really cope well with the contours of your face.

I'm not especially fuzzy (blond fine hair) but even I struggled with it to the extent I actually ended up burning myself with it when trying to do my upper lip.

Upshot is it wasn't worth the money.

What has worked is either waxing or threading.

I have not tried IPL - be interested to hear from anyone who has. My mum and I were talking abut buying one together.

Also tried a professional wax at home kit - tried to do my bikini line. Total disaster.

Ended up with wax all over the place and embarrassingly having to ask DH to literally "cut" the wax out of my lady hair.

Some things are defiantly best left to the professionals

Yellow thanks for the response, and the laugh (sounded painful):)

I won't kick you while you are "down" (see what I did there?)

This is tricky as you are not a contender for laser as that needs a dark hair light skin contrast to work. Nor would bleaching help because it is the actual presence of the hair that is giving you annoyance - not necessarily unsightly but you notice it in strong sunlight, on an angle, in photos (why is everything high def? What fecker looks better in high def? Anyone) and indeed makeup probably sticks to it in an annoying way (hey its designed to stick and stay, but hair is not meant to be in the equation)

Any kind of shaving/dermaplaning might leave a prickly growth, which is undesirable presumably. Threading hurts to feck but is pretty effective and you shouldn't get any ingrown hairs, hopefully, as they are so fine generally on the face. Waxing is essentially the same thing despite what they say, so if you are not too scared you could try some home waxing strips - they don't work for everybody though.

Failing that, an epilator, some of which will remove hairs as short as a grain of sand, could be a good investment. I have a Braun Silk Epil which I use on my legs and underarms (trust me nothing is more painful than underarm apart from perhaps eyeball but I don't yet have hair on them) and it is really good. I "converted" my mum to one on one use when she was here and nagging me to tweeze out a non-existent grey hair from her chin that she could feel but nobody except a microscope could feel, so I ran the fecker over her and she stopped moaning and then bought one. Nuff said.

*nobody but a microscope could see, even

Wow I say fecker a lot hey.

I love dermaplaning! It isn't at all painful and it works brilliantly to exfoliate your skin as well. Afterwards face creams sink in and foundation goes on so smoothly! Your facial hair doesn't grow back to appear thicker either, in case you're wondering. Hair on your face (exception is upper lip hair which is "terminal" hair) is vellus hair and will not grow back with a blunt edge making it look thicker, the way that "terminal" hair does (again, terminal hair is the hair on your head, upper lip, privates etc...)

Seriously, dermaplaning has had a wonderful effect on my whole face. I'd never heard of it until I met a face model through my running club, it seems like it's not that common.

obfus kate - Not sure where it's done in the UK. I live in SoCal so every beauty treatment under the sun is available, and dermaplaning here is pretty cheap too.