To ask if a jumper debobbler would work on a hairy face - asking for a friend

[MyFriendLooksLikeAWerewolf]

Asking for a friend, you understand

A friend of mine is in her 40s and has a hairy face. She usually uses one of those little whirring sticks you see advertised (women using them in the car at traffic lights, good marketing strategy) but it has broken and she needs to leave the house.

She is in possession of a battery powered debobbling thing for jumpers. She thinks surely they are kind of the same principle/thing as the whirling sticks, and has asked me to ask MN if they agree, before she gives it a try?

To add insult to injury, said friend has no head hair (clearly it has migrated ) and her DH normally shaves her head for her when it gets fuzzy, with a straight razor and soap in a bowl with a brush he is old school He is not there so this razor is not a suitable alternative.

Friend promises if MN thinks debobbler will work, she will try it and report back on what her lip and chin and neck and random parts of cheek looks like afterwards.

PS please be gentle on my hairy friend, she is fragile and hairy

@JonHammIsMyJamm you seem very knowledgable, can I ask you if can lose that hair from your nostrils like you can from your head? I'm worried stuff is going to get into my brain now!

This is quite an interesting thread isn't it, especially now there is a cat picture

Well I wanted to let you know re the debobbler....(tiny drum roll) I can confirm that, sadly, it does not remove hair from skin (happily though, it does not remove skin from skin either)

I know this as I got DD to test it I asked her if she would mind using the debobbler on her arm -
"Why?"
"I want to see if it removes hair"
"Why?"
"I just want to see"
"Okay. Go on then"
"No you do it on yourself because if it cuts you I'll feel bad if I did it"
"Okay then"
Buzzzzzzz
"Nah, it doesn't do anything"
"Oh well thank you anyway"
"No problem"

I love that DD is A. brave foolish enough just to do it and B. just shrugs at the general weirdness and stupidity of her parent We are like a pair of toddlers I think!

Anyway, it doesn't work, I am still hairy and tbh, I don't give a fuck now. Hurrah for facial hair disguises masks, fluffy cats and brave DDs. Just a normal Wednesday on MN!

Oh dear. I mean my friend said all that to me and I'm just repeating it

Hee hee.

my, ahem, friend tried this. She does not recommend it - it hurt like hell, tried to rip the skin off and didn't really touch the wiry bastards... I understand.

Alopecia can affect nose hairs, @MyFriendLooksLikeAWerewolf. Loss of hairs from the follicle doesn’t pose the same infection risks because it isn’t traumatic to the follicle or surrounding skin/membrane. It’s the injury to the skin/surrounding tissue that creates the potential entry point for bacteria/infection.

You may be more prone to allergic rhinitis (inflammation of your nose due to allergens) though, as you haven’t got those natural filters at the front (vestibule) of your nose. You do have other brush like filters (cilia) further up/back in your nose though, so don’t panic about sucking loads of nasties up there .

I should say natural loss of hair from the follicle (in the case of alopecia or our natural hair cycle), not your friend pulling or plucking them out.

@MyFriendLooksLikeAWerewolf

Oh dear. I mean my friend said all that to me and I'm just repeating it

OP, you - and your friend - are very funny. This thread has made me smile today so I'm sending you both this! 🌈.

Your friend needs to Amazon Prime a Philips men's rechargeable shaver for about £30.

That way, by tomorrow evening (wearing a face mask today as we all know it's about Covid, not hiding neckbeards as thick as those found in US Basements or Reddit ), she'll have something that can be charged up and then used whenever a stray wire is detected or a lovely man with a cutthroat isn't available for some unfathomable reason.

Masks are very useful for eking out the time needed to get hairs long enough to get them waxed in a salon. The lovely ladies in those places often take pity upon people and throw in an eyebrow threading for free once the beard, moustache and sideburns have been suitably removed, too.

So I hear, obviously.

That is so interesting jonhamm thank you. My septum piercing has been giving me grief recently and I put it down to catching it on my mask but now I wonder if it's because it's now not as protected with a luxuriant US basement (I like that ) style nest of hair...I am a prepper so I need to concentrate hard on regrowing hair obviously!

Mitzi I would imagine your friend has to book a double appointment for that, in the style of "if you have more than one issue to discuss with the GP book a double appointment"? Asking for my friend of course.

Is it just me (very probably) that has the ear worm now of Debaser but with it replaced with Debobbler? I shall ask my DD when she is awake if she wanted to grow up to be be a debobbler...certainly the Japanese saws/cut throat razors would indeed be handy for slicing up eyeballs...

Those sandpaper type epilators are fab, a couple of quid on e bay and come with plastic holders that you stick the pad to, they are meant for leg hair and are remarkably effective give a smooth exfoliated finish too. I rub mine gently over my chin and cheeks every couple of days and it keeps me smooth apart from the odd black or white wiry one that gets the tweezer treatment.

In a rush of enthusiasm I bought a 5x magnifying bathroom mirror in order to compensate for failing eyesight and a consequent lack of ability to spot the facial hairs that need plucking.

Once I'd established that the old woman in the mirror was me rather than a stray from Macbeth's witching scene I found a problem.

My nasal hairs appeared to have felt restricted just inhabiting my nostrils. They'd started growing underneath the bit that divides the nose - the septum?

And despite my silver hair the escapees were proudly dark brown and highly visible.

Why?! What event does Mother Nature anticipate for a woman in her fifties that is going to require external nasal hair?

(Sorry OP no help to offer with your issue, good luck with the hair removal).

My baby brother (when he was a baby, I mean) once picked up a debobbler, turned it on and put it to his lips. The result was a bleeding lip and a screaming baby.

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Those sandpaper type epilators are fab, a couple of quid on e bay and come with plastic holders that you stick the pad to, they are meant for leg hair and are remarkably effective give a smooth exfoliated finish too. I rub mine gently over my chin and cheeks every couple of days and it keeps me smooth apart from the odd black or white wiry one that gets the tweezer treatment.

A friend of mine (ahem) used similar in the past but now finds they make her chin skin inflamed and raw, alas.

My friend reports that using a Venus razor on the face and throat is fine, although she only uses it prior to having a go with the Lumea.

She was an early adopter of the Lumea and regrets not waiting a bit longer. The early ones only had one bit, and it's too big to get the 3 stubborn hairs that grow immediately beneath her nose. They have to be plucked, and she tells me that plucking there really makes her eyes water.

They're not cheap but I've been using an IPL machine on my legs and bikini line and it's made a huge difference already. You can use it on the face too. If your hair is dark and skin is fair or medium it should work.

A friend of mine was wondering whether the lumea could safely be shared, so as to spread the cost - for example between a friend and the friend's sister? Would there be any reason that would be awful in terms of hygiene, would you think?

I'd recommend this. It's so easy to use. I've bought one for my mum and sisters and they love the result too.

hollywoodbrowzer.com

Try derma planing. It's amazing!

How about you use your long haired cat as a a scarf. And I'll lend you my Persian to wear as a matching hat. She's black. So she'll go with everything.

@MyFriendLooksLikeAWerewolf

That is so interesting jonhamm thank you. My septum piercing has been giving me grief recently and I put it down to catching it on my mask but now I wonder if it's because it's now not as protected with a luxuriant US basement (I like that ) style nest of hair...I am a prepper so I need to concentrate hard on regrowing hair obviously!

Mitzi I would imagine your friend has to book a double appointment for that, in the style of "if you have more than one issue to discuss with the GP book a double appointment"? Asking for my friend of course.

Is it just me (very probably) that has the ear worm now of Debaser but with it replaced with Debobbler? I shall ask my DD when she is awake if she wanted to grow up to be be a debobbler...certainly the Japanese saws/cut throat razors would indeed be handy for slicing up eyeballs...

If I recall correctly, the code word is 'Full face wax' when booking by phone. Or a gesture resembling 'Well, what do you reckon?' with a muttering 'all of it' if a walk in or the app doesn't give an option for 'De-Lycanthropy'. The lovely ladies always know what she means, presumably from seeing the luxuriant growth from around 2m away.

"Lycanthropy" love it! MN is great for adding new words to my vocab, I learnt edgelord the other day and say it to my teens at every opportunity although they are usually too busy phubbing me to scoff.

My long haired cat is black and white so the cats are accessorising nicely. I have been wanting kittens for years so I believe this is a wonderful opportunity to get them and tie them to my feet to disguise my hairy toes.

Well anyway I ordered a new whirring thing and you all won't believe this but you actually will as clearly as I am thick as mince and when I went to get the battery out of the old one, I realised the arrows weren't aligned properly - quick twist and the bastard thing was working. Let me tell you, whirring thing learnt quite a few new words itself.

Well at least this thread cheered me up and I will soon have two whirring things, I plan to use them on each toe cheek simultaneously. The sad thing is that that will probably be the most excitement I will have in weeks....

My sister says I have hobbit feet with toe wigs!

I have a dermaplaning tool and I could not live without it! De fuzzing is the best !