To ask you how you get rid of upper lip hair?!

[Lippylemon]

Over the last few years the hairs on the corners of my upper lip have got darker and more noticeable and I do really need to do something about them!

I’ve looked up the best ways to remove/conceal but there seems to be drawbacks to all of them. They say shaving doesn’t actually make the hair thicker it’s just the angle but I 100% do not trust that and I don’t want to have to do it every day and get stubble! Maybe waxing? Laser hair removal?

Help!!

Yup, I agree. No more messing about with Jolene, painful plucking or waxing. No thicker hair either.

I don't bother, it will keep me warmer in winter.

If it's just a few hairs, electrolysis and ipl

IPL is fantastic and works well. It will take 6 sessions to treat if your skin colour is lighter than the hair. If you have dark skin it’s a bit harder to target the hair but can be done. I did this for a living for years.

Good old tweezers, painful as that method is.😬

Rather than shaving.

There's no issue with shaving it. Doesn't grow back thicker in any shape or form and shaving can be exfoliating too. Only issue with shaving is cutting your skin be careful and make sure razor is clean.

Mine is very fair and this definitely does not render it invisible! I just shave it - too fair for IPL and anything that yanks it out by the roots gives me horrible irritation and pimples. I use a combination of an dermaplaning blade and this.

Flawless touch is amazing

Threading once a week it's easy and cheap

I have PCOS and get a beard as well as the darker upper lip hairs, and a unibrow!
I usually shave, but by the evening of the day after you can feel and see stubble, so its an every other day job, if i don't want my partner to see/feel it.
I prefer to use a depilatory cream, but they're so messy and i can only find the squeeze pen type application ones atm which dont spread or work as well.
Skin is too sensitive to wax, it bleeds, bruises, scabs etc and looks a mess.
I'm a wuss and find tweezing too painful, plus a lot of the hairs are really hard to get a good enough hold on, and to do my chin theres literally a couple hundred hairs probably.
Eyebrows i can get away with the eyebrow shaper mini razor things, but the chin hairs are thicker and coarser and hurts using one of those, so i've got a proper Gilette mens razor.

Threading of course

I use Nair facial hair removal cream

I pluck and shave (dermaplane - using the Little Eco Company blades), depending on time/number of hairs - I also have 'beard' hairs). I'm guessing that if they've only appeared with age, you won't get stubble - I don't get stubble at all.

I get waxing. I have quite a bit of facial hair. Years ago I had professional laser which worked for a few years. During lock down I used the hi some waxing kits. Didn't matter about the redness as I wasn't going anywhere was I. I now get it done monthly and have noticed lately that the hair growth is not as prolific as before so hopefully it will be barely showing. I once had threading and the woman was so good. No redness and barely felt any pain. Tried it again at one of those threading stalls at a local shopping centre and didn't last a crack. Just had to stop and paid her a few quid for what she did. The 1st woman has totally spoilt me but would like to give it a go again.

Have you considered threading as per my post the 1st time I had this I hardly felt a thing but it really depends I think who is doing it.

I’ve shaved top lip for years and it’s fine, I’ve used IPL at home for last few years and get minimal growth now, just do a light shave and zap every few weeks. You have to be darker haired for IPL to work though.

I used to wax them I got laser and it's worked really well except for a few stubborn wiry hairs that keep popping up.
I bought a lumea as I've now got hair in other places on my face. It is good but you have to keep in top of it
Mostly I take it off with a razor in between as I'm too lazy to do anything else.

Thanks so much everyone, super helpful though I now have a lot of things to google

Just came back to say that when having the laser (this was approx 20 years ago) I was told it was OK to shave between sessions which were approximately every 8 weeks. The guy who ran the clinic was a dermatologist.