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hair removal, how young and how?

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tigerl1ly · 18/01/2011 22:19

Hello, I'm new here and have a dilemma. I'm of Mediterranean descent with dark hair and my 8 year old daughter has inherited the good and bad points of having such dark colouring. She's recently expressed her discomfort at having visible, dark hair on her upper lip and I think that she may be being teased about it. She's a confident, bright girl and she's recently started a new school, it breaks my heart to think that this is preying on her mind but is 8 too young to remove hair? :-(

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tigerl1ly · 18/01/2011 22:21

Hello, I'm new here and have a dilemma. I'm of Mediterranean descent with dark hair and my 8 year old daughter has inherited the good and bad points of having such dark colouring. She's recently expressed her discomfort at having visible, dark hair on her upper lip and I think that she may be being teased about it. She's a confident, bright girl and she's recently started a new school, it breaks my heart to think that this is preying on her mind but is 8 too young to remove hair? :(

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mama2alex · 18/01/2011 22:45

I don't have this problem having pale, pasty skin but I think if I was in the same position, I would remove the hair. It is really not that different from getting braces for teeth or pinning back ears.

QueenGigantaurofMnet · 18/01/2011 22:48

I am fearing the same with my own DD. she is only 6 at the moment so we have a little time but she too has very thick dark hair.

I had said that she could start shaving legs etc when she went to high school.

but i think if your Dd is already asking then it has clearly become an issue for her.
I think i would go down the depilatory cream route as she is so young.

poor love. Sad

tigerl1ly · 18/01/2011 22:51

Thanks. Yes, I've always known that we'd be having this conversation and I'd have to deal with it but now it's here I'm struggling! I think that perhaps it's because it's not a one off, it'll have to become a way of life - growing up I guess!

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kreecherlivesupstairs · 19/01/2011 09:07

Rather than remove the 'tache, I would try bleaching it first. I have a real fu manchu one and have only ever had it ripped out once. I now bleach it regularly.

tigerl1ly · 19/01/2011 13:08

I hear you but with a dark complexion the blonde tache looks almost as bad! Small mercies says that at least it's not a Fu Manchu one! Thanks :)

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thomasbodley · 19/01/2011 13:17

All the women in my family have furry blonde facial hair (it's politely called 'peachskin') and I was traumatised by it since aged about 8, too. "Furball" and "Ewok" were the playground insults in vogue at the time.

My mother refused to let me do anything about it (obviously because she had it, too) and so in a fit of pique I shaved my upper lip, where the hair was coarsest and most visible, with my Dad's razor. I got b*llocked, and of course it grew back darker and coarser.

As I got older, I spent a fortune on every kind of hair removal going, including depilatory cream, waxing, laser and electrolysis, and have scarred my skin as a result. Don?t touch these, by the way.

Now in my thirties, I have at last found the answer - threading. It doesn't hurt much (rub the skin to be threaded with baby oil) and isn't too expensive (£15 once a month now). It has yielded better hair growth reduction than either laser or electrolysis. Ironically, my mother has started having it done too!

Please let your daughter remove the hair. My facial hair made my school years SO miserable, and it would have been such an easy thing to fix.

hillbilly · 19/01/2011 13:19

I'll be having the same issue too in a few years! My DD (5) is half Iranian and has hairy legs and arms and has already commented how different they are to mine. Fortunately she has aunties who are very good at threading!

RatherBeOnThePiste · 19/01/2011 13:24

ahem, threading is very painful! I had my eyebrows done a few times but now have gone back to waxing as it was dreadful.

And I am usually quite hardy.

thomasbodley · 19/01/2011 13:39

I agree it's very painful on the eyebrows! The coarser the hair, the more it hurts.

Hopefully at the age of 8 her upper lip is just dark down and will respond very well to threading.

thomasbodley · 19/01/2011 13:40

Have also had waxing on my lip over the years, RBOTP, and it's given me hyperpigmentation Shock.

tigerl1ly · 19/01/2011 13:45

Oh, that sounds like you had a terrible time. I wouldn't dream of not letting her remove it, I had a similar miserable experience at school too. This is the first time it's come up on conversation and I've been waiting for it. The question is how to remove it on one so young. I haven't tried threading yet so I'd have to give it a go before I put my DD through that one. Silky Mit was mentioned by someone on a different forum, will try that too.. This is such a touchy subject and I've been waiting for my DD to call the shots. Time for action..

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