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Supposing you immac'd your face...

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HecateHarshPants · 07/08/2012 09:16

I'm not suggesting that any of you have hairy upper lips or chins, but supposing you did, and you immac'd your face, would you expect to be hair free, or would you be rubbing your stubble right now?

I thought immac was supposed to leave you smooth?

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GetOrfMoiRing · 07/08/2012 09:17

OOOh stubble.

Does it really?

ujjayi · 07/08/2012 09:20

ouch. No way would I Immac my face and yes I think you probably would end up with stubble since that's the way hair regrows elsewhere on the body after using that kind of hair removal cream, no?

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HecateHarshPants · 07/08/2012 09:20

grr.

It's an improvement on the last time I decided to immac, and it didn't remove the hair at ALL! and then I tried to wax, and it didn't remove the hair at ALL but I did lose a layer of skin.

Note - do not try to immac and then immediately wax.

Or I may have waxed and then immac'd. tbh, all I remember is the great big scabs.

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HecateHarshPants · 07/08/2012 09:22

No, I mean stubble immediately after using it. As in - it didn't remove the hair all the way down to the skin, leaving you with the smooth skin it promises. It broke it off just above the surface, leaving you with a 5 oclock shadow!

I am just going to go back to tweezering the bloody stuff.

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GetOrfMoiRing · 07/08/2012 09:22

Hecate have you tried threading?

It's a revelation.

MrsRobertDuvallHasRosacea · 07/08/2012 09:23

I would think you were a loon
laser treatment.

GetOrfMoiRing · 07/08/2012 09:24

I don't know where you live, but if you are near a place with a high asian population it is cheap and effective from a local beauty salon/hairdresser.

It is expensive the Debenhams and House of Fraser type places, and they are less experienced in it.

But I really recommend it, even just to go and watch some poor so and so have her cheeks waxed.

ujjayi · 07/08/2012 09:25

Hecate is your facial hair really so bad? Or do you think you are just more aware than most? I don't have the issue myself but friends who do have used Jolen (??) or something like that to bleach the hair and make it less noticeable. Surely a better option than unwittingly performing chemical peel waxing and removal cream?

MyDogShitsMoney · 07/08/2012 09:27

I get that, my moustache is too bristley for normal immac.

What an awseome first post in s&b

I use the sensitive one and leave it on for 10 minutes. Then just tweezer the really spiney ones.

I'll get me (very unfashionable) coat

LurkingAndLearningLovesCats · 07/08/2012 09:27

Worst thing I ever did was become convinced I had chest hair. I epilated my chest...Well, there was no hair, so I managed to cause a rash that looked like hives/acne all down my cleavage.

lesson learned.

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HecateHarshPants · 07/08/2012 09:28

Yes, I have very severe PCOS and a full, black, thick moustache and beard. Proper beard hair. Like pubes. Sometimes tweezers can't pull them out and I am tugging away!

hair removal cream doesn't work, waxing doesn't work, I even had one of those machines that is supposed to destroy the hair folicle and THAT didn't work (£250 quid down the drain!)

I am afraid to go for threading in case they can't actually remove the hair! Imagine trying to thread away at noel edmunds beard!

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GetOrfMoiRing · 07/08/2012 09:28

oooh at spiney hairs.

Is this the positive thing about having really thin, lank fair hair, in that I don't get any problems with spiney facial hairs? Do you lot all have really lustrous heads of thick hair to make up for the facial hairs?

GetOrfMoiRing · 07/08/2012 09:30

oh no x posts - sorry I didn't think about PCOS, apols for being facetious.

I would have a go at threading - just ask them to do a test thread. Bloody ouch though.

What's that thing where they put a needle in the follicle and apply an electrical current to kill the hair?

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HecateHarshPants · 07/08/2012 09:31

Nope. I also have androgenic alopecia (male pattern balding) It got so bad at one point, that I wore a wig for a year!

God, I'm sexy as hell!

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Catsmamma · 07/08/2012 09:31

aren't these spring things supposed to be good for facial hair?

cocolepew · 07/08/2012 09:33

Threading will work, might make your eyes water a bit though! We have a threading thingy in the middle of the mall in our shopping center.

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HecateHarshPants · 07/08/2012 09:33

tried an epilator and that leaves me with stubble too. So am thinking that tool will too?

But for only £2, I'll give it a try!

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Catsmamma · 07/08/2012 09:34

ah, cross posted. My cousin had similar issues! Not seen her for years though so no idea if she ever got anything resolved.

GetOrfMoiRing · 07/08/2012 09:34

You feel a complete arse though in those public threading centres. I first had my eyebrows threaded under the stairs in Debenhams. i cried piteously and a child pointed me out to his mum. I would go to a salon which has a bit more privacy!

threeleftfeet · 07/08/2012 09:35

Hecate sadly I know all about this topic. Yes you can get your face to be smooth with immac.

I find that I usually need to leave it on for longer than the packet says to get smooth. When I started using it that wouldn't have been possible as my skin reacted to it, but it's actually got used tl it now so I can leave it on for longer without a reaction.

If it's stubbly when you take it off, put some more on straightaway and leave for another couple of minutes.

It's not a great solution, as it grows back fairly quickly, and then it's stubbly. I reckon electrolysis is the answer longterm, but too skint to justify this now! It's the best solution I've found. (too many to pluck sadly!!) I haven't tried threading, might give it a go, although I wonder how long you need to let it grow to make threading possible?

(tip, buy it from poundland. Exactly the sane stuff and it's ... well ... £1!)

Trills · 07/08/2012 09:37

Immac is rubbish. It doesn't actually dissolve hair, it just makes it go weird (and more visible)

MyDogShitsMoney · 07/08/2012 09:38

Oh Hec that's shit.

I often wondered if I had pcos myself, have several symptoms. Turns out I do have an ovarian cyst but it's emtometrial.

I do have thick hair but it's lovely and soft and very fair. Luckily my arm hair is the same.

However, my legs are Darwinian, my tache is lustrous and I have 3 chin pubes. (i'm often tempted to leave them to see just how long they would grow)

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HecateHarshPants · 07/08/2012 09:38

Yes, I can be an hour a day, plucking. The hairs are so close together that I can get loads at a time. It is a full time job keeping my face looking vaguely female! But if I stopped, then I would have a full moustache and a goatee beard.

Plus I am worried that a threading place would think I am actually a bloke

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Trills · 07/08/2012 09:39

If your hairs are thick then threading should work wonderfully - it'll be easy for them to grab hold of the hairs.

threeleftfeet · 07/08/2012 09:40

I would say keep trying with the cream. I was very disappointed with it when I first started using it, but the results got better with practice / my skin getting used to it.

A friend of mine with PCOS shaves. Personally I have a barrier against shaving my face, probably silly but it just feels too degrading. My friend has no such hangups, and her chin is smooth. I know coz she let me feel it!

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