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Gorgeous ladies, can we discuss our 'taches?

73 replies

MoonGirl1981 · 02/03/2011 12:05

Slightly taboo subject, but here goes:

I have a moustache. Nothing dramatic, am blonde so slightly longer blonde hairs on top lip and a few darker ones.

I've been Nairing them. Am too much of a wimp to pluck and won't use bleach since I saw a really bad moustache bleach job randonly one day (this lady looked like a Swedish man - seriously).

I've also seen women who seem to have accepted it and just leave it there. Sadly I'm too vain for such practice.

What does everyone else do?

xxx

OP posts:
barbieisaskinnybitch · 02/03/2011 12:07

Well after a recent thread I bought an epicare spring thingy but I can't make it work properly. So I shave them/pluck them.

And hate them Grin

melezka · 02/03/2011 12:09

I Nair, i can't get on with anything else. I have to leave it a good long time afterwards before i am seen in public though as I have sensitive skin and get a swollen red patch which is potentially worse than the tache (for a bit)

PinkOlives · 02/03/2011 12:11

I thread them, well not personally I go to the beautician. Many beauticians and department stores do threading now. If they are good and use the right thread its relatively painless and an extremely clean process. It?s great!

dexter73 · 02/03/2011 12:12

I get mine waxed.

Lulie110 · 02/03/2011 12:25

barbie, I also saw that thread and bought that springy thing. It is shite, isn't it? Back to waxing with the odd pluck for me... Am loving this better light now spring is here, I can see the buggers much sooner!

OP, you are lucky to be blond. I am dark-haired and pale.

cruelladepoppins · 02/03/2011 12:27

Veet wax strips for facial area. Painful but mercifully quick!

thomasbodley · 02/03/2011 12:32

Am also hairy blonde (mouse with highlights anyway). It is politely called "peachskin". Isn't as nice as that sounds.

I have used every form of hair removal going over the years, including laser and electrolysis.

THREADING is the best. Low tech, super effective, not too painful if you slather almond oil on your lip first.

sahminspain · 02/03/2011 12:41

wax but looking for someone to thread

barbieisaskinnybitch · 02/03/2011 13:12

Lulie hello!

So glad it's not just me. Wonder if the OP of that post was the ebay seller Grin

I have also tried tweezers with a light in them to aid said pluckage.

I'm not even that hairy

FlouryBap · 02/03/2011 13:18

I am taking the plunge and getting mine lasered off. but it sounds like I am hairier than you lot as I get the swedish man look if i bleach and it just grows back with big ingrown hair spots if i wax

Butterbur · 02/03/2011 20:05

I am a very hairy peach - a complete fuzzy face. And they're getting longer as I get older. I have started plucking the little buggers - little and often. It means you can home in on the longest, darkest ones first.

After a few weeks of this it looks a lot better, and so far, no spots or rashes.

BlackSwan · 02/03/2011 20:25

veet wax strips. Takes a bit psyching up. And the ability to make your mind go completely blank at the point when you yank it off. It's very quick.

hairtwiddler · 02/03/2011 20:28

Wax at home. Like others have said, painful but cheaper than salon by far!

Pancakeflipper · 02/03/2011 20:30

Wax Veet strips. I don't feel the pain, I just feel vain.

plasticface · 02/03/2011 20:36

Wax, I couldn't bring myself to draw attention to it by asking for threading! Blush Pathetic really innit.

BlackSwan · 02/03/2011 20:36

Apart from being cheaper it's so much more convenient to not need to book an appointment and front up to have it done.

You wouldn't use this on your face, but has anyone got a Philips Lumea? I have one in the cupboard - ready for my bikini etc - but haven't found time to use it. Poor excuse.

BlackSwan · 02/03/2011 20:36

plasticface, that's hilarious.

BelleDameSansMerci · 02/03/2011 20:39

Wax at home or salon - if I remember to book before it's too obvious (to me, in magnifying mirror). I had my eyebrows threaded and it hurt enough - no way would I want that on my upper lip.

(I'm very dark and hairy though).

plasticface · 02/03/2011 20:39

You've got to laugh I suppose! We feel we have to remove tiny hairs from our faces, silly really but I still do it!

plasticface · 02/03/2011 20:40

I should have a unibrow.

grumpywitch · 02/03/2011 20:45

I do the waxing thing, am this has reminded me, that must do it tomorrow. (Have been refusing to look in the mirror for the past week :D

DunderMifflin · 02/03/2011 20:47

I'm of the pale skin, dark hair variety - I take out a few of the little buggers everyday and (hopefully) keep things under control.

It's not good when you forget and suddenly notice you look like Freddie Mercury though...

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 02/03/2011 20:50

Veet strips, it barely hurts.

Lulie110 · 02/03/2011 20:50

Does any one else have one of those 12x magnifying mirrors? Great for spotting them early. Terrifying Amazing!

FlouryBaps please will you come back to thread and tell us all about lasering? Have wondered about it...

BlackSwan - I have the Boots version of the Lumea, and it says you CAN use it on your face. I have not yet, as am so sensitive that I fear burning myself and and having a tache-shaped burn as well as the tache to deal with! (so I would like someone else to be my guinea pig please...)