Upper lip hair removal for 15 year old?

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Dd is 15 and has a little tache - she's mortified

It's making her very self conscious and she wants rid of it.

What would be the best thing to do? Wax? Thread? Something to pull the hair out? Or bleach to disguise it?

i don't have one myself so this is second hand info really but Dsis does and she uses the Veet facial waxing strips. She used to bleach but was finding that it was burning her top lip area and leaving a kind of red tache where it had touched the skin so that might not be the best option. Dsis finds the veet strips really work and don't irritate her skin

Wax. Boots do some strips for about £6. Heat underneath a hair dryer for 10 seconds, ones each side. Done for about 3 weeks.

If you can afford it. Then I would go straight for electrolysis.

Will catch them as they emerge and after a few sessions will zap them completely.

Otherwise she will be plucking, waxing, shaving or whatever for the next 40 years.

Yes, I would go fir a permanent solution too. I've had laser hair removal on a different area which was good, I now need a few hundred pounds to tackle my upper lip hair. Depends in her colouring though - laser works best on pale skin and dark hair.

I am most definitely in the permanent solution camp. Laser is the way to go! Trust me I have a Dd with PCOS and suffered the embarrassment of facial hair throughout her teens. Obviously your dd isn't as bad. But laser therapy was a real breakthrough for dd .anything else was a temporary solution.

NOT electrolysis. Laser is good but will only work if the hair is thick which I suspect it isn't and it takes a lot of sessions to remove the hair due to the growth cycles. Given her age the hair might not all be through yet.

I would bleach it. I've bleached mine since I was 13. I am now 40 and having laser hair removal (takes 8 sessions to get all the hairs in the various cycles - 1 session every 4 weeks)

And don't wax unless she's a fan of the stubble look

I use boots sensitive hair removal cream for facial hair. Works a treat and a pack lasts a good while. I used to bleach, but the hair is still visible in certain lights and I didn't feel it properly eliminated it.

I think it's 3.99 per box and I usually just pick one up whenever I've got some points.

You don't necessarily need 8 laser treatments, as everyone is different. I had 4 and it worked really well.

Buy her an Epistick

Cheap, easy, quick.

What's not to love!

Is the hair fine or thick, and how dark?

Whilst I know many will disagree with this solution when I hit 40 I started to get fine hairs (but lots of them) some of which were dark and (horrors of horrors) I shave them once a week with an electric razor. Because the hair is fine, and I use the trimmer so don't shave right down to the skin, I don't get stubble and this for me works brilliantly.

The advantages for me are its free (I already had the razor), quick (5 seconds) and I can do it myself. I can always do an extra shave before a special occasion.

This might be worth considering, and its pretty much risk free as if you / your daughter doesn't like it it will just grow back and you will be no worse off.

all the best

katy

Threading and/or an epistick. Bleaching ok if the hairs are relatively few.