Moustache removal - is it time, and how?

[MisterMeaner]

I’m mid forties and my downy ‘tache has started to be more obvious. I think the hairs are darkening, just at the corners of my upper lip.
I asked my DH if he thought I should start removing it and he said he hadn’t noticed it until I pointed it out, and he now didn’t know what to say!
So who removes their ‘tache and what do you use? Does it create more of a problem when stubble comes back? And who just lets their facial hair be natural?
I’m not a high maintenance sort of person, so it would have to be a quick and easy part of the routine and preferably not something that needed revisiting more than weekly.

I just use the veet facial wax strips. Does the job perfectly and no stubble.

I get mine waxed professionally ever 2 months. Not expensive, regrowth is very fine. Takes a couple of minutes.

I use a £1 spring hair remover from primark.. dont have a fully tashe but occasional thicker hair started appearing after 40 .

Once you get yhe hand of it its really quick.

No way am I doing that. Have you tried just bleaching it? Try a tub of Jolen. Not expensive, kinder to the skin and hair can't get more coarse etc. Start there maybe - I've done that for years.

I just pluck mine, and have done since my early teens

I use one of these https://www.wilko.com/jml-finishing-touch-flawless-usb-rechargeable-facial-hair-remover/p/0476314?gclid=Cj0KCQjw29CRBhCUARIsAOboZbJ79wGDFmWbPEQ8tN5JPlstSVqBZ0A6nDDEswUUbCjnSD7hirHI1EaAt2FEALwwcB&gclsrc=aw.ds seems to keep it at bay! Painless and doesn't need doing that often.

I shave mine off. It's fine and I don't want to pull at my 49 year old skin with wax strips; not on the old face.

I use the jml hair removal pen. I use the eyebrow one just on my top lip but they do a facial hair one which is a bit bigger. It's quick and painless and the hair doesn't grow back all stubbly I love it.

Electrolysis for me. Painful and expensive as it is!

I get a nice lady to wax mine. She threads my eyebrows too. I find threading too painful for upper lip. Depending on where you live (an area with a big south Asian population) there may be loads of places that offer this.

Don't bother with the bleach it doesn't look great and somehow looks worse than if it was just left to be itself. I'd try a springy thing or wax strips.

Ooh or threading.

Oh, and I tried waxing my own but I didn’t get all the hairs and I tended to get spots.

Yes the problem with bleaching is when the sun hits it and you have a golden halo illuminated over your top lip
I wax, it is the quickest and easiest solution.

tweezers

Ah, I bleach all my lower face at the same time so no halo any more than a blonde woman would get. Facial hair is natural, so I am loathe to start the painful plucking.

What about a Philips Lumea?

I use hair removal cream, takes a couple of minutes and is pain free. Make sure you use one for sensitive skin. The nair one is great and doesn't smell funny.

Just shave it off, OP. Water, a bit of soap and a disposable razor. Takes about three seconds.

I just pluck mine, and have done since my early teens

Ow! Ouch! Noooo!

Shaving I genuinely had not considered - do you not end up with manly stubble by the end of the day?

As a heterosexual man, I had a girlfriend who shaved her top lip, rather off-putting I found, as it was always a bit stubbly/ rough (even if just recently shaved). Not sure I'd recommend.

Waxed every couple of months and a springythingy in between until it gets out of hand again. Tweezers for the two random thicker hairs that usually appear overnight.

I used to wax with facial wax strips, quick and easy, but you have to have to wait for it to grow long enough to wax.

Now I am having it lasered. Its a permanent solution and not too expensive as its a small area and its not painful.

@Iseeyoulookingatme

I use hair removal cream, takes a couple of minutes and is pain free. Make sure you use one for sensitive skin. The nair one is great and doesn't smell funny.

I used to use Veet but it makes my skin red. One time I did it and looked like Homer Simpson.

These days I shave it, perhaps once a month. Easy.

Also an epistick. Takes 2 minutes and you can do it whenever.

I used to do it every 2/3 days, but I’ve got a Lumea now so much less often.