What do you do with your upper lip?

[bigbabycooker]

I have started to see a few more dark hairs on my upper lip in my thirties than in my twenties.

Is there anyone who could advise me on how best to reduce, hide or get rid?

Threading is brilliant and cheap if you can find a good practitioner or do it yourself. Pretty eye watering but quick and doesn't irritate the skin. I used to have it done regularly but I can't find anyone where I live now.

Bloody hell! I couldn't do it myself! Bigger superdrugs do it these days so you should be able to find somewhere OP

Nair sensitive cream

Dermaplane (aka razor) here too. It's the thing which least irritates my skin and gets all the hairs off.

If I had dark hair and pale skin I'd use a lumea thing but I don't

Experts - do you just use the tinkle razor on the individual dark hair, or do you take off the baby fluff with it too?

I used H r c once and my skin reacted to it

Salon wax

It's been thirty years since I had it done, and none of that hair has come back, so yes - permanent. It does take several treatments. How the beautician explained it to me was, the treatment damages the follicle. If you're lucky it kills it outright with the first treatment, more usually it only weakens it. The hair comes back, you zap it again. It gets weaker with every zap and eventually dies.

IIRC, I started with weekly 15 minutes appointments, dropping to fortnightly, then monthly, then quarterly. Not all hairs were zapped at every appointment. I think it may have taken a year all told.

I've got some new hairs on my chin now, I'll be booking myself in for electrolysis again.

Veet. Upper lip, chin and a wee bit up my nose.

I just got a no no facial hair remover a couple of days ago, it's great. Gets rid of everything and completely painless.

Can you link what you bought please?

Wow, that sounds like an expensive and time consuming process. How many treatments do you think you had altogether?

@Stellawella it's not the actual nono one but the same thing, I got this one. It's great.

Excellent answer

Thanks for the info @WhereYouLeftIt

I used to get mine waxed at the salon, but I always came out in spots about 3 days afterwards, which was a real pain. I use Veet hair removing cream now

I do the whole lip, mainly because without my glasses I can't see how hairy I am . No stubble

I have saved three years worth of Boots points and bought my Lumea with them, best thing I've bought in my life ❤️

I've always been a little monkey, my mum took me to the waxing parlour when I was 11 and before the Lumea it were years and years of shaving and waxing, so much money down the drain. IPL is also good for my dermatitis, so I'm just super happy now

tweezers and one of those handheld magnifying mirrors to get the worst black ones. Sometimes the bendy spring thing for the rest. I also have to do the chin ones once or twice a week! 😬

Shave weekly using a dermaplane razor. I do my whole face. It’s personal preference but I find my skincare soaks in nicer and my makeup sits much better with no peach fuzz. Definitely does not grow back thicker or darker.

Yes especially on the sides of my face

I got electrolysis 10 months ago and for various reasons wasn't able to go back for my follow up until recently - none of the darker hairs had grown back on my upper lip to the point it was noticeable to me that one side had been done more. I had a 30 min appt recently and I reckon one more and I'll be done. It is very sore, but second time around I used a numbing cream a few hours before hand and took some pain relief and that made it a lot easier, the same level as an eyebrow wax. I highly recommend. I'm not one to keep up with treatments (hence the 10 month gap!!) so I needed something permanent - as far as I recall it's the only hair removal treatment the FDA will permit to be advertised as permanent.

I curl mine in disdain.

Tweezers and a magnifying mirror in a good light. Today it was perfect in the downstairs toilet, bright sunlight coming in. I usually check my lip and chin a couple of times a week. Also the two weird hairs that grow sideways out of my neck.

Sorry for not returning yesterday! This has all been really really helpful. I have darkish hair and fair skin, so I am a good candidate for some of the high tech methods, but will start with some of the simpler things recommended and see how I go!

I decided a bit late in life to have laser treatment.Not wholly successful owing to my grey hairs . I didn’t know at time of booking that laser treatment doesn’t work on grey hairs so if going down this route do it sooner rather than later.It has made a difference to the thicker darker hairs. I booked when there was a January offer on price for a course of treatment.