Upper lip hair removal

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I’m looking for some advice on upper lip hair removal for my DD who is 13. She has beautiful dark hair and pale skin.
She wasn’t keen on trying the bleach when I suggested it. What’s the best way to keep it looking good all the time, I don’t want the regrowth to be worse than before she started removing it.

Have had it as an adult - it’s like having a very warm rubber band smacked hard against your face. Recommend that the therapist uses numbing cream beforehand.

I am not sure anyone will do IPL for an under 16?

Bleach is a rubbish option as the blonde hairs are still visible even on pale people. The tweezerman facial razors are good - painless and takes seconds.

I’d get wax strips, and I’d 100% stay clear of laser and dermaplaning razors.
Laser especially, and I’d encourage anyone considering laser to look into paradoxical hypertrichosis, where the laser stimulates the follicle of a fine hair to cause thick coarse hair in abundance. This is not nearly as rare as you’d think and nearly everyone I know who has had laser treatment for a while regrets it enormously and is caught in a horrible expensive cycle of paying for endless sessions to manage thicker , more abundant hair growth. That or they need electrolysis but by the time you’ve lasered enough the hair is so copious it requires more electrolysis than it ever would have needed originally.

I have a tweezer spring thing. It’s so good. Look for tweezer spring thing.

I find these unbearably painful.
I use Superdrug facial wax strips. They are cheap and really good.

If you go with wax strips do a patch test somewhere because I've had awful reactions to them, chemical burns.

Good pair of tweezerman tweezers and pluck in the direction of hair growth.

I have very dark hair and having tried everything, honestly shaving is the best. It does not make growth worse. Bleaching just left me with loads of blondey orange lip hair! Threading and waxing caused break outs. My other hairy girl friends shave too. I did starting laser but stopped as I got pregnant. I did notice a difference from one session but you need six

Threading! Pretty gentle on the skin, stings a bit but over quickly. Hair grows back in soft. Like your daughter I’m very very fair with dark hair (and alas come from a hairy bunch) so mine is very obvious. I’m allergic to wax and was thrilled to discover threading late in my 20’s!

Just go for laser treatment. Permanent solution

Did this in my 50s. No thicker growth!! Now’s the time as well (as it can cause sun sensitivity) ie less sunshine in the winter

I recommend this thing too. Both my daughter 14 and I have one and it’s easy once you get the hand of it, and no need for appointments at a salon. My hair is light brown and my daughter is dark brown and it works well for us both.

Just get the little dermaplaners. I do it every few days and takes about 1 minute, no pain, effective

I had 6 sessions, nearly 20 years ago. Around half a dozen hairs have now come back, and a home IPL deals with those. No regrets.

I used to use microwaveable wax from boots or those little pots you can heat up on the stove for upper lip from boots as well. They’re perfect for in home touch up.
I can’t find it online now but this looks like a good at home solution:
www.boots.com/rio-total-body-waxing-hairremoval-kit-10334324

Avon facial hair removal cream

don’t bleach - I did at that age then 20 years later when I sun tan I get a line where I used to bleach.

A few minutes in a good salon for waxing once a month or so should sort it.

I would go to a threading lady myself. Then if I was happy with her, that’s where I’d take my child.

My own threading lady does it from home and she is absolutely lovely and fantastic at what she does.

Not if you have PCOS. That will last about 4 days. The first 3 I would have red bumps at every hair follicle and then the stubble would be back by day 4 making it completely pointless.

Sorry not RTFT and missed the OP’s DD has PCOS.

Buy her a JML NuYou facial hair remover. Don't put bleach on her skin.

Cheap wax strips for me! Over in seconds.

Even if I though shaving was the better option (I don’t, because of quicker and blunter regrowth) I think I’d have a bit of a mental block about it: face shaving is such a culturally masculine thing that that would put me off.

I'm not sure she has but it's worth realising that it's not going to be the same for everyone.

I was just answering the OP’s issue not considering all possible variables!