What an Idiot I can be!

I have menopausal hair on my upper lip. It has been driving me nuts. Last week I went to the drug store and walked by the Sally Hansen products. (Shoulda kept on walking, silly me). I saw it!

Mustache Spa Wax

The word spa got me. Sounded so soothing and easy and sheese, a warm wax on my upper lip. Beautiful.

New Years eve I tried it. I microwaved the wax for the required 30 seconds. Nope, still rock hard. Added another 10 seconds, still too hard. Upped it to another 20 seconds, oh, seems nice and soft now. Tried it on my wrist and seemed perfect.

Off to the bathroom and the 10X mirror. Started squirting the soft and warm wax out and OOPS to much came out and it was burning! Oh no, I am in pain. Big pain.

Well, the outcome is, I have a dime sized burn on my upper lip and guess what? There are hairs sticking out of the burn.

Oh Ann, hehehe....sounds awful (so why am I laughing?) It just shows me that I'm not the only one who does these things! I'm so sorry for your burn but it's still comical...do you forgive me? Leave the hot wax aside and pluck them babies outta there.....are they too coarse to respond to lotion hair remover? Don't you just love getting older???? Once, when I was mad at being a redhead I went super blonde and then had a perm.....my hair fried and broke off all over. I had little spikes and chunks and cried for weeks. Oh, I'm sure I can think of billions of other things that I've done. Meanwhile, heal up that burn and....don't make me laugh so much (talk about peeing BEFORE you read certain things!!!!)

ANNO,
Sorry about the burn. Gosh I hope you don't get that "What Happened?" question too often. Tell 'em you were looking up at a glowing bird & it pooped radioactive bird-poo on you, Laugh and walk away with your best chesshire cat grin on your face. OR You got the hottest new Years Eve kiss of your life! Seriously, I got one of those pen type Lumina Finishing Touch trimmers at Wally World for those lip & chinny chin-chin hairs & it works beatuifully. They actually come back softer & it's pain free. It's lighted too so w/ the 10X mirror & light you can really see what you're doing. Your smooth lipped friend in facial hair combat, QBall101.

There must be a lesson to learn here somewhere. I for one am going to chuck my 10X mirror.

What you see not!
Won't make you hot!

Anno, Sorry about that burn, OUCH! There is Nair product for faces. It is a weaker product but does the job!
Have you tried it? It may be worth a shot!
I hope the burn heals soon, Anno!
Can you finish the rest with a Nair product but
NOT on the burn?

dancer9

Thanks Ladies. I am still laughing too, and I am glad that I am not the one who has to look at my face when I am talking! I am going to use Qballs idea - the hottest New Years kiss ever.

I have used Nair and do tweeze, I was just tired of doing this all the time and thought I would go for something longer term. I am going to take Hannelore's advice and get rid of this 10X mirror. I spend way too much time imagining seeing things that only I can see when trying hard.

Like Mrs Hughes said in her comedy routine, we're turning into our fathers...funnier when you see the tape...OUCH, Anno! Now if you can afford it you can have electralasis on the hair on your top lip, it works and its permanent. I just tweeze now and again but its my hairy, chinny, chin, chin, not my top lip thats the problem.

Oh Annie, I'm laughing hysterically. I know...it's not funny but it really is. Where is a camera when you need one?

I posted about this in the skin care forum. I was wondering if anyone was as obsessed as I with facial hair, and getting rid of it. I do the same thing repeatedly with the wax. Nuke and burn. There is a lavendar was meant to be more soothing. It's soothing because you can't feel the heat. I could not feel that it was hot, so I kept nuking it. I used without feeling the burn, I got burns on my face. Either that or my skin is numb from years of waxing. D9 says to embrace your facial hair!

LOL, oh no, Princess! I wax the hair in my NOSE!! LOL. I think that Nair for faces is the best product for upper lips, chins and for brows, I recommend plucking unless, like myself, you are good with wax. I have my brows shaped for me once every three months so they are evenly done and I keep up the shape myself with wax. For those wayward hairs that can pop up on the chin, I think facial Nair is the best and you don't have to let those babies grow out to use it! No hair where the men have it. Just don't take hair off your cheeks, or your hair line or anywhere else!

LOL, Princess, I would not have been much of a model if I left facial hair on!

dancer, boomer model still.

Ok. I need to get this straight as my hair once and for all. I thought that Nair was stinky when I tried it on my legs long time ago. Why can't I use it for the fuzz on my cheeks? I have fuzzy cheeks. I don't want fuzzy cheeks. How about the jaw line? I could grow a goatee. I'll leave my hairline alone, for sure. How do you get the wax in your nostrils? I have to clip mine at the tip of my nose or they grow to my upper lip. Or I'll just embrace the hair and become a guerilla.

oh, Princess, Princess, the "fuzz," is a natural shading of your cheekbones and makes your face lovely and exotic! WHY, WHY, take off that shading, my lovely friend? Goodness, do you wax your whole face?????
LOL.
take off the beard with stinky facial Nair. Take off the mustashe with stinky facial Nair, pluck your thick and luxurious eye brows but not too much!
NOW: The rest is called "Italian face." It is there to make us look like we do! It makes us mysterious and NO ONE can see it but you! YOU don't like it and you have to stop trying to make yourself an American Barbie when you are Italian Barbie! You need to go to Italy, my friend! Go see our sisters and watch how they work it! Hey! At least we take off our mustashes!
Italian women are some of the most beautiful women in the world, and you know it. You know what they say,

"There are two kinds of people: Italians, and those who want to be," LOLOLOL

You need to embrace and love that fuzz that makes you different from the blonds and Anglo races! It's beautiful and again NO ONE SEES IT!!

You only had "anglo," friends when you were little huh?

My older sister wanted to be like her anglo girlfriends so much that she STILL shaves her ARMS!! Her arm hair embarasses her. Well, my arm hair never got in the way of my career! In face, I never thought about it. How did I get to the TOP with all that fuzz on my face??? I dunno, Princess, but you are one hard headed princess!
Funny too!
Luv ya, HRH Lenora!
dancernine

Lynnie, you must have been AWOL a bunch of months (years?) back when I wrote about my 2 pair of 300 reading glasses that I wear over each other to do my daily tweezing ritual. I'm not big on beauty routines but black hair on light green skin is ...just...not...pretty. None on my cheeks but a little mustache and some on chin.

I haven't tried Nair or anything similar on my face because I tend to have allergy problems, and if my face gets a rash and my eyes swell shut, then I'll look a lot worse than I do with 20 hairs that are about a zillionth of an inch long.

About once a month, I gouge a tiny hole in my face from trying to tweeze a stubborn hair that doesn't want to come out. I'm trying to be less fanatical, but it's not easy.

Dancer, you'll laugh at this -- but when I started kindergarten, at age 5, one of the first things I noticed were that there were kids who DID NOT have hairy arms and legs! LOL

Meredith, who if you see me wearing long pants in the winter ... you can do the math!

This thread is a riot! You gals are too funny. Lynne, you could braid the hair for a different look.

Good grief...I'm a redhead and I wish I HAD hair on my face. At least you could tell I had eyebrows! Geeish!

Must be a real hassle to shave hair on arms.

I'm not super obssessive...I get around to plucking my eyebrows. Seems to me my hair growth all over is slowing down over the last 5 years. Seriously. I only shave underarms...hmmmmm...every 3-4 months and legs every 3-4 months. I only have hair growth on my front lower legs and knees. And as you all know, I wear shorts alot during warmer seasons.

This slowing down or near absence, is probably hereditary for me because my mother had the same thing happen to her as she aged. Not all my sisters are like me.

Orchid, you have your underarms and legs every 3-4 months! You are my idol! Yes, Dancer, I wax my entire face, and sometimes I burn with the wax, and I do it every 4 weeks or so. Meredith, it's not funny, but I have gouged my face trying to remove a stubborn hair, or zit. And, believe it or not, I did too notice that other children did not have hair. Especially when I was 12. I was having the Confirmation. I was to wear flesh colored tights. When I put on the tights for a dress rehearsal, the hair on my legs swirled under the tights. So that is when my mother taught me how to shave my legs. When I was 15 she took me to her hairdresser to have my eyebrows shaped for the first time. My brows were like Brooke Shields. I was very unhappy as I did not want to pluck my brows, or shave my legs. The hair on my arms can grow 1-2 inches long, and sometimes I take scissors to reduce the length in summer. However, the hair on my head is so thin and fine. When I had chemo, I lost all the hair on my head, but no where else. Go figure! Hey, girlfriends, thanks for the talk. I never get to talk about this. Dancer, I get it, the barbie thing. Thanks

Maybe we could all pool our excess hair together and go into the wig making business.

I am sitting here laughing so hard my family asked what I was doing! It sounds funny but I know it is serious. WE all are getting hair in places we never knew we would.

I am not worried a great deal about it. I keep watch in the mirror for face hair and usually just use a hand shaver and get rid of them. Then I apply good moisture cream to the area. That is about as much as I am willing to do.

While I didn't have lots of hair on my body, when I put hose on as a young teen and the hair on my legs swirled underneath is the night I first shaved my legs. My mother was not happy with me as my twin and I are the babies of the family. She, however, came around to my knowing when it was time for me do shave under the arms and my legs.

Again, this is the best place to be where we can all understand each other at our ages.

When I had chemo, I lost all the hair on my head, but no where else. (Princess Lenora)

Yeah, same here. I was on Adriamyecin/Cytoxin and was told that I'd lose it everywhere. I was so looking forward to not having to shave my legs!

Despite several trips to the emergency room and numerous other lovely stories, THAT, more than anything else, seemed unfair.

Since you’ve posted this Ann, I’ve become addicted to my mirror. No, I didn’t chuck it…but I’m about to “chuck it” every time I look into it.

I’m starting to get blond peach fuzz along my cheeks. I guess you can’t see it if the light isn’t behind me…but if I’m standing in front of the sun, you might think your are looking at half woman half caterpillar.

You ladies are sooooooooooooooooo funny. I got my morning chuckle right here and what a way to start my day...thinking of nose, chin, and lip hairs...wooohoooo!!! I also have that problem...usually it's with a few very dark hairs that like to grow at an unusally fast pace out of my chin and I don't notice it until I'm in the car checking my lipstick... I stare in horror at the black tentacles danging from my chin...with not a tweezer in sight. Then I smack my husband on the arm and ask him why he didn't tell me? Surely he can see them? Somewhere in my European ancestory we Scottish must have been very hairy because ever since puberty I've had an upper lip hair problem. I bleached, I plucked (and screamed) and finally said to heck with it and shaved it off and have not regretted that decision and continue to do so to this day. I pluck everything else but find the razor does great for the upper lip. Waxing was never an option for me....do not like pain...it was all I could do to tweeze my eyebrows.

Hannelore, my dear,
The dear Princess amoung us has started a fuzz hating trend! Your little peach fuzz on your face, the cheeks, etc, is there for natural shading to your face. It highlights your cheekbones and without it, your face would look flat!
Get rid of:
eye brow messes
mustashe's
beards,
clip nose hairs,
and love the rest of the hair on your face,
for goodness sake! I'm going to be surrounded
by wax addicts!
dancer, who loves her fuzz shadows!
LOL.

Sandpiper, how did you know to shave before your mother told you? Until that dress rehearsal with the tights and the swirling leg hairs showing through the tights, I did not even know women had to shave. My mother taught me. I was quite dismayed to think of the things girls had to do. Shave the legs, underarms, use sanitary napkins, wear garters and girdles and bras, and then, to top it off, pluck eyebrows. Who made these rules? Meredith, you're not supposed to shave your legs when you are going through chemo! Any nick can cause infection. I was sent to a specialist hair dresser to have the remaining strands on my head shaved, as that speciallist (trained by some cancer agency) used a special buzz razer with a guard so as not to make a nick. I hope you never have to know that again. Hey, what if we let it all go? Then we can look like Grateful Dead hippie chicks. Not...!

Princess, I went through chemo all of July, August and September. In July and August, we had 35 days over 100, and the rest were in the 90s. September mostly in 90s. I get heat migraines, and long pants were not an option. Yeah, hopefully no reruns on that year.

I MUST share this. By simply LEAVING MY FACE ALONE, (in other words, I have not been picking and poking and looking in my 10X mirror), my burn, or rip in the skin, is almost completely healed. Really, I must remember to love myself without having to look into a mirror.

Thanks, ladies, for all the great laughs.

That's wonderful, Anno!
I'm glad you are yourself again!
dancer

Meredith, we are medical clones. I get heat migraines too. I was a walking migraine during cancer. How can it be that we have so many similarities, including writing, poetry, creativity? Were we separated at birth? Anno, is that the secret to good skin? Stay away from the mirror! L, PL

Lynnie, but you didn't have a purple wig during chemo -- or did you? That would scare me!