Article by Quester

Facial Hair Removal for Women

Facial hair for any female is an embarrassing problem. It starts growing when a girl reaches the puberty stage and the hairs become darker and coarser with the age mostly after thirties. That’s when removing facial hair becomes really important.

There are certain locations on the face where the hairs appear like upper lip, chin. Some have the hair on the jaw, cheeks and necks too. Most female facial hair appears over the lip and on the chin, but many females have unwanted hair on their jaw, cheeks and neck. Luckily today females can find different methods to get rid of the unwanted hair.

Things to Consider Before Removing Facial Hair

One thing which is really important for a female is before going for any sort of facial hair removal method firstly you should determine the actual cause behind the existence of facial hair. This helps in deciding the hair removal method.

Majority of pregnant and nursing women get an increase in facial hair so they must consult with their gynecologist before trying any hair removal method.

Some women have higher levels of androgen hormone which are similar to testosterone hormone of men. This hormone is responsible for developing men like characteristics in women. These women must consult their doctor and then take medications to lower down the levels of the androgen hormones.

Techniques for Removing Facial Hair

Most of the females generally used tweezing to get rid of the facial hair. This method is not suitable of all sorts of facial hair; you can use it only for eyebrows. This method is really painful and pretty time consuming as well. If used frequently then this method may result in damaging the skin as well.

Bleaching the facial hair is also quite common among women to hide their facial hair by coloring it. But one the make up is done then under bright light the face looks shaggy.

Topical creams are one of the ways which requires the prescription from the authorized medical professionals. It has been seen that out of all the women who have used this method, 50% of them have been able to inhibit the growth of hair.

For women shaving is generally not recommended to get rid of unwanted facial hair because the re growth of hair is very fast in this method and the skin on which shaving is done becomes hard over time.

Hair removal cream or lotions are very popular way among females to get rid of unwanted facial hair. If you are using cream or lotion made of artificial chemicals then there are chances for you to get the rashes and pimples. Today an alternative way has been found in the natural hair removal products to avoid harsh chemicals.

Facial wax too is considered as a sparkling, speedy and simple method for removing female facial hair for up to 6 weeks. It has been observed that many women encounter puffiness and reddishness when the hair is literally being jerked out.

Permanent Way to Remove Facial Hair

An obnoxious way to remove facial hair is electrolysis because of the way in which it is done. In this method a needle is inserted in the individual hair follicle. This can cause swelling, redness, pinpoint scratching and even scarring. Therefore this method requires anesthesia. It’s an expensive method and done regularly for 1 or 2 years to get final results.

Now finally women can go for removing facial hair by lasers too. This treatment can be done in two ways. First way requires you to go to the salon for Laser treatments. These treatments require six to eight sittings in the salon and the cost is too high. The second way requires buying the home laser hair removal product which requires you to invest once in the product and by following the guidelines given in the instruction manual of the product. You only need to invest once in this product and after that you can use it at home only.

Question by jamie: Anyone know about these home laser hair removal products?
There are some at home laser hair removal “tools” out there and i was wondering if anyone knew which one is the best? There is the “Silk’n SensEpil™” http://www.sephora.com/browse/product.jhtml?id=P241733&cm_mmc=us_search-_-GoogleBase-_-P241733-_-1199587&_requestid=42976&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=1199587
—-And the “Tria” http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/catalog/prod.jhtml?itemId=prod99250010&ecid=NMCIGoogleBaseFeed&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=C0NUP

Best answer:

Answer by Summer
A couple of my friends have used the Silk’n SensEpil and they both said it worked really well.

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