# Do you know any women who shave their face???
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-women-who-shave-their-face/820491
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 29, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-women-who-shave-their-face/820491 "2018-08-29T21:04:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2018, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-women-who-shave-their-face/820491/21 "2018-08-31T02:48:39Z")
Some women who take Dilantin (phenytoin), an anti-seizure drug, have excess body hair, but in this case, it’s usually like duck down and is especially noticeable in the sideburn area.
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### Author:  [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-women-who-shave-their-face/820491/22 "2018-08-31T03:03:25Z")
I’m almost 34. I don’t shave my face. I only have the usual fuzz, plus two longer hairs that I tweeze.
And I don’t mind kissing guys who have stubble.
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### Author:  [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2018, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-women-who-shave-their-face/820491/23 "2018-08-31T03:31:48Z")
There is a fetish for this. Don’t ask how I know.
(Not MY fetish, FWIW.)
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### Author:  [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-women-who-shave-their-face/820491/24 "2018-09-01T17:13:49Z")
> [@Eaving](#):
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> Lady in her 40’s here. I love using my epilator for any fuzz and those pesky stray wiskers. It takes a bit of practice and some patience with the pain at first but its so much better than shaving. There’s no stubble and since the hair is being plucked with root, it will take a while to grow back.
EPilator all the way, I love the little light it has and I use a mag mirror. I use it to pluck out the stiff hairs, and use the trimmer on the upper lip (too hurty to pluck the there), on the long peach fuzzies and to tame the brows.
I could never pluck up the courage to epilate the legs or underarms. The chin loves the feeling though.
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### Author:  [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2018, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-women-who-shave-their-face/820491/25 "2018-09-01T18:44:08Z")
i knew a woman of about 30 who used a pumice stone on her upper lip. She was Greek, and claimed it was common among the women in her family.
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### Author:  [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-women-who-shave-their-face/820491/26 "2018-09-01T20:03:05Z")
I started getting the occasional long hair on my chinny chin chin in my 30s. I used to pluck them, then when they got a little more numerous in my 40s I’d wax. Now I’m 52 and have a lil tuft at each corner of my chin and a few on my neck. I don’t want to stretch my neck skin by waxing so I reluctantly tried a razor. Baby smooth skin and no stubble since I do it every day when I wash my face in the shower. Takes seconds.
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-women-who-shave-their-face/820491/27 "2018-09-03T14:44:46Z")
I had a girlfriend who was 28 and the most hirsute woman I have known.[ul]
[li]Her pubic hair was so lush, I could not see the skin of her outer labia at all without parting it.[/li][li]She had about a dozen hairs at the border of each of her areolas.[/li][li]She had to shave her legs twice a week, minimum.[/li][li]She had to shave her pits every other day, minimum.[/li][li]Her moustache could get by with every couple weeks.[/li][/ul]She was of French ancestry on both sides but I don’t know how relevant that is. Her mother’s sister also shaved her moustache when she (the girlfriend) was little, so it was sort of a norm for her. It had no effect on my lovin’ her, as I discovered them one at a time.
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### Author:  [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-women-who-shave-their-face/820491/28 "2018-09-03T21:51:12Z")
> [@TheChileanBlob](#):
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> I started getting the occasional long hair on my chinny chin chin in my 30s. I used to pluck them, then when they got a little more numerous in my 40s I’d wax. Now I’m 52 and have a lil tuft at each corner of my chin and a few on my neck. I don’t want to stretch my neck skin by waxing so I reluctantly tried a razor. Baby smooth skin and no stubble since I do it every day when I wash my face in the shower. Takes seconds.
I do the same (51yo). I think you’d be surprised at how many women shave facial areas.
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