# If you keep waxing or plucking an area does it eventually become hairless?

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**Created:** [April 29, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-keep-waxing-or-plucking-an-area-does-it-eventually-become-hairless/354758 "2006-04-29T18:44:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-keep-waxing-or-plucking-an-area-does-it-eventually-become-hairless/354758/1 "2006-04-29T18:44:31Z")

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From personal experience, I used to pluck the center of my monobrow, and now I don’t have to. It no longer has visible hairs.

Does that work for areas repeatedly waxed?

And what about people with heavy-duty chemical face peels? Are they hairless?