Being a blessed natural brunette, I have a lovely dark mustache as well as the full head of thick, dark hair. I’ve tried waxing it in the past, and while the waxing itself didn’t bug me at all, I found that my upper lip basically tingled until the hairs grew back in. Has anyone else experienced this? Would it eventually stop if I were to continue waxing until I show them damned hairs who’s boss? Would laser hair removal cause the same effect? I would love to have my mustache removed permanently, but I don’t want a permanently tingling upper lip.
Um, that is, waxing my mustache, not my head. {Read twice, hit submit once.}
You know, “upper lip-waxing” may have been a better title. Believe it or not, some men put wax in their mustache in order to style it–for example, to make the ends long and pointy or with curled tips (a “handlebar” mustache). Thankfully, I think this isn’t nearly as common as it used to be.
Here is an (unintentionally hillarious) FAQ about mustache wax.
Yeah, that would have been gooder.
Gooder is a perfectly cromulent word. ::groan::
Yes, a more specific title would have helped.
I’ve been meaning to start a thread on dealing with, um, “unwanted female facial hair”. Being from a rather hirsute branch of humanity and getting older… and based upon the experience of female relatives past menopause… well, yes, I may have to choose between using mustache wax and waxing the mustache at some point in the future. I dunno, might be an easy job for my sunset years - grow a little goatee and do the sideshow circuit…
Anyhoo - none of the techniques I’ve heard about seem satisfactory. There’s bleach, but at a certain point you don’t wind up with unnoticable hair, you wind up with a while mustache or beard. There’s electrolysis - uncomfortable and very expensive (also rules out that sideshow gig permanetly which, granted, may not be a concern for many people). There is plucking - but I’m a complete chicken about pain. Yes, I know you get used to it, but my husband can’t seem to tolerate the screaming and jumping-up-and-down that will need to take place before the nerves are killed or whatever. Apparently he’d rather have an extraodinarlly fuzzy wife than one even briefly in pain. Something about never having to buy me a fur coat because I can grow my own… uh, nevermind. Anyhow, there’s shaving, which would seem reasonable - I mean, it works for the guys, right? - but folks seem to react with utter horror: “Dear, it will grow back thicker and darker if you do that!” Well, OK, but it’s already doing that! Waxing? You know, I’ve never been brave enough to do that on my legs (that pain thing again), much less my more sensitive upper lip. Ow!
No doubt it’s really NOT that noticeable - it’s just, of course, you notice the little flaws on your own face so much more than what’s “wrong” with the faces of others.