Questions about girl mustache removal - dark tan/mocha complexion, faint mustache, wants to wax for the first time. Will home waxing remove it all, or should it be done at a salon? Does it look odd as it grows back but still too short to wax again? What happens if some is left behind?
Is bleaching ever an option with a darker complexion, assuming the hair is very fine?
Is Nair better or worse than waxing?
I wax mine at home all the time (I have light skin). Usually I use pre-waxed strips like these, it makes it really easy. Some brands come with a lotion or oil to soothe the skin afterwards and remove any excess wax. I also use them for my eyebrows. Actually, I should say that my BF does it for me. I think he just likes causing me pain. 
I can’t speak to how to remove it specifically, since I’ve never had to deal with it, but:
Please don’t bleach it- that looks stupid even when fair, white women do it.
For the first time, I’d go to a salon. The beautician can get just about all of it with wax, and then will go over the [strikeout]victim[/strikeout] client’s face with a pair of tweezers to make sure that all the hairs are gone.
I used to have a faint mustache, which was getting thicker and darker with age. I have quite fair skin, and it wasn’t very noticeable yet, but I could tell that it was only going to get worse. I had some electrolysis done, and I’m much happier now. I also had my eyebrows neatened. It didn’t cost much at all, and it’s only a bit more painful than tweezing is.
That product says the hair needs to be at least 1/8". I don’t think that’s the case here. Would it still work?
If the hair isn’t long enough, then the wax has nothing to grip, so it won’t work.
Don’t bleach it. Then you just have a blond mustache. One thing - waxing your upper lip hurts, and I have found that I have not gotten used to it the same way as with my brows.
Don’t go near your period - supposedly you are more sensitive. Use some tea tree oil - sometimes you may break out a little and this will help. It will feel weird and numb, even long after.
I was thinking about this thread and, you know, a few of my friends get their 'staches threaded- have you considered that? I get my brows threaded and very much like the result. I know with threading, they can grab up much shorter hairs (I get my brows done when they are stubbly, not grown out). Just a thought!
I’d go to a salon first just to see how they do it/get advice you can apply to trying it at home. Waxing doesn’t work very well for short, fine hairs.
Threading is a cheap alternative to waxing, works on the finest hairs, and is pretty easy to learn. I have several friends that thread their own faces.
Nair is fine if your skin can handle it (and facial skin is thinnest and most sensitive). I get a bad, itchy rash that can last for weeks from Nair and equivalents. Do a tiny test area first!
I am blondish and have a white-blond ‘peachfuzz’ moustache (so does my mom and my sister). It’s nothing like a man’s mustache, but I don’t like the way it looks. I shave my upper lip. It lasts for a week or two before the regrowth starts to be visible again, and the hair is naturally so fine so the regrowth isn’t stubbly.
Hmmm…I am a fair-skinned woman with a decent-sized “moustache” (not quite as thick as eyebrows but not simply the same fuzz as on my cheeks) and I bleach it.
The way the hair on my legs work - I am stubbly even if I get waxed - I’d be deathly afraid of shaving or waxing my upper lip. I feel as though I would simply have 5 o’clock shadow.
I honestly don’t think I look like I have a white mustache. Neither does my mom, who has a complexion similar to Diosa’s and also bleaches.
I guess it’s just a matter of what you’re brought up with…?
I feel compelled to say this even though it doesn’t sound like most of you have this problem – this is for anyone else reading this who may be in this boat.
I have PCOS and it gave me a veritable goatee – coarse dark hair on my upper lip and chin which I plucked continuously. I finally broke down and got electrolysis a few years ago, which was a life-saver. My electrologist said, and my experience bore this out, that if you have hair growth caused by hormonal imbalances, plucking (threading, waxing…anything that rips the hair out by the root) causes the roots to grow back thicker and coarser. Do not do this. Your options are to either cut the hair (or shave, which does not cause the hair to grow back coarser, contrary to myth – it just feels like that because the tapered ends of the hair have been cut off, but shaving does not and cannot affect the root), use a depilatory cream like Nair, or get electrolysis. Laser hair removal has not been determined to be a permanent solution for female facial hair due to hormonal imbalances ( the American Electrology Association FAQ says that electrolysis is the only hair removal procedure recognized by the FDA ; my electrologist also performs laser hair removal and counseled me against having laser on my face as it wouldn’t be permanent, whereas she did suggest I have it on the rest of my body if I wanted). I finished my electrolysis about two years ago, and only one hair on my chin has come back. Sure enough, plucking it has made it come back thicker and darker.
The rest of you who don’t have hormonal problems and just have fine dark hair on your face…you can ignore this. 
Thanks for sharing, gallows fodder. I too have PCOS and pluck my chin. I always figured I’d have the same fate with electrolysis as I do with waxing. Now I know I will have to save up for some electrolysis!
My (bleached) blonde mustache hides my pruny, old lady upper lip. 
This girl’s “mustache” is just very fine, short, hardly noticeable downy hair that you’d expect to see on someone with a darker complexion, but she’s at the age where girls scrutinize themselves in the mirror with a magnifying glass looking for any imperfection.
Rhubarbarin and Diosa, I had no idea that threading would work on such short or fine hair, but I didn’t know anything about it. I also didn’t know it could be done at home.
She saw a facial waxing kit this afternoon for a few bucks that’s supposed to be effective on 2mm hair, and is going to give it a try. I guess in the next couple of days there could be a followup visit to a salon if there are too many missed spots.
I have a light colored downy upper lip with a few long coarse hairs on each side. I’ve tried waxing and it not only didn’t work very well, but hurt horrendously, and it was all red and blotchy, like a skin disease, for two days. My mom gave me one of those teeny battery powered lady-stache shavers about the size of a mascara tube, but it stopped working. So now, I keep a plain old disposable shaver in my makeup box, and every couple of days, I zip! zip! the longish hairs. Takes literally seconds, no 5 o’clock shadow, no muss, no fuss. I just leave the peach fuzz alone, it’s the long side hairs that annoy me most.
I had been using these wax strips for a very long time. They come with a size that is perfect for the upper lip. I found that it lasted about 6 weeks before I started thinking about waxing again. It didn’t grow in stubbly. I would just start to notice some fine hairs growing in.
A few months ago, I bought this epilator on Amazon on a whim. It hurt a little at first, but I got used to it. I use it about once every two weeks. It hurts less if I do it right after I get out of the shower. I like it because it is quick and doesn’t leave the red marks that waxing often left. Like waxing, the hairs grow in slowly and not stubbly.
I do not have fair skin and my facial hair is definitely brown, but fine. Hope that helps.
Forget waxing, bleaching,covering up, shaving ,etc. trying to cover it up or any other temporary trick. Quit fooling around.
Just get laser hair removal/electrolysis and get rid of it permanently forever. It will even be cheaper in the long run.
Another electrolysis fan. I had a uni-brow and had brow shaping done 15 years ago–never regretted it. It takes awhile to get all the stragglers permanently removed–but I no longer need any eyebrow treatments.
As I’ve aged, my upper lip has gotten more hair and my chin hair has gotten coarser. Whenever needed, I’ve gone back for additional electrolysis. The chin is a breeze. The lip is a little uncomfortable. The cost is about the same as a good hair cut–and worth every penny.
One of the keys to successful treatment is DO NOT WAX OR TWEEZE. This encourages growth, causes some in-grown hair, and makes “final” removal more time consuming as the root can’t always be “zapped” the first time around.
Do the hairs need to be a certain length before this thing can grip them? Apparently my hairs may not be dark enough for laser and electrolysis didn’t work too well either (I suspect the machine wasn’t working properly either). For waxing I have to leave the hairs to get pretty long, which means hiding in a cave for days …
I have never had a problem with it not gripping hairs. Usually once I can see them, it can grip them. The main exception is the occasional really thick, short hair I get on my chin. That one needs to be tweezed (probably because I can usually see it before it even breaks the surface), but it seems to get everything else. I find it gets them better then waxing.