# Why does tweezing & waxing stop hurting after a while?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 14, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-tweezing-waxing-stop-hurting-after-a-while/709845 "2015-01-14T19:49:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Idilia\_Dubb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c2a13f/32.png) [@Idilia\_Dubb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idilia_Dubb)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-tweezing-waxing-stop-hurting-after-a-while/709845/1 "2015-01-14T19:49:26Z")

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Like many (most?) women, I tweeze my eyebrows and wax elsewhere. At first, both procedures hurt like heck. After a few months, though, the discomfort gradually decreased and and by now, years later, has virtually disappeared. What accounts for the cessation of pain? Am I killing off the nerves in the surface of my skin?

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**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-tweezing-waxing-stop-hurting-after-a-while/709845/2 "2015-01-14T21:59:43Z")

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The hair isn’t rooting as well/deeply and there is less hair, that’s my WAG.

I will add that it NEVER gets less painful to wax the upper lip. Never.