I do not realize this was a thing. Interesting video. Possibly a solution for some.
I know that some people have joked that the Epilady was originally developed as an interrogation tool. Maybe some women think shaving is a less painful alternative?
I’ve also heard that laser treatments are very expensive.
“Venkman, shorten your stream! I don’t want my face burned off!” -Ghostbusters
Don’t know about other ethnicities, but we Caucasian women have long had issues with sprouting goatees and soul patches in our later years - women shaving/plucking/waxing/threading/etc. their faces isn’t really a new thing, talking about it is. And frankly, some of us have a bit more than “peach fuzz”, even if it’s not full-on male-style whiskers, which you likely don’t know about because we’ve been removing it all those years you’ve known us.
This is horrifying. I have thankfully, as a very girly woman, never needed to shave my face, and I don’t think I ever will. I acknowledge my good fortune in that area, and I realize not everyone is.
Besides, I was always told shaving makes the hair thicker and more coarse, and that seems to be true for leg hair. Also seems like a cycle most females wouldn’t want to start on their face.
It’s a very common practice, though doing it for “peach fuzz” might be new.
Laser hair removal doesn’t work very well in the long run, or for those with dark skin, and can leave horrifying scars. In some states, it’s a minimally-regulated practice with low training requirements.
Electrolysis can be quite painful, though not always. Some electrologists are now using EMLA cream an hour before treatment to dull the sensation.
Shaving does not make hair darker or more coarse. What it does is create a blunt edge that shows up better than the tapered/worn edge that grows naturally from the follicle.
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Shaving does NOT make hair thicker or more coarse. Age can do that, but that happens regardless of whether or not you depilate.
I’m sorry you find something that happens to millions of women - i.e. “unwanted facial hair” (UFH) -“horrifying” but it’s really much more common than people realize and easily dealt with.
And you can be a “girly-girl” even if you belong to an ethnicity where women tend toward fuzzy faces. The notion that somehow you can’t is a bit bizarre - it’s like saying you’re too tall to be a girly-girl. What?
Those of us with UFH pretty much HAVE to “start that cycle” because otherwise we have to deal with people such as yourself who would otherwise find us “horrifying” and/or question our femininity. Repeating the myth that shaving will make hair thicker/coarser/darker/whatever also helps to keep in business the industries that sell far more expensive (and sometimes more painful) solutions than a mere razor, which doesn’t help either.
I wish I could either have a hairless chin or grow a proper beard and be done with it.
So, I have this friend, who years ago confided to me that rather than wax or dye her mustache she just shaves it off in the shower, every day. Zip, boom. And she read someplace that the reason old women end up with more wrinkles than old men is, the men shaved every day, thereby exfoliating.
So, 40 years later, I look at her, and I think maybe that worked. She does not have those wrinkles around her mouth that a lot of women get, whether or not they smoke (and she does smoke, and used to smoke a lot).
It’s not necessarily the facial hair I was implying that was horrifying, it was the putting of a razor blade on the face, of which, in my case I have zero experience with, and it wouldn’t be pretty. That is all. No slams were intended on anybody, and it wasn’t meant to be serious.
If 12 year old boys can do it, it’s hardly terrifying. I mean, you use a safety razor not a straight blade.
12 year old guys are hardly a model of reasonable behavior.
Ah, but how well do 12 year boys do it? LOL! Not without some bloodshed along the way to perfecting that skill.
And FWIW, I still cut my ankles up from time to time with my Venus after 40 years of leg-shaving, so maybe that’s why I have such a reaction to razoring my face.
I also don’t understand why anybody would want to completely shave off their eyebrows, either, but I guess that’s another subject.
Tangentially, I had a very interesting conversation with Jennifer Miller, a bearded lady (wiki and picture here: Jennifer Miller - Wikipedia), about twenty years ago.
Obviously, her decision to stop plucking/waxing was quite transgressive, and she’s the kind of person who doesn’t mind being shocking.
But she said that the initial decision to grow her beard was largely about comfort and efficiency - two common reasons men grow beards. It didn’t take her very long to say “fuck it, why am I doing this?” In other words, she didn’t set out to be a “bearded lady” - it happened to her when she let her beard grow.
I find it interesting how individualized grooming practices can be. I look at men who’ve grown their beards out and can’t imagine how they deal with the upkeep, itching, etc., but it obviously works for them. Probably about differences in bodies, but also about differences in minds/brains/personalities.
I’m not at all bothered by peach fuzz. Is anybody?
I dated an Asian lady once that told me she never shaved her legs because all she could grow on her legs was peach fuzz. Which was hardly noticeable. In fact, I didn’t notice until she pointed it out to me.
And yet they still manage to do it.
Peach fuzz can definitely be a problem with certain makeups. I don’t wear makeup myself but I notice it tangled in peach fuzz on other women and it is part of the reason why I don’t wear makeup (because I’m afraid I’ll end up with a problem from peach fuzz!)
I have a hormonal issue which causes hair to grow in unwanted places, and this year stopped taking hormones to combat the issue, and my hair was growing w.i.l.d. I have always plucked but didn’t have the patience to do it often enough, so I switched to shaving and that gave me more problems - namely ingrown hairs and stubble from peach fuzz that I was now shaving off (instead of ignoring while plucking).
I finally decided to start the long, expensive process of electrolysis. It’s going to take about a year but then I will hopefully be FREE of unwanted facial hair and have more time to devote to things like zits and dark eye circles.
Dunno. I’m a woman who doesn’t shave her face, but if I did, I’d sorta want to go whole-hog with a mug, brush, and real razor. Why go halfsies?
If you’re going to do that go to a decent barber and get the whole 9 yards. Something like at Tommy Gun’s in Calgary - Lubricating Shave Oil treatment, hot towels, Moisturizing Shave Cream & hot lather shave, cool towels followed by smooth Post Shave Cooling Lotion treatment.
I don’t know if it is ethnicity, luck of the genetic draw, or some combination thereof that determines hair distribution in individuals. Hormones of course also play a role.
I am a very pale-skinned natural redhead, and only have the other similar women in my family to go by, who taught me what they knew about body hair grooming practices. Most of them are this similar “peach fuzz” variety, and my grandmother never shaved her legs either, because there was nothing to shave. She said it was because she never started. When I was 13 and wanted to be cool like other girls, I started sneaking and using daddy’s razor, and was quickly found out due to the blood trail. I should also mention that our ginger asses don’t clot worth a damn, either, so that may also be a contributing factor to my reaction, here. But anyway, she said I would regret it, because now I would have to keep doing it. But even now, I only have to shave from about the knees down, as there’s nothing growing north of my knees until you get to the Promised Land.
I can accept what they told me may have been wrong, but it has been a long held cultural belief in this crazy Irish clan based on their own generational experiences with their skin and hair, and maybe it was something that was true for them.
And it would still take an awful lot to get me to take a razor to mah face…not slamming anyone who does, just saying I don’t want to, and am very grateful I don’t have to. I have no cultural experience with face-shaving being anything but a male practice.