Talk Hard!

There’s a great blog post by LilahCello on facial hair that I suggest people read. The main thing to note is that although the popular image of femininity is baby-soft skin and no facial hair, many many women get darker hairs on their face. If you have that, you are not alone. You are not a freak. People will not run screaming from you moaning about the horribleness of it all (if they do they’re just being obnoxious — no promises about younger siblings. But adults won’t do that).

However, if you have dark, heavy facial hair and if it makes you uncomfortable, or you find it unattractive, by all means do something about it. The woman who made the post beyond the link shaves her chin and looks forward to laser hair removal at some future date. Some women bleach or wax their facial hair, or have a salon do it for them. I myself have one thick hair that grows out of my chin. It is black and looks out of place and irritates my chin; for a while a few years ago I went regularly to see someone to try to remove it through electrolysis. Just one hair, how long could it take? Electrolysis is supposed to damage the folicle so it can’t grow back, but what I didn’t realize is it can take a long period of repeated visits to make it permanent. I gave up after a while. It’s just one hair. I can deal with having it there until I or a partner notice it and I pluck it out.

I don’t feel the need to hide the fact that it happens. It’s really quite normal. So don’t be afraid to talk about it if you have something similar.