I get my eyebrows waxed every couple of months, and the time before last, the lady fininshed up and then asked "lip, too?" I think I looked startled, and she explained that I seemed to be lingering in the chair and so she thought there was something else I wanted. Still, it didn't stop me from going home and peering into the mirror to see if my moustache was becoming more noticeable with age
The verdict? Well, I did see one or two little hairs that looked a teeny bit darker than the others, so I plucked them. But they could have been there forever for all I know - I rarely look that closely.
Anyway, I forgot all about it, but then the next time I went, it was to a different place with a different lady and she asked me the same question! "Lip, too?"
Ack! Now that I've heard it in two places, I see fuzz every time I look in the mirror. Darn those ladies for putting lip hair on my mind!
So, here's my question: Do any of you wax your lip? And if so, how does it grow back in? Is it slow and hardly noticeable? Or do you need to have it done every couple of weeks for "maintenance"? Would I be able to get away with doing it once every 3 or 4 months when I have a special occasion coming up, or would it grow back in stuch a way as to be obvious and icky in-between?
It's not like I have a Tom Selleck stache or anything - I kind of see it in the same way I see my eyebrows: they look ok left alone but look better waxed, and I'd like to be able to "clean up" for special occasion and then let it go for several months without looking like some kind of freak...
because I always get that too...if it's an Oriental place, I don't know, it seems to me, they are always hungry to sell more services!
I get my lip done maybe twice a year, and just started doing it about 2 years ago. Ouch, I find it to be much more painful than the eyebrows. But I just had it done in April. Two weeks ago, here in CT, I went to have my eyebrows done. The lady was trying to convince me to have my lip done as well. She goes, "it's *really, really* hairy", lol. I said "no thanks, just the eyebrows today" and she's like, "you sure?", as if she couldn't believe I'd walk around lin public like this, lol! Talk about giving a person a complex! I go home and inspected it. Yes, there's a few hairs but my mustache hair is not real dark, so ya know, I'm just not convinced! I'm chalking it up to that they were just looking to make more $$. She also told me that b/c my eyebrow hair is so coarse, that I should come in every 2 weeks! Right now I go about every 2 months, lol! My opinion is they like to plant ideas in people's heads to drum up more business.
Lisa, Mom to Gregory, 4/19/96, Katy 4/2/00 & Robby 9/26/03
The first time I didn't, but the second time I did.
July 26 2006, 10:36 PM
You're probably right about them trying to drum up business. You made me laugh with the way she sounded as if you shouldn't be seen in public I've seen you and never noticed any lip hair, LOL! I didn't make a point of looking, but nothing ever jumped out at me.
I guess, actually, that's a good gauge - is the hair bad enough that somebody who is not specifically watching your mouth and looking for hair ever going to see it? I'm probably fine...
I'm glad to hear, though, that you can do it really infrequently and not look like some kind of a freak in between
but I have been using one of those Finishing Touch hair removers for a while. I don't have a moustache, but the fuzzy hair just above the corners of my mouth seems to have gotten longer and coarser - thankfully they're still blonde.
Anyhow, you might want to try one of those as an easier option than waxing - you can find them most anywhere for 9.99.
And whatever you do, *don't* buy one of those super-magnifying mirrors - talk about seeing things that will make you paranoid!
my legs and bikini area as well - talk about painful (the worst is the shins, in my opinion).
Anyway, anytime you wax the hair comes back in thinner and more sparse, so I don't think you'd have to have it done very often at all - no more than 4 times a year.
Just make sure they've got some decent after treatment lotion available and do it at least 24 hours before the special occasion, as redness can be visible for several hours after. (Shoot, my legs look like a plucked chicken for at least 12 hours after!).
Good luck!
Molly, Mum to Bonnie 20, Lochlan 8 & Fiona 6 You reap what you sow
Could you imagine me showing up at my BIL's wedding with a red upper lip? Yikes... all of those family pictures I'd be immortalized in! That would be WAY more mortifying than any little fuzz that might have been there before
they always want to tack on extra services, don't they? I'm letting my brows get shaggy on purpose-for my 42nd I'm treating myself with a visit to the brow guru of Beverly Hills. I'm expecting a complete transformation. http://www.clarkesworld.com/m2km/nodgrin.gif
- I kind of see it in the same way I see my eyebrows: they look ok left alone but look better waxed, and I'd like to be able to "clean up" for special occasion and then let it go for several months without looking like some kind of freak...
