Ladies, Do any of you shave?

Question

I am not talking about your naughty bit or under your arms or your legs it is your face that i'm asking about? Do you have a moustache? or sideburns? Have you any whiskers on your chin?
Be honest now cos you mus'nt tell fibs.

Answer 1

I honestly DO. For years I would tweeze the coarse hair from my chin.
Then in college I had a roommate, who's mother was a barber.
She the, mother, recommended I shave rather than risk infection and scarring from tweezing. My roommate and her mother were very feminine petite women of Japanese descent. I figured that if they could shave their whole face even to shaping their eyebrows with a straight edge razor ... I could use a safety razor on my chin without worrying about loss of femininity.

By the by, I resent your expression "naughty bit". The politically correct term is "bikini area". :)

It is a myth that shaving makes the problem worse. My chin area is just the same as it was 40 years ago when I started shaving ... no better and NO WORSE.

Answer 2

Lots of women shave their face, many of them daily.

Let's start at the beginning. Most women in America have some degree of moustache growth.

Most guys are actually OK about women with, for example, a slight moustache.

If a woman decides she has to do something, then there isn't a simple answer and there's a lot of misleading "information" around.

Facial (and also body) hair on women comes about in the same way as on men because of

1) her body being sensitized, before you were even born, to testosterone -- doesn't happen to all girls, but does to many

2) her body producing high levels of testosterone

The growth rate and coarseness of the hair depends on just how much testosterone is circulating in her bloodstream.

She's best to steer clear of bleaching -- when someone sees her against the light she'll look as if she has a glowing moustache. Believe me, it shows up far, far worse.

As far as removing it is concerned it's worth remembering that

* Waxing, plucking, threading, epilating all pull the hair out by the roots and where the growth is hormonally-driven can actually stimulate a dormant follicle into producing more hair quicker. They also distort the root if done repeatedly, leading to hair growing at strange angles. And you've got to let the hair grow to quite a length before you can repeat the exercise. It can also damage the skin and discolor it. Long-term use of waxing also causes bad wrinkles.

* Chemical depilatories strong enough to remove the hair are very likely to burn the skin, cause swelling and cause long-term discoloration of the skin.

* Laser is also liable to cause burning and discoloration and in any case only works effectively on a dark hair/light skin combinantion.

* Electrolysis is very liable to cause scarring and discoloration of the skin.

Which, like it or not, leaves shaving which does not damage the skin. Best done with a men's-style electric razor, the best of which, for women, are probably those from the men's range of Philips/Norelco razors (Philishave outside the US). Most women who try a men's Philips/Norelco wonder why nobody ever told them about it before.

Answer 3

Yes one shaves ones face on a regular basis. I also pluck. I am not welsh by the way. But I do have welsh connections. I plat my sideburns.

Answer 4

I, in my view, do it for myself. I in basic terms incredibly like the sensation of my legs as quickly as I certainly have in basic terms shaved. when I hit puberty, i spotted how horrid my dad's legs in shorts have been (how bushy and gross it exchange into) and it exchange into then that i desperate i might shave. It exchange into in basic terms a remember of decision. possibly your female does it as a protest to society, in spite of the fact that not all women do it with the aid of fact society deems it with the aid of fact the norm. some individuals in basic terms like mushy legs.

Answer 5

I don't have sideburns but i grow tiny hair on my upper lip and my hair is black so it's visible if you get up close....but I go to the salon to get everything threaded out....shaving - yuck! That's gross, I wouldn't shave though. But no one ever tells I grow hair there bc I always keep it clean.

Answer 6

Yes I do.
If I leave my tache alone, teenage boys get jealous!

It's weird being a female heading towards menopause. Weird stuff starts happening.
Strange hairs start appearing on upper lip, chin and chest.
Lovely Huh?

Answer 7

im kinda lucky as i have dark hair and no moustache. the only thing i have is one very fine, very blonde hair near my chin/ cheek.
my man (who had a full beard) thinks its funny to rip the p*ss out of me for that one hair, sayin i have a beard. i will get him back mwhahahaha.........................
oh and i dont shave not for one tiny hair, i pluck it along with my eyebrows.

Answer 8

nooooooo i razor should never touch a women's face! the hair tends to grow back thicker and bigger, its ok for men who can continuesly shave but not for women. you should either wax, thread or any other form of hair removal but do not shave the face! lol

Answer 9

Grrr...we have enough hair removal to worry about without having to tend to facial hair. Mine's blonde peach fuzz, so thank God for that. I would never remove it unless it was dark.

Answer 10

Nope, don't need to shave my face. Normally it deals a lot with your heritage/nationalities...and i'm Polish/Scottish mostly...so that I guess doesn't trigger that hair on my face!!! Haha