I am sad to say that my mother along with most of the women of her generation made me believe that shaving the hair on my face was going to make me grow in a beard.
For most of my life I had a little too much hair in what would be considered to be the side burn area of my face, and I was really getting tired of bleaching my "mustache"!
It wasn't until I started doing fashion shoots and close-up beauty ads that I found out that SHAVING YOUR HAIR ON YOUR FACE WOULD NOT MAKE THE HAIR GROW IN DARKER, LONGER, OR THICKER!!!!! (Yes, even supermodels can get a little fuzzy).
In fact when I started to research the subject on the internet I found out that there was no proof that shaving facial hair would do anything to my face.
You can't affect how hair is going to grow from on top of the skin.
The reason I am bringing this up is I recently had a client come in with a similar problem. I introduced her to the lovely brow shaver. It is a pen-sized shaver that is usually used to shave brow hair, but it works fantastic on the rest of the face as well. The hair grows back in soft since the blade is so ultra fine. It also exfoliates any dead cells from my skin which prevents me from breaking out so often.
That is a secret of why many asians have such gorgeous skin.
You can usually buy them in a three pack at any beauty or drug store for about $5. Just make sure you don't wear down the blade.
If you have any tricks you would like to share please let us know......
Mary Schook signing out.
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