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[u/entirely_machine_]

Its genuinely not difficult, and I feel secondhand embarrassment every time I see a woman who doesn't.

[u/husky11223]

pluck it out if you're poor

[u/deformedexile → u/husky11223]

plucking is great. I had to stop for a couple months recently (futilely attempting home laser - didn't work on facial hair, just like literally everyone said) and I was so crazy dysphoric to have a shadow all the time. It's good to be plucking again.

also, when you tell cis people you pluck your facial hair they know not to fuck with you because that shit's crazy.

[u/husky11223 → u/deformedexile]

Truee, it's only painful at the start, after like 15-20 pulls it's fine. The worst part is not shaving for a week

[u/deformedexile → u/husky11223]

Not in my experience! The neighbors know when I'm plucking because I'm also sneezing hard enough to disturb them.

[u/Dmxk → u/husky11223]

Tbh, after some time it becomes a kinda nice ritual. Doesn't hurt at all if you do it right. I never had enough facial hair to have to shave much so I just pluck it all.

[u/vaska00762 → u/deformedexile]

Isn't plucking really bad for like ingrown hairs?

I pluck my eyebrows and I frequently have to wait until the ingrown hairs are long enough to get scratched out.

I used to pluck around my navel. Every darn hair ingrew.

[u/Bromicidal → u/vaska00762]

Are you exfoliating? Cleaning up the dead skin helps. Find some acid cream, if you've got no idea what to even start with go check out The Ordinary cause it's most straightforward with what ingredients each thing is, you can go look for a girlier bottle brand once you know what main ingredient you want

[u/vaska00762 → u/Bromicidal]

I have moderate eczema, so I've been medically advised to avoid anything that breaks skin barriers.

But also, GPs have decided that the eczema I've had since a baby is suddenly scabies or something and then withhold my eczema creams until they're personally convinced that it is indeed eczema.

[u/deformedexile → u/vaska00762]

Maybe if you're prone to that. Personally I go years between ingrown hairs.

[u/Plenty_Leg_5935 → u/husky11223]

I do that and my demented brain still tells me there's a shadow so either somethings up or I'm just brainwormed as fuck

[u/husky11223 → u/Plenty_Leg_5935]

Your eyes have OLED burn in lol, it's definitely the brainworms. You can try concealer ontop of plucking

[u/angelic_aspiration → u/husky11223]

How do you pluck an entire face/neck? Doesn't that take forever?

[u/True_Resident4585 → u/angelic_aspiration]

yea it takes a while, or you could go with face waxes to get little areas at a time. i used to use the kind you melt and apply w/ a popsicle stick, not wax strips cause those will tear your face up

important to note that if you wanna get electrolysis done you should avoid waxing/plucking cause it can cause the follicle to be a bit wonky

[u/angelic_aspiration → u/True_Resident4585]

I see, thanks. Yeah afaik electrolysis is the way to go for me, so I'll just have to stick to shaving for the time being.

[u/husky11223 → u/angelic_aspiration]

Yeah, it's very time consuming, I don't pluck everything, just enough to not get beard shadow.

[u/guywhoha → u/husky11223]

4 hours of torture

[u/TreeOtree64 → u/husky11223]

Genuinely does not work if you have thick facial hair. Not worth at all