Hello everyone!
I am a 29 year old cis woman. I have very pale skin and I am covered in blonde peach fuzz all over my face: chin, sideburns, part of the cheeks and neck. The hairs are very thin and I only get two or three coarse ones on the chin. I’ve been plucking the most noticeable ones because that even if they are thin, they stand out more like they shine more or they grow longer/ in a different diection. What bothers me is that they grow very unevengly and pointy. If I they were “glued” to the skin it wouldn’t be a problem. I also have hair in my upper lip but there I have some black hairs aswell so I have been shaving or waxing that area for a long time and it doesn’t bother me.
I am very insecure of being in the sun because of my peach fuzz. People tell me it’s barely noticable unless you are looking for it but for me it is and it’s destroying my self-esteem.
This has always made me very insecure so I started looking for removal options.
I am scared of shaving and them growing more unevenly and in different directions likes the ones I plucked.
There is only one place that does electrolysis in my city and they told me that after one or two sessions per hair it would never grow back again which I’m very suspcious after spending hours and hours reading how electrolysis work. They also told me I could do sessions every other day of course not on the same spots but in order to cover the whole face. They told me it would require about seven 1-hour sessions to cover my whole face which I doubt because I have thousands of hairs on the sideburns only.
I am very scared of marks after it and hyperpigmentation. Since my skin is very fair I get spots and marks from everything (pimples, sun, etc.)
I went for two sessions and of course I see results because some of the hairs were removed but not enough time passed to see if they will grow back. There is some light swelling and redness after one day which I’m hoping it will go away soon.
I really don’t know how to proceed. Should I continue going to this place and with electrolysis? I would finish the first round of the whole face in about two weeks if I go every other day but maybe it’s better to wait and see how the healing of the areas already treated will heal. Also I feel it will take forever.
Should I shave it?
Or should I work on accepting and move on? I know it would be worse if they were dark or coars and etc. etc. but it still makes me very insecure.
Thank you.
