The ’stache
I have but one burning question at this moment:
Is it ever acceptable for a woman to have a mustache? Specifically, when the hair is very fine and very light and visible only in certain lighting or an overly bad application of powder?
Also - what is the correct approach to take if indeed, there needs to be some process to make the upper lip acceptable?
Here is the dilemma. If I try to do anything to it… will I temporarily correct the problem only to find that I have created an even bigger problem as that hair grows out?
The options, as I am aware:
- Bleaching
- Plucking
- Waxing
- Laser Removal
- Shaving powder
- Shaving
- Leave it the hell alone
Bleaching seems to be the least dangerous (I’m not quite convinced I can call it the safest) with the smallest probability of re-growth horror. Risks include reaction to the bleach, causing either chemical burn or rash-like outbreak. Possibility of a reaction I would say is medium to high, based on my the violent reaction my eyebrow region has to waxing.
Plucking would eliminate the possibility of a chemical reaction, but then there is a higher risk of re-growth horror. Possibility of said horror is rather high, judging from the mess I’ve made of the little hairs below my belly button. Although waxing that area of my belly doesn’t seem to enrage the skin anywhere near what an eyebrow wax does to my brow. So I guess the waxing reaction is only applicable to areas of my body that people would be able to see when I am fully clothed. Awesome.
An eyebrow wax, as I have noted, results in either violent red or very pink skin for at least one to three hours. Once the skin calms down and returns to it’s normal color I spend a week and a half with a nice little outbreak of what look like thousands - ok maybe only hundreds, or at the very least tens - of pimples all around my eyebrows. So, you know, after the first 10 days it’s great! I’m generally not thrilled with it around my eyebrows, and I’m certainly not going to risk it on my upper lip.
The next three are just out of the question. Laser removal = too expensive and too great of lengths for something that is there but most of the time is not even visible. ANY method of shaving will result in either re-growth horror of ultimate proportions, or an extreme paranoia about the existence of any re-growth and the visibility of it.
So I’m back to the last option: Leave it the hell alone. It’s one of those things that I wonder if people notice but wish someone *else* would tell me to do something about.
I’m also wondering if this whole debate has only started bouncing around in my brain simply because I’ve been up since 3:15am.
