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OLD WIVES TALE was Re: Pray for me, I waxed my moustache last night
From: AdoptASAP (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:06:58 -0500 (CDT)
I went to beauty school. THis is an OLD WIVES TALE. A hair type is
based on hormone. Can waxing change your hair type? Can
waxing/shaving/plucking change the color of your hair? Then it can not
and will not change its courseness. HOWEVER, if it does become thicker,
blacker, courser, its because your hormones are telling it to.
At Fri, 1 Jun 2001, jodi wrote:
>
>All right, so that's a goofy title. :-)
>
>I don't have MUCH of a moustache, in that it's A. blonde and B. fine
>hair... but it's LONG, so if you look close,
>you can definitely see it. I first noticed this in the fall of '98, I
>believe... I was washing my hands in the bathroom
>before Philosophy and I looked in the mirror (don't ya love harsh
>bathroom
>lighting conditions? I wonder how many egos have been crushed in public
>restrooms?) and thought, Good lord,
>has it always looked like that??? So every now and then (like, 3 times a
>year) I wax it off. I don't really
>NEED to, since you really can't see it unless your right in my face, but
>every now and then it makes me
>feel prettier. The thing is, every time I do it, I fear that next time,
>it will come back thicker/darker, and I should
>have left it alone! Well, so far, it never has... but you never know.
>:)
>
>I am hoping that this time could be the true test of "Is my hair problem
>really decreasing?" I guess I'll have
>my answer in a few weeks. :-)
>
>And OH, for what it's worth... people have said here, and I have read,
>that using epilators (like my loved/hated silk epil)
>can worsen hair problems by strengthening the root and twisting the hair
>follicle, etc... Does anyone know whay this
>is? If waxing is supposed to make hair come back lighter, and in my
>case, actually seems to have started doing so
>now that I've been treating my whacked out hormones, why do epilating
>devices make it worse? They still pull the
>hair straight back and out like waxing does... this seems so strange to
>me! (It really was wax I used on my lip,
>not the epilator. Well, it was Nair sugaring wax... the fastest,
>easiest, most effective thing for me...)
>
>- jodi
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