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Re: OLD WIVES TALE was Re: Pray for me, I waxed my moustache last night
From: AdoptASAP (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:32:44 -0500 (CDT)
Concidering its the natural growth pattern, I dont think so. Meds
maybe. Have you tried that new cream that retards growth? I dont know
the name of it. I dont know how effective it is either.
At Fri, 1 Jun 2001, jodi wrote:
>
>Supposedly... But here is another one of those things which have been,
>in my experience, a case
>of theory not holding up in practice. Even before treating my PCOS, I
>noticed that waxing
>made the hair under my belly button finer and less likely to be ingrown,
>whereas plucking
>or silk epiling it made it thicker and more likely to be ingrown. I
>used to pluck, with disastrous
>results. I silk-epiled that area, with equally bad results. I waxed,
>with great results. I plucked and
>silk-epiled again with disastrous results. I waxed again... great
>results. And I know that plucking/
>silk-epiling wasn't breaking the hair off and making it seem worse - i
>saw the black root bulbs come out
>both ways. I know this plucking making hair worse is supposed to be a
>myth, and that you can find
>things to point to this... but in my experience, it honestly does make
>things worse for me. I honestly feel that
>if only I could grown my chin hairs out long enough to wax them - you
>have to grow coarse, tough, keratinized
>hair pretty long to wax it - I would have much better results than I get
>from plucking... but no way am I going to
>do that, unless perhaps I go on a two week long solo backpacking trip!!
>So it's pluck, pluck, pluck...
>
>HOWEVER... any chance you learned in beauty school what leads to those
>keratinized root sheaths, and
>is there anything you can do to prevent them???
>
>- jodi
>
>At Fri, 1 Jun 2001, AdoptASAP wrote:
>>
>>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.
>>
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