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  • Alisu [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
    3·
    2 days ago

    My friend who happens to be a girl (expectations of always being shaved and everything) and has sensitive skin, told me those hair removal creams are good, I’m going to try those. Razors are terrible for me, electric razors too, waxing is a little better, but I still get red and itchy, and that stuff hurts like hell. Eventually I’ll do laser hair removal stuff, but I can’t afford it just yet

    • shallot [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I tried one of those creams once and got more ingrown hairs than I was happy with. Maybe I need to do better about exfoliating.

      Razors and electric razors are also not great for me so far, but maybe my skin will adapt to the blades eventually. I’ve had good luck with a DE razor for my face, so maybe I just need to give that a chance further down as well.

      I haven’t tried waxing yet, or sugaring. We have an IPL lying around, though. It’s not laser but maybe I’ll give it a shot. Cost aside, I don’t think I want to try laser until I’m sure that I like myself better smooth; I’m kind of in a figuring-out stage right now.

      Thank you for the input :)

        • rando895 [she/her]@lemmygrad.ml
          4·
          2 days ago

          My face is mostly good, but my neck is awful. I’d like to try waxing it but I’m afraid of how painful it might be, specifically with the coarse neck hair. I got my brows waxed and that was perfectly fine, but the hair is much different…

        • shallot [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          It’s definitely worse body-wise for me as well. I just seem to be pretty prone to shaving problems for some reason. I’ve had some issues with regular razors on my face that were fixable by switching to a DE and shaving every other day, but nothing as bad as electric. I will have bad problems immediately with an electric razor on my face and neck, so I’m not even about to try that elsewhere lol.