What age for lip/eyebrow wax for DD
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Anonymous
| Too much waxing of the lip can make one look like a smoker. |
Anonymous
Why would you make her wait 1.5 years. You help her groom and feel confident at whatever age required. My son is 8. Occasionally we pluck the stray unibrow hairs. He's had this since 6. It's no big deal. He knows about grooming. |
Anonymous
| Please take her for an eyebrow wax and then she can keep it up with tweezers. You can talk to them and have them shape appropriately. Like a PP I recommend Nads strips for upper lip. Bed Bath has them. My mother laughed and told me I was too young when I asked at age 11. I was so embarrassed and teased. Ended up over plucking and brows looked awful. She will feel so much better about herself. |
Anonymous
| Geez if she has a mustache then now! I saw some little south Asian girls in sleeveless dresses the other day. The poor kids were so hairy. I can't imagine the kind of bullying they will have to go through. |
Anonymous
I can't imagine living in a community where kids get bullied for this before they even hit puberty. Thank god for my small, amazing village. |
Anonymous
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IMO, it really depends on the child. I am extremely fair w/ thin hair, didn't even need to start shaving legs until 13-14. as for lips, i have never needed them done and I just started getting eyebrows done in my 20s for fashion reasons only.
that being said, i know a lot of girls wit thicker, darker hair who started between 11-13. |
Anonymous
| My mom wouldn't let me pluck my eyebrows and gave me hell about it through high school. It was ridiculous. I felt insecure and hated how they looked. Guess what? I now thread. I'm not sure what she was trying to accomplish. Take your daughter to a professional and just ask that they don't take off too much (for the eyebrows). Keep it natural looking but groomed. |
Anonymous
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Get brows threaded. Ask around the Indian ladies with nice shaped brows..usually they know people who will thread at a very reasonable price - less than $10.
Get peach fuzz bleached if it is darker than the skin. Use you can remove it using Olay Smooth Finish Facial Hair Removal Duo, Medium to Coarse Hair. Wait till she is an older teen and her periods have stabilized for a few years and then get laser hair removal for upper lip hair. |
Anonymous
I am South Asian and we are a hairy lot. I see these little South Asian girls in sleeveless dresses and they are hairy on their arms and legs. Obviously, they are not wearing sleeveless clothes with hairy underarms. As they get in to MS and HS, some get it removed and some don't. I guess they are more resilient to bullying than we give them credit for? Hair removal is also low down on their priorities because they are focused on studies. Most are excelling in school and colleges even though they are hairy. The same girls turn into very polished, well groomed and accomplished women once their career is launched. They will get there. |
Anonymous
| Don'y bleach, get it threaded. Bleach looks terrible, it's so obvious! |
Anonymous
Not the PP, but are you for real? I was a very hairy little girl and was teased when in elementary school until my mom let me shave my legs at age 10. Teasing occurs anywhere and everywhere. I applaud parents who do what they can to help their children fit in. |
Anonymous
+1000 Help her take care of it now before it causes her any real social embarrassment. Even something kindly said by another kid could be cause for real anxiety for a child. I am 50+ and I still cringe when I recall a boy in my 3rd grade class who had such hairy arms that the hair was about 1/2-1 inch long and it literally made his long-sleeved cotton button-down shirts stand up off of his arms. All was fine and we ignored it until one day we had a new cute little girl enter our class. Within an hour or two she had set her sights on this boy and made his life a misery by making fun of how when she grabbed his arm she could feel the puff of the hair and then she would squeeze and release to see it go back to its full almost inflated-like form. It was horrible. I'm almost crying as I write this because the boy was so mortified. We were all trying to be polite and not criticize her but by lunchtime a bunch of us had really had it. We told the teacher who did absolutely nothing. That night I went home and I told my mom who told my dad who called his dad. Another few kids had done the same. The next day the boy came back to school and his arms had been shaved but the damage was done. He was still so horrible embarrassed by the entire incident. I still feel so badly for him. And this was just one short day. Imagine if it had gone on and on ... OP, help your daughter, please! There have been lots of posters with good advice and I'm sure that some of it will work for you! |
Anonymous
| If it bothers her it's time to do something! I hated my eyebrows, upper lip and legs long before the teasing started. She can get lasered when she's older but help her now! |
Anonymous
I just re-read my post and it sounds over-wrought. But that poor little boy. Even after shaving his arms, this girl would still tease and mock him, and the more we cloistered around him the worse it got. The school, of course, did nothing. It went on all year - she arrived during the winter - until his family moved because of his dad's job. It just was such an odd situation that one person, a bully, could have had such a big impact on a pretty tight-knit group of 25 or 30 kids who had been together since first grade. I just think that if your daughter is saying something then it could be an indication that someone has already said something to her because I don't think that any of my kids had that kind of self-awareness when they were 10. |
Anonymous
| Thread or wax, if she'll agree to it. For eyebrows maybe only do the center if there's a bit of a unibrow. Thin brows will look odd on her. |