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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DO NOT PLUCK THEM!!!! Get electrolysis. Plucking them is going to make it worse. I am NOT an electrolysis practitioner, but someone who has had the exact same post-partum hair growth issue and plucked and did laser and now have done electrolysis and they are gone.  If you pluck or wax, on the chin, you are going to stimulate growth--it is a hormonal thing.  I can tell you I started with one or two, and then, well, ugh.

Get electrolysis. It is a time committment, but having done laser, which IS NOT permanent, electro is the way to go. But please don't pluck. Huge mistake.[/quote]

:roll: right. and shaving makes the hair come back darker. [/quote]

It's a common myth that hair grows back thicker after its shaved--of course, all shaving is, is cropping the hair down level ith skin. It does nothing to change the underlying structure of the hair. It is not, however, a myth that hair grows back thicker (and more copious) when plucked. When you pluck a hair out by the root, whether with tweezers or by waxing, your body treats this as an injury and acts defensively to heal itself. The root grows deeper each time, and the hair the follicle produces becomes thicker. In addition, after a long time of plucking hirs out of the follicle, the follicle becomes more distorted, which can cause ingrown hairs as well as skin scarring from continuing to pluck the hairs from the now very crooked follicle. The myth here is that hair grows in softer and diner the longer you pluck it--sorry, no; just the opposite. In addition, because blood rushes to the area being plucked in order to heal itself, it nourishes the follicle as well as surrounding follicles, which can cause more terminal hair growth in the area. All this to say, pluck at your peril. I started out with a single annoying hair on my neck, and it's gotten to be more and more around my chin area. I finally started going to electrolysis, and am seeing improvement. P.S. I'm 30, no PCOS or anything, normal hormone levels, no Mediterranean heritage, just a white-bread Swede. I wish I hadn't plucked as long as I did and had gone to electrolysis earlier, to "nip it in the bud," as it were. I know it's not quite that simple, but tweezing certainly doesn't help matters. Years of tweezing can damage your skin as well as make it more difficult for an electrologist to target the distorted hair follicles, if ever you decide to go that route. I haven't opted for laser, since everyone I've heard from or read about say that it's only a temporary measure that stunts growth, but it eventually comes back with a vengeance. Hope this helps.[/quote]

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