Get it off!

I was in the 6th grade when I first noticed a slight peach fuzz growing on my upper lip. I tried to shave it. My upper lip was on fire the next day.

I was 22 when I noticed my first chin hair. I used nair for the face, but it didn't work. So I shaved it. And of course it left bumps. yuck. But since it was very low on my chin and I'm dark-skinned, the hair wasn't very noticeable. But it was noticeable enough for me as a woman. And it bothered the hell out of me!

That summer, I barged into a Walgreens determined to find a depilatory strong enough to get rid of this facial hair. I found Surgi-cream. It's very strong and smells like a relaxer. I have burned a sore into my face with this stuff like 2 times. But that's 2 times in the last 7 years.

Now, I have like 8 whiskers that grow on my chin. The Surgi-cream works, but I'm tired of having to do it every 2-3 days,on my chin. My upper lip I can do like once a month. My OB suggested bc pills. I decided against it. I thought that was overdoing it. I mean the hair would have to be nonexistent, not just thinned up for me to do that.

Whenever, I have a self-pity moment and complain to my friends about my facial hair, they always say "we can't see it"
Duh....because I get rid of it!!!!

When ever I see a woman with facial hair, I fight the urge to run up to her and say "Honey you don't have to live that way...there are things you can use to get rid of that!"

You would think that the next solution would be waxing, or electrolysis or some type of laser removal. Well, all of those solutions require hair to be at least 1/4 inch long before removal. Well, I am soooo anal about the facial hair that I can't stand to let it grow that long.

I bought this self-waxing kit. No hair came off, so I must not have been doing something right, or the hair was too short.

I don't have hirsutism or anything like that. I'm not THAT hairy. Nor do I have polycystic ovary syndrome or whatever its called. I was diagnosed with with a 4 cm cyst on one of my ovaries (can't remember which one) back on 2004. During the ultrasound, the tech did asked me if I had facial hair. That freaked me out. Then she wouldn't even tell me what she saw. But the cyst is gone now. And my periods are regular as rain, as always.

Anyone have any other suggestions for getting this hair off my face? I wonder if I could get it threaded?