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Why don’t women who start getting hair on their upper lip – sometimes to the extent that it becomes a true and full mustache – shave it off? I’ve heard the argument that it will just grow in thicker, but men shave their faces regularly, as do women their legs. Why not their upper lips?
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Name : Cliff-C, Gender : M, Race : Black/African American, Age : 33, City : Baton Rouge, State : LA, Country : United States,I have a metabolic disorder that manifests itself in many ways, including symptoms as serious as insulin resistance and as superficial as excess facial hair. I do not shave the hair on my upper lip because it would become more noticeable, the ends of the hair would be blunt from the shaving and it would all be prickly. Besides, having the facial hair already gives me all kinds of self-image issues, especially considering all the standards of beauty held by every media outlet. Because of this, I don’t think I could take it, psychologically, if I shaved my face. This is something “men do,” and I would be emotionally/mentally devastated to have to do it as a woman (and then for it to be noticeable, with prickly growth as it comes time to shave again!) <p I recognize it is problematic to internalize such ideas, but this one is deep. Instead, I bleach it to lighten it and pluck where necessary. I don't have any problems meeting men or being considered attractive/beautiful, and I think this has a lot to do with the fact that I feel good about myself and am obviously a confident woman. if I were questioning my femininity and wailing on the inside because I were shaving my face, this would not be the case, and I would be a wreck.
this is just me. I’m sure plenty of other women don’t do it because they don’t mind it. I mind it, and shaving would make me mind it more.
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Name : C.J., Gender : F, City : NY, State : NY, Country : United States,A lot of this is hereditary. Also, women with dark hair tend to have more body hair, and it’s more noticable. Shaving it is very high maintenance and doesn’t do much. Bleaching dark hair makes it more noticable. My hair dresser had the same problem and she gently suggested waxing. Now I’m hair-free and my eyebrows are very shapely. So it’s not that women don’t notice or care; sometimes the options aren’t that great.
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Name : Patty, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Religion : Baptist, Age : 25, City : Gainesville, State : FL, Country : United States, Occupation : nurse, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,even if you have a noticable mustache, i would highly recommend that you leave it alone(although there is a point that you have to draw the line!) ok take my leg hair for example, when i shave and the hair comes back in, it comes in dark. but every winter–since i live in a snowy state and my legs dont see the light of day–i stop shaving, and after i live though that picky stage my leg hair turns blonde again as if i was ten again. so if you shave your lip there is a possibly that that lip hair may come in Darker, which would just make it even more noticable. plus if you are a naturally hairy person that wasnt blessed with blonde body hair, you dont to be worrying about if you need to go shave your face again. i know several woman that just live with, and after awhile it doesnt really bother them any more.
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Name : Christa, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Baptist, Age : 20, City : Swartz creek, State : MI, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 2 Years of College,I do (shave my upper lip, for many years now) and it doesn’t (make the hair grow in thicker or coarser.)
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Name : YesToShaving, City : Ennytown, State : LA, Country : United States,Shaving is not good unless you keep up on it. The main reason is not that it grows in thicker, it just looks thicker because before you shave at all, the tip of the hair follicle it thinner than the base of the hair and skin & when you shave it cuts to the base and when it grows back,even a little stuble, it is cut to the point where its now totally flat istead of t thinner tip at the end… and thats what the illusion is. So….
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Name : GerweGirl, City : Cincinnati, State : OH, Country : United States,
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