What Are The Best Ways To Remove Unwanted Hair?

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Covered with terminal hair are some 30% of women’s and 90% of men’s bodies. Here they are the thicker type on your head, eyebrows, chest, back, pubic area, underarms, and so on. Called vellus hair is the peach-fuzz kind. Most people seem to want at least some of it gone. Hair removal options abound as the good news is that as technology improves and techniques spread all over the world. 

Plucking

This method is fine to shape brows or pluck a random hair here and there which come safe and cheap as a pair of tweezers. The hairs can take up to a couple of months to grow back as it lasts a while. For the smallest jobs, reserve tweezing. Causing scarring or ingrown hairs is too much plucking. Using an electric current to get rid of more hairs faster is higher-tech tweezer epilators. Whereas with the speed comes less precision. 

Threading

To zip-off hairs, an aesthetician skims two twisted cotton threads over your skin. Lasting for 4 or 5 weeks is the effect. As it tends not to rile up the skin, threading is a good option if you have acne. To remove the fine vellus hairs on their faces, women in Asia and the Middle East have long threaded their hair. In the US its usually done in smaller spaces like the brows, while a study found the practice does make the skin smoother and brighter. 

Waxing

Over an area of skin, melted wax is spread. You or a salon pro yank out unwanted hair by the roots after it cools and hardens. Lasting a few weeks is the result. It may take a few tries to get all the hair as you can also use cold wax strips. Spread the wax in the direction your hair grows if you DIY. It is important to steer clear of your lashes, ears, nipples, ad genitals. Don’t wax your face if you use Accutane or Retin-A. Thereby it can look like a burn. 

Laser Hair Removal

Using light beams to vaporise hair and destroy hair follicles is this high-tech method. Over time, the hair that grows back will usually be thinner and finer whereas it's not a forever treatment. Though, laser hair removal can be pricey. To get lasting results, it takes at least 6 or 7 sessions with weeks between each. Anywhere from once or twice a year to every few years, you will need to see your dermatologists for maintenance. 

Different Skin, Different Lasers

As the laser could find hairs more easily, it used to be that fair skin and dark hair was best for laser treatments. People with other skin types can now get good results with it as technology has grown. Your dermatologist can switch to a laser with a longer wavelength if you have darker skin. Through your skin, it moves more slowly and safely. To make sure the setting won’t burn, scar, or discolour, do a test spot. 

Electrolysis

The only hair removal method the FDA calls permanent is electrolysis which zaps hair follicles with an electric current. It comes suiting all hair types and ethnicities. For its effective lasting results, many transgender people choose it. Whereas it can be pricey. Even in small areas, it can also be painful and the treatment takes hours. Throughout your hair growth cycle, you will need to stick with it. It is better that you get the help of a professional near you specialising in the technique. 

Shaving

Popular prehistoric shaving tools from cave drawings include shells, sharpened flint, and shark’s teeth. Sleek and safer are modern razors. They come to be disposable, electric, as well as gender-specific. Most terminal hair shaves will only last a day or two as a razor skims just the tip of the hair shaft. If you soften your skin first with warm water and a shaving gel, it will go smoother. 

Shaving Bumps

Common among Black men is a condition called pseudofolliculitis barbae, in which shaved skin erupts in razor bumps. When shortened tightly coiled hair goes back under the skin, this happens. An option here is a combination of laser hair removal and eflornithine hydrochloride that comes as a cream shown to slow hair growth. That doesn’t cut as close, in case you stick with shaving, use a pre-shave lotion, and an electric razor on a high setting. 

Depilatories

They are not for shaving even though you can find these gels, creams, and lotions on the shaving shelves. They work by breaking down the hair’s protein structure and dissolving it. Depilatories can cause a burn, stinging, or peeing as you should do a skin test before trying one. It is important to avoid eye areas. Usually coming back in a couple of weeks is the hair removed this way. 

Sugaring

Actually, as old as sugar is sugaring even if it sounds hip and new. To gently get rid of hair as they exfoliated their skin, the ancient Egyptians whose upper classes shunned hair anywhere made a sugar paste. This popular salon service is a lot like waxing these days. Sometimes covering it with a cloth and then stripping it off to remove body hair, a technician applies a heated sugar mixture to your skin. 

Oral Meds

Your doctor might prescribe meds that treat hirsutism which happens when women have male-like hair growth on their chests, backs, and faces if other hair removal methods don’t work. Sometimes prescribed for transgender women who take hormones but still have hair growth is spironolactone an anti-androgen that blocks male sex hormones. For results to show, it takes 6 months or so which is a complete hair follicle cycle. 

Prescription Creams

For people who want to slow facial hair growth, dermatologists usually prescribe creams such as eflornithine. Within a couple of months, you will see the results. With another method, you will need to remove hair first. When you use it twice a day only, will the cream work. It can irritate the skin or cause acne for some people. 

Finally, What Do You Do About Your Nose (And Ears)?

Warding off dust and pollen are your inner nose hairs. Especially as you age, when they grow longer and wirier, those dangling strays might bug you. Rounded, never sharp drugstore scissors or electric trimmers designed for grooming these areas is the safest way to get rid of extra hair or three. For ear hairs also do the same. You might also opt for more expensive but permanent electrolysis for ears.