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tweezing
X The Hierophant:
Thanks man. I agree.
Here is one of the better posts I was referring to...:
"As much as I used to love epilators, I would never recommend one. Now I have some perspective and experience to pass on. I look at hair removal two ways: If you want hair removed, do it permanently, don't mess around. Get laser or electrolysis even if it comes out of your food budget. Or, if you're not going to permanently remove the hair, take good care of your follicals, because mistreatment of your follicals and skin will lead to your skin looking like hell.
Epilators offer a quick fix that at first is impressive, but as someone once posted here, they pretty much just become expensive razors as the hair cycles start kicking in. Epilators are way too hard on the follicals, they rip and tear the hair out and disfigure the follical and bulge over time. And, if the bulge gets really disrupted in it's angle and constituency, then that hair root will always be a problem, and will always be ingrowing. Ingrowns are minimal at first, then they increase over time as the epilator is used longer. Pretty soon the skin looks like a battlefield, not good. Also, and what bothers me most, if you enjoy the sun, then look out; a plucked hair leads to hyperpigmentation spots, and if you do it over and over, that is, mix plucking with sun exposer, the spots get more pronounced, and look like freckles. I still have these spots and it takes awhile for them to fade. They are most pronounced where my skin was exposed to the sun, on my lower outer calf areas. My skin used to be a rich, smooth, and even color in this area, now I'm waiting for these freckle-like things to hurry up and disappear, and they are, slowly.
Then as you continue to epilate, after ripping at the follical for months, the action starts to physically disrupt the follicals. Follicals that only sprouted one hair will sprout two hairs, maybe three. I know this because this happened to me. This is hard learned experience that taught me this. Today, I use a sensible plan; I shave and combine that with periodic laser treatments. The bumps go away, the ingrowns go away, it takes less time, the skin is exfoliated in the process, I'm making actual reduction gains. And really shaving in the shower is very convenient compared to epilating, a lot cleaner and quieter.
These people that come here telling of their bad epilating experiences, they shouldn't be put off. What they are going through is very real. If epilating works well for one person, then great. But for others, it's not a good option. To those that stopped epilating early on, good for you. Your skin will be better for it. "
Bilko1:
I have just tweezed every hair out from my scalp. Awesome experience. I now have zero shadow & a very smooth dome.
My wife loves the smooth, silky feel. She cann't resist touching it. I think I'm going to buy one of those t-shirts that challenge people to rub your dome. I know that people want to feel the smooth scalp but are afraid to ask !!
K J:
Hi KJ here,
Could someone tell me more about Scalp Tweezing because I have a full head of brown hair and I would like to know what well hapen to hair when you Tweez an 'MPB' pattern on the top of your head any side afectes I need to know about before I do it to my hair
KJ
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Razor X:
--- Quote from: K J on August 04, 2011, 07:00:39 PM ---Hi KJ here,
Could someone tell me more about Scalp Tweezing because I have a full head of brown hair and I would like to know what well hapen to hair when you Tweez an 'MPB' pattern on the top of your head any side afectes I need to know about before I do it to my hair
KJ
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I strongly advise you not to do it. It will be very time consuming and painful to tweeze a full head of hair, and you will never be able to achieve a natural-looking result. The top of the fringe needs to gradually fade into the bald area, not be an abrupt line of demarcation which is what you'd end up with after tweezing. Tweezing rips out the hair by the roots,s o it will take a very long time to grow back completely -- and it might not ever grow back to its original density because tweezing can permanently damage the follicles and cause traction alopecia. And then there is the whole question of why on earth anyone would want to artificially create MPB in the first place. If you want to be bald, just shave your head.
xnewyawka:
--- Quote from: Razor X on August 04, 2011, 09:55:55 PM ---Then there is the whole question of why on earth anyone would want to artificially create MPB in the first place. If you want to be bald, just shave your head.
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Exactly, just get a good blade and shave cream/gel and go shave it off, it's alot easier, and way more enjoyable. O:O
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