I recently purchased the As Seen On TV Mirco Trimmer from Walgreens and decided to use it on my upper lip. Im worried that the hair will grow back thicker there. If any of you have used this on your upper lip could you please let me know what happened. Did the hair come back just the same? thank you.

I recently purchased the As Seen On TV Mirco Trimmer from Walgreens and decided to use it on my upper lip. Im worried that the hair will grow back thicker there. If any of you have used this on your upper lip could you please let me know what happened. Did the hair come back just the same? thank you.



I have had the micro trimmers awhile now (since they came out on tv-ads) I use mine a lot and have thicker, dark hair so for me it does return a tad thicker/darker once it has been areas never shaven before. This may not be the case with you. I can offer some advice that works for me, I have obstinate hair growth as I have pcos. I use manicure scissors on facial areas, they trim enough and yet don't get the root, which is what changes the thickness. I hope this helps. Good luck with your new micro trimmer too, it does come in handy!!

the root, which is what changes the thickness.

Actually plucking the hair from the root doesn't cause more hair, or thicker hair to grow back. Neither does cutting the hair with a razor.

If you look at the anatomy of an uncut, plucked hair, you will notice that it's thicker at the bulb/root than the tip.

When you cut a hair at the skin, you have cut off the soft tapered end, and therefore as the hair grows out above the skin, it only appears course and thicker in texture because you are looking at a blunt cut partway down the hair shaft where the hair is thicker in nature. If you were to pluck that same hair, you would notice that the next hair to grow from that spot would finer in texture because of the small tapered tip that would once again grow.

I've been sugaring my legs and arms since 1996. I now only have to do it 3 or 4 times a year. In the winter I sometimes don't bother, and there are large bare patches where there was once hair growth, and the hair that grows in is soft and fine in texture and not very noticable; and I have dark hair.

what is sugaring and will it retard facial hair (chin, mustache)? Also do you need to replace the blades on the micro trimmer and if so where do you get them. :dizzy:

what is sugaring and will it retard facial hair (chin, mustache)? Also do you need to replace the blades on the micro trimmer and if so where do you get them. :dizzy:

it will probably grow back thicker and more noticable. mine did

what is sugaring and will it retard facial hair (chin, mustache)? Also do you need to replace the blades on the micro trimmer and if so where do you get them. :dizzy:


Actually, sugaring doesn't work all that well on men's facial hair. There is a product, a body sugar, called "NAD'S" I believe. It's a thicker sugar hair removal, and I think it works on men's facial hair too.

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Hmm, it doesn't say. All it says is that it will remove coarse hair if the instructions are followed. I tried both NAD'S and Alexandria Body Sugaring, and prefer the Alexandria product by far. It's less goopy and easier to work with. And I know that Alexandria won't remove tough coarse hair from the face area. But it's ideal for arm pits and bikini line areas, and will remove all hair on a man, except his beard/mustache hair. Sugaring isn't permanent, but can have permanent results if used in the long term. I have been using it since 1996, and I'm ashamed to say this, but this past winter I didn't bother to sugar my legs at all, so it's been about 6 or 7 months now, and I hardly have any leg hair, and what has grown back is so fine that it's hardly noticable.

For a man, other than shaving and electrolysis or laser, I don't know any other options.