Re: What is wrong with me?

I know how you feel! The 1st time I realized any sort of problem was when I was fifteeen. My boyfriend was over and my sister pointed out a dark stray chin hair in front of him! He was older and didn't make a big deal of it but I was mortified. As I got older it slowly has gotten worse and by the time I was 21 I was spending about 10 -15 minutes plucking every single day before I could go out. I now spend about 20 - 30 minutes every day plucking and this is with the addition of using Jolen bleach every single weekend (which used to be every three weeks, then every two weeks & now every single week). I have also slowly been getting hair on other parts of my body besides my chin & upper lip and don't know where to turn. I've read about Vaniqa but it says it only works for 60% of the people that use it and it's pretty expensive, laser surgery works if the hair is dark but alot of my hair is light because of the bleaching (I have to trim it because it grows so long) and I don't want to have to let the hair grow out to natural color & electrolosis only works on new hair growth from what I read. I've tried depilitories and when I take it off my face is eaten up like I've put acid on it. I've tried waxing but it only removes SOME of the finer, lighter hair & doesn't remove the coarse hair that's the most obvious. I am almost to the point after about 20 years of this of just shaving but I have dark hair and the five o'clock shadow scares me to death! I grow hair on my upper lip, chin and cheeks but have also been dealing with body hair now for the past 5+ years.......even though my identity is totally hidden I'm too embarassed to even go into details of the body hair on here but I did want to let you know you're not alone even though I know it feels that way. Every day when I'm getting ready to go to work and sit there angrily plucking away into my magnified makeup mirror that a 14 yr old would use....that I HAVE to use to pluck the most effeciently....I feel very alone with this problem. I'm just really glad this forum exists to connect with other people that face the same issue. Tweet