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Originally Posted by Caroline S

I am joining the crowd here. Like my reading glasses, I have tweezers everywhere. But I am in search of the perfect tweezer.

One of the best things about menopause is that I am so warm all of the time that it saves on electricity. Actually other than the whisker thing, I embraced the menopause thing.

Tweezerman. I have a regular pair and two smaller travel pairs in their own case. Best I have ever used.

Wow...taken a while to catch up with this thread...I've been too busy plucking ;)

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Originally Posted by fktsewing

yes, this is one of the parts of getting older I do not like. I bought one of those little pencil like shavers and use it to say goodbye to the moustache and peach fuzz. They seem to stay away longer and I hate to pluck. Oh, and they have "NOT" come back in darker or thicker.

I have one of those too and the first time I used it between the eyebrows on the bridge of my nose, I pulled it away from the bridge of my nose and leaned forward to look closer in the mirror and moved my hand and took off half my eyebrow. In horror, I drove out to see the woman who cuts my hair and asked her if she could get the other eyebrow to match the one I shaved halfway off and she was laughing so hard she almost wet her pants and refused to take off part of the other one because I'd look like an alien. So she said to use an eye pencil and draw it in until it grew back. So, I did. Then after a few weeks when it had grown back in (my hair grows really fast thank goodness), I used it to trim between my eyes again and yep, you guessed it! Took half the same darn eyebrow off again!!! But, other than that, I love that little thing. I pluck the coarse black hairs that I get, but this little tool does clean off everything else.

This is too funny. Yep, pluck. And no matter how hard you look be darned if you don't go somewhere and happen to look in the mirror and there is another one, growing out of your cheek, 3 miles long. LOL
Women are so lucky, not!

My thought for several years is you never know how much you should appreciate certain things until you are older and no longer have them to enjoy! Hair, skin, etc. Younger women! TAKE NOTE!!!!!

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Originally Posted by MissQuilter

My thought for several years is you never know how much you should appreciate certain things until you are older and no longer have them to enjoy! Hair, skin, etc. Younger women! TAKE NOTE!!!!!

Yes! Don't love the sun like I did!

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Originally Posted by miss_ticky2

Wow...taken a while to catch up with this thread...I've been too busy plucking ;)

:lol::lol: I say PLUCK! I've got this one little hair that comes up on my chin.. and I can feel it growing I swear. It'll itch at first and then I go look and it's already an 1/2 inch long!!

I've had it since.. well heck, I can't remember...

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Originally Posted by clem55

I have laughed until the tears came. I am the youngest of four girls, and now the only one still living. I am 72. All I heard for years and years was "Wait until you are my age". I brezed along without changing at all, at least not much, until I hit 40, and it seemed like I aged 10 years in the first couple of months. I had what I called a blah look, like there was no life in my eyes . I looked at myself in the mirror and couldn't figure it out until my sister pointed it out one day. Then I was told," Wait until you hit 50!!" The facial hair thing for me didn't start until I was about 65. It isn"t bad, , but it's there. I just shave that little mustach when necessary, and also the peach fuzz ids clipped close with scisdsors. It doesn"t grow back dark and stiff like a man's does. I tried the creams, but it caused me to have a bad rash, so that was out! But isnt life great? And where else can I find so many "sisters" to laugh about growing old with? I wish we could throw a big party and spend time together. People would probably look at us and think we were a bunch of crazy old ladies !!

Carol, the Sallen Hansen cream really works and it has a little bottle of finishing cream to use after using the hair removal cream. I have a real problem with skin allergies and get rash's from everything. I use this and don't have a problem. It does get a little red if I get busy and leave it on a little too long but I use it at night before going to bed and when I get up there's nothing there. This must be a curse put on women for some reason. LOL

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Originally Posted by nellebelles

I was at the dentist one day--he used his little camera thingy to show me a tooth that was cracked and needed a crown--but when he was showing me my tooth on the big TV screen above my head--to my horror, I saw, magnified at least a million times, my mustache :oops: Now I make sure to wax whenever it grows back. I had no idea it was that bad! I bought a little wax kit from WalMart and just do it myself. It only cost a few dollars and it paid for itself the very first time I used it.

I hate going to the dentist and eye doctor for that very reason. I feel like I'm under a microscope.