Get rid of that moustache!

Some people say we should love ourselves the way God made us because we are made in His image. One of my friends always told me 'no one is ugly, everyone is beautiful'. When I use that line on other people they tell me enough with the Miss Universe answers already. So apparently some people are not all that beautiful but there is truth in the saying, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Being beautiful is what we make of it.

Having said all of that, I was reading the October 2011 issue of Glamour and the Philips Lumea Precision was being advertised. It said that having a leg wax during your lunch break is something women can confess to but they were quite tight lipped about facial hair.

There is a minority of women who are blessed/cursed (depends on how you look at it) without facial hair. In my late teens my sister convinced me to wax my eyebrows, just to have them really defined. They hurt but they looked really nice and made my eyes look awesome, and my face neater. Not long after she tried to convince me to wax my upper lip. 

I've seen sites on the net that make fun of women with moustaches. I mean it can be quite hilarious but it's not nice. Once at dinner my nephew said to me, "dude, you have more moustache than I do." Can I just say, uber embarassing. Anyway, I started doing it in my very very late teens. It was semi painful but I'm accustomed to waxing and if I were to list where I have not waxed, the list would be shorter than if I said what I do wax.

Men may generally be grossed out by this and as a result, women don't talk about it. Well here I am talking about it.

I've seen pics of myself in the past and I'm like DAMN! should have been waxing that. Before I used to wax I never paid any attention to facial hair, but now that I do, I freak out when it starts to reappear. I'd rather take my chances with wax than anything that uses 'intense pulsed light'. It just sounds dubious. So here I am, spending the rest of my life, waxing to avoid having a uni brow or a moustache.

I'm not sure what the facial hair situation is for some women but it's a pain for me. Unfortunately for me, I produce more testosterone than estrogen. Therefore, I suffer from some male-getting-older stuff, like hair loss and being a tad bit hairy. (If you're a guy and you're reading this, I'm single and not looking, but if you're interested, don't be freaked out, I'm a religious waxer). It's really annoying, considering that with wax you run into danger of taking off some skin, having some redness or even bleeding. Oh and it's relatively painful! But then again my mother always told me beauty was never cheap and painless.

Why do we let men get away with having facial hair? In some respects it is quite nice but when they decide to have it overly long it's gross! For me, a little stubble on a man can work but personally I prefer a clean shaven man. If he came with a bit of facial hair, I can live with it, there's always chewing gum and shaving them while they sleep.

Facial hair isn't the end of the world and that's why waxing and other hair removal procedures were discovered. Women, shouldn't be overly embarrassed by it. It's a fact of life, you can either live with it, or do like me and spend the rest of your life waxing it off.