Face shaving: My experience.

Facial hair, for most women this is a subject we'd rather not talk about.  But like it or not we all have it, some more than others.  This is nothing to be ashamed or embarrassed about!  I'm one of the woman that has more noticable facial hair, mainly on my chin and top lip, the rest of my face has that fair peach fuzz that everyone has.  

I personally got a bit fed up of my top lip hair and so decided I wanted to get rid of it!  After doing lots of research on the different methods of hair removal,  I decided on shaving.  You have to use special facial razors you can't just use the same type you use for you legs! The brand everyone seemed to use and love were Tinkle these are available from Amazon and are the ones I went with.

  

Now the first time I shaved my face it was very strange and a little scary! I really didn't want to cut myself shaving! I just did my chin and top lip very slowly and carefully!  It was fine, did the job with no cuts! I will say that when the hair starts to grow back it does feel a little rough, not like stubble on a man but you can definitely feel it.  Apart from that I was quite impressed.

Second time around, after watching more tutorials I got a little brave and decided to shave off the peach fuzz too!  Lots of women were saying how amazing it was and how much better their make up looked! I wanted that too!  So I removed my make up making sure my face was squeaky clean and started shaving!  The shaving went smoothly, no cuts or anything I took it nice and slow.  Straight away my skin felt softer and smoother, so far so good! I toned my face and let it sit bare for a few hours then before bed applied my moisturizer.

Then the next morning I woke up to my face being covered in these tiny little spots that seemed to just be sitting under my skin.  Over the course of a week all of those tiny little spots, came to the surface and turned in to bigger angry spots!  For two weeks my skin was a mess and it hurt too!  It took a long time for my face to settle down.  I had added no new skin care to my routine, the only thing that had changed was the shaving so it must have been that! 

If you are considering trying it out I'm not saying you shouldn't, for a lot of people it works really well and everyone's skin is different.  All I'm saying is, do a small test patch first somewhere on your cheek (this was mainly my problem area) to see how your skin is going to react to it.  Don't do what I did and get carried away and do the whole face first time!