I think oil would be perfect for that! The only thing is I know sometimes people with oily skin don’t react well to oil. My skin is like a desert so oil is ok for me, lol.
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Yes, dry and reactive is my skin type -_-
JUST LIKE MY HUMOR HOHOH
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Do you do derma planing? It helps my skin sensitivity and dryness a lot. Also you know I’m hairy AF so two birds, etc. (Oh and I just use a normal razor at home, I don’t go to a place or anything).
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I don’t know if it’s cultural but face shaving is the figurative antichrist of indian people. the hair will grow back coarse and terrible. it’s our bogeyman.
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My hair is already coarse and terrible, so I have nothing to lose 
. I bet waxing exfoliates the skin too tho, I never got good at home waxing and my hair is unconformist and grows in every direction so it takes too long. Plus I hate growing it out.
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I’m honestly considering whether I just put my baby saving money towards some hair laser. That’s about the state of my brain and priorities rn.
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i can only handle getting my eyebrows waxed (once i did my lip and nope never again too painful) but i feel like it gums up my pores for a few days - i usually have tiny breakouts for a day or two on the waxed area. maybe i should try dermaplaning my brows instead …
maybe my chin too! middle aged lady chin hairs pop up with alarming speed these days and are sometimes too fine to pluck them all.
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Haven’t they proven that shaving doesn’t effect hair texture?
ETA not to say change your actions. But I think they’ve actually studied that and it’s just a perception/expectation thing right?
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Yes! I think myth busters did a whole show on it too lol. I think shaving does increase ingrown hair risk tho. At least it’s my experience. Anyway, I’m just saying, every time an indian woman brings a razor to her face we hear the screams of our aunties in the distance, real or imagined. Probably real.
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@Meowkins I would loooove to get it if I could afford it. I wish it were covered by insurance but it’s not 
@zinnia I used to get waxed as a kid but I just can’t see doing it because $ and IDK, I just don’t care enough and razors are ok. I pluck my brows though. I wouldn’t trust myself to shave them since I use a standard razor and it’s so close to eyes 
@Bracken_Joy Yes! I have had that confirmed by dermatologist and endo. But it can impact the efficacy of electrolysis for some reason, not lazer tho. Like they tell you not to shave if you want to get electrolysis, or they used to at any rate! I wasn’t a good candidate for electrolysis anyway so I figured f-it, haha. And I can’t afford it/justify it anyway for something cosmetic. If I had moolah I’d get laser though…that would be a dream. It would save so much time!
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Sugaring is easier on my pores than wax, esp since lots of wax has weird perfumes.
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Oh I for sure believe this.
And also this 
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100% it does. I feel like I’m tearing up my skin sometimes to get those damn things out, lol.
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And having really coarse hair the difference in the first half cm of a hair cut at full coarseness vs the taper of a regular hair is pretty severe. Like if I shave my chin hairs they are awful asap but if I pluck them then there are a few days from emergence that I wouldn’t even notice bc they are soft and thin.
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I haven’t even brought myself to start using the sample pack yet because the process has so many steps! But last night I opened the package and read the instructions and I plan to start tonight. It’ll last me for a couple of weeks.
Pharmaca has a 30% off online sale right now so I bought two bottles of Trilogy rosehip oil with antioxidants (also looks like all Trilogy is already 25% off!). Apparently it’s super good for reducing lines. After I’m done with the sampler of fancy products I’ll use the oil; really need a one product kind of routine. Let’s see if my face starts looking better!
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I stopped shaving my pits because I was getting so many ingrown hairs. I basically get none there now. Just a point of anecdata!
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The Wonder Cloth is pretty cool. You wipe off all your makeup (I mean, after having put the cleanser on your face, not dry) and then you rinse it out and all the makeup just disappears, even all that black mascara. It’s kind of magic. I don’t know how it works. But it’s cool. Eventually, you have to wash the thing, throw it in your washer like any cloth. But it stays nice and white for a while.
For those of you worrying about your washcloth, @meowkins. You could also use a black washcloth, but then you’d know it’s dirty but you just can’t see it.
I like Heimish a lot for an oil-based cleanser. I’ve tried a few kinds, but Heimish is my favorite.
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This is why I stopped shaving my legs. Now my legs are always soft and fuzzy instead of prickly. YMMV depending on leg hair type.
And this is why I stopped shaving my pits too! Ingrowns are terrible nasty things.
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I very rarely shave the top of my legs, and I epilate the rest.
My 3 year old went to sit on my lap yesterday and paused to put a pillow on first “because your legs are SOOOOOO pokey.” 
I guess I need to use a lot more lotion and also grow a new kind of hair, lol.
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Re: laser hair removal, I watched Groupon until I saw a FABULOUS flash sale sort of deal, and then combined it with paying for a month of the Groupon membership that gave me an additional discount off for being a local. I was trying it for medical reasons (testing a hypothesis that my mysterious leg pain might have been related to sharp hair poking from the inside—it was not) but the benefits have been totally worth it.
I have to say: laser is one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself. I used to always get horrible ingrown hairs on the inside and backs of my thighs, and little follicular cysts on my lady bits, and now I get none of that. I was hairy enough with coarse enough hair that I would constantly poke myself and Swan within, like, one day of shaving, so I had to either shave every day (ha, no) or torture both of us. (He called me his “prickly pear.”) Plus I save so much water now because it takes almost no time to shower compared to what it took to shave.
Yes, it was still kind of expensive even after amazing deals, but I figure that if time is money, it pays for itself in time freed up to do other shit.
Plus, I just camped for five days and was able to wear a skirt on the last day and still look as groomed as on the day I arrived.
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