3 signs the plucking is making your facial hair worse

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3 signs the plucking is quietly making your facial hair worse

Most women over 40 have no idea they are feeding the problem. Here is how to tell, and what a dermatologist says to do instead.

★★★★★ 4.8/516,000+ women in the UKBy Dr Sarah Mitchell, dermatologist
A woman in her fifties resting a fingertip on her chin.

If you are over 40 and dealing with chin or lip hair, you have probably been told it is just your hormones. It is not the whole story. The way most women deal with it every morning is quietly making it worse. Here are three signs it is happening to you.

1

The hairs you fight the most are the coarsest

Run a finger over the spot you have tweezed for years, then over your cheek. The spot you have “managed” is the wiry one. The skin you never touched is soft.

Sound familiar?
2

There are more of them every year, not fewer

You have been diligent, and yet the count keeps climbing. If removal worked, twenty years of it would have left you with less, not a handful with friends.

Sound familiar?
3

They come back darker and faster within days

You pluck one on Monday and by the weekend a thicker one is back in the same spot. That speed is not normal ageing. It is a follicle in overdrive.

Sound familiar?

If you ticked even one, you are not imagining it, and it is not your fault.

Here is what is actually happening

Every time you pluck a hair, you injure the follicle. Living tissue responds the way it always does: it floods the site with blood and rebuilds, heavier. The follicle comes back with a deeper root, and the next hair is thicker and darker than the one you removed. The menopause opened the door. The plucking is what keeps walking through it.

1
You pluckThe follicle is injured
2
Defence modeBlood rushes in, it rebuilds heavier
3
Back worseThicker, darker, faster

What to do instead

The answer was never another way to remove it, because removal only touches the surface. The follicle sits below, and the only thing that changes the outcome is something that reaches it and calms it down. One ancient Egyptian herb, Cyperus Rotundus, in a water-based serum, does exactly that: it sinks to the root and supports finer, lighter regrowth over time, on any colour including grey and white where laser is blind. It is topical, so it acts locally at the follicle and never enters the bloodstream.

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What women tell their dermatologist

Marie
Marie, 57Verified buyer
★★★★★

“Three weeks in and there is barely anything to pluck. I keep forgetting to check the mirror.”

Pauline
Pauline, 63Verified buyer
★★★★★

“The only thing that has ever touched my grey and white ones. Laser was a waste of money.”

60
DAYS

Try it risk-free for 60 days. If the hair is not coming in finer, send it back for a full refund. Roughly how long it takes to know either way.

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