“Skin tone makes a difference to how much facial hair is visible. Whether you’re shaving to get rid of a slight mustache or shaving your entire face to make it softer, regrowth as the result of a razor – compared with waxing, threading and depilatory creams – is a colossal hazard, read the article that called the anti-ageing claims of shaving your face, nonsense. Plenty of women might consider it daily for their legs or armpits, but should we follow the advice of experts gathered by the Daily Mail and start shaving our faces? Absolutely not, read an article in The Guardian. * Experts speak: To shave or not to shave? So, now I shave about 2-3 times a week,” says the 26-year-old. “At the ripe age of 21, I finally opted for hair removal. I tried threading, waxing, but nothing was it.” I was ready to do whatever it took to get rid of my furry friend staring me in the face every morning. Sure all girls grow up with a patch of light hair on their upper lips (yay hormones), but mine was very noticeable. JNU student Megha Raja (name changed) who regularly shave her faces, but in secret, says, “I grew up with some hair on my upper-lip (you could call it a mustache). We did, however, speak to a woman who shaves her jaw line, upper lip, under chin area and even forehead. Truth be told, most Indian women consider shaving their faces a taboo. Instead, many women in India opt for other treatments like threading, waxing and laser. With its painless and speedy technique for achieving instant smoothness, the razor should be king of hair removal. Here’s the thing: Facial shaving for women isn’t news until we see and hear women around us doing it too. Though shaving your face is typically done by men, it's been said Hollywood sirens Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe both fought their face fuzz with a razor. She also cautions: "Shaving for the first time or inconsistently can mechanically irritate the skin as it is not used to it on a regular basis." She warns against using your typical razor instead using a facial razor. In one video, US reality-TV star, Michelle Money says she shaves her face and she’s proud of it. And if it's smooth, soft, wrinkle-free skin you're after – sans stubble – our expert from Vibes recommends using a chemical exfoliating cleanser or moisturiser, containing a Poly Hydroxy acid.įor the DIY method there are plenty of instructional videos on YouTube. If you feel it is just "a fancy name for running a sharp blade over your face" and want to go the DIY route, use a women's razor with a safety guard (available easily at a chemist near you and online) – not a regular razor. "Since it removes some vellus hair (the (fine) baby hair on your face), it can make the skin feel smoother," she says. Some dermatologists and aestheticians in the West are breaking the shaving ‘rules’ and sharing an unorthodox secret to a smooth, fresh face: Dermaplaning.Ī top dermatologist at Vibes, Delhi says, "Dermaplaning is a simple physical or mechanical method of exfoliation, which helps to remove dead skin cells and give your face a brighter complexion, “This is because shaving is a form of mechanical exfoliation that removes the dead surface layers of the skin, revealing smooth, soft skin," Bhattacharya says.īut does any woman in the 21st century truly have the time or the inclination to shave her entire face for the sake of slightly softer or fairer skin? Let’s probe that question another day? What’s more shaving also ‘improves’ complexion’, the beauty experts suggest in The Independent. “But for women? Now that depends on a few factors, including her hair growth.”Īccording to Wolfer, one reason men are thought to get fewer wrinkles is that they're constantly exfoliating their faces every time they shave, literally shaving away the outermost layers of skin and encouraging your skin to create new layers. “It makes sense shaving is the perfect exfoliation technique,” skin specialist with AMRI Hospital, Prasanjit Bhattacharya tells us. * Women shaving faces: Is it a good thing? “Sometimes called ‘dermaplaning’, the process of shaving a woman's face can take place in a professional dermatologist's office or can be a DIY job,” she says. "It's definitely a thing," The Independent quoted Alexis Wolfer, editor of The Beauty Bean in as saying in a report. We know what you’re thinking: “That’s a load of Boll*cks!”īut recent reports in The Independent and Daily Mail, among others, say an increasing number of women are reaching for the razor when it comes to removing facial hair with some experts claiming its anti-ageing effects.
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