![]() ![]() I don’t mind my partner catching me in the act of tweezering. Not that I’m saying I let it all hang out – of course not – but it’s something I can joke about with contemporaries. Now I’m 63 I don’t care as much as I did. All that pain – and they came back as quickly as if they’d been shaved. All that electrolysis in the 80s and 90s proved a waste of money. Latterly I tried laser hair removal, sugaring, threading, you name it – none of which ever had a lasting effect. Unlike the colleague who watched me interview the dishy Spanish actor Benicio Del Toro on some magazine shoot and then told me about the great big hair on my chin glistening provocatively in the camera light. Polonecks in between electrolysis, tweezers in my purse at all times, Nair Men (for one’s legs), and so forth.Ī good friend or loyal sister helps too, to discreetly point out any strays before the big date or the important meeting. I learned over the years to manage the problem (and childbirth for some reason helped a bit on the hormone front). ‘What the hell are you doing?’ I remember him whooping. I also remember once, at college in the US, a cute male flatmate walking in on me while I was applying it. I can still remember its smell and the way that, inevitably – because I was never patient enough to keep it on for long enough – it turned the hair above my lip orange. Jolen Creme Bleach was my teenage friend. I started waxing my legs when I was 12 and having electrolysis on my chin when I was 15. Not that it all happened when I hit middle age. Caused by an excess of androgen hormones surging around the body, it often develops in women around menopause when our bodies are depleted of oestrogen and the male hormone testosterone dominates.įor this reason, HRT can often prevent it, but what of those, like me, who cannot or do not want to take HRT? Sigh.Ī bristly chin, Carlos Menem sideburns and, if this is the trajectory, a comb-over… as Nora Ephron once so famously said, and I’ll paraphrase here, when you get to a certain age, you’re only ever eight hours away from looking like a bag lady.įemale facial hirsutism may just be a fact of life. ![]() The really galling thing is that now I’m in my seventh decade they grow white. Then (though I hesitate to draw attention to them) there are my sideburns. Christa D'Souza enjoys the primal thrill of plucking a big hair right out of its root with a brand-new pair of Tweezermans ![]()
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