Re: upper lip skin darkening due to threading...HELP!

> ok, i know this is isnt directly about facial hair
> as such, but it is related and i just wondered if
> its happened to anyone else and they might have
> any suggestions on what to do...

I think this does come under the category of facial hair, OK.

> basically i learnt how to thread (or so i thought!)
> and i did my upper lip and chin, repeatedly a few
> times over a period of a few weeks

Is it fair to ask how many times over how many weeks?
Any idea how many hairs you actually removed?
Were they coarse of fine?


> ...and now my upper lip area has become alot darker
> than the rest of my face...its partly to do with the
> hairs growing back but partly it has just gone like
> very dark, it never happened when i used to get it done

One of the things about threading, like plucking or waxing, is that the hair tends eventually to come back growing at strange angles and therefore shows up a lot more because the root's been distorted.


> ...also the mark is a couple of months old, can
> the skin still get back to original skin tone or
> is it ruined permanently? (i hope not!):o(

> can anyone help? any advice apprecated!

There could be a measure of bruising but I would have thought that would have disappeared long since. If you've removed all the hair, then it may simply be the fact that there's no protection whatsoever and the skin is darkening and coarsening a bit. Everyone has some hair on the upper lip, even if it's only very fine, very short, lanugo as it is in many women. If, like me, you've found that the hair on your upper lip has coarsened, like a guy's, into a moustache, then removing it by any method is going to lead to some changes in the skin. I myself favor shaving and amongst the reasons for favoring it is that it does least damage, in my opinion, to the skin.
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> ok, i know this is isnt directly about facial hair
> as such, but it is related and i just wondered if
> its happened to anyone else and they might have
> any suggestions on what to do...

I think this does come under the category of facial hair, OK.

> basically i learnt how to thread (or so i thought!)
> and i did my upper lip and chin, repeatedly a few
> times over a period of a few weeks

Is it fair to ask how many times over how many weeks?
Any idea how many hairs you actually removed?
Were they coarse of fine?


> ...and now my upper lip area has become alot darker
> than the rest of my face...its partly to do with the
> hairs growing back but partly it has just gone like
> very dark, it never happened when i used to get it done

One of the things about threading, like plucking or waxing, is that the hair tends eventually to come back growing at strange angles and therefore shows up a lot more because the root's been distorted.


...also the mark is a couple of months old, can the skin still get back to original skin tone or is it ruined permanently? (i hope not!):o(

can anyone help? any advice apprecated!

There could be a measure of bruising but I would have thought that would have disappeared long since. If you've removed all the hair, then it may simply be the fact that there's no protection whatsoever and the skin is darkening and coarsening a bit. Everyone has some hair on the upper lip, even if it's only very fine, very short, lanugo as it is in many women. If, like me, you've found that the hair on your upper lip has coarsened, like a guy's, into a moustache, then removing it by any method is going to lead to some changes in the skin. I myself favor shaving and amongst the reasons for favoring it is that it does least damage, in my opinion, to the skin.

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