Growing up, the topic of hair growth seems relegated to a healthy head of hair, shaving legs/armpits without cuts and perhaps trimming your eyebrows to suite your face.
I am obsessed with the topic of hair in us women which is why today the focus will be on our dark little secret: unwanted hair growth. There is an urban legend that some of our men harbour thoughts of a limitless sex drive in women who happen to have baby hair in areas like the chin.
Though, this myth can seem true if you can consider the fact that this type of growth is associated with hormones, I want us as women to own up to this issue and embrace steps to fix it.
The issue of hirtuism-hair growth in women at chin, neck, breast-deserves a spotlight. Some of our famous women stars of today suffer this secret you will never see in pictures because they spend time and precious money to get rid of the unwanted hair.
According to dermatologists, it is mostly post-menopausal women who experience it because of genetics, age does not discriminate with this chronic trait. The best ways to treat or slow down the occurrence of hirtuism are below:
* Medication
* Rapid Weight Loss
* Laser Removal
This is a Pandora’s box that I am sure you want to rush me to close up but I am here to assure you that openly discussing this issue will help men appreciate why we enjoy going to the beauty shop so much.
There are alternatives such as waxing the hair off or even using the traditional Persia/India method of threading the hair off, if your skin is the sensitive type you may find it difficult doing this on a monthly basis.
The medication available for this excessive testosterone related trait can be found at your local doctors office or if you prefer to see a dermatologist you may do so.
Contraceptives are usually prescribed as way for young ladies to control and subside the growth. Our daily nutritional intake is known to contain strains of chemicals that when it reaches our bodies can spontaneously weaken our body’s ability to fight prevalence of testosterone.
Doctors have found women that have a tumor or uterine condition that affects the normal make up of her body will produce the external condition of hirtuism.
Studies in women with tumors that went on to loose tremendous amounts of weight concluded that the women experienced a placebo effect of the hair not growing back(notice I said placebo, it is not the same for everyone).
Laser removal is a current trend for the cessation of the hair growth, it is an important procedure that can help newly smooth skin last a long time. The hair will grow back in laser treatment but softer (as opposed to shaving it off with a razor which may last a long time but will grow back thicker), it is also know to cause vitiligo (reduction of melanin) in darker skin tones.
In closing, I want to use this opportunity to encourage our mothers and future mothers to start talking about hirtuism in a positive manner. The next time you visit that day spa or treat yourself for the first time try the waxing in a place other than your eyebrows.
If you prefer the inexpensive route of a full facial threading, by all means, experience it. Please, if you insist to shaving it off, then I must recommend you use a fresh new razor every time or rather pluck it instead with a tweezers right after showering when the skin is still soft.
Modern day scientists who have taken time to study this issue agree that a combination or one of the aforementioned treatments are most effective in tackling unwanted hair growth.
this has nothing to do with celeb but i like that topic because Polycystic ovary disease affects hormone cycles. Hormones help regulate the normal development of eggs in the ovaries. It is not completely understood why or how hormone cycles are interrupted, although there are several ideas. Follicles are sacs within the ovaries that contain eggs. In polycystic ovary disease, there are many poorly developed follicles in the ovaries. The eggs in these follicles do not mature and, therefore, cannot be released from the ovaries. Instead, they form cysts in the ovary. This can contribute to infertility. The immature follicles and the inability to release an egg are likely caused by low levels of follicle stimulating hormone and higher than normal levels of male hormones produced in the ovary. Women are usually diagnosed when in their 20s or 30s. Women with this disorder often have a mother or sister who has symptoms similar to polycystic ovary disease.
I am a very sexy 28 yrs old lady who sufers from unwanted chin hair. Is it really repulsive to men?
its repulsive, although most men would not admit to it in your face. do yaself a favor and wax it.
me too! and i hate it, but ah what can i do nothing i guess.
SOCIETY HAS MADE US TO THINK THAT WHEN WOMEN GROW HAIR AT PLACES THAT CAN BE SEEN BY OTHERS, THAT THIS MAKES THEM LESS OF A WOMAN.IT MEAN SOCIETY HAS SHOWN AS OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT IT IS “UNLADY-LIKE” NOT TO SHAVE YOUR UNDERARM, YOUR LEGS, YOUR PRIVATE PARTS ETC. I MEAN IT IS JUST HAIR, GOD CREATED THEM FOR A REASON….IF YOU PREFER TO SHAVE GREAT, IF YOU DON’T GREAT, IT SHOULDN’T DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE A LADY. WE HAVE ALL BEEN CREATED UNIQUELY BY GOD AND WE HAVE TO EMBRACE THAT. IF HORMONES ARE CAUSING SOME WOMEN TO GROW HAIR ON OTHER PARTS OF THEIR BODIES WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? THEY ARE STILL HUMAN
AND THE WRITER, YAA SAID, “I am obsessed with the topic of hair in us women which is why today the focus will be on our dark little secret: unwanted hair growth”————–AND I HAVE TO ASK, WHAT IS “UNWANTED” ABOUT SOMETHING THAT EVERY HUMAN HAS? LIKE IT OR HATE IT, WE ALL HAVE HAIR(SOME WOMEN’S HAIR ARE MORE EXPOSED TO THE WORLD THAN OTHERS[FACE, CHEST,ETC]) ARE AND THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT. SO IT IS ABOUT TIME FOR ALL OF US, MEN OR WOMEN TO EMBRACE IT, AND LOVE IT. IF WE START DOING THAT, THEN YOUNG GIRLS WILL NOT FEEL LIKE BEAUTY IS WHAT THEY SEE IN MAGAZINES, AND ON TV. BUT INSTEAD WILL KNOW THAT TRUE BEAUTY IS WHAT IS INSIDE OF US. ON THE OUTSIDE WE ARE ALL BEAUTY(GOD NEVER MAKES A MISTAKE) BUT THE INSIDE IS WHAT COUNTS…..
the med for this treatment is called Aldactone or Spironolactone. research it.
TESTOSTERONE GALORE!