Getting a close shave!

[Anonymous]

HI Hayls,
Kryolan have a product called dermablend i OFTEN have read about. Stage makeup from MAC is what i use and get away with. i JUST WISH I HAD STARTED ELOS laser surgery when younger as to me thats the best solution but short term try MAC or Kryolan products. I found though it took me awhile to get confidence up if you approach the girls or guy at any make up counter they are happy to help if they have the knowlege and experience:)) By the way you look great
Jess

[Anonymous]

I used to have horrible dark and fast growth before I started Elos. The only way I discovered to hide it, almost, was to:

Use a brand new good quality razor and shave normally with the grain and shaving gel. Wait about 10 to 15 minutes for the skin to settle down. Then using a brand new blade and some shaving oil, shave very carefully against the grain. This cuts the hair as close to the skin as possible.

With the make up I use the Kryolan Camoflage cream around the beard area, then powder it down. As a foundation I then used Kryolan TV stick (a stage makeup) and some powder and then apply the rest as normal.

Results weren’t perfect, BUT it was a hell of a lot better than anything else I had tried.

This is a pic of just 4 days growth before Elos and let me tell you it wasn’t easy to hide, but if I could get the results I did, then most normal people shouldn’t have too many problems.

[Anonymous]

Ahh shaving. Being a hairy beast, this is a subjet I am well versed with. I’m also cursed with trilateral hair under my chin and on my neck and extremely sensitive skin. This means I have to shave in all three directions (up, down and across) to get anything like a clean shave, but because that involves shaving against the grain, I wind up with utterly amazing razor rash. Seriously, there are days when my neck looks like chopped liver.

The current craze for a billion blades per razor hasn’t helped either. You just can’t get good cartridge razors any more. So I’ve gone back to the old single blade, ‘safety razors’. Yep, the old double edged gizmos with a single bare blade resting against your skin. And the result is amazing.

You see, the cartridge razors, especially those with more than two blades, are badly designed and it’s unlikely that any of the blades will actually be working effectively against your skin – they are angled wrong, or at least some of the blades are. This is elimated with a single blade – you get to work the blade to best effect no matter where it is on your face. Also, with only one blade scraping away, there is far less irritation. Sorry, but the adverts on tele are blatant lies as far as technique goes and personally, I have to make as many passes with a multi blade as I do with a single. An additional problem is the quality of the cartidge blades. They are sharpened to such an extent that the edges become scalloped with the result that not only is the shave uneven, but you start to take off skin.

Razor cuts used to be a daily occurance for me. Since changing to a single blade razor, I have yet to suffer a single cut. I have far less razor rash, to the point where I am able to modify my shaving techniques to reduce it further – this just wasn’t an option with the latest cartricge razors.

And I’m not alone here. I tried the single blade razor as a result of reading a lot about them on the internet – there is a world wide resurgence in their use and guess what, I’m one

Cripes, I’ve even tempted to go buy a badger bristle brush and hot pot for the soap.

Wombat

[Anonymous]

Hi Hayls,

I know the problem well as I feel that I have a wookie in my family tree somewhere. With regards to shaving I have found that First I exfoliate and then shave. Wait for about half an hour and then use a different razor. This I have found reduces it to a very light stubble.

Then I put red lipstick on my face (dabbed on with my hand), concealer followed by foundation and powder. This will give me about 5 to 6 hours in daylight before I have to re-apply.

Hopes this helps

Brenda Jane

[Alice]

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I wonder if you can help me, I have dark hairs and it seems that I can never shave close enough to get rid of them, and even with beard cover they shine right through, ruining my chances to pass!

I very rarely shave. Pretty much only if I haven’t had time to epil and I need to look good in male mode. Probably once or twice this year so far!

I use an “epilator” to pull the hair out. It’s a bit like waxing, in that there needs to be a bit of length before you can grip the hairs to pull them out, but only a few millimetres.

Over time, the hairs get finer and less pigmented. Sometimes, if I keep it done often enough, I can get to having downy bum fluff all over my face, just like a lot of real females.

For any hair colour, epiling or waxing will make the beard shadow less noticable than shaving, without any need to use extra makeup to hide it. You also don’t have to worry about the beard coming through as a 5 o’clock shadow after a few hours.

It’s definately more painful initially but gives a much better result and the pain gets less as the hairs grow back finer and more sparsely! Tweezing by hand (takes several hours) or getting waxing done professionally are good ways of getting prepared to start epiling.

[Anonymous]

I have found even after 4 years on hormones and having had SRS a little facial hair still hangs around.I would like to recommend to those of you who live in the Sydney area the CACI Clinic. It does laser hair removal(among other things) and is based in Bondi Junction and Parramatta.
The process can be painful and takes 5 minutes and costs $70 . It takes a few treatments to get on top of the facial hair but the results are fantastic. The laser treatment only works on dark hair though. I now can go about four weeks without any facial hair(except my gray hairs). I generally go every six weeks and it takes about a week after the laser for the hairs to fall out.
The clinic staff are very friendly and understanding and more than willing to advise you on other treatments if needed.

hugz
Monique monmead@hotmail.com

[Anonymous]

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I have found even after 4 years on hormones and having had SRS a little facial hair still hangs around.I would like to recommend to those of you who live in the Sydney area the CACI Clinic. It does laser hair removal(among other things) and is based in Bondi Junction and Parramatta.
The process can be painful and takes 5 minutes and costs $70 . It takes a few treatments to get on top of the facial hair but the results are fantastic. The laser treatment only works on dark hair though. I now can go about four weeks without any facial hair(except my gray hairs). I generally go every six weeks and it takes about a week after the laser for the hairs to fall out.
The clinic staff are very friendly and understanding and more than willing to advise you on other treatments if needed.

hugz
Monique monmead@hotmail.com

wow! that is really cheap to what i’ve had prices to compare too … I’ve been to places and they wanted to charge $200 per session for about 10mins at a time … I thought That was a bit much!!

–Anee .