Comments on: The Hairy Horror Of Hirsutism http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/04/24/the-hairy-horror-of-hirsutism/ Cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions! We are a group of cosmetic scientists who understand what the chemicals used in cosmetics really do, how products are tested, and what all the advertising means. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: msilz http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/04/24/the-hairy-horror-of-hirsutism/comment-page-2/#comment-78397 msilz Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:09:18 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/04/24/the-hairy-horror-of-hirsutism/#comment-78397 I'm 20 and have had hirsutism for as long as I can remember. Tried wax, bleach,shave, pluck, medication, laser, and electrolysis. well, spent probably more than $4000 and still wax every week. I just hate it, I can't even date any guy because of it . I stopped swimming because I couldn't tolerate the pain of full body waxing when I was about 12-15. I'm on medication now and I think I will continue to take it for a year and see what results. I'm just so tired of hiding it continuously and crying for the past 7 years. Bleaching and waxing sometimes has a bad effect on my skin (but it helps somewhat) I used to think I'm "preety but hairy" now I'm Like "that was delusion".....:( .I'm just shattered and wish there was someone who would take me for who I am rather than who I am not(like when I'm waxed throughout). I’m 20 and have had hirsutism for as long as I can remember. Tried wax, bleach,shave, pluck, medication, laser, and electrolysis. well, spent probably more than $4000 and still wax every week. I just hate it, I can’t even date any guy because of it . I stopped swimming because I couldn’t tolerate the pain of full body waxing when I was about 12-15. I’m on medication now and I think I will continue to take it for a year and see what results. I’m just so tired of hiding it continuously and crying for the past 7 years. Bleaching and waxing sometimes has a bad effect on my skin (but it helps somewhat) I used to think I’m “preety but hairy” now I’m Like “that was delusion”…..:( .I’m just shattered and wish there was someone who would take me for who I am rather than who I am not(like when I’m waxed throughout).

]]> By: Bat http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/04/24/the-hairy-horror-of-hirsutism/comment-page-2/#comment-78348 Bat Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:36:13 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/04/24/the-hairy-horror-of-hirsutism/#comment-78348 A TIP FOR LADIES WHO SHAVE THEIR FACES! If your skin gets easily reddened and irritated (like mine) after shaving, put a few drops of redness-reducing eyedrops in your palm and gently pat the affected area. Wait a few minutes or until redness is gone, then apply your makeup as usual. I've been doing this for several months, and it really cuts down on my liquid foundation and makes my shaving evidence a little less obvious. :) Keep heart and carry on, ladies! In our Creator's eyes, we are all gorgeous. ? A TIP FOR LADIES WHO SHAVE THEIR FACES! If your skin gets easily reddened and irritated (like mine) after shaving, put a few drops of redness-reducing eyedrops in your palm and gently pat the affected area. Wait a few minutes or until redness is gone, then apply your makeup as usual. I’ve been doing this for several months, and it really cuts down on my liquid foundation and makes my shaving evidence a little less obvious. :)

Keep heart and carry on, ladies! In our Creator’s eyes, we are all gorgeous. ?

]]> By: Big Momma http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/04/24/the-hairy-horror-of-hirsutism/comment-page-2/#comment-75526 Big Momma Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:45:07 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/04/24/the-hairy-horror-of-hirsutism/#comment-75526 Girls, I'm 40 yrs old and have been dealing with hirsutism since I was 10 so that's 30 yrs. They didn't know what PCOS was back then. Medical advancements have increased 10 fold in the last 30 yrs and they will continue! Don't give up hope. I have read every single post here, and I have felt the very same things, each and every day of my life since this started, but I came to a point where I stopped caring what people though and started living my life. As for being social, look people in the eye when you talk to them...it forces them to look you in the eye when you converse. Smile at them and show them WHO YOU ARE. We are brilliant women...smart, kind, compassionate women and they need to see that and we need to show them. We ward off people and hide behind this "thing" we have to deal with, to keep from getting hurt or embarrassed...but in all actuality, we are hurting ourselves! People treat us the way WE TEACH THEM to treat us. The next person you meet...look them in the eye, smile and be genuinely interested in them and what they are saying...and they will respond. You avoid their eyes and cover yourself up, they will think your strange, because your acting strange. For a very long time, I shut myself in my apartment, didn't socialize and didn't do anything to take care of my "problem" because I just figured it wasn't worth it. People weren't worth the trouble. But they are Ladies. Over the years I have developed a routine in taking care of this...and it works for me. So before you write humanity off for good, try this stuff for just one week. Do these things to take care of this...then look people in the eye and stop hiding. After a week you will do one of two things, you will either be amazed at the response people give you, or u will sabotage yourself and not do it and continue hiding and be alone and miserable, not because of the bare people, but because of you. I use VEET on my legs twice a week in the summer, knees down only, so I can at least wear capri's..but if I'm in an intimate situation I'll do the whole leg. I shave my forearms, face and underarms daily with this AWESOME shave lotion from KISS MY FACE...(yes that's what the company is called :) Look it up. The shave lasts longer. Before I started using it, I would have to shave my face twice a day because the black hair started showing through my skin within 4-5 hours and that doesn't work out well when you have a full time job. With this, and using Simply Venus razors...it at least stays smooth for a whole day. Shave at night before bed...your skin is in better condition at that time of day. Exfoliate your skin everyday to keep the bumps and ingrown hairs under control...and taking Flax Seed oil capsules makes your skin softer and the hairs not a coarse. Take L-Lysine as an immune system booster to help you ward off boils that happen when an ingrown hair gets majorly infected and use Dial Antibacterial shower gel to keep them from getting infected. If you're not in an intimate situation, what people can't see doesn't matter so leave it alone til you have to deal with it. I don't worry about my private area unless I need to, and I just trim it with a beard and mustache trimmer. No one is bare there as an adult, and lets face it girls, it's miserable when it's growing back...and you know it's going to, very quickly. Go to your doctor and talk to him about getting on Yasmin, which is a birth control pill for women with PCOS...it helps slow the hair growth, but it takes awhile so don't get impatient. Also talk to your doctor about Spirolactone which is a really mild blood pressure med that counteracts the free antigens that over stimulate the hair growth. This also takes time, so again, don't get impatient. (did you know that Rogain used to be used as a blood pressure medication til they found out it grew hair?) If all of this seems overwhelming, let me break it down alittle. In the morning, take the flax seed oil capsules and L-Lysine. At night, when you shower, use the Dial Antibacterial shower gel with a loofa to exfoliate so you don't have to deal with boils or ingrown hairs. Shave your arms, face and underarms with the Kiss My Face Shave Lotion (when you do it daily, it goes really fast) with the Simply Venus razors. (I've used allll kinds of razors and this works best for me.) Then on Tues night and friday night...use the VEET on your legs. If I simply shave my legs, the hair comes through the skin within 6 hrs...but the veet works for a couple days at least. Get yourself some PERFECT FINISH Neutralizing Afterwash by Epil-stop to neutralized the chemicals in the VEET after you are done. It helps prevent bumps, irritation and redness. Girls, I hope this helps, and I TRUELY hope I haven't offended any of you. I'm just speaking from experience. I would rather live life happy and see if fly by....than to hide and the years of misery stretch for an eternity. If I continued to do the latter....I would wonder what purpose could there possibly be for me having ever been born. You do these things I spoke of to take care of this stuff...and you will find your purpose for existence. Girls, I’m 40 yrs old and have been dealing with hirsutism since I was 10 so that’s 30 yrs. They didn’t know what PCOS was back then. Medical advancements have increased 10 fold in the last 30 yrs and they will continue! Don’t give up hope. I have read every single post here, and I have felt the very same things, each and every day of my life since this started, but I came to a point where I stopped caring what people though and started living my life.

As for being social, look people in the eye when you talk to them…it forces them to look you in the eye when you converse. Smile at them and show them WHO YOU ARE. We are brilliant women…smart, kind, compassionate women and they need to see that and we need to show them. We ward off people and hide behind this “thing” we have to deal with, to keep from getting hurt or embarrassed…but in all actuality, we are hurting ourselves! People treat us the way WE TEACH THEM to treat us. The next person you meet…look them in the eye, smile and be genuinely interested in them and what they are saying…and they will respond. You avoid their eyes and cover yourself up, they will think your strange, because your acting strange.

For a very long time, I shut myself in my apartment, didn’t socialize and didn’t do anything to take care of my “problem” because I just figured it wasn’t worth it. People weren’t worth the trouble. But they are Ladies. Over the years I have developed a routine in taking care of this…and it works for me. So before you write humanity off for good, try this stuff for just one week. Do these things to take care of this…then look people in the eye and stop hiding. After a week you will do one of two things, you will either be amazed at the response people give you, or u will sabotage yourself and not do it and continue hiding and be alone and miserable, not because of the bare people, but because of you.

I use VEET on my legs twice a week in the summer, knees down only, so I can at least wear capri’s..but if I’m in an intimate situation I’ll do the whole leg. I shave my forearms, face and underarms daily with this AWESOME shave lotion from KISS MY FACE…(yes that’s what the company is called :) Look it up. The shave lasts longer. Before I started using it, I would have to shave my face twice a day because the black hair started showing through my skin within 4-5 hours and that doesn’t work out well when you have a full time job. With this, and using Simply Venus razors…it at least stays smooth for a whole day. Shave at night before bed…your skin is in better condition at that time of day. Exfoliate your skin everyday to keep the bumps and ingrown hairs under control…and taking Flax Seed oil capsules makes your skin softer and the hairs not a coarse. Take L-Lysine as an immune system booster to help you ward off boils that happen when an ingrown hair gets majorly infected and use Dial Antibacterial shower gel to keep them from getting infected. If you’re not in an intimate situation, what people can’t see doesn’t matter so leave it alone til you have to deal with it. I don’t worry about my private area unless I need to, and I just trim it with a beard and mustache trimmer. No one is bare there as an adult, and lets face it girls, it’s miserable when it’s growing back…and you know it’s going to, very quickly. Go to your doctor and talk to him about getting on Yasmin, which is a birth control pill for women with PCOS…it helps slow the hair growth, but it takes awhile so don’t get impatient. Also talk to your doctor about Spirolactone which is a really mild blood pressure med that counteracts the free antigens that over stimulate the hair growth. This also takes time, so again, don’t get impatient. (did you know that Rogain used to be used as a blood pressure medication til they found out it grew hair?) If all of this seems overwhelming, let me break it down alittle.

In the morning, take the flax seed oil capsules and L-Lysine. At night, when you shower, use the Dial Antibacterial shower gel with a loofa to exfoliate so you don’t have to deal with boils or ingrown hairs. Shave your arms, face and underarms with the Kiss My Face Shave Lotion (when you do it daily, it goes really fast) with the Simply Venus razors. (I’ve used allll kinds of razors and this works best for me.) Then on Tues night and friday night…use the VEET on your legs. If I simply shave my legs, the hair comes through the skin within 6 hrs…but the veet works for a couple days at least. Get yourself some PERFECT FINISH Neutralizing Afterwash by Epil-stop to neutralized the chemicals in the VEET after you are done. It helps prevent bumps, irritation and redness.

Girls, I hope this helps, and I TRUELY hope I haven’t offended any of you. I’m just speaking from experience. I would rather live life happy and see if fly by….than to hide and the years of misery stretch for an eternity. If I continued to do the latter….I would wonder what purpose could there possibly be for me having ever been born. You do these things I spoke of to take care of this stuff…and you will find your purpose for existence.

]]> By: Zuzi K http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/04/24/the-hairy-horror-of-hirsutism/comment-page-2/#comment-74056 Zuzi K Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:37:37 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/04/24/the-hairy-horror-of-hirsutism/#comment-74056 Hi guys, it is so nice to know there are many woman with this problem, because you don't see hirsuite woman in TV. I used to hate my body but comparing with some girls here I think I have fewer hair than you. But everyday I keep on checking my side of face if I need to pluck it out. My nipples are having bit of black hair, some three hairs between breast and quite few on my tummy. My tights are also hairy. But I decided I don't shave any more my legs, and I am fed up of the fuckng gillete and smooth skin industry. I actually believe it is kind of discrimination for hirsuite woman. And sadly many man gets brainwash by hairless boobs. Like my neighbours. My man is quite ok with my body although he likes shaved bettter. But to you hirsuite girls I advice to try find man who literally loves hirsuite woman or the ones who knows beauty of body is not everything. There are quite a few and during the time you hide at home or go to sleep try to imagine that you have that kind of guy. If extremly fat girls can find boyfriend, why not you? The bearded ladies from last century were married :) And I think the guy who can't handle hirsuite woman is not man enough. This all is deception by fucking beauty success. Hirsuite woman has right for normal loving life. But first you have to start to love yourself and accept yourself and accept that you have as any other girl. I am sure for everyone there is partner but you have to accept that as well. Good luck to all of you xxx bless you all :) Hi guys, it is so nice to know there are many woman with this problem, because you don’t see hirsuite woman in TV. I used to hate my body but comparing with some girls here I think I have fewer hair than you. But everyday I keep on checking my side of face if I need to pluck it out. My nipples are having bit of black hair, some three hairs between breast and quite few on my tummy. My tights are also hairy. But I decided I don’t shave any more my legs, and I am fed up of the fuckng gillete and smooth skin industry. I actually believe it is kind of discrimination for hirsuite woman. And sadly many man gets brainwash by hairless boobs. Like my neighbours. My man is quite ok with my body although he likes shaved bettter. But to you hirsuite girls I advice to try find man who literally loves hirsuite woman or the ones who knows beauty of body is not everything. There are quite a few and during the time you hide at home or go to sleep try to imagine that you have that kind of guy. If extremly fat girls can find boyfriend, why not you? The bearded ladies from last century were married :) And I think the guy who can’t handle hirsuite woman is not man enough. This all is deception by fucking beauty success. Hirsuite woman has right for normal loving life. But first you have to start to love yourself and accept yourself and accept that you have as any other girl. I am sure for everyone there is partner but you have to accept that as well. Good luck to all of you xxx bless you all :)

]]> By: Natasha http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/04/24/the-hairy-horror-of-hirsutism/comment-page-2/#comment-73347 Natasha Sat, 06 Aug 2011 05:51:15 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/04/24/the-hairy-horror-of-hirsutism/#comment-73347 All these stories made me tear up. I am 19yrs old and I haven't had a boyfriend or my first kiss and I believe my hirsutism is to blame. I feel like I have to push guys away or can't get close to them because I can't bare the idea of what they'll think/say when they see how hairy I am. I am always jealous of my other girl friends and sister and I envy their hairlessness. This never fails to cross my mind everyday. I have put on weight since I started high school and now that I am in college I feel like even if I lose the weight its not like I can show off my body or anything because my hirsutism is a curse. I have tried laser hair removal but my hair is so thick that the pain is unbearable and it ended up growing back with the exception of a few patchy parts where it "worked". :( I havent told any of my friends about this although my family knows about it. I just dont think they know how bad this is affecting my everyday life. I just want to look normal even if it was just for one day. Its hard to be optimistic when you cant identify with anyone with this embarrassing condition. All these stories made me tear up. I am 19yrs old and I haven’t had a boyfriend or my first kiss and I believe my hirsutism is to blame. I feel like I have to push guys away or can’t get close to them because I can’t bare the idea of what they’ll think/say when they see how hairy I am. I am always jealous of my other girl friends and sister and I envy their hairlessness. This never fails to cross my mind everyday. I have put on weight since I started high school and now that I am in college I feel like even if I lose the weight its not like I can show off my body or anything because my hirsutism is a curse. I have tried laser hair removal but my hair is so thick that the pain is unbearable and it ended up growing back with the exception of a few patchy parts where it “worked”. :( I havent told any of my friends about this although my family knows about it. I just dont think they know how bad this is affecting my everyday life. I just want to look normal even if it was just for one day. Its hard to be optimistic when you cant identify with anyone with this embarrassing condition.

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