How (Not) To De-Fuzz Your Face

My Mum was horrified after I confirmed her my newly acquired Ending Contact Facial Hair Remover.

“You’ll be able to’t shave your face!” she cried. “Why can’t you simply use nail scissors like everybody else?”

Pause for impact.

Can we please get a present of arms from anybody – anybody in any respect – who makes use of a pair of nail scissors to remain on high of their facial hair? I believed not. She couldn’t have picked a extra impractical instrument. It’s like going to battle brandishing a chainsaw – there’s extra likelihood of maiming your self than successful the battle.

“I simply maintain the scissors like this,” she mentioned, her head again and her chin thrown excessive, “and snip as near the basis of the hair as I can.”

“You’ll be able to’t even see the place you’re snipping,” I mentioned, ‘you’ll find yourself chopping off one thing necessary!”

“Properly I take advantage of a mirror, clearly.”

Mum’s snipping methodology is flawed in some ways: firstly the danger of harm is excessive, even with using a mirror. Maybe particularly with using a mirror, as a result of everyone knows how even the best of duties turns into unimaginable when you’re relying in your reflection to information you.

Then there’s the truth that you’re not even attending to the basis of the issue, simply chopping off the seen half. It’s a bit like weeding by pulling off the highest bits. Does my Mum go across the backyard strimming over the dandelions? No she doesn’t. She goes about on her knees, pulling the entire thing out.

And eventually (although I can in all probability consider many extra issues with the scissor methodology), how bloody lengthy should it take to de-hair a mean chin and moustache space? Days! I’d be tempted to open out the scissor blades and slide them alongside my pores and skin for velocity’s sake, old style cut-throat razor fashion.

“God I don’t do my complete face!” mentioned my Mum. “You simply do the longest hairs, you daft factor. Those which can be a couple of centimetres or very darkish.”

That is why now we have completely different removing strategies, then: perspective in direction of facial hair. Mum: pleased with the same old facial fuzz. The stuff that we’ve all had, in all probability from a younger age, however that 4K HD TV and hi-res telephone cameras have progressively made me hyper-aware of. She solely irks on the longest, blackest of hairs – the remaining is simply thought of regular, like having eyes, or legs.

“You wouldn’t shave these off.”

My drawback is that I take a look at my face intimately almost each single day. It’s a part of my job. I ought to disclose right here that I’m not a very furry particular person and my colouring is kind of truthful, however as a result of I take a look at make-up and skincare I do spend plenty of time observing zoomed-in photographs and movies of myself. And when it’s not photographs and movies it’s the bloody magnifying mirror, aka The Portal of Doom, checking whether or not or not a brand new basis that I’m testing has crept into effective traces or migrated into the oilier patches. And so not solely do I see the longest and blackest of hairs (although mine are usually white, like Father Christmas) I additionally see the plush thackets of peach fuzz, so dense they’re like velvet.

I left the peach fuzz for some time as a result of it did seem to be overkill to begin taking that off; I plucked on the longer hairs with my tweezers (positively my suggestion over nail scissors) and I ignored the fuzz. However then I began plucking the marginally longer bits of fuzz in addition to the hairs, particularly within the facet tache space, and earlier than I knew it I used to be plucking all of the peach fuzz out with my tweezers. It was taking ages and was really fairly painful after some time….

…therefore the brand new Ending Contact shaver. I haven’t really charged it as much as strive but, such was the ferocity of my mom’s response to it. I feel she has visions of me doing a full shave routine, utilizing a kind of badger brushes to lather my face up, leaning in in direction of the mirror like Determined Dan. White vest, gun belt slung over the towel rail, ten gallon hat resting on the shelf above the sink.

However I’ve began with the mass-tweezing and so now there isn’t any retreat. The moustache hairs come again barely sharper, in order that once you’re watching TV you’ll find your self stroking your stubble – for that’s what it’s – properly, like an previous sage about to make a pertinent assertion.

The one manner ahead is to proceed with the full eradication method – however with my new shaver it will likely be like (hopefully) utilizing a lawnmower reasonably than a pair of long-handled secateurs. Speedy. Environment friendly. Painless.

I’ll hold you all up to date, if solely to horrify my Mum.

The Flawless Contact gadget is on-line here (ad-affiliate hyperlink) and prices £29.99. I’ve to say, it feels very gentle and cheaply-made, for the worth, however since writing the above I’ve examined it correctly and it really works nicely. If in case you have different options then let me know!