I take a dry razor to my face probably once every two to three months to get rid of the peach fuzz. There are actually razors meant to do this but I dont have one those. I have been doing this for about 5 years. Many women do this, there is a name for it actually, dermaplaning.

thx, RA! googled dermaplaning- the thought of a scalpel sounds a little unnerving, but i do see the little straight edge razors you can buy... which do u use??

I use DH razor.

As a lark, I bought myself a facial hair trimmer at Marshall's for my stocking at Christmas. It's a product for women.

It's battery operated and it really works great! My hairs are very light and sparse, but I notice them.

Waxing facial hair for me is painful. I'm okay with eyebrows though.

I shave it. They make special lady face razors, but I use the same one I use on my legs. (wet with shaving gel) I've shaved my little fur stache for years and recently just started going over my whole face because I'm tired of the little peach fuzz. Makeup looks better without it. Yeah, I also shave my arms. :)

I go to the salon every other week and get waxed. Having the appointments set just makes it easier.

I have also noticed that the fine white hairs on my face are getting longer as I'm getting older. Not a cute look...ugh! I just use a dry shaver occasionally when I start to notice them again.

yeah, blfenton, it probably wouldn't bother me if i didn't use the X5 mirror!! :(

thx- i never really thought about shaving it (or my arms tho i love my friends who have those super soft hairless arms!) ... i think i will give it a try... will probably look for the little single edge razors i saw on line next time i'm near a sally beauty or ulta. i don't think i could handle having so much of my face waxed!

my mom had very blonde peachfuzz in her later yrs- she didn't do anything about it and i used to think it looked so cute! on her- not so much on me!! :)

I don't get the new obsession with body hair ... especially peach fuzz. It's not like you're growing a beard. ;)

This is why I will be on HRT for the rest of my life, I hope.

yet, cindymac! :)

it wouldn't bother me at this point if i didn't smooth up my upper lip...

hrt scares me kswl... based on a couple of threads here, i think i'm coming across as quite paranoid!! ;)

I think every male and female of a certain age should own a facial hair trimmer. These have various tips that you can use to trim away peach fuzz and please, yes, do it - trim nose and eat hair. I don't like to be furry, even though my fuzz is very blonde, so I use mine with regularity. I also pluck those inevitable stray chin hairs, pretty much on a schedule.

For those that shave - don't you get stubble? I've tried it in the past, and I swear I'd have a 5:00 shadow by the end of the day. Ok, maybe that's an exaggeration - but the shaving definitely produced stubble and I had to go over the area twice a day to keep it at bay.

Busy, I understand keeping the upper lip smooth, but the whole face?

trim nose and eat hair.

Thanks for the chuckle, Jen!

cindymac- it just is looking weird to me to have a smooth upper lip and then see my fuzzy cheek right next to it! i used to just have some fuzz near my 'sideburns' and at my jaw line... now my actual cheeks down to my jawbone and even chin is getting fuzzy! my eyebrow area is also getting fuzzy- i used to pluck my eyebrows and that was it- now i have some peach fuzz there too!

yes, i definitely don't want stubble... but my fuzz isn't really long enough that 'trimming' it will make much of a difference i don't think...

Doesn't anyone use a facial depilatory for the peach fuzz? I've been using one for a few years, without any skin reaction. Any bad things you've heard? It works for me.

I wondered about stubble too. I would be afraid of that, so probably would not use a razor. Perhaps using the dry razor prevents that? How about laser hair removal? My MIL did that on her upper lip.

I know I can't do waxing. I had my upper lip waxed once and broke out in a rash that lasted for days. So I went from slightly noticeable upper lip hair to a red upper lip rash. I've always wondered about shaving and stubble. As it is, I have black hair stubble no matter how try and get rid of it, so I guess the issue is what technique would be the least irritating to use all the time, for the skin underneath.

Nope, dry razor didn't prevent it for me, tina. Wet or dry, I still had stubble by the end of the day. With the nose hair trimmer with multiple attachments, it trims so close that the hair does disappear, but not so close that there's that stubbly growth when the hair starts to come back. I will use a razor on my forearms (the hair is very light blonde, but I still don't like the furriness), but I just can't do it on my face.

It's fuzzy so no stubble issue as it grows back in for me. I don't believe it's an age issue necessarily. Everyone has peach fuzz aka lanugo hair. Mine isn't extreme I just don't like how it looks.

I thought Lanugo was different? I suffered Lanugo due to low body fat when I was younger.

I think Vellus is the proper term for the hair we're talking about.

Same here, it is just fuzz, no stubble, that I get. I think if you get stubble or a 5 o'clock shadow we are taking about more than just peach fuzz.

Sorry, I stand corrected.

lanugo

jab65- you mean like 'nair' ? i have used those for over the lip in the past and my legs yrs ago, but am not crazy about them.

TR, do your arms become stubbley??

Not badly, bb. I mean, any time you shave hair down to the skin and it begins to grow back, there's going to be an initial moment of a little stubble poking through. It doesn't bother me on my arms, but on my face it's a no go.

Luckily I'm not too furry, because I just can't imagine shaving my arms!! I have a little of the peach fuzz coming from my temples and "sideburn" area, but I leave it alone.

Busy bee - Yes, like Nair, which is what I have now but haven't used yet. I ran out of the Sally Hansen stuff after, literally, years of limited use. They aren't the same formulation as those made for your legs, which I always found too messy to use on such a large area. The face just takes a bit and wipes off easily.

I asked about upper lip waxing where I get my hair done. They said. "you can hardly notice it" so I decided to believe them. Problem solved.