Acne meds and waxing

[kimberleigh13]

I am so frustrated!

which is worse having acne or a hairy face?

I made the unfortunate mistake of waxing while on acne meds. ugh!

I took accutane in my late teens and I am 34 now. My acne has gotten to the point where I need something to help keep it at bay. However, I *HAVE* to wax my eyebrows and upper lip. HAVE to!


Now I know there are people who take acne meds and have some method for keeping hair off their face. I know there is threading but I hate to be committed to a beauty salon once a week. Yes, I have to wax every single week. Nice, huh? Story of my life. Laser is out of my price range and I have heard mixed reviews on this anyways.

Please, any help or guidance would be appreciated.

BTW: I have Retin-A, a cream that has BP and antibiotics in it and also a cleanser with Sal. acid in it. All of them cause me to rip a layer off my skin when waxing. not pretty.

thank you.

 

[Nicala]

I was going to suggest threading as it's not as rough on your skin like waxing. Locally, I found that you can get a 17.99/month membership and get your brows done unlimited I think. It's called Shapes Brow Bar, not sure if there is one around you. You can also learn to do it yourself if you don't want to go to a place to get it done weekly.

 

[Austrian_Babe]

Yeah, do not wax anything on your face where you use Retin-A!

I think your only choice is hair removal creams (pick a gentle formulation so it doesn´t irritate your skin) or threading. However, waxing your upper lip should be fine - I mean you don´t use Retin-A above your lips, right? Same should go for underneath your brows?

I don´t need to wax anything on my face, but I use Retin-A all over my face (up to my lower lashline as well), but I spare the areas under my nostrils, lips and from lashline to brow, because I´d get too much irritation if I applied it on those areas.

 

[fieran]

Have you considered tweezing + a facial hair trimmer? I'm of Indian descent and trust me - hair is my middle name. My brows are like two little bushes if I don't tweeze + trim regularly I also have hair on my upper lip that is trimmed with the facial hair trimmer.

I use a Tweezerman tweezer (it's quite sharp, so I wouldn't recommend it if you're not used to tweezing - the one from Body Shop works well too) and Panasonic facial hair trimmer.

 

[nellytilly]

Been there done that!
1. Take a shower and open your pores.
2. Dry shave with a men's Mach3/upper lip
3. Eyebrow shavers come in a pack of 3 at Wal-mart/eyebrows
4. Proceed with your face regimen.
5. Done.
I've tried it all: Waxing. Threading. Creams(bad) Epicare(the worst) bendy contraption. This works. Fast,painless, and no ingrown hairs, Yuck!