Read this if you have thick facial hair
I owe an apology to every woman I've treated for facial hair in the last 15 years.
I didn't know it at the time. I do now. And I can't keep quiet about it anymore.
I'm a dermatologist. 15 years in practice.
In that time, I've told thousands of women the same thing about their facial hair. Maybe more.
The advice was always the same. Pluck it. Wax it. Keep on top of it. It's hormonal, there's not much else you can do. Come back if it gets worse.
That was my training. That was the standard advice. I never questioned it.
Until last year, when it happened to me.
The hormonal shift of my forties caught up. Coarse dark hairs along my chin and jaw, more every month. I was plucking every morning before work, hiding my chin in photos, angling away from the bright lights of my own clinic.
The shame was worse. I was a dermatologist who treated other women's skin for a living, sitting in my car plucking in the mirror before walking in to do exactly that.
So I did what I'd told hundreds of patients to do. Tweezers. Wax. Threading between. Stay on top of it.
My own advice. The advice I'd handed out a thousand times.
By week two my chin was destroyed. Red bumps where I'd plucked. Scarring that wouldn't heal. The hairs growing back coarser, darker, faster than ever.
I told myself what I'd told every patient who complained: keep on top of it. The regrowth is normal, nothing to worry about.
Five months later, I looked properly in the mirror.
It was worse than when I started.
Five months. Worse.
I stared at my own chin at the same desk where I'd told women "just keep removing it" and "plucking is fine, it's the only option."
For the first time, I understood exactly how they felt when I said that.
I'd done everything right. Followed my own advice perfectly. And my facial hair was thicker than ever while my skin kept breaking down.
That's when I started thinking something was wrong with me. That my hormones were just unbeatable. That this was just my face now.
A dermatologist. Blaming her own body.
In 15 years of practice, I know exactly what it means when a treatment fails across multiple patients. It means the treatment is wrong. Not the patient.
And here I was, failing on the same advice I'd given hundreds of women, and my first instinct was to blame myself.
How many of my patients did the same thing?
That question kept me up all night.
I sat at my kitchen table at midnight and started reading. Not the prescribing habits I'd memorised in training. The actual research on the follicle.
What I found made me sick.
Every time you pluck, wax or thread, you tear the hair out by force. The follicle reads that as an injury. And an injured follicle does one thing to survive: it rebuilds the hair thicker, darker and faster.
That's the coarsening. That's the regrowth that comes back worse. That's the exact thing I'd been telling women to do, every single day.
But that wasn't even the worst part.
Dissolution chemistry that breaks the hair down at the surface, with no tearing and no trauma signal to the follicle, has existed for years.
Without the injury signal, the follicle calms instead of defending itself, and the regrowth comes back finer. And it doesn't wreck the skin, because nothing is ripped from the root.
This approach existed the entire time I was telling women to pluck.
But dissolving the hair is only step one. The traumatised skin also has to heal. And to do that it needs support, ingredients that calm the inflammation and rebuild the barrier that years of tearing destroyed.
Without them, the skin stays raw and reactive. The cycle never truly breaks.
For 15 years, I recommended the most damaging approach there is. And when my patients told me it wasn't working, I told them to do more of it.
I called a colleague who specialises in hair and follicle disorders the next morning. Told her what I'd found.
She wasn't surprised.
"We've known about this for years. Tearing hair from a hormonal follicle just trains it to grow back stronger. Dissolving without trauma is what the research supports. I don't know why general practice still tells women to pluck."
That sentence broke something in me.
A specialist knew. Had known for years. And it never reached the doctors actually giving the advice.
Because the standard advice hasn't been updated in decades. Because we spent almost no time on hormonal facial hair in training.
So women keep suffering through years of plucking and scarring, and we kept telling them to push through, because that's what we were taught.
I spent two weeks looking at every option. Most had the same problem. Removal by force, or a dissolving step with nothing to heal the skin. Still only part of it.
I was about to give up and piece it together from separate products when I found one that had everything in a single system.
The right dissolving step. Aloe vera. Hyaluronic acid. Vitamin E. Chamomile.
The Korean approach, in three steps. Pre-treat. Dissolve. Heal.
I ordered it that night, once I'd cross-checked the formula against the research.
Week two. No tearing, no bumps. After five months of misery on the tweezers, I almost didn't trust it.
Week four. My skin was calm for the first time in a year. The redness settled.
Week six. The regrowth came in finer. Softer hairs, fewer of them.
Week eight. The coarse shadow along my jaw was lighter than it had been since my thirties.
Week twelve. I looked in the mirror and recognised myself again.
I felt like a different person. The chin I'd hidden for over a year, the scarring, the raw skin, all settling. I stopped angling away from the light. I stopped plucking in the car.
But then the guilt hit.
I sat in my office and thought about every woman who'd sat across from me at that desk.
The woman who came back three times saying the plucking was making it worse. I told her to keep going.
The women who said it was scarring their skin. I told them it was normal.
The women who stopped coming back entirely. They probably gave up.
I'm not telling women to pluck and wax anymore. Every woman in my practice with hormonal facial hair is now using this same dissolving system. Regrowth I couldn't change in months is coming back finer in as little as eight weeks.
I wasn't a bad doctor. I was a misinformed one. But my patients were the ones who suffered.
If you've been plucking and waxing for months and your facial hair only keeps coming back worse, it's not you.
It's the method.
I've linked the system I used, and what I now recommend to my patients, below:
👉 https://aurlux.co/pages/instantly-remove-hair
P.S. I think about the women who gave up. The ones who decided their hormones just couldn't be beaten. If you're one of them, it wasn't your fault. You were given the wrong method.
P.P.S. Give it a few weeks. That's when the skin calms. By week six to eight the regrowth comes in finer. There's a 60-day money-back guarantee if your skin doesn't change.
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