Aziraphale - I could have written your post word for word before I let my hair go grey. My lashes, brows & body hair are all very fair while my hair was mid-brown.

I have quite a few hairs under my chin, probably more than average for my age but it's so hard to know since everyone removes it. My upper lip, too. The hair is almost transparent, so I used not to mind, but it's gotten thicker in my 30s.

Now I tweeze the chin hair and trim or wax the lip hair. I just started practicing threading on myself but haven't gotten good at it yet. I get fewer ingrown hairs and bumps from that than waxing.

I rarely do anything with my (invisible) eyebrows but they do look better when I get them shaped. I like full eyebrows but mine are sort of poorly defined, so cleaning up the edges makes them look fuller, in a way I like.

I was always in awe of anyone who could use a depilatory (Nair, Neet, etc.). The hair on my legs would just laugh at that stuff, but my skin would peel if I used it. Tough hair, sensitive skin -- what a combo!

Pregnancy was my downfall. I get super sharp spiky dark hair on my chin and the sides of my lips where it is too painful to pluck. I go at it daily; I swear the little buggers grow a cm overnight!

I do pluck my stray brows, but what bugs me are the random few darkish hairs on my upper lip. I don't care about the light peach fuzz just the darker few. I tried waxing and that was a disaster, my sensitive skin was angry for quite a while. So, I bleach and hate it. I did recently try to lightly epilate and target just the darker few hairs but my skin didn't like that much either, I still have a rash. Anyone have a better solution for upper lip hair removal on super sensitive skin?

colette - hard wax is better...find a salon that does hard wax - less irritation

Thanks lisaflex, my neighbor is an esthetician and offers her cold wax to me all the time, because I'm always asking her what I can do. The horrible wax experience I had keeps me from trying any type of wax. I'll consider it after my skin calms down for a while.