The Random $10 Beauty Product I Swear By

Thanks so much for this post, Joanna! I was diagnosed with PCOS after college, which led to a lot of rogue “goat chin hairs” and sideburns. Waxing was a nightmare (our roots run deep in my family apparently – ha! Still not over the first time I went to get my eyebrows waxed with a very… Determined esthetician ?) so I was stuck with half hearted tweezing/ hoping nobody noticed. But I just picked up the Lumiya at Walgreens and it worked SO WELL!! I’m completely thrilled! I loved the thought that hair is ok because we’re humans, but it’s also ok to decide you don’t want it.

This made me giggle. It’s so funny the stuff that pops up or out of our body as we age. I am finding more hair on my face now I’m in my fifties. I will definately check this product out before someone starts mentioning my nasal or chin hair.

Late to the game, but my fav product right now is jojoba oil. I use it as a moisturizer on my face at night and on my hands in the winter. I use it on my damp hair (from chin down) to separate my waves. I like to use the Organic 365 brand and the acne.org one.

I have had the same Finishing Touch since HIGH SCHOOL! It STILL WORKS and I love it. $10 for 15+years of well-groomed nostrils.

I am in my 20s and nowhere near having children or menopause, just an Eastern European Jew with the dark and abundant hair that comes with that… I recently started getting my upper lip waxed rather than the depilatory cream I’ve used since age 16 and LOVE how reliable and long lasting and easy it is comparatively. I can’t figure out what to do about my ‘sideburns’ though. I have pale skin and very dark hair and it stands out my face. I feel like it makes me look less feminine and is really noticeable but I’m nervous to do something to address it lest it come back looking weird or hard to deal with! Does anyone have advice?!

Did you know you can get your nostrils waxed? I learned this from a man I dated! It’s painless too!

I really like using my epilator on my face, chin and sides of my mouth. I pull the skin taut first.

I go to an electrologist and that has made all the difference!!!

I just turned 32 and was recently examining a mole on my chin that I’ve had forever and I noticed that there was a hair growing out of it…and that that solitary hair forked into TWO hairs at its end.
I’m not kidding, even my chin hairs have split ends!

There has been a lot about entering my thirties that I have been wholly unprepared for, but this was next level.

That sounds like it is just cutting hair… I’d never do that in my face unless taking it from the root…

https://www.amazon.com/Palmers-Cocoa-Butter-Formula-Therapy/dp/B001KYU1H2/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Skin%2Btherapy%2Boil&qid=1560564753&s=gateway&sr=8-3&th=1

Skin therapy oil. Bought it for stretch marks during pregnancy, been using it all over ever since.

Haha, I love honest posts like these! And all the amazing comments that come along with it! Cup of Jo is always keeping it real! Wilmington, DE

My three year old daughter referred to my nose hair as the “spiders up my nose”. ?

I saw a post from Grace Atwood on The Stripe for an ice roller, and thought “What the heck, why not?”

https://www.amazon.com/ESARORA-Roller-Puffiness-Migraine-Products/dp/B01E8IZ4ZA

Not only did I absolutely love this for my face, it’s been a miracle for recovery from a knee injury I sustained in March (mid-pregnancy, too, oy vey). I’ve had lots of leg swelling, and the roller feels nice and cool on my legs and ankles. I’ve also heard people say they like it for migraines?

Excellent post, CofJ!

Thank you! This will be a lifesaver. I just ordered!

I just use small scissors. Fill your cheeks up with air and any that poke out snip snip.

Have you ever considered a post on nipple hair after having children? What is up with that? so many? why? How do you remove it?
also, post birth bikini hair getting denser and connecting to thigh hair? I never had to wax beyond bikini, but now it just keeps going!

HA, my mom had a similar exchange with Abe last week. She was having a sweet cuddle moment with him and then he said – Grandma, why do you have spider webs in your nose? Eep.

Merci Sol

WAIT! I need to know, does your hair grow back thicker? Coarser? Are there any after effects of using this? If not, I’ll get one asap.

Yes! I use it for lip hair + hair in between my eyebrows too!

Gah!

I’ve hit menopause and I have a veritable hedge (yeah, oka, it’s thin) growing along my jawline! I pluck them generally once a month and the fuzz? I think I’ll have to learn to live with it.

My head hair has also thinned by 2/3! THAT is really, really scary! I took my super thick, shiny, straight, healthy hair totally for granted prior to this.
I’ve been talking Swisse hair, skin & nails for about 3 months jow and my hair cycle has re-switched on.
BUT, it’s growing back in literal ringlets! Ringlets, about 3 inches long, underneath long and straight?!? W -hiskey T -ango F -oxtrot?!?
I. Do. Not. Know. What. To. Do.
H E L P This is THE only blog I HAVE to read, daily, because you deal with yhe REAL issues of women’s lives. ;)

Ah, the joy of children! They have such a sweet way of lowering your self esteem. I once nannied for a girl who was around 9 at the time and asked if she could draw a picture of me during a break from homework. When she presented it to me she lead with “Well, I have to be honest in my drawings so I had to include your blemishes”. She had drawn all the acne that I had on my face, and very accurately! It was the last time we drew portraits on break :)

I’ve just turned 58 and I look like Teddy Pendagrass – wtf

ladies – this little baby does wonders, I rather lose my wallet than this tool

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X8S9SN6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Have you ever done a post on personal grooming (you know… near your lady parts)?! I’m super interested in different options that other women use!