Want to have smooth, hairless skin but don’t know where to start? You can start by asking yourself how long you want to be hairless, how much you’re willing to pay and how much pain you can stand. Once you’ve got that covered you can narrow down your choices. To help you decide here’s a brief overview of each method.

The first way we deal with excess hair is to shave it off. It’s easy, relatively convenient, plus it is very affordable. Those benefits aside the disadvantage is considerable. You only stay free of hair for at most a day. Two if you push it. Even if you replace your blades at the first hint of dullness, exfoliate before and moisturize after the results are fleeting. And it can be hard on your skin.

Waxing is definitely not for cry babies. You will be able to tolerate the pain if you want to be hairless for about 3-6 weeks. It’s your call. Just a heads up, exfoliate the area two days before waxing and the hair must be long enough for the wax to cling to. Also you might experience some redness and soreness after waxing. Eventually this will fade away within a couple of hours or an ice pack will speed up the process.

Waxer’s Tip of the Trade: Always dust the skin about to be waxed with baby powder. This will absorb the moisture on the skin and will make the wax cling to the hair not the skin.

For those seeking to thin out their eyebrows, get rid of chin hair or clear armpit hair then plucking with tweezers might be for you. Although some consider it time consuming and tedious, this method will give you smooth underarms for about 3-5 days. As for the pain it’s less painful than waxing but you might want to watch out for ingrown hairs.

Another popular approach is depilatories or hair removal creams. No pain here. Such products give you decent enough short-term relief. Results may be somewhat hit and miss however. And the chemicals involved can wreck havoc on the skin of some. (If it’s your first time to use creams test it on the back of your hand just to be sure your skin doesn’t have any reaction.) And then there’s the smell of some plus the fact you hair may come back with a vengeance both coarser and darker. But you do get a hair free look that lasts for several days.

The next one is both expensive and labor intensive. Electrolysis for the longest time was your best long term route to smooth skin. This approach will leave you hairless forever because a charge or electricity is used to remove the hair one follicle at a time. If that sounds less than ideal, it is. The downside of getting to totally and eternally hairless using electrolysis is the cost, time and although rare the risk of permanent scarring.

This brings us to the new gold standard of permanent hair removal, lasers. Here you’re using light converted into heat energy to zap the follicles. Hundreds if not thousands at a shot are killed off. The hair simply falls out never to grow back for a long time – if ever. Again this can put a hurting on your wallet as well as the hair. But many find it a small price to pay for the freedom from future hair removal rituals.

So there you have it. The grand tour of the main stream hair removal methods there are to choose from. The choice often comes down to longer term results with short term pain, or shelling out some serious money to more or less get rid of unwanted body hair permanently.

Some say beauty is only skin deep. But to get beautiful skin you may need to know the best ways to remove facial hair. If so visit PerfectlyHairless.com, the site for those seeking advice on upper lip laser hair removal prices plus tips about waxing, shaving and hair dissolving creams.

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