Plucking may be a quick and easy way to get rid of unwanted body hair, but it's not the safest or most effective way. And plucking your armpits is no exception. Plucking your armpit hair can be painful, time-consuming, and if done incorrectly, can cause irritation, ingrown hairs, or scarring.
1. Why should you not pluck your armpit hair?
Plucking your armpit hair also has certain advantages such as removing hair from the root. This ensures longer lasting results than shaving. At the same time, plucking your armpit hair properly can also be a much lower cost alternative to waxing. All you need is a small pair of tweezers and you are ready. No need to make an appointment, everyone can do it themselves, the results are semi-permanent.
However, the first reason why you should not pluck your armpit hair is that this is a time-consuming method while it should only be applied to small areas of skin, such as eyebrows. Plucking hair with tweezers will also cause small scratches on the skin, making the skin look rough and causing enlarged pores. Moreover, this damage can lead to scabbing and can leave scars or dark spots on the skin under the armpit, which is unsightly. In addition, plucking is also very painful because it requires pulling the hair out of the root. This increases the pain on sensitive skin and also causes further irritation to the skin.
2. Things to know when plucking armpit hair
According to dermatologists, if you pluck armpit hair incorrectly, you can damage the hair follicles. Therefore, if you intend to pluck those armpit hairs, it is best to pluck armpit hair after taking a shower with warm water. This condition will help the hair follicles to be more open and will be less painful. In addition, for women, choosing the time to pluck hair is also very important. Due to hormonal changes, painful stimuli tend to feel more painful near a person's menstrual cycle, so plucking armpit hair during this time should be avoided.
It is often recommended to pull armpit hair in the direction of hair growth, because "pulling back" will encourage ingrown hairs as well as the side effect of forming goose bumps.
The next thing users need to note is not to pluck armpit hair too early. Shaving every day or every other day will prevent irritation, but this is not the case with plucking. When plucking longer hairs, it is also easier to grasp and more effective in preventing damage to the hair follicles when the hair is new. Therefore, doctors usually accept plucking every four weeks - although the rate of hair growth varies from person to person.
On the other hand, the choice of tweezers to pluck hair is also important. Never try to work with an ineffective tweezer as it will only cause further damage to the skin. In addition, using a dull tweezer can make it difficult to pluck hair as well as increase the risk of skin irritation and infection.
Shaving requires gentle exfoliation beforehand, but this step is not necessary before plucking. Instead, users should exfoliate afterwards to reduce the appearance of ingrown hairs. In addition, when plucking underarm hair, users do not need to use any shaving oil or cream to prepare the skin.
Finally, not everyone should pluck underarm hair. While plucking is gentler on the skin than waxing, plucking underarm hair can be difficult for people with very thick hair and can increase the risk of ingrown hairs. Therefore, these people may be better suited to permanent hair removal methods such as laser hair removal.
3. Alternatives to Plucking
Fortunately, there are other ways to remove underarm hair, including waxing, shaving, and using hair removal creams. However, waxing can still come with some side effects. For example, if you have never used wax as a hair removal method before or have sensitive skin, you may experience itching, redness, or small bumps after the first application.
Although removing underarm hair may seem like a difficult task to do yourself, if you carefully follow the instructions and prepare the area beforehand, you can still get satisfactory results. However, if you are really concerned, you can always seek the advice of a professional aesthetician who can provide hair removal services. Ultimately, choosing the best hair removal method still depends on your skin type, cost, and personal preferences.
In short, one of the most sensitive areas of the body is the armpit. Plucking underarm hair is not recommended to avoid causing wounds and prolonged inflammation. Moreover, plucking underarm hair properly is also more time consuming than shaving. Therefore, if possible, more attractive underarm hair removal methods are laser hair removal, a more attractive alternative, or shaving, a quick and cheap, popular way to remove hair on the underarm skin.
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Reference source: bustling.com
