By Vandita Bhasin
Hello everyone, so today being a cosmetologist, I will be telling you how to bleach your facial hair with the right tips and tricks for the best result.
Okay so let’s begin !
About bleaching: Well, bleaching basically lightens the hair and is an effective way to disguise pigmented facial or body hair that anyone finds unacceptable. The effect lasts up to 4 weeks.
Cream Bleach has chemicals that lighten our facial hair. Technically it is not removal of superfluous hair but it makes it considerably less noticeable by camouflaging the hair.
CAUTION:
Hydrogen peroxide and ammonia used in bleach formulations is a strong skin irritant. Perform a patch test on your inner arm before bleaching.
Benefits:
• Removal of tanning.
• Removal of dead skin cells (exfoliation).
• Lightens the facial hair.
• Brightens dull, shallow skin.
• Removes oiliness.
• Slightly antiseptic.
• Reduces severity of blemishes.
Now let’s jump into the application!
Things you’ll need:
• A bleach kit ( any would work depending on your skin type like VLCC, Fem, Oxy etc)
• Hand sanitizer
• Cleanser
• Toner
• Moisturizer
• SPF
• Lacto Calamine
• Tissue
• Non-metallic bowl
• Spatula
• Headband
• Face pack brush
Procedure:
• Sanitize your hands.
• Wear a head band ensuring only facial hair gets bleached.
• Clean the area to be bleached with cleansing milk or mild cleanser according to your skin type.
• Apply some toner on a cotton pad and gently dab it all over your face. Remember to dab the toner and not swipe.
• Blot skin dry with a tissue ensuring the skin is free from any grease which would form a barrier to the hair lightening products.
• Apply pre bleach cream before if it’s available in your kit.
• Next, mix the cream and the activator powder in a non-metallic bowl using a spatula.
• The proportion of the cream : activator should be 7:1 . If you are bleaching for the first time make sure you add only a pinch or one and a half pinch of activator.
• Apply the mixture with a face pack brush first on the side locks, then on your upper lips, following with chin, forehead, nose area, cheeks and at last your neck. (Mild itching is normal)
• Leave it for 10 minutes and check after 7 minutes. Reapply the mixture if hair needs further lightening.
• The duration can be increased in case the hair is coarse. Skin type and tolerance should also be kept in mind while deciding the duration.
• Remove the bleach with spatula and wipe with moist cotton.
• Apply the post bleach pack if it’s available in your kit. Leave it for 5 minutes and remove.
• Apply moisturizer since bleaching tends to dry up the skin.
• Apply SPF!!!
• Do not expose area to sun for 24 hrs.
Tip for sensitive skin:
• Add a drop of lacto calamine lotion to your bleach mixture. This would help to minimize the effect of bleach and make it a little mild for your use.
I hope you have a safe and happy bleaching! 🙂
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The tip on Lacto Calamine seems interesting 🙂 Good post Rashmita.
This is such an informative post!
Thank you so much:)