It’s a story many shavers or waxers know well. Smooth flawless skin post shave or wax (once the initial pink afterglow calms down) and then a couple of weeks later angry little dots appear.

In the natural order of hair growth one hair is expelled out of the hair follicle as another is growing in the follicle so the first hair ready to drop out has provided a nice guide for the new hair to reappear.

When a hair is waxed from its root there is no guide for the new forming hair to follow so occasionally the new hair can loose its way and keep growing under the skin. The follicle can then become infected, pink and angry looking.

So the question here is how do we prevent...

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This might sound really weird but I have never had an ingrown hair. If I have I have never known about it.

you are a lucky lady then!
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I hate ingrown hairs :shakehead: I get them alot, even a beauty therapist who i went to for a wax said i was eexceptionally prone to them!!

I don't get them anywhere except the woo-woo. It's so annoying. I have a question though... if you're not allowed to pick them or scratch them once you have one, do you just leave it there?? I mean I know prevention is better and I do everything I'm supposed to, but I still get them :no: So what do I do when they come up?

Me too Vee! Just the woo-woo and sometimes my knees/thighs. I dont think I exfoliate enough. I exfoliate once I have them and moisturise them, but if the hairs really close to the surface i grab my tweezers out! :redcheeks: probably not meant to though.

I only get a few in the ingrown area - and if I can keep myself away from the tweezers, I pop on some Dermalogica Medicated Clearing Gel or MB Drying Cream, or moisterise with tea tree moisterise and exfoliate gently. Works a treat!

my husband gets some very rarely and he is amazed when i get my tweezers out and tweeze that sucker out

I hate ingrown hairs :shakehead: I get them alot, even a beauty therapist who i went to for a wax said i was eexceptionally prone to them!!

Me too. They are the bane of my existence

I don't get them anywhere except the woo-woo.
Hahaha! I'm sorry, that cracked me up.

I've found that the Nads ingrown spray has really, really helped (but not cured) and also the Bikini Gold is also very good for serious ones.

I must be really fortunate as I have never suffered ingrowns.

I must be really fortunate as I have never suffered ingrowns.

You are. Oh Charismatic, you are!

Very fortunate Charismatic!

I've never had one either, well that I know about anyway. Would I know if I had one?

Possibly not - I have them occasionally but don't realise unless I'm looking for then - some people can get them quite badly and they can hurt and get infected.

Yes. They can be painful, red sometimes inflammed and resemble a pimple, (except the 'head' is a hair underneath trying to push through) and happens as the hair is growing back after waxing or shaving.

Two different answers - I get them badly sometimes if I dont exfoliate/moisturise, so I'm speaking from my own experience PCC. Loola is also right.

I always get ingrowns - I used to not even be able to shave my legs without getting a red, very itchy, pimply rash. Now I use an electric lady-shaver which has helped heaps (possibly because it does not cut the hair too close to the skin as even though with shaving the hair is still in the skin - just cut at the base - I think it can be hard for the old hair to grow out too, let alone the new one underneath it.) I still get a crazy itchy bikni like, even with my electronic shaver - sometimes it looks and feels chronic! :(