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horrible and artificial. To say nothing of the way the face looks when the beard begins to sprout again after a few hours. So, I tried plucking.

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I started with the upper lip and the chin area. was devilishly painful the first and second time. but as the profedure was repeated about once a week, the pain diminished 'till it ceased altogether. The sides of the face and under the chin and neck were another thing! I was frankly scared of even attempting a complete job..just a few hairs pulled around the neck were enough to dissuade me. I simply didn't have the courage. But one day, about 3 months ago, a good friend of mine who has been pluck- ing away for over two years, talked me into it. Since I didn't have the nerve to do it myself, she offered to be the executioner. And so I went under the tweezer... an entire evening was spent... my face was red and swollen. Each hair meant an electric shock from head to toes... I bit my lips, I cursed, I squirmed, I applied alcohol... and we kept going until the entire face was as smooth as a baby's bottom. The very next morning (the swelling had disappeared overnight) I dressed... and all I had to use was pressed powder! What a difference! At that mo- ment, as I looked in the mirror, I promised myself that I would never shave again...and so far I have kept my promise...for three solid months my face has not been touched by a razor...all I do is pluck.

Let me state at this point that it is a difficult job to carry out. It means daily plucking for about one hour every morning. There are always a few hairs that begin to peek above the surface of the skin every 24 hours... and there are days in which the face does not look so good, but by and large the results are marvellous. No more shadow...no more heavy make-up...sometimes just a thin layer of Cover Girl liquid make-up by Noxema plus pressed powder...and that's all... other times just the pressed powder is enough. Needless to say, now I can do the whole face by myself and there's absolutely no pain involved...the hairs seem to have lost their root strength and they just slide out of their follicles like pins out of a pin-cushion. They have also lost their thick- ness and many of them have become discolored. It takes a lot of patience, dedication and determination, but believe me, it's worth every bit of the effort we put into