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Summary of Question:	Re: Hair On Upper Lip Is No Biggy
Category:	General Sikhism
Date Posted:	Saturday, 3/15/2003 11:34 AM MDT

i think the person who replied to hair on my upper lip must have been a male (no offence if your female-just that you don't know much about female issues)cos every girl i know has hair on her upper lip- you just got to look carefully.

the point is that you can notice it more on others. mainly it is those asians who have pale/white skin and their black hair is obviously going to show more than those who have darker skin.so what do they do?

well most bleach their hair as it matches with their pale/white skin. white ppl obviusly do not have this problem as their hair is not black therefore the pale hair matches with their pale colour. Black ppl do not have this problem as they have black skin and the black hair matches with their skin.

Therefore you'll find most ppl have hair on there face, with most of it being tiny. a scientific fact is that we have hair all over our body except the sole of our feet and the palms of our hands.as we get older it is quite natural to have hair on the upper lip, being more in length than that hair on the other parts of our face. You will also notice hair on your toes growing to 2cm and also a cluster of hair on your fingers. remember its only tiny therefore it is no biggy.

to the person who had this problem with the girls teasing her. i want her to ask herself whether she is comfortable with the hair or not? if she is only removing it so that the girls will like her, then there is no point. i wouldn't want to be friends with them or want them to be like me. i would like to say that my aunt became obssessed with her hair when she was in her mid teens. she shaved it off......the consequence is that she has to shave her face everyday otherwise she looks like a man. My aunt really regrets doing what she did coz it was only a small amount and no one noticed it unless they were looking carefully and in which case you would notice everyon has hair on their upper lip.

bleaching doesn't have such drastic consequences but, it is not still without its faults. firstly if you bleach it too much you look like a hidious clown. bleching is not good for your skin.....it turns dry. also bleching can cause a mutation. a mutation is basically when a part of your DNA is altered. This altered piece then can cause cancer...pretty grim stuff.

Also bleaching actually causes your hair to become thicker, therefore it becomes more noticiable. i bleached only once and since then i hav sworn to never touch the stuff. i have tiny amounts of hair but i really don't care cos it is quite natural and i would tell those white girls that they have some hair as well all they got to do is make it black. when they make it black i guarantee it will be more than you have. the reason being that ppl from colder climates have more hair for insulation etc as a feature left over from there ancestors. whilst asians generally have less, being from a hot climate. therefore all you have to do is imagine them with black hair and laugh back at them coz you know the truth that you have hair, they have hair AND EVERYONE else has hair, so really there is not a big deal.

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Sat Siri Akal.

Thanks for sharing your perspective on this. It is very grounded and practical approach.