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The chin hair mistake women keep making (from an esthetician of 16 years)

I'm an esthetician. I've done facial waxing, threading, and the unforgiving brow and lip appointments where women whisper about their chin like it's a secret, and I'll tell you something most of my colleagues won't say out loud: the women who come to me every two weeks for hair removal leave with regrowth that's worse than when they started coming. I can spot it the moment they sit in my chair, the coarser texture along the jaw, the shadow that's crept wider since spring, the ingrown bumps where smooth skin used to be. Then a fellow esthetician who trained on the Seoul beauty circuit slipped me a three-step kit and told me to try it on my most stubborn client and report back. I did. Eight weeks later she canceled her standing appointment, the kind of cancellation that costs me money and I genuinely didn't mind. Here are the 7 things I, as an esthetician, now know about removing hormonal facial hair and why this Korean dissolving system is the only method I recommend to clients I may never see again.