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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ishna" data-source="post: 139198" data-attributes="member: 2709">Spnadmin JiNo one has responded to your question because it is very tricky to answer!There can't be one kind of "normal" amount of facial hair for women, because everyone's body is different so some may produce more and others may produce less.  The average of this is the amount which would be "normal", but since so many women remove their hairs then this is an impossible average to calculate.Some info from the first Google result I found...  <a href="http://www.hormonehelpny.com/column/hormoneshair2.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hormonehelpny.com/column/hormoneshair2.htm</a> "Because I see many women with increased hair growth in my practice, I am often asked how much hair is normal for a woman. There is no absolute answer. Half of American women remove facial hair at least once in a while and ten percent remove it two or more times a week. Many of the women I see in my practice remove even more often. Some even use a razor once or twice a day because their facial hair grows as quickly as a man’s. Heavy hair growth on women is not as rare as people think because women with this unfortunate problem do all they can to hide it. ""There is no sharp dividing line between normal and abnormal amounts of hair. Facial and body hair is a very personal matter and so a personal definition is appropriate: hair that is enough to make a woman afraid that it will show is too much. However this does not mean that a medical problem is present.  A few hairs in the following locations are normal for a woman: outer corners of the upper lip, the chin, around the nipples, between the navel and pubic region and the tops of the thighs. If a woman has more than light growth of hair in these places or if there is wider coverage of face and body, then the condition of hirsutism can be said to be present. This degree of extra hair is reason for medical evaluation, especially if accompanied by irregular periods or weight problems." If so many American women remove their hairs, that suggests the hair being present is actually normal, to me anyway.My step-daughter is quite dark haired.  She is constantly removing her arm, leg and lip hairs.  At first she was saying its because she likes how it feels and looks.  Now she's getting older and the novelty is wearing off, she's come around to the logical reason "because society tells me I have to remove it to be accepted".So I guess that's the crux... a woman is free to keep her most likely biologically normal facial hair if she's willing to be unaccepted by (a high percentage of Western) society.  Looked at sideways... thought to have a social disorder... thought to be a bit mentally slow... thought to be dirty... thought to not care enough about herself or too dumb to realise... those are big pills to swallow, and would be more of a block to someone's spirituality I think than putting ones foot down against societal "norms".Unfortunately I don't see society changing anytime soon with regards to facial (or other!) hair on women (unless it's on their head!!!).Ishna</blockquote>

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