Speaking of tv and facial hair, I *just* saw a commercial on tv for Vaniqa, which is a prescription cream to reduce facial hair for women. The constantly repeated tagline was "Unwanted facial hair? With vaniqa, no one needs to know"

It's a cream that has to be applied twice a day and a tiny tube of it is more expensive than my fancy electric razor. It's just ridiculous. Side effects include skin irritations such as redness, stinging, burning, tingling, acne or rash. The website is interesting too. There are lots of photos of women covering their faces with their hands in an embarrassed fashion. Except for the page that tells you how to get Vaniqa, on that page the photo is of a woman with a big smile and with her hands away from her face.

What I do appreciate is that in the section on unwanted facial hair, they have a statistic of how many women in America remove facial hair. They can't say how many women have facial hair because everyone has facial hair to some degree, the only thing that it could be even possible to quantify is how many women do something about their facial hair.

Anyway, I think I'm doing my part by talking about it. It should be another thing that's out in the open. The actual hair or its removal actually does not bother me at all, it's just the taboo around it that I don't like. Just like no one blinks twice that women color their hair when they start getting grey hairs, and really the assumption is that most adult women do have grey hair, it's just that the majority choose to do something about it. It's not a taboo.

However, funnily enough, I suspect my hair pigmentation is unusually strong, and I'll be like my father, who's only now *starting* to get a few grey hairs here and there, and he's in his 50's. A couple years ago I witnessed my grandmother plucking out a grey hair from her hairline. I was shocked and amazed to see that because if most other women in their 70's did that they'd probably have no hair left. However, the truly hilarious thing is that when I asked her about she was kind of defensive about plucking out a grey hair. Come to think of it, her facial hair also wasn't grey. Anyway, my grandmother is very beautiful and I'm happy that I definitely resemble her.