- Is it a month long?
- [Camerawoman] Yeah.
- Oooh!
(cheerful music)
- I have had the hairiest face since childhood.
- I grow facial hair, like, all through here.
- I have lovely little trinkets of hair
sticking out, like a little goat.
- Every time someone says anything nice to me,
if they ever say anything nice to me,
it's about my brows.
To just let them go free is something
that's just not going to work for me.
- When I was younger, I noticed
that people on TV didn't have as much hair
on their face as I did, so that's when
I kind of thought that it wasn't normal.
- The only woman with a unibrow is Frida Kahlo,
and she's still called ugly.
- I'm hoping to gain some confidence in myself.
- I think it'll be nice to give my face
a break for like, a month.
- You like what you see now?
Give this a month.
(gong banging)
(classical music) - I didn't expect that
this little chin hair is already so long.
If you can kind of see that.
I'm going to be super hairy at the end of this month.
- I personally notice, like, a lot of growth.
I'm getting really paranoid.
- So it's been about a week since I've done this challenge,
and already I have, like, just hair everywhere,
and I feel like everyone's staring at my unibrow.
(ding)
(faster classical music) - Aah!
I have so much hair, it's driving me nuts!
It's not a lot of hair on, like, tape.
In person, I think, you can see it.
It's really bothering me.
- There's a little bit of a unibrow growing in,
right there.
It's starting to merge.
This is my worst nightmare.
- Like, I realize that this isn't that bad,
but I feel super hideous.
I need to pluck my brows.
(ding)
(very fast classical music) - So I just came back
from my interview.
I just kept thinking, like, "What if he notices
how bushy my eyebrows are?
What if he just thinks I'm a slob,
that I'm just lazy, and he just translates
that into my work ethic," and you know,
it was just, it was just too much.
- I mentioned it to my guy friend the other day,
and I was like, "Hey, I'm doing a BuzzFeed video,"
and he was like, "Oh, cool, what is it about?"
"Blah, blah, blah, facial hair."
He's like, "Ew, that's gross, that's so gross!"
I don't think it's that gross!
I think it's good to keep things kempt,
same as for guys.
I'd rather be kissing you and not
flossing my teeth with your beard.
- I never want to do this again.
I feel hideous, I feel like a monster right now.
I'm not happy about this challenge.
I might actually get them done today,
because I just literally can't take it anymore.
(ding)
(fast classical music) - You can't see it, right?
You can't see it.
I don't think you can see it.
I feel it, though.
I feel it.
I really want to take it off.
(frustrated noise)
- Oh my.
I can totally see it now.
Usually, I wasn't able to see...
Oh my god.
- Plucked a little bit, like on the sides.
Still left a little bit more hair
than I'm used to leaving.
I don't even care that I plucked.
I'm a piece of shit, sorry.
(swelling happy, simple music) I thought I'd better at it,
and I felt like, "This is going to be a really great moment
for me to like, give zero fucks," but I've never
given more fucks in my life.
- I think I would've been fine with my facial hair
if I wasn't concerned with other people's
perspective of me.
- I didn't even want to go outside.
My boyfriend was coming in from out of town,
and I just couldn't feel sexy.
I don't think it was so much a beauty standard issue
as much as it was, like, a me issue.
- The videos started getting more (laughs) agitating.
I'd try to put on makeup, but you'd see, like, whiskers.
At a point, I was sitting in my car,
and I was ripping out my own mustache hair
because it was making me paranoid.
- I had an interview this month,
and that was, I think, the most nerve-wracking
I had ever been about my appearance.
I avoided eye contact a lot during the interview,
and I thought that really hurt my chances.
Spoiler, it didn't, but no one said
anything negative about them.
- There are a lot of people out there
who either aren't allowed, or, because
of cultural reasons, they don't get
to remove facial hair.
Hang in there.
We have to fight the world as it is,
and the people in it.
We shouldn't have to fight ourselves.
- No matter how minor it might be
for someone else, it mattered to me.
If it matters to you, then it's important.
- I think I liked the experience enough
that I would probably do it again
for No Shave November.
It's a good excuse to not groom for a month.
- Stubble doesn't hurt, it just makes
you grow, and grow stronger.