What do you mean I have a mustache"

I was in college! I think I might?ve been 19 or 20 at the time. That?s when I started plucking my brows doing stuff to remove my upper lip hair. And it all started with facial bleach, which was?not my most genius idea, LOL! Because I just ended up looking like a girl with an orange mustache.
When I was sort of coming of age in the ?90s, facial hair, at least in the circles I ran in, wasn?t a big deal. Like, all of the girls I knew in high school had upper lip hair, and nobody ever did anything about it. It was just there. No big deal.
And I definitely had upper lip hair because ? UGH! ? this boy who allegedly liked me in freshman year would come around at lunchtime and just say ridiculous things, like, ?Ooh, do you have a mustache" Because it looks like you have a mustache. I wonder what it?s like to kiss a girl with a mustache!? You know, typical 14-year-old boy? That?s how they spit game. LOL!
Anyway, I was aware of it (the hair) back then, but I didn?t do anything about it until I was in college.
I don?t know if that was because I was busy with band and studying (I was a nerd). I think it was more just a sign of the times. No one I knew really talked about hair removal or brow plucking at the time, and it wasn?t a thing in the magazines (?the? magazines, LOL!). I don?t recall Seventeen doing an extensive exposé on removing your upper lip hair or anything like that!
It?s interesting, though, because my friend Jen has ...