Soften the Skin

• Before trying to treat your ingrown hair, it is important to soften your skin so that your hair will be more responsive to treatment, and the hair won't break during the process. Use a warm water compress against the area where the ingrown hair is, and hold it there for no more than 10 seconds. If the skin starts turning red or pink, remove it immediately.
  
  

Get the Tweezers

• Now that your skin is fully prepared, it is time to get out the tweezers. Small tweezers are best if you are working with the face, but if you are trying to get a hair in a hard-to-reach place like under your arms or on your legs, then longer tweezers will work just fine. Simply use a very small pair of tweezers to try and grab the offending hair, and then pull, not yank, it out slowly. When tweezing, it is very important to pull all of the hair from the shaft, as broken follicles will not solve the problem.
  
  

Clean the Area

• Depending on the severity of the ingrown hair, you may have a little infection or pus where the hair used to be. Use a cotton swab to clean this away, and then use hydrogen peroxide to kill any remaining infection. Even if the ingrown hair has been plucked clean, it is still a good idea to sanitize the area around where the hair used to be to prevent any infection from occurring.