Is it permissible to remove the hair from the cheeks for the purpose of beautification, for women only?

Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: Is it permissible to remove the hair from the cheeks for the purpose of beautification, for women only?

Answer:
A woman does not remove anything from her face, neither the facial hair nor the eyebrows, unless the facial hair is disfiguring the face, or she is born with a mustache or beard that disfigures her face; in that case, there is no harm in removing it. However, if her face is normal and not disfigured, she does not use what they call plucking, which the jurists call *hamm* (plucking), which is removing facial hair when it is normal and does not disfigure the face; all of this is... Yes. Some scholars hold that the hair at the edge of the face is included in the area of the earth.