Bastard chin hairs

I have memories, as a child, of being made to kiss an elderly great aunt who obviously shaved, but not everyday, as she had more stubble than my dad at 5pm. I dreaded her leaving & saying come here I have a little something for you, she would give me 2 shillings & hold up her face for me to kiss when I said thank you. I'd rather not have had to 2 shillings TBH.

Me too! Lovely long dark nipple hairs as well (but I see a lovely lady who waxes them & what's left of my underarm hair.

When I appear in the living room, wearing my reading glasses & headtorch & proceed to balance a magnifying shaving mirror on a wine box on the coffee table, tweezers in hand (I have a selection as they need different ends for different places DH has been known to snigger & ask when the mystery went out of our relationship. I say 'you watched me push 3 huge babies out of my vagina and NOW you ask where the mystery went? Shut up & shave your nose & ears before I decide to pluck them out as well' 😂

Epilator + philips lumea

What you need is a magnifying mirror and a pair of magnifying glasses.

That was a problem for me as well, but the therapist went all tough love with me and said I mustn’t pluck them or I’d undo all her good work. My options were to shave them man style or snip them with some nail scissors. Had to do that a few times initially but not now, lasting much longer. Apparently laser is faster but yeah, expensive and only good for the darker beard.

it does this to me too. Laser did nothing at all-I have more now than ever. I am in my early forties and have had this issue since my mid-twenties. It's just got worse. I dread when my eyesight declines and I can't see them as even now I sometimes struggle if they're in an awkward place-I could feel a REALLY spiky one recently but I couldn't see it where it was, just in the place under my chin where I couldn't see it in the mirror. Eventually I got it. So annoying. I don't know what to do next.

I was 17 when I discovered my first chin hair!

I'm 40 now and have about 10 under my chin. I just run a razor over them 3-4 times a week - it's a 3 second job.
No upper lip hairs, fortunately!

I've got a tiny mole on my top lip on the edge of my Cupid's bow. It grows about 3 thick black hairs which I have to pluck out as soon a I can get hold of it. Less than 1mm will be visible but I'll pluck out a 5mm hair

I've never had that problem so can't answer I'm afraid

How do we prevent them coming back all ingrown in the bikini line?

You are very welcome - I take mine everywhere - just in case a long hair magically appears. Initially in hurt a bit but not now. I also use a different one for my legs, armpits and bikini line and, again, after a while it is used less and less. You MUST be careful around your bikini line though!!

Me too. It’s the quickest least painful way.

Electrolysis is the only thing that really works. I had a handful of sessions, and now they are gone. Once a year I go back if a little patch appears (which can happen as you go through hormone changes) but, honestly, it will be like three hairs, when previously I couldn't leave the house without tweezers.

Just don’t be like me. - more than once I’ve been in the car, going somewhere nice, before realising that there’s a big bastard waving about on my chin - and I haven’t got any tweezers in my bag.

I’ve never been able to pull them out without.

I've had laser sessions and it's completely changed my life - it was getting to the point where I was plucking multiple times a day and I couldn't do it anymore!

It didn't cost the earth either - £40 per session for the chin / neck area and the cost spreads really as the sessions are only every month initially then every 8 weeks currently. Its made such a huge difference.

I bought one after reading your comment and good heavens it is an amazing tool. Thank you!

Lumea is the only way to go, I'm afraid. I bought one about 6 years ago and no longer have to worry about legs, bikini line, underarm or upper lip in years. It's worked wonders on my chin too, though I still get the occasional hair. Waxing or tweezing is all very well but it's those days when you can feel the hair cimg through but it isn't long enough to wax or tweeze that used to bug me the most!

As a PP said, do it while the hairs are still dark. Once they go white then IPL won't work.

‘I'm 56 & they have migrated from the south to the north!’

I’m the same. My legs are now bare which is some consolation.

With electrolysis do you have to let them grow unhindered between treatments?

Because that would be awful for me.... mine are so obvious after one day.

if my DH has noticed he has never said. I carry tweezers and a razor in my bag at all times though.

A Braun one. It was half price but still just under £500 - this was a massive splurge for me but fuck chin hairs. Dh was very kind about it.

Oh what is worse is when they do notice. But not until you are out and about and can't do anything about it.

Either tell me these things before we leave the house so I can do something about it, or keep schtumm until we get home so I don't spend the rest of the outing feeling self conscious

I could have written this, so thank you! 34 with a hairy chin

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All so true!

And somehow my DH never notices either! I have told him not to let me leave the house looking like ZZ Top, but does he notice? No, he does not 😂