My eyebrows are turning into badgers

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I'm sure I used to have fairly normal brown eyebrows but since travelling through the wrong side of 40 every hair has turned either brilliant white or into black bristles you could scour a floor with.

Could someone tell my face that it is not a sanctuary for large woodland creatures?

And while we're at it I'd to tell this chin hedgehog to piss off as well

Maybe surrender and go build a riverside abode?

Aye, perhaps you're right summer.

Riverside accommodation was a bust. I was priced out by well-to-do water rats who weren't having any of it when I started building my rickety twig teepee in what turned out to be their patch.

my sympathies...

I am currently sporting the Dennis Healey look- the buggers are about two inches long and waving in the breeze

chin hairs replicate as soon as the tweezers are put away so sporting ZZ Top in that area

pubes and leg hair almost meeting in the middle...bloody Cousin It!!

Hmm maybe we need to take our hirsuteness to the frozen north. Maybe yetis are in fact a tribe of menopausal women who lost the will to battle it out with very.

*veet

Omg just cried with laughter at this 😂

We need to start a campaign to promote female hirsuiteness as a sign of sage wisdom. I quite fancy having some socially acceptable chin hairs to twiddle is a wise contemplative manner.

The mention of Veet reminds me when dh decided he wanted the smooth look!!
Veet isn't best left on a scrotum too long mners!

It causes burning and blisters!!

Summer Is it bad that your husband's incident made me laugh quite a lot?

Never has much luck with veet myself, just removed the inoffensive little blond hairs and left the great thick ones I actually wanted to remove. And the smell, bleugh.

I was thinking about using some for the drains though.

He is an exh now and it makes me laugh also!!
Walked like John Wayne for weeks. And I had lots of early nights and lots of sleep!

OP "Could someone tell my face that it is not a sanctuary for large woodland creatures?"

this made me lol so hard, thank you

I'm hirsute.

I take after my dad's side of the family.

I also have dermatographia which becomes bloody awkward when I get my eyebrows threaded.

I shave my moustache and beard, as it doesn't cause any red marks which take hours to die down.

We should be able to wear our hair 'loud and proud'.

It would give gender critics and gender reinforcers a lot to think about.

It would be incredibly liberating to be free of it all.

Gingernaut that is such an interesting link, thank you (although sorry it causes you awkwardness) I think my DH must have this, I am forever saying "don't scratch" to him. I didn't know it was an actual thing for others, just thought it was his skin!

As my user name hints I do agree we should be embracing the facial (and everywhere else!) hair but it's not easy in practice, is it? I have just noticed my eyebrows are finally growing back, but WHITE AND LIKE WIRE, wtf?

I heard somewhere that pets start to resemble their owners, I think I'm the opposite way round. I'm turning into my long haired white cat, clearly. A bit like Benjamin Button. But different.

Actually now I've given this some thought and I do sleep a lot more these days and demand others make me food on request. This is worrying. Any one else beginning to resemble their pets, and this is what it's all about?

Webuilt I am insanely jealous of the life my cat leads but he has black fur while mine is largely going white-but-not-glam-fashionable-way. Apart from the black brow and chin bristles of course.

Hmm, on second thoughts, maybe I am acquiring his whiskers.

Watch a bit of Victoria Wood where she mentions becoming like a fawn in Fantasia! Always cheers me up!
Just VW full stop!

I was an early adopter of the Sanctuary model at 26.

I guess dermatographia is why the nice threading ladies look so concerned and start patting my face with various chilled potions so I don't scare off any prospective customers on my way out.

As I have DP well and truly caught, having semi domesticated him through providing comfortable nesting and regular food, I stick to the Nether Sanctuary and only thin out the full winter pelt when it is simply too darned hot to maintain the triple insulation of fat, pelt and black denim.

By the way, having a quite severe allergy to Veet (chemical burns after 30 seconds of applying the 'Sensitive' (Oh, how I laughed at that) version to my shins, I was left with a rather large bottle of the stuff.

When the Skanky Lodger moved out, I discovered the drain in her bathroom shower was completely clogged with both body and head hair (I stupidly assumed that if she clippered and shaved her head so regularly, she'd be aware of the idea of Doing it Over Newspaper like every man does). Rather than risk the horrors of physically removing PubeScalpBody Slime from said drain with gloved hands, I decided drastic chemical action was necessary, so emptied the entire bottle down there.

It did the trick.

MitziK, I get the same.

Being offered a swipe of some cheap, green coloured, 'cooling' aloe vera gel.

It's 'cooling' because it contains alcohol.

Just what I need after having hair ripped out of my face.

I'll go full Dennis Healey if you will.

All it takes is a critical mass of women refusing to thread and pluck before it becomes the new 'beauty' standard.

I've made a start Ruffle, I'm attempting to grow in my 90s eyebrows a bit (hence discovering the badgers). I fucking love tweezing so it's been tough, but it's happening.

Baby steps.

Ah, i also have 90s overplucked eyebrows which have now gone that way. Maybe it was a conspiracy started by fans of Dennis Healey to turn all the teenagers into his lovechildren as we approach middle age. Perhaps delayed payback for how keen we all were on New Labour at the time

Because my mum overplucked hers in the 60s and all that happened was they virtually disappeared. She doesn't have any badger strands and couldn't grow them back if she tried.

Ruffle That is a truly excellent theory. I would have hoped that by participating in the stop the war march I would have been exonerated for any New Labour karmic eyebrow penance. It was clearly not enough.

The badger theme is strong with me at the moment. Not only am I struggling with truly honouring my facial hair but I am a slave to the hair dye.

I am in denial clearly, i fear the revolution will not start with me, even with my ever so slightly thicker eyebrow.