Fuck, there are hairs on my chin!!!

[surlycurly]

Help... there are two of them. They are about a cm long each. I'm 42. How in the name of suffering fuck did they get there? How did they get to that length with me noticing? They're quite lush, like they've been conditioned. Clearly my moisturiser agrees with them. How is this a thing? I thought I had 30 years or so to go before worrying about this. Can I expect more? Will I end up like cousin IT by the end of the year? Help!!!!

I’m 48 and have had them since my early 40s. I don’t normally see mine because the growth of them coincided with me needing reading glasses-I feel them. I do get a thrill from pulling the little feckers out though.

@Greenpop21 that's my reasoning as to why I've missed them- because I need my glasses for stuff like that and I don't have time to stare at my face.

@surlycurly my Lumea was 200 quid from John Lewis not 500! You don’t need the top of the range one. And it works ladies

@Bool which model have you got?

Funniest thing happened when I was working in a scool. 6 year old girl comes up to me and said “Mrs Stuckupsnob, why have you got a moustache ?” .... I said “because I’m old.

Since my ex husband buggered off without a trace and stopped paying maintenance I'm afraid it needs to be a lot less than even £200! Although I'd love one. I'd be completely hairfree! I'd go a bit nuts with it I suspect... but I'd be a smooth as a hairless cat...

I fully understand the stress of the rouge hair. I have a few but let's be honest down/fluff etc is normal and we all have it and always have.

Now, off to check under my chin for the one that hides there. And then my cheek for the one that clings on for dear life till my cheek looks stretched to the limit.

I have PCOS, so have had some since I was about 26 and a nasty, painful spot turned out to contain a four inch long, flat and jet black monstrosity curled up inside, rooted somewhere near to my sodding jawbone, going by the way I could feel the cunting thing unravel. Roll on 20 years and I've lost count of money spent on useless electrolysis, waxing, laser removal and in salons run by lovely Iranian/Indian ladies ripping the bastarding things out with smiles on their faces as the tears roll down mine.

I still visit the lovely ladies for eyebrow threading, but I decided I'd had enough of the scarlet face --and wanting to hide from everybody in the days leading up to it being long enough for waxing, rather than threading now I could make a fair attempt at a goatee without tache. I now use DP's Philips shaver for under a minute a day, which deals with chin, upper lip, neck, jawline and the bit you can't see just in front of your ears. My skin is far happier for it.

In all that time, I have had one teenager who was an objectionable little shit at the best of times out of literally thousands mention it. And he promptly got slapped around the head by the kids he was with and told to shut the fuck up.

I wouldn't have a fucking clue about the colour of my pubes, though. There's some advantages to being a fat bastard - and if DP's in close enough contact to notice either that or nipple hair, he's got no business being so ungrateful as to mention either.

I have blond hair on my head and all over my body and of course some grey now but there is one bastard thick BLACK hair growing out of my chin! How is that even possible?

@lilgreen the basic one from John Lewis x

Is it by Phillips or is it an own brand?

Wow all you lucky sods who only got this problem in your 40s....! I've had it since puberty! Told DH I want the phillips lumea thing this year for my birthday. I'm 32 and beard has become even more luscious following the birth of dc2.

I've had my chin hairs for at least a decade - mid 30s now. I have two spiky black ones; one on either side of my chin so it's like the barbels of a catfish. I used to bleach the moustache but it looks hideous so I have variously epistick'd, tinkle-razored and Lumea'd it. The Lumea has done away with a lot of it but not all. What annoys me even more is that my eyebrows are quietly vanishing as I age.

Usually hormone related. I looked in the mirror one day when I was around 44 and thought I had grown a beard. I even had one long white one on my neck! I have a mixture of threading and wax. Get it done every 3 weeks

Has anyone else noticed hairs only grow on the front of their lower leg now and not the calf? What’s all that about?

@BobbinThreadbare123 I actually loled there at your catfish comment. Utterly hilarious. The FuManchu look is really attractive, don't let anyone tell you otherwise!!!

Just make sure you ALWAYS have tweezers and a little mirror with you, for the inevitable occasion when you’re off out somewhere nice and suddenly realise there’s a hideous growth that sprang up overnight. Or since you last checked, anyway.

surlycurly cheers ears! At least it makes people laugh

Don't get a flawless! It was the worst thing I ever did. I started out with a few and using it every few days. After about a year I was using it every day, often twice. I am now 3 months into waxing and have gone from waxing every other day to every 2 weeks.

I had to qualify as a first aider a few years ago. On the course I was paired up with a handsome rugby player type young enough to be my son. Whilst laying back slightly enjoying being "checked over" during a role play my happy thoughts were shattered as he exclaimed "ooh stubbly" while tipping my chin back to clear my airway 😨

@Bisforbert How rude was he?

@lilgreen it’s Philips. Just go to John Lewis website and search for Philips Lumea

I found a pure white hair in my eyebrow yesterday. I'm still in shock.

I started getting loads in my late 20s! I started shaving (no, it didn't make it worse, and my skin was the best it had ever been!). But had IPL in the end and it's smooth now. For just one or two i would just pluck.

Thanks @Bool