To be outraged at discovering a long chin hair?

[Salmotrutta]

Growing under my jawline?
What? When did this happen and who put it there?!
I have religiously checked my face and chin since entering menopause and discovered other random hairs but how did this one evade me until it reached at least an inch long?
Disgraceful ... and I blame the government.

Laser treatment ladies, it's the only way. I've had spiky black chin hair since the age of 15, and I reckon by 40 I could have made a living as a bearded lady if it wasn't for daily plucking. Eventually the humiliation of the DCs saying 'mummy you're all spiky' drove me to have laser treatment and it's now mostly gone. Just make sure you do it before they go white as the laser needs pigment - I have to have electrolysis on the few white buggers which have started to crop up (since I started the laser treatment).

Noted. Any advice on the thinning hair.

Gosh - I didn't expect to see this thread resurrected from Sunday!

But I'm glad to know there are others out there!

I just think we should be told about the randomness of ageing events.

... I am noticeably more creaky and stiff in the mornings !!

Oh and I've developed a bit of a stomach .... in the last year, which I never had even post-DCs!

bobblywobblymum - sorry, not got that problem yet. I'd welcome it actually, I think there must be a wookie in my ancestry.

Salmotrutta-I can sympathise with the stomach syndrome, even thought I was: a-pregnant or b-early menopause. As it happens neither, just creeping towards middle age, though I don't actually feel it but am starting to look it. Oh hell!!:(

I have one scary black chin hair that sprouts from nowhere.

And a couple of white eyebrow hairs.

And a spreading minge.

And random nipple hairs.

I darent look for grey hairs within the minge, it would be too much.

I have been going steadily greyer on my head for the last ten years.

My DD is no where near little and suddenly I am wobbly, for no reason.

I am not yet 35.

I was recently very ill and in hospital for a while and DP couldn't find my tweezers. Didn't matter to me at the time but oh was I mortified when I got home and looked in the mirror.

How about arthritis in one of your toes (a new development)? I'm just over 40 (and am not moaning, I know you can have far worse arthritis than in just one toe, but it was a shock!)

I have all abovementioned horrors (45 yrs old) and have been putting off doing anything permanent about it (esp chin horrors) for years but now beginning to get sore fingers and so wondering if arthritis is going to stop me tweezing.

So advice please: Electrolysis seems to scar (from looking at friends who've had it). Will laser avoid this?

Thank you all for sharing my anguish with such excellent humour!

I epilate and use Bio Depiless Hair Retardation Complex Face Care Cream 50ml, costs £17.49. It seems to have stopped the coarse bristles from coming back as well as the moustache! So there is an answer ladies.

I am constantly plucking my stray hairs the most disturbing is the 3 darker hairs I've discovered growing out of the top of my nose, I've got their cards marked but not sure quite how to deal with them yet, you kill one and three come to their funeral

My biggest worry is my failing eyesight and what it will do for my hairy chin, mono-brow, random neck hair. aargh.

Thanks for the tip OldMumsy, will definitely try the cream. £14.95 on Amazon. Watch this face space.

I've been having electrolysis on and off for years, since uni. At the moment my hairyness is awful. And I have a new wirey one appeared on the side of my jawline. And the nipple hair is getting worse. And i have 3 or so new wirey ones on my stomach. Tis so awful.
Am considering just giving up, plaiting my eyebrows into my moustache, into my beard, into my nipple hair and plaiting that into my stomach, and just being done with it.
Bloody hair. Everyone hates hair.

I get coarse, dark chin foliage, despite being very fair AND before it emerges, I get a spot in the exact place. Which segues attractively into a witch hair after a day or too. Mmmm, raunchy.

Well, I had electrolysis for 13 years, without success. It isnt permanent. Then I spent £140 a time on laser and had six treatments, for hairs on chin, at an NHS semi private centre. The local NHS doesnt fund this treatment, but can suggest where. I was told that it would not remove it permanently, but slow it down, which proved true. After about 6, you need to keep going, but once every three months, not monthly. Also, this is the time of year to do it, as it is a nightmare to manage over the summer, as it is CRITICAL to take great daily care to stay out of the sun in order to avoid permanent penny sized brown patches where the laser hit. I finally got bored of the three monthly top up treatments, not to say broke, and stopped, two years ago. All the hairs grew back. Now I pluck them out, and shave it if I am in a hurry. I think there are about 20-30 hairs in total.

So a bugger of a problem, and glad Im not the only one!!

Ok so glad im not the only one....I get a long dark hair that grows out of my chin, one on my neck, one in between my eyebrows (its very very thick) and a freaky whispy one that grows out of my back - yuk!!! I'm only 31!!!! :(

You are not alone! I also have these growing out of most of my moles on my face and DH is now a chief Plucker as he deals with them in his tactless way i.e. going around the supermarket, out for a drink etc !

As it has already been said, it is so nice to hear I am not alone with my hairiness woes. I will definitely be trying the face cream as recommended by Oldmumsy. I think what embarrasses me the most is when talking to people outside, especially in the sunshine and I see their eyes becoming fixed on my chin. Aargh!! Straight home to my trusty tweezers and magnifying mirror.

So pleased and relieved to know I'm not the only hairy one! I am blonde with fair skin and have three persistent coarse black hairs that grow at breakneck speed out of my chin. I have lived with these for three years and now tweeze as soon as the little buggers are long enough!

I'm peri-menopausal so I have the crazy menstrual cycle, the waist/tummy/bum inflation and am a hot-flushing psycho.

The scariest thing, though, is that I've just had to ask my husband how old I am It appears I'm 43... although I argued like hell that I'm 42. I'm shocked to find that I'll be 44 in 3 months time.

Bastards.

Ha, ha! This made my day ;-) I'm 46 and becoming paranoid about chin/neck hairs - forever stroking my chin and trying to pluck the offending blighters with my fingernails. So glad I'm not alone although seem to recollect Victoria Wood talking about extra hair although I could have dreamt it the peri-menopause memory being such as it is!!
But on a positive note I am really grateful that being an ex redhead fading to blonde my thick hairs are not dark but really bright Ginger - gorgeous!
Hairy, jelly- belly, needing reading glasses - such a catch?

God this peri menopause memory thing is ridiculous!

DD called me from school to ask for a 'phone number from my 'phone. After shrieking and panicing,running in and out of rooms,screaming "Where's my phone?" .....for DD to say "it's in your hand up against your ear,mum!"

I'm 36 and have had the chin hair for, I guess two years.

The worrying thing is that I find myself enjoying it a bit too much. I find myself fingering it in moments of deep contemplation. Like when I'm asked a challenging question at work, kind of thing.

Ive always been minge o' plenty, and I think I got the nipple hairs before I got the functional nipples.

Oooh you've just reminded me to check for mine. I forget it lives there, bastard thing, black, wiry, the thing taunts me and if nothing else, reminds me that at the rip old age of 41 that I'm having memory loss forgetting to check for it!

By the way, whilst we're on the subject of hairs, have you mn-ers CHECKED the back of your legs? Not the calf bit, the back of the thigh? Where the effing Jeff do those beauties come from eh? And who is Jeff?

Love the minge o'plenty might use that myself.

Back of my thighs, wow. I'm sure I shave there when 'spring cleaning' (I'm single now, phew, nay bother with that now) but will catch a glance in the mirror and BAM hairy mo'fo be staring back at me...amazing.