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To be outraged at discovering a long chin hair?

142 replies

Salmotrutta · 11/09/2011 00:51

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.

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LaLaLaLayla · 17/09/2011 07:36

I have these things. These are my solutions:

White pubes = Betty
White eyebrows = eyelash tint
Hairs on face = half-face wax every month
Nipple hairs = pluck (after a glass of wine!)

HairyGrotter · 17/09/2011 07:42

Back in the 90's I peroxided my pubes, and dyed them Green to match my hair on my head Blush. I see that Betty does a lush blue one

LaLaLaLayla · 17/09/2011 07:44

I like the shocking pink one Grin

HairyGrotter · 17/09/2011 07:45

The pink is rather fetching!

LaLaLaLayla · 17/09/2011 07:49

Can I ask why you ladies with hairy faces don't get them waxed?

HairyGrotter · 17/09/2011 07:51

I'm a student living on £20 a week. I wish I could afford to have treatments, thankfully, it's not currently unmanageable, just the odd bristle.

LaLaLaLayla · 17/09/2011 08:01

Sorry HG Sad. I guess my question was probably directed more to us older ladies who are very hairy.

Skippyboo · 17/09/2011 11:36

My tweezers are my Best Thing.

Helenagrace · 17/09/2011 12:20

Random white eyebrow hairs here too. No grey hairs on head though. 'Tis bizarre.

Not bothered by boobage issues. I pack an F cup anyway so could probably hide a small nation there quite comfortably. It does mean that I don't really buy lingerie more tarted up scaffolding. In fact I took my bra off in the gym last week and it stood up on its own, much to the amusement if my B cup best friend.

limitedperiodonly · 17/09/2011 12:22

Threading is the way to go. Bloody painful on the prairies that are my sideburns though. At least I don't have any sturdy or black facial hair - yet.

I have three white bristles on my neck that I'm constantly checking for. They've disappeared now which is a bit unsettling. I was off work a while ago so let them grow just to see how long they'd get. About a centimetre and gently curved. I would gently tug them from time to time. It was grimly fascinating. No one said anything but they probably noticed.

Since finding a fine inch long hair on my eyelid three years ago I constantly monitor that area. It's only returned once.

To whoever said something about failing eyesight - yes, it's a bugger.

The fine black hairs that occasionally sprouted round my nipples that didn't really bother me have turned white and coarse and definitely bother me now. I can feel them but can't see them clearly enough to pluck. If I use a magnifying mirror the ends of the tweezers clash on it. It's one of the biggest frustrations of my life.

I could ask DH to help but that would be too humiliating.

Yes, to back of thigh hair. Yes to grey pubes. Yes to white brow hair.

A magnifying mirror and tweezers would be my Desert Island Discs luxuries. If I was only allowed to take one of them I'd probably kill myself.

giraffesCantChaChaCha · 17/09/2011 12:31

I always feel the fuckers when I am sitting at traffic lights groping my neck. Then home in front of mirror they hide and I cnt find them

LaLaLaLayla · 17/09/2011 12:37

Helenagrace, I'm an FF and I can highly recommend Elle MacPherson Lingerie. She makes some beautiful underwear for us larger ladies.

saffronwblue · 17/09/2011 12:48

Yes, the odd black hairs on my chin have now been joined by stiff white bristles on my neck, These mingle with the hormonal acne that was meant to clear up when I was 18 and is still with me at 50 FFS. Luckily my eyesight is fading so fast that I can barely see these horrors.
Have had thinning hair for much of my adult life.

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Salmotrutta · 17/09/2011 15:32

Oh yes - ever-increasing long sightedness here too.
Necessitating the wearing of glasses. Which I then have to peer over in an old Grand Dame fashion to look at people. Maybe I should get a pince-nez?
And I too forget things:
Why did I come into this room again?
What was I saying just now?
Whose birthday is it this month?
...

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Salmotrutta · 17/09/2011 15:33

Envy at F/FF size bra.
Always had a deficiency in that department Sad

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LaLaLaLayla · 17/09/2011 16:33

Salmotrutta, I had a midlife crisis boob job Blush. Would highly recommend it Grin.

dementedma · 17/09/2011 16:48

oh gawd, another hairy mary here. Yes to the black chin whiskers (hag hairs) and now some white ones Shock
yes to grey pubes and overall minge thinning.
No nipple hairs as yet.
eyesight failing at a shocking rate!

TeenageWildlife · 17/09/2011 17:13

Just ordered that stuff form Amazon - thanks. Now tell me what to use on the fucking AGE SPOT that has chosen to appear, not on my arm, leg or hand, but above my eyebrow! At least it takes the attention away from the chin hair but what do I do?

Megfox · 17/09/2011 18:19

I found my first chin hair when I was less than thirty! It's a shock,granted, but it's nothing to stress about, really. Some women get hairs on their chin, some don't.

My dear, late Mum used to get several, very dark hairs on her chin. I would watch in distatste, as she clipped them with nail scissors!

As soon as my two dark and one white hairs appear on my chin, I PLUCK them out at the root! No mercy!

RoyalWelsh · 17/09/2011 18:42

I'm 23 and I can often be found in the office, stroking my hairy hairy chin . I am pale skinned and dark haired and the buggers just keep on coming. I have to be very careful that I don't rnd up with a monobrow as well. Nipple hairs a plenty here too.

The worst thing, though, is the two occasions recent where I have been trying to pick a really stubborn scab from my forehead, only for DP to look and inform me that it is not a scab, but a long, curly, wirey, white hair. On my FOREHEAD ffs

Skippyboo · 17/09/2011 18:50

It's so unfair. Especially as my husband is 10 years younger and finds the whole thing amusing (apart from the hot-flushing psycho part).

I'm being bitch-slapped by Mother Nature Sad

neuroticmumof3 · 17/09/2011 20:02

I get horrible thick white hairs in my eyebrows, have some white pubes and my fingers are getting very hairy. I get a black sticky out hair on the inside of my knee. Last year I found a 2 inch long hair just randomly sprouting on my cheek. I dread bright sunlight. My hair on my head is thinning and about 70% grey. I'm only 43. And I've had a massively expanding tummy and arse thing going on this year as well.

M0naLisa · 18/09/2011 00:00

I get a white hair on my chin once a month. I once pulled a haur from my back thinking it was a stray and It hurt when It cane out my shoulder blade area. Not had it back since,DH once pulled what he thought was a stray hair on my top but It was attached to my chest. bough! I too get q black hair grow on each nipple, I shave them at least twice a month lol

Im 25 :(

LaLaLaLayla · 18/09/2011 02:12

Now tell me what to use on the fucking AGE SPOT that has chosen to appear, not on my arm, leg or hand, but above my eyebrow! At least it takes the attention away from the chin hair but what do I do?

IPL Photorejuvenation. Makes age spots disappear.

LaLaLaLayla · 18/09/2011 02:13

and my fingers are getting very hairy.

Mine are too. I also have them waxed once a month.