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To be horrified at my pubes making an advance on my knees....

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TheScreamingfrog · 09/05/2013 15:13

I am only 38 FFS Shock

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Ubermumsy · 10/05/2013 20:55

PS I don't think I can have laser/IPL treatment as I also have monster thread veins on my legs Sad . Leggings are a godsend (or they would be if I wasn't an atheist, but you know what I mean).

LadySlatternlysHoover · 10/05/2013 20:57

So why, with all this hairy growth, do our eyebrows disappear?

Why? Why?

Nombrechanger · 10/05/2013 21:05

Über-I used to think that no-one would want me either. I would never wear short sleeved tops because I convinced myself that my arms were the hairiest on earth.

Jolen is my best friend.

quizzywizz · 10/05/2013 21:05

I have PCOS also blessed with a Casper-like skin tone and dark brown hair.

I look like something that causes Bigfoot myths.

It is to the point where I can't even look at my hairy self in the mirror so I am going to live and die alone. Sad

IfNotNowThenWhen · 10/05/2013 21:05

I am not even very hairy.. BUT..I have found 3 PUBES growing out of the back of my knee!
AND, I noticed in the bathroom mirror the other day that I have a kind of handlebar 'tache! It's blonde hair, so only noticed in the light.
Why has nobody told me I have a moustache??!
I may get some wax and fashion it into a dashing shape.

Ubermumsy · 10/05/2013 21:18

Isn't it the worst, when you suddenly catch sight of your fizog in bright sunlight and you realise you are thoroughly bewhiskered? I've started carrying tweezers with me to tackle embarrassing quills.

Ubermumsy · 10/05/2013 21:20

I don't even have PCOS either (at least I don't think so). Just genetics - DM was hairy too in her youth. She told me it all starts going grey and falling out once you get beyond 70. Something to look forward too, huh Confused

quizzywizz · 10/05/2013 21:25

ubermumsy So I will finally be able to date at 70 plus?!

Depressing stuff to be hair from chin to toes.

WipsGlitter · 10/05/2013 21:30

walk a mile in my pubes, sister BRILLIANT

Hairy thighs - back and front, massive 70s style bush, toes, chin. I keep tweezers in the car now for the chin.

FarBetterNow · 10/05/2013 21:38

Enjoy your hirsuteness, they do disappear when you are post menopausal.
Except the bloody chin & tash hairs!

And pubes go grey!!

idiot55 · 10/05/2013 21:56

yip pubes are the first to go grey ( erm not that I know or anything, honest)

Right hairy nipples, anyone else?

LittleMissLucy · 10/05/2013 22:04

Not here. My head is almost completely grey, my pubes a nice shade of chestnut brown.

dementedma · 10/05/2013 22:08

Grey pubes are awful. Well, white really. And sparse. My lush bush is long gone.
Yes to moustache, wiry chin hairs.
No hairy toes or nipples though

idiot55 · 10/05/2013 22:12

ah Little thats my theory gone, wonder if its purely down to genetics what goes grey first or, hair colour? who knows!

LittleMissLucy · 10/05/2013 22:15

I think its genetics. Its also an Irish / Celtic thing.

EuroShaggleton · 10/05/2013 22:18

quizz that colouring makes you the perfect candidate for laser (the greater the contrast between skin and hair colour, the better).

My hairiness used to really affect my self-esteem. I'm so happy that it is under control now and could kiss whoever invented laser hair removal.

EglantinePrice · 10/05/2013 22:21

Laser has changed my life. Not IPL (didn't work) Hurts less than waxing. No scarring. DO IT.

But despite my luscious, thick, quick growing body hair I have shite, fine, head hair. How thoroughly unjust.

EglantinePrice · 10/05/2013 22:23

Just realised how that description makes me sound... like some hideous balding, yeti freak. Which was how I felt before laser.

quizzywizz · 10/05/2013 22:23

I was told that laser wouldn't work because of the PCOS - something about fluctuating hormones.

Hairy arms too - always feel like people are looking at them.

Bobyan · 10/05/2013 22:25

Ooo Euro I too am a glow in the dark pallour with nearly black hair. Maybe I should just go for it...

Bobyan · 10/05/2013 22:29

I also have a home IPL machine, which does seem to slow the regrowth after treatment...

snooter · 10/05/2013 22:32

I thought pubes disappeared with age, certainly becoming moth-eaten after the menopause.

I've recently found the odd grey one - aaargh - I'm only 48 & not yet menopausal. I thought the odd grey eyebrow bad enough.

No sign of kneeward migration, but I do keep them in trim - don't want to look as if I've a cat sitting on my lap.

EglantinePrice · 10/05/2013 22:32

quizzy you may get new hairs(or you may not if your PCOS is under control) but the laser could still blast the existing ones.

Gottleogear · 10/05/2013 22:58

I very rarely post but just had reply to this!

Thank God I'm not alone

I have suffered from the bikini line down to knees, backs of leg, toes etc for a long time and thought I was a freak. Spent a fortune over the years getting waxed, in fact I was once asked did I mind if a trainee came in to observe Shock
I am in fact the "missing link"

But I have been perimenopausal for 4 years and there are some advantages...body hair is just starting to thin out, so by the time I'm post meno... oh in ..ANOTHER FEW FUCKING YEARS...but that's another thread entirely.
I should be happily hairless Smile

LittleMissLucy · 11/05/2013 04:57

Oh goddleogear you've given me something to look forward to Grin