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AIBU to tell you that I LOVE plucking my chin hairs?

51 replies

MrsBertMacklin · 07/01/2015 20:41

SO satisfying.

I also love it when they get to the bristly stage, running my fingers over my chin to find them, then plucking them without a mirror.

Mmmmm.

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sillymillyb · 07/01/2015 22:46

I get belly button Hairs too now, which are quite satisfying as I can see those without need for the big mirror and light.

I too am jealous of those of you who can count how many you have. Mine are numerous and spawning more by the day. I'm torn between joy at the pleasure of plucking them, and horror that I'm turning into a yeti Grin

negrilbaby · 07/01/2015 23:02

I use one of these (following a rec. from MN)
Its great and so cheap!!
You can feel each hair pluck out and I can clear a bristle chin in no time.

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 07/01/2015 23:25

I did 2 of DW'S tonight. I love the that "hauling anchor off a muddy bottom" sensation. Sproing!

sillymillyb · 07/01/2015 23:32

Ooh now I don't know how I'd feel about letting someone else get them for me (tho that was a lovely anchor analogy!) I think I'd be far too selfish (and embarrassed) to share!

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 07/01/2015 23:48

If I leave them, they get quite noticeable. I have a really long white hair that grows from my cheek and another that grows between my boobs.

Bluestocking · 07/01/2015 23:50

YADNBU. Some of my chin bristles have roots the size of crocus bulbs. I can feel them resisting but it's no good - they have to give in and out they come, poink! Laaaarvely.

SorchaN · 08/01/2015 00:03

I have a mole on my face that sprouts several thick dark hairs. I love pulling them out with tweezers! I have a friend with a similar mole who lets her hairs grow and I feel sad for her because I feel she's missing out, but I guess it would be impolite to mention it.

SugarOnTop · 08/01/2015 00:53

chin,eyebrows, upper lip, arms, legs, underarm and top bit of bikini area, i pluck them all. started when i was a teenager with my first pair of tweezers and i was hooked. i find it very relaxing-my friends think i'm just plain weird!

PerpendicularVincenzo · 08/01/2015 07:47

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HellKitty · 08/01/2015 07:58

I sent him off to work early yesterday as I could feel a bristle that needed a tweeze. So satisfying.

Guiltypleasures001 · 08/01/2015 08:05

Does anyone else ever wake up one morning with a new little friend? I get a white hair in amongst my eyebrows that must grow an inch over night. Was never there the day before, must grow like a triffid when I'm asleep.

Yes yes to the chin hairs, have been caught lovingly stroking a bristle before Blush

ApocalypseNowt · 08/01/2015 08:08

I made a special trip to the shops yesterday to buy some tweezers as the eleventy million pairs i have bought previously seem to hide when i find a bristle.

So very very satisfying....

songbird · 08/01/2015 08:10

Ooh yes me too. I have to admit to doing it sans mirror, reading a book, while doing a poo!

songbird · 08/01/2015 10:34

Lowered the tone and killed the thread with one post Sad Grin

dotty2 · 08/01/2015 10:38

It is especially relaxing done while listening to Radio 4.

Vagndidit · 08/01/2015 12:06

Yes! I like to keep inventory of them on the top of my hand as I'm plucking away and then give them a gentle blow into the wind. Like a dandelion in the breeze.

negril, what IS that thing? Like a manual epilator?????

YoullLikeItNotaLot · 08/01/2015 12:17

Oh YANBU - it's like a hobby for me.

But this is the worst thing:

mindthegap79

Yanbu. Love it, but it's torture if you find one at a tweezerless moment.

squoosh · 08/01/2015 12:23

I've had three of them since I was 25 and plucking the bristly little beasts each month makes my heart glow. Actually one of them has stopped growing, seems to have retreated in the face on repeated plucking. I mourn its passing a lot.

Farewell my bristly friend.

Norfolkandchance1234 · 08/01/2015 12:24

I plucked about 8 this morning. They are multiplying as I get older Shock

Gawjushun · 08/01/2015 13:06

I get crazy amounts of chin hairs. Seems to be a problem amongst female family members. I use wax strips. So damn satisfying to see the little bastards on the strip. The pain doesn't even bother me anymore.

Weirdly though, my brows don't grow very quickly, so I rarely have to do them.

songbird · 08/01/2015 13:11

Ooh I missed negril's link earlier. I've just bought 2 - 1 for me and 1 for my (annoying less hairy) mum.

Peepants78 · 08/01/2015 13:18

Tali I get a single long white boob hair too. It just appears overnight. I never seem to see it grow.

CaptainAnkles · 08/01/2015 13:21

I have a really thin wispy white hair that grows just below my collar bone, it's not there then it's about three inches long. Spooky.

RoseberryTopping · 08/01/2015 13:34

This is why I love MN, no one is ashamed of their chin hair Grin

I used to shave the space between my eyebrows when I was a teen (don't ask me why, it wasn't even hairy) so now I get some lovely thick hairs growing out. It's one of my favourite things to do, sit and stroke that space when o can feel it needs a plucking!

GlitteryLipgloss · 08/01/2015 13:39

I pluck in the car on the way to work in the morning, I pull them out with my fingers at my desk. and my tash hairs! It's mostly peach fuzz but I get the odd thick black hair...oooooooh so satisfying! haha I love this thread. Embracing our hairy'ness!