To hate feckin chin hairs?

[CallaLilli]

Wtf is happening to my chin? Every couple of weeks I seem to have a few thick black hairs growing out of it, which I pluck vigilantly. Even worse are when they're just below the surface and I can feel the bristly bastards bumping through but can't pluck them. And now it seems that they only take a week to grow back. Anyone else got this and hate it? I'm seriously considering electrolysis as they annoy me no end!!

I've had one since my 20s coming out of a mole, it's right on my jawline so stands out! It's really spiky, it makes me cringe so I always have some nail clippers on me They would be on my top 5 desert island essentials!

I too have very hairless arms and legs but a very bristly chin. It is v annoying but satisfying to pluck them out. I have a magnifying mirror and I have to remind myself that other people don't see me like that, all the hairs are 10x smaller.

Y are definitely nbu! I have had my chin hairs since my mid thirties (now 47) and I hate them with a passion. I'm really self conscious about them and I examine and pluck every day. There aren't loads, a little patch on the side of my chin, but my skin doesn't look smooth there and I probably make the skin worse by rubbing my beard! I think it might be something to do with hormones, my chin hairs appeared when I started going into menopause early and my hormones went bonkers

I found a white hair sprouting out from around my nipple the other day sob

Another chin bristler here.
I imagine myself in a few years as an elderly great-aunt that the children love, but hate kissing goodbye because of the scratches.

I've made my husband promise that if I'm ever physically incapable of looking after myself that he ensures someone "does" my chin for me

Tiverme, I've had them since my twenties too. I hate the little feckers.

I have a single wiry white hair that grows about an inch under my eye.

I love getting it out and sometimes leave it to grow a bit before plucking it out for more 'satisfaction'...

I have chin hair too. I have a facial epilator to do the job. It hurts, but it's better than spending ages squinting into a magnifying mirror. Weirdly, I have a small patch of thick dark hairs on the left above my top lip, but not on the right. One of them started ingrowing and got a little infected. That was nastily satisfying to deal with and it hasn't come back, thank goodness.
Does anyone know why it is that you can pluck your eyebrows and after a while they stop growing back - but other facial hair just stubbornly keeps reappearing?

I bloody hate these. The hair on my head is thinning and I have bald patches, so why do I have an abundance of hair on my chin?

I'm sooooo hairy. I could probably grow a convincing beard if I left it. Just ordered myself an epistick after posters on another thread recommended them and am saving up for a Lumea.

Mouse have you been checked for poly cystic ovaries> it might be worth asking doc for blood tests to see.
if so you need to watch your diet, low carb - low sugar is best, its all about insulin spiking etc

I get one or two short, stiff white hairs coming out of my chin. More curious are the two fine hairs, which are dark at the ends, on either side of my mouth - only really noticeable very close up, but they make me feel like a catfish. :|

Since getting pregnant, nipple and belly hair has increased, but my leg hair has massively slowed.

My eyebrows are just random - sometimes they'll take ages to grow back, sometimes they'll grow back really quickly. At least I've not had the odd inch long white hair sprouting from them for a while (literally seems to appear overnight!)!

Mine always appear from nowhere. I carefully check the mirror every day, then suddenly I'll find a 1/2 inch thick black hair sticking out my chin in the evening and feel that I've been walking around all day with it.

Cuddling on the couch watching TV last week, ds(12) says to me "Mum, do you know you've got a moustache?", I hesitated to answer and he patted me and said "Its okay, its just a little one".

Need to get a better mirror for plucking the bastards!

(And +1 for Step's advice, it turned out that I had PCOS and an underactive thyroid, which explained a lot!)

I have a circular patch of black and white bristles that grow under my chin. Everyday I pluck them and the next morning they are back again. I just don't understand how they grow back so quick. I hate the little f**kers

Every couple of weeks you are lucky - mine appear every couple of days! I have tweezers everywhere to grab the buggers!!

Have had them since I was a teenager, they are hormonal - mine get LOADS worse in pregnancy. All the females in my family get them. We used to call my mum a monkey as she would distractedly stroke her chin!

Have spoken to a number of beauticians who say its not worth electrolysis as unlikely to solve the issue.

Best plucking location I find is in the car using the mirror in the sunvisor! Loads of light and a great angle! (Yes I have tweezers in the car and have been known to sit on my driveway to sort!)

I cut myself shaving my hairy mole this week. That was embarrassing.

I suffered chin hair for 25 years or so before getting electrolysis done. I'm absolutely mad at myself for not doing it sooner and am thrilled. For dark hair laser might be even better.

Chin hair is hormonal so probably you will have to top treatments up periodically but OMG, I do love life with a nice smooth chin. Don't delay.

how many treatment MATILDA did you need to rid it?

My chin and neck hairs seem to appear fully formed. I'll have a quick check most days and be smooth, then suddenly find a huge bristle pointing out. It wasn't there yesterday, how fast do they grow?!

I do have PCOS and although now post-menopause I still get these fuckers and the worst of it is lots of them are grey so laser treatment wouldn't work (or so I am led to believe - is this true?). I suppose electrolysis is the answer - does anyone know if that always works? Someone upthread said it didn't for them.

Matilda was that very expensive?

I agree, it's the speed they grow that's unsettling. Nothing there one day, despite a careful check in good light with a magnifying mirror. The next day an inch long.

It's therapeutic to tweeze them out though.

I keep my mag mirror and tweezers on a tray on top of the toilet tank, as i like to combine jobs-so to speak.