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One chin hair

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MrsBakedBean · 19/07/2017 09:07

Having being inspired by all the answers to the nasal hair thread (I don't suffer from those) I'd be so happy if you can give me advice.

I have one solitary hair growing out of my chin. I pluck the other bastard ones that appear at the side of my mouth so I know how coarse they can grow back in at.

How would you deal with this one?

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BMW6 · 19/07/2017 16:17

Why do they happen? Ageing, my dears.
You'll have the joy of barely-there underarm and pube hair to compensate for lush eyebrows (although mine are still fine arches, each hair grows really long a la Dennis Healey).

Welcome to my world ladies!

Oblomov17 · 19/07/2017 16:31

Electrolysis is best bet, well better than anything else.
I bet no one can recommend a better option.

Fairyliz · 19/07/2017 16:41

Oh this reminds me of the other week. I was looking in the mirror when I noticed a hair stuck to the top of my cheek. I have a long haired cat so I assumed that one of its hairs had stuck to my foundation.
I pulled at it and realized it was an eyebrow hair that was still attached and then swooped over my eye onto my cheek!

But it wasn't there when I put my make up on in the morning. It must have grown two inches in about four hours!

Suchaplonker · 19/07/2017 16:51

Watching thread with interest as I too am a 'Lone Hair Mother Plucker'! ........

Puzzledandpissedoff · 19/07/2017 16:52

For me, there's only one thing to do with upper lip hair: www.chemist.co.uk/nair-hair-remover-facial-wax-strips-with-camomile-10-2-strips.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxPnI1diV1QIVwbvtCh3LWA33EAQYBSABEgISOPD_BwE

Don't kid yourself there's only one, either ... there'll also be lots of very fine fuzz, each follicle burning with ambition to produce an overnight tree trunk once it's old enough

WhatALoadOfOldBollocks · 19/07/2017 18:00

Ah yes, the random single hair. I have one on my jaw line that is pretty much invisible (but I find it when I'm idly touching my face), a random long eyebrow hair, and the odd 1 or 2 on my areolas (that I can only find by feel or when I'm looking at the refelction in the magnifying mirror with my glasses on thanks to diminishing eyesight) Gah! And I have a single grey pube! Periods now doing weird things too. I think I've peaked physically, but the great thing is that, with age, I no longer give as much of a shit.

misit · 19/07/2017 18:45

I have one lone hair that grows out of my jaw like a blunt bristle. I pluck it every so often, I'm saving them to make a scrubbing brush.

peppersaunt · 19/07/2017 18:49

My husband referred to my lone chin hair as my whisker. Now I have too many for him to joke about

StandardPoodle · 19/07/2017 20:07

Whilst electrolysis is very good, I found I had to have a further course after 10 years as they started to come back.
I've a couple of ninja hairs on my chin which go from nothing to half an inch in a millisecond.
One of my most treasured possessions these days is A Good Pair of Tweezers. It's either that or plait the little horrors.

GelfBride · 19/07/2017 20:17

They are called HAG HAIRS people. Let's get the nomenclature correct!

I am the proud owner of one that grows on my chin and one finer one that grows from just below my bottom lip. I pluck them. I hate them.

oldtrees · 19/07/2017 20:46

How would I deal with one chin hair? I'd fucking celebrate! I'd shout from the roof tops, I'd be so blinking happy if I oly had one single hair on my chin!

I did used to a long time ago.

Now I have a fucking beard. It's too blond to do electrolosis, but it's wirey and beard -like with the odd darker hair.

I shave every morning, yes, with a razor, like a man.

It's the only thing that works. Cream works, but not as well as a razor., so razor it is. The shame.

I have stubble. Both my children have asked my why I have a beard.

I'm only 40 not 80 FFS!

Oh yeah and I've got loads of skin tags on my neck like my nan used to have. And a huge round belly, like enormous.

My body is officially old.

tamaramcnamara · 19/07/2017 21:05

I have lots of chin hairs (thanks PCOS!) including fine downy ones like a blonde ladybeard and black long curly hairs sprouting out my moles. I have a couple face moles too. Just a couple. For the long black ones I just use tweezers. For the beardy down, nothing works except Veet cream but that gives me a rash,even the sensitive sort and dries my skin until i get bleeding eczema. I mjuch prefer the long dark ones and I get a certain perverse satisfaction from ripping them out with tweezers. I'm weird, I know!

Ironmanrocks · 19/07/2017 21:52

I have a phillips lumea or something like that. Its like a home laser zapper. I do my chin and neck, underarms, legs, bikini and my tash. I use it each week for 4 weeks or so and then I'm relatively hairless for 3 months or more and the regrowth is slow. if I managed to then zap once a month I reckon it would all keep away and I am a monkey. sadly I am not that organised...

ImperialBlether · 19/07/2017 21:56

Use a shotgun?

I laughed out loud at this.

Rainbowflower24 · 19/07/2017 21:58

Wait - your partners know and joke about it? I thought mine hadnt noticed but he's just too polite to mention it isnt he? Damn it. I know about his weird 2 nose hairs that grow on the top of his nose and he knows about mine. Im looking up electrolysis.

Rockhopper81 · 19/07/2017 22:46

All of you with only one or two chin hairs are lucky - I'd like to join tamaramcnamara and thank PCOS for the beard I seem able to grow under my chin. As well as the moustache hair. Oh, and I have really dark brown hair, so it's very noticeable.

I'm not proud of it, but I shave the chin hairs. Nothing really worked, and at least not for any longer than shaving does (so, a day really), so it wasn't worth the hassle of using epliatory creams.

I bleach the moustache hairs, then pluck the darker ones that are stubborn little shits and will not be dyed.

It's annoying. And it makes me self conscious if I'm 'behind on the upkeep'.

DaviesMum · 19/07/2017 22:49

This thread is useless without pictures

BigSunglasses00 · 19/07/2017 23:00

Just tweeze it and be profoundly grateful that you're not covered in them. I'm still only in my 20s and get them everywhere - not bitter at all.

manandbeast · 19/07/2017 23:12

My husband bites mine off !!

misit · 19/07/2017 23:22

manandbeast, your nn makes perfect sense now.

DrFoxtrot · 19/07/2017 23:28

I have a chin hair, so satisfying when you can grab it with tweezers. My friend has agreed to remove it for me if I'm in a coma.

TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 19/07/2017 23:30

I have NECK hairs - a lot

Iggi999 · 19/07/2017 23:31

They grow overnight. From invisible to about an inch long. Fuckers.

bandito · 20/07/2017 06:49

DD (15 - love her!) has stated that these whiskers are my body compensating for my poor and worsening eyesight to stop me bumping into things. It is a wonder of nature.

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MrsBakedBean · 20/07/2017 08:16

This seems like the cheapest Philips Lumea www.boots.com/electrical/female-hair-removal-tools/ipl-hair-removal/philips-lumea-essential-bri861-00-ipl-hair-removal-system-for-body-10217478

has anyone used this for facial hair? I'm tempted especially as you're all telling me I'm going to get more hairy.

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