AIBU to ask about your chin hair?

[Janel85]

I’m nearly 33 and since having my second child (he’s 3) my hormones have been out of whack, with this has come chin hair, it’s white blonde so i know it could be worse, would probably look like a beard if it was dark! Do you have chin hair? Is this normal for my age? Does anyone was their chin hair or will that pull at my skin too much and make me “jowly?” Would it make it grow back worse? Thanks

*Wax

I can't tell you about it because I have none!!!!

Getting my Philips Lumea was, genuinely, one of the best decisions I ever made.

Before that I plucked and I never, ever, got them all.

I pluck chin hair , only get the same pesky one!

It’s totally normal. I think I was your age when the chin tufts first sprouted!

I plucked them with tweezers for years which worked ok. I recently bought something called an epistick from Amazon, which also works and gets more than one hair at a time.

A friend of mine is having a course of electrolysis, which is expensive and painful but permanent.

Big black spiders legs in chin, some in the moustache region. I pluck. My skin reacts badly to waxing and i couldn't walk around with a red rash goatee for a week!

I am very careful to pluck all of them, but will enter a bathroom or glance in the mirror in the lift and see one i have missed - usually a LONG one that must've been growing for days!

I like twiddling them and kinda miss them when they're gone.

Oh and i'm 42 with a 7yo.

I too get the odd pesky one....its so theraputic plucking it...

*IAmMatty Do you use the Philips lumea on your face? HolyMountain I am so jealous of your one hair, I have a forest

I have terrible chin hair - have done for years. It’s got worse as I’ve got fatter and older but IIRC it started when I was around 30 - I have PCOS and I’ve learned to live with it.

If you have access to a reasonable priced salon (South Asian salons are especially good as if you have any local to you) threading is great - reasonably painless on the chin, quick and chemical free.

Mine age thick and dark so I pluck. It’s easier and I just do it every couple of days. Sometimes I give it a week and get a really ‘good’ pluck. Very satisfying.

If it’s hormonal things like IPL won’t work so don’t waste your money.

Removing it won’t make it grow thicker. If you’re hair is fine you could try a cream - mine are too thick for a cream to be effective.

I had laser treatment and it was great, although expensive and you do need a couple of top up treatments every year or so. BUT it won’t work on white / blonde hair. I assume this would be the case with a lummea too?

In your situation I’d prob go for waxing. Whatever you do DONT shave it!

Philips Lumea is a type of IPL - it won’t work well on hormonally caused chin hair.

I have about 3 that regularly reappear in exactly the same position. I use tweezers. I've also recently started sprouting the odd grey eyebrow hair

Lottie is also right about needing darker hair.

Electrolysis might be an option, will look out for the epistick. Would love to have done with it and pay for laser but it doesn’t work on light blonde hair as there isn’t enough pigment

LittleLion - me too! Grey eyebrows - Wtaf?! I felt like a witch at first - now I get excited to pull it out.

I shave mine. started when I was having laser treatment on it (which didn't work even after 15 sessions although it did reduce slightly) since you can't pluck whilst having laser treatment.

Shaving has been the best thing Ive done to my face. Clearly its not something that is seen as acceptable for women but my skin is so smooth and the fair downy hair has also gone in the process.

I use a rotary shaver, I've got a full beard pretty much, so no chance for plucking.

I’m in my late twenties and have it . I also get sideburn hairs and nipples hairs. They’re different to normal hairs, just thick wiry black things. I don’t have any other symptoms of PCOS so I just think it’s one of those shitty things and they’re dark due to my dark French dad I guess. I pluck... yes, even the nipple ones.

I don't have a white blonde forest, I have a few thick black wiry buggers that sprout over and over in the same place and get tweezed as soon as they are long enough.

They are hormonal I'm sure (I have PCOS). Why wouldn't IPL work on them? Would new ones just spring up?

You asked the question I was too afraid to broach!!

Also: Why does no-one warn you that this is going to happen? There ought to be some kind of collective assembly for 25 year olds, like the one you get on periods when you are 11, where Mrs Smith, your former head of year, reappears and explains about it and gives you a free home waxing kit.

I have waxed and threaded - it works, but my skin is quite sensitive so I get a red rash. Hoping desperately that someone on here has a magic solution.

I shave. Quick, easy, effective, painless.

I've never noticed any chin hair though I do have a general 'peach fuzz' around my cheeks that I have no idea how to deal with, and would have a fine Stalin mustache if I let nature have her own way. I also had the shock of my life a couple of weeks back when I discovered what can only be described as a 'whisker' sprouting from one boob! At least 2 inches long and dark. I went to brush it off thinking it was a stray head hair and came to the nastiest realisation that it was actually GROWING there! I whipped it out with my tweezers and haven't seen anything since but I'm living in fear.

What is WITH the human body? Why can't we just be naturally gorgeous like other mammals? The more body hair a dog has the cuter it is!

Ha ha I like the idea of an assembly. I remember being a terrible teenager and taking the piss out of my poor mum because she had a few chin hairs, oh how that has come back to bite me in the bum now!

I have so far not sprouted any chin hairs (at 40) - plenty of errant hairs elsewhere though. I do have one random really long fine white hair that grows out of my neck. It's about two inches. I was horrified when I first discovered it - I thought it had landed there and tried to brush it off, then realised it was attached!

oh yes, I have the peach fuzz thing too.