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

Always had a moustache, even as a kid. Ive got black hair and olive skin.

When I got to mid twenties I noticed chin hair, just on the left on the jaw line, so I shaved them off. Now I do a combo of shaving or plucking, some are starting to come through on the right too 😕
Like a previous poster I'm just hairy everywhere, thick black hairs.

My poor Ds is 4 and has a hairy back that's visible from a distance, he's definitely going to be the kid at 12 with the full beard.

If you have thick black hair you are lucky because laser etc will blast them. It’s the blonde ones that can’t be permanently removed.

I wish my chin ones were black!

I have just very recently tentatively started shaving, but there is no way I am going to tell anyone apart from everyone who ever reads this thread I was really worried at first incase I got a 5 o'clock shadow but I can report that it actually works and the hairs do not grow back any worse! I have fine blonde hairs so they wouldn't respond to some other treatments. I seem to be able to get away with shaving once a week, but my God it feels weird to have shaving foam on my face and a razor, I feel like a right bloke. :(

Learn to thread, takes 5 mins on you tube. Get threading thread on amazon, about 99p , because it needs to break easily or it can graze you.
I’ve plucked shaved, waxed. Threading wins.

Of course a lumea works on hormonal hair! Why wouldn't it?
As long as it's dark.

If course more may grow and need to be 're lasered.

Yes I wasn't thinking that a lumea would simply be a one-off and I'd never need to use it again! What I'm hoping for is to use it perhaps every 2-3 days instead of having to shave twice a day, and for the results to look really clear - it's easy to miss bits shaving.

Having said that, the taboo against shaving your face as a woman is quite cleverly maintained - the Lumea is at least £350 after all, and shaving is cheap as chips and pretty effective.

Can I ask about using hair removal cream? My hairs are blonde but really thick above my top lip and I have loads of peach fuzz. Has anyone else found that to be effective. I think you can buy it especially for using on the face.

Gabrielle I would hope lumea wold start to reduce hair growth etc for the cost otherwise women may as well just pluck if the hair grows back straight away! With hormonal issues there is underlying condition promoting growth of new hair which is why over all may not be permanent or longer term in which case just pluck

I'm 27 and I have plentiful facial hair. It starts at my sideburns and goes all along my jaw line. It's dark and downy and I just wax it off. I have about 3 hairs on my top lip that I've had since being about 14. Luckily they're not multiplying yet.

I'm mixed race though, and all the women on that side of my family are quite hairy. My nan had a wicked beard once she gave up removing it.

Sunwhere I can't keep up with my hair with plucking any more, it's some months since I could. I'll keep saving for the Lumea.

I use a long coil type twirly thing that you just roll across the chin by twisting the two blobs on the end. It works like threading. Gets rid of all the fine hairs and not too painful, tho I have a hairy lipline which stings like he'll, but it's gotta go. I pluck the black, thick ones that randomly appear on chin and occasionally upper lip. Sad to say that the thick buggers are also coming out white now too so I can feel them but struggle to see them to pluck. The twirly thing came with a pair of tweezers in a little fabric pouch..cheap as chips on eBay.

I bought one of those coil type thingies too but I couldn't be arsed to read the instructions so I've never used it. Actually I haven't seen it for ages, I think I have lost it.
I used to use hair removal cream but I don't think it is good for the skin long term, and it sometimes burns, so I stopped using it.

I'm probably older than many of you so have been plucking chin and neck hairs for a good number of years. Once a month I have my top lip waxed, although my hairs are quite light so hopefully not too noticeable.

I did just check both nipples and no hairs there yet! I think my lovely husband thought his luck was in when I flipped my tits out at 9.15 in the living room!

I’ve just had laser as my beard was getting out of control. It just started spouting about 5 years ago. I had under my chin, a few on chin and my upper lip done it’s been fab no more dark hair.
I now however have quite a few white hairs growing, I will look like Father Christmas in a few years.
My laser therapist (or whatever you call them) said I’d need electrolysis for the white hairs as laser won’t get rid of them, but they’re not as noticeable I just trim them.

I envy those of you who have had laser work. Mine must just be much worse since after all of those sessions its still there. Ive spent thousands on the laser treatment at a reputable chain. It went for a few weeks and then it just came back again.

How come if you 'overpluck' your eyebrows they NEVER return! Hence I'm left with 1990s 'skinny arches' .. yet you 'overpluck' your beard and the bastard seems to see it as a challenge at how quickly it can resume its armies! 😡

@ohyesiam Learn to thread, takes 5 mins on you tube.

I read that as on the tube and was for a second!

People saying that laser only lasts a few weeks, you need to have regular treatments over a period of months to stand a chance of catching every cycle of growth. Each cycle is around 7 weeks and you have a window of days in that in which it is effective, so you have to do it many times to catch every cycle at the right time.

Absolutely.

You need to read instructions carefully and ideally understand the hair cycle.

No plucking. Shave only. Laser every couple of weeks. Gradually catch all the hairs. It's not instant. Anyone who feels their lumea hasn't worked could check over the instructions.

I first had two long black hairs appear on my jawline when I was 28. I now have two cluster of black hairs on the 'points' of my chin, a single long black hair just under the middle of my lower lip, a moustache that's turning, one hair at a time, from blonde to black, and inch-long hairs that have started growing out of my eyebrows, like Denis Healey. Some are white.

People saying that laser only lasts a few weeks, you need to have regular treatments over a period of months to stand a chance of catching every cycle of growth. Each cycle is around 7 weeks and you have a window of days in that in which it is effective, so you have to do it many times to catch every cycle at the right time.

Yep I had it for a year. Still didn't get rid.

Over a year in fact. 15 sessions.

I am particularly hairy though

Count yourself lucky. Most Indian girls get chin hairs from puberty! Just keep plucking - laser doesn’t really work for white hair.

Yes! What is it with inch long eyebrow hairs?

I brush them upwards & trim them, then the bastards stand to attention at a 90% angle to the rest of my eyebrow - then turn white!