When I write my memoirs/first comedy show it will be called "Menopause stole my Eyebrows"

[InfiniteSheldon]

Seriously AIBU I'd heard quiet whispers about hot flushes, seen secret nods about forgetfulness even probably raised my own once lovely often overplucked brows at the idiosyncrasies of older women I knew but why didn't any tell me about this? I can't leave the house until I've reapplied my bloody eyebrows between the bald patches and the white ones they've all but disappeared! My hair has hardly any grey, I'm fighting the weight gain, coping with the night sweats but for the love of God I need eyebrows.

Yeah, I have to draw on my eyebrows and pluck my moustache. ☹️

I thought my eyebrows were getting thinner. I didn't realise it was an age thing!

Does this start before the menopause then. What joy.

I feel your pain, mine seem to be migrating to my nipples, bloody great long black hairs on my friggin nipples of all places

So true!

The good news is that my underarm hair has also gone so I can wear sleeveless tops without any worries about stubble under each pit!

Ah I have found my people...in other weird hair news - I also spotted the lower part of the hair on my shins has vanished... and I have a gap in one lot of eyelashes...

Does this start before the menopause then. What joy.

Yup, it’s peri menopause- which lasts 7-10 years and starts anytime in your 40’s although 45 is the average. Symptoms vary from being minor to debilitating!

spotty purse in recycling bin we are a tribe

The eyebrows are still with me, but the armpit hair has stopped growing.

I wish my pubic hair would stop growing. I fecking hate it, and have to shave it every couple of months. Never liked having it for several different reasons.

Menopause made my eyebrows migrate to my chin

I hear you OP. I wil go out without make up, but not without my eyebrows "on".

@FrancisCrawford

Mine too. I am very pale with previously pale but OK shaped eyebrows. Now they grow to incredible lengths, apparently over night. Plucking/waxing is no good as it's not that there are hairs where they shouldn't be, just incredibly long, bushy, wild hairs rather than the previous short well controlled ones. I've considered waxing them off completely and painting them in but as I am so incredibly pale I'm sure I would look like a 1980s pierrot doll

I look like a cross between Denis Healey and an owl.

Wherearemyminions me too. I don't know about you but it's not something I ever recall reading in romantic novels: "he ran his fingers hungrily through her thick, luxuriant black...nipple hair."

I fucking hate myself right now.

The hair on my body is absurd. Thick and dark, and my armpit hair could be bloody braided. The hair on my head is and has been grey since I was twenty-five. I'm almost forty-two.

My anxiety is skyrocketing, periods have gone completely mental. I can sleep properly. Nausea is so so bad. I have thick, coarse hair growing on my chin, and the underside of my throat is a goddamned beard if i don't wax it off.

My tits are sore all the time. I cramp too much. I am homicidal. I cry out of frustration and despair. I have absolutely no patience. My body can't make up its mind what temperature it wants to be, and my brain is so absent and forgetful that I wonder if I'm not actually going bloody senile.

Such fun.

My eyebrows have relocated to my chin and started a commune.

@MrsTommyBanks That is exactly where I am - thank goodness it isn't just me! Bloody nuisance having to pluck the chin on a regular basis. I have tried creams and a depilator thingy but they are only so-so effective.

Oh and isn't it just a bugger that this happens to you right when the eyesight is starting to go so I need my reading glasses and the magnifying side of the mirror to see the bloody things when I pluck my chin.

Be glad it isn't 'Menopause stole my beautiful hair'. I'd be happy with just losing my eyebrows.

I still have eyebrows, but those left gets longer and longer. Anyone up for a contest? Some of mine are easily 3 cm. 🤮
And the brows seem to vanish from the "sides", so you end up with two dots in the middle?
But as with everything these days it just gravity - they have moved down to a nice beard 😥.

I have one chin hair in particular that's so thick you could moor ships with it. 'Wiry' doesn't cover it...it's like a fecking steel cable growing out of my jawline.

Disappearing outer edges of eyebrows is one of the symptoms of hypothyroidism, so might be worth getting that checked.

My eyebrows are still quite dark but each one has one completely white, very noticable, white hair, right in the middle.
As it's only 2 hairs I can't really do an entire eyebrow tint. Eyebrow pens also don't seem to work very well if you just want to recolour a hair or two. I've therefore, taken to colouring in each offendibg hair with a permanent black marker pen instead. It works perfectly. 😂

My eyebrows are in great shape, and according to friends look like I just stepped out of a brow bar which is nice because I do very little to make them look that way beyond plucking out the odd stray. That however is no consolation for the moustache and the chin bristles which I respectively wax and pluck. Sadly the intervals between waxing and plucking grow shorter and shorter, pretty much have to have tweezers in my hand everywhere I go now. Leg hair is long gone and underarm hair very sparse, razors last me a very longtime!

My pubes and matching toe-foliage though. If I did not maintain a ruthless and relentless regime of waxing and trimming, they would grow and grow, ultimately, insidiously creeping out to invade and engulf the surrounding countryside like the hair equivalent of Japanese knotweed.

Oh God I had such fabulous eyebrows once. Now they sprout off at weird angles (what’s left of them) - impossible to control. Adding insult to injury I am spottier than I ever was in my teens. And I smell funny

I would have laughed at this if it didn’t describe me to a tee 🙁. And yes 5foot5 it’s a bummer. I’m getting more and more longsighted by the day and the sprouty hairs seem to grow juuuust out of sight at the sides of my face. I’ve even resorted to getting one of the giant teenagers to pluck them for me. They don’t laugh at me because I’ve done a great job of making them realise it will come to them one day.......I’ve ruined their carefree childhood haven’t I? 😂 Maybe I’ll start collecting the long, thick, dark and luxurious chin/face hairs and use them to plug the gaps in my eyebrows. There must be a hair glue, right?

PeterPiper
I know, bit of a shocker. I bought them on Amazon with a deal - £80 for 180 tablets. I take one a day and have enough for another month. Don't know if I can justify it again so it might be bye bye hair for now. Sort of annoyed that they actually work!

MargoLovebutter, perhaps worth a check 😀

Have you tried when removing hairs to put on your strongest glasses combined with your best magnifying mirror just to see the buggers, and then just focus on your wrinkles magnified into the extreme?

I’ve just remembered a quote(ish) from Angela Barnes that sums up my top lip, chin and sides of face perfectly.....it looks like there’s a daddy long legs trapped in my face and it’s trying to escape, one leg at a time.....