To think what fresh hell is this?!

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Exactly that!!

What fresh hell is this?!!

43 years old... noticed a hair on my chin. Yep. A HAIR on my chin. BTW I'm female. For clarity. I feel that's an important piece of information. Anyway, back to the hair. It wasn't just a little hair. It was jet black and stuck out at an angle - like it was stood on end. I mean - how long has said hair been there?! And why the hell has no one told me?!!! Have people been doing that thing when talking to me where they're trying desperately to maintain eye contact whilst thinking all the while 'don't look at the chin, must not look at the chin.'

Upon said discovery I grabbed my tweezers. I say grabbed but to be honest I weep when trying to pluck my eyebrows so I couldn't lay my hands upon said tweezers straight away since I hid them and vowed to never inflict such pain on myself ever again. Anyway, I digress. Had to stand very close to the mirror because at this point I realised that my eyesight is just not quite what it used to be and focusing on said hair just wasn't quite that easy. It took forever to find the little bugger again and when I did I couldn't quite grab it and as such my chin now looks like it's been attacked by a small animal.

Not satisfied with the discovery of said hair, as I was stood in the bathroom, practically nose to mirror I was a little taken aback at the line of fuzz on my top lip! Again, I ask you all dear people, what fresh hell is this?!!! Knowing that my DD has Veet wax strips (others are presumably available?!!) in her shit tip bedroom I decided I was on a roll and that I'd tackle said fuzz. Fuck me. Dear God. I read the instructions and held the strip in my hand to warm it. The first strip I put on I pressed down firmly. And then?...

Then I was too scared to pull it off. I counted to 3. Then I counted to 3 again. Then I counted to 10. Again I ask you, what fresh hell is this?????? Plucking eyebrows has nowt on this!! Weeping??? Rolling round on the bathroom floor! However... I'd only done one side. There was no one home to dtd and it fell to me to finish what I'd started.

Needless to say that whilst my chin looks like I've been attacked by a small animal , fuck me my top lip has been annihilated!!!!

I ask again dear friends, what fresh hell is this getting older?!!!

How long till the bleeding stops and the red swelling goes down?? I look like I've had lip fillers that have gone wrong!

I get them too.

Some nights I sit and watch TV and absently pull chin hairs out with my fingers - deeply satisfying. I tried waxing just the once but ended up all spotty and red so stick to plucking and shaving now.

The 'tache is worst though :(

To top it all the other day my 6 year old ds asked me if I was turning into a man because I was growing a beard... I'd only pulled 4 of the b*stard things out the night before.

I'm with you in your trauma OP

It sneakily hid in the under-nipple area. Think it was lonely and trying to make contact with pubes by the length of it
Although plucking is oddly satisfying...

I’m growing a beard...kind of like playing with it!

I have a plethora of random hairs.

Loads on my chin.

One growing on the side of my nose, near my eye.

One that grows inbetween my boobs.

And a really long one on my arm.

I even had an ingrowing hair on my chin. The fucker!!

First world problems 😒

20's too and been doing since 18/19. Also get a random dark black hair on side of face from time to time. Your post had made me laugh op. Welcome to the fuzz 😂😂

Welcome to middle-age.

Mine are white and seem to grow in minutes. I’ve tried wax and depilatory, but at this point I use a small epilator every couple of weeks. My sensitive skin couldn’t handle the other methods. So I epilate and pluck the crazy instant ones as needed.

It’s also worth investing in good tweezers. I had a miraculous bargain brand pair that were perfectly balanced and always grabbed the hair firmly. I caught DH using them to pluck a nose hair. He got to buy me high end tweezers after that.

I have a thick black hair that grows out of a small mole on my face, this thread has reminded me to yank it out before I go to bed. I am worried now though, I am in my 50s and haven't noticed any other facial hair yet, am I a yeti but haven't noticed due to failing eyesight?

I found a long hair under my boob in my teens. It just grew to 12 inches plus long out of nowhere. It never did reappear. Chin hairs? I’ve also only been having them for a couple of years. I’m a few years older than you. If you don’t have many, it’s also ok to shave the bugger off. I’ve done that a couple of times.

I have a black one on my chin and a white one smack bang in the middle if my forehead. Like a really shit unicorn.

I’m 54 and have a freckle on my face that sports a lovely jet black hair out of it. I look like Nanny Mc feckin Phee. What’s worse is that sometimes I see it out the corner of my eye just waving at me going coooeeee.

it'll appear every couple of weeks forever now!

Use nair cream on the lip. The wax is a killer, can look obvious cause the area is too sensitive.

Welcome to the world of yeti

Thanks everyone! I have had a few raucous laughs as I've read your replies!

I'm going to have to examine for more!

Thanks @shpoot ! That's great to know as currently my top lip is raw!!!!!!

No problem! It's like magic. Just try and remember not to answer the door and pay the window cleaner with it on

Word of advice. A sun visor mirror in the car is the best place to catch them. You can get closer view of them.

I discovered my first neck hair - yes, An actual NECK hair - on my 40th birthday. The bugger was about an inch long, so wiry you could hang your washing on it, and was practically waving in the breeze heralding my middle age.

stay away from the sunlight!!!!! You'll dip your face in wax!!!! Once you see them all you can't understand them!!!!

Unsee**

I found my first hag whisker at 20. You're doing well

I'm 33 and regularly enjoy a good chin pluck....I can nearly tell when my period is coming!

I really don't understand why you so frustrated
It's natural process

@CheeseFace Thank you for the belly laugh. 😂

@IHeartMarmiteToast Totally stealing "hag whisker"! 😂😅

Around the time I turned 50 I was plucking my eyebrows and using one of those mirrors, you know the ones that are normal on one side and magnified on the other, and I was examining my magnified wrinkles, pores, broken veins et al with fascinated horror when I realized I was looking into the normal side of the mirror!