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!

Fraid so. 😢

Yes to hairs on toes, DH asked me what I was doing the other day when he caught me trimming them, the fucker now calls me the hobbit. I insisted on checking his feet and there's nothing, he does get ear hair though.

I discovered a white pube the other day. When I told DH he said 'Oh, you've had them for ages'
Upon closer examination turns out he was correct, the one I'd spottd wasn't alone.

I have a pact with a friend that if either of us is ever incapacitated we will take care of the other's tache, beard, random chin hairs and eyebrows.
I have to be threaded every two weeks and I have one particularly tenacious chin hair which breaks the thread every time. It would be better if she used a piece of rope.

Welcome to the party.

just ouch - i am currently sat with what looks like a chemical burn after using sensitive nair on my upper lip, back to finding a hot wax person then. I think IPL would work well on chin hair but does anyone have a suggestion for nasal hair :-(

I really don’t think you should invest in a Tweezerman mirror .

I’m not sure you will ever get anything done again.

It’s taken over my life.

Omg. The magnification is amazing. 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

With all due respect, get a grip

I've had a full beard, gash and sidies since I was 33. I have to pluck every day and I'm pale skinned with mousy hair. My beard is black.

TASH.

Haven't read the whole thread. However, based on the first 20 or so answers and your first update, what you need is...

Good tweezers.

A car with a vanity mirror and light.

Which is where I do all my chin hair removal. My good tweezers never leave my car, so neither teenage daughter has any chance of filching them. And the mirror is really good, and I can always manoeuvre car to get sunshine into best possible angle to maximise light.

Blimey mine were appearing in my late teens. I'm the same age as you OP and now when I sit and spend ages pulling them out with my nails - almost pleasurable when you get the bastard - they're all grey!!

Also at 43 my pubes have really thinned and 50% grey!!!

I have loads in my chin and upper lip. They grow stealthily. The worst is when you absent mindedly stroke your chin and find a wiry one (or several) and don't have any tweezers so I now carry a pair of tweezerman tweezers (best I've found) in my bag.
I wax my top lip but I hate it. I get to that bit where you're meant to whip it off but my brain refuses to do so!
I've been getting them for years and I'm not 40 yet. I get them on my neck, my nipples and in a mole near my ear. My eyebrows are going wild and bushy now too - white hairs that are about half cm long

Sort of miss them though when they're not there anymore to wrestle with 😂😂. They've always got a wee friend somewhere though

Turning 50 soon, and I now have to shave every day. I have little patches of three or four whiskers. If I pluck them I get a spot where they try and come through again. So I shave. At first, just occasionally. Now, daily. I swear if my head hair grew like that I'd give Rapunzel a run for her money.

Just as I decided not to bother shaving legs and pits, too.

I've been shaving since mid 30s
electric lady shaver is my friend...
but wait until the hairs start to be bristly and white...

StopMakingAFoolOutOfMe

Best Typo EVER. I was already giggling at the thread but that made me absolutely hoot.

I fear if I ever slip into a coma I will awake as a bearded lady :(

@Rtmhwales I'm crying at your shame. 😅

@StopMakingAFoolOutofMe it was just supposed to be tongue in cheek and humorous. Absolutely no intention to cause offence so apologies if I have offended you.

Of all the things to make a typo on

I’m 48. I pay a lovely lady £35 every 2.5 weeks to thread my full face.

From my forehead to the base of my neck.

The thread breaks a lot.

They need sailor’s rope.

Me? No you haven't offended me at all! Sorry if it came across like that, I've been having a good laugh at the thread

Never take your epilator to your chin. I learnt the hard way, took a week for my skin to re-foliate (is that a word?). What we need is a new emoji, like a 'chinney reckon' or 'Jimmy hill' move

Oh, AND, the thigh pubes! What the actual fuck are they all about?! Is it not enough to sprout black hairs on my chin and cheeks but for pubes to be making their way down my legs as well? Will they reach my knees?