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!

@StopMakingAFoolOutofMe phew! I was worried then!!!

By the time you're 60 you'll have a full beard, then you'll b pissed off.

No, I was trying to be funny but obviously failed apart from the typo

@StopMakingAFoolOutofMe oh no you definitely didn't fail - nothing like a hairy gash Hilarious!!!!

I’d have a full beard here if I didn’t do a car tweezer job like a PP. pubes marching down to the knees too. Awful state of affairs.

Everywhere is fucking hairy these days, but my actual hair is falling out so much that I've bought hair vitamins and special shampoo to stop hair falling out! Maybe that's why I now have thigh pubes.

Your post made me laugh op.

I’m about to turn 40 and have been discovering an odd chin hair for the last year or so which I attack with the tweezers.

I have also developed very fine white fuzz on my chin and upper lip. Haven’t worked out yet what the best way is to deal with this, so I just keep looking at....in despair. Any ideas?!

Also, I have had a grey eyebrow hair! Wtf?! Just one, right in the middle of my eyebrow!

I could weep for my lost youth 😩☹️

I found one today. On my neck, just curling away. I think I didn't notice it before because of winter scarf wearing.

I feel your pain... I've always had a couple that appear out of a mole on my face, but since I turned 30 there's neck hairs, upper lip hairs and nose hair to contend with, my solution is tweezers for the neck ones, immac for top lip (check every 30 seconds, if it's on for more than 2-3 minutes you're left with proper burns...). And fancy nose wax for those bastards (not nearly as painful as you'd think) - Google nads nose wax kit, it's about 10% of the pain of pulling one hair out with tweezers, no idea how!

You never think thigh pubes auditioned for the pubic region and just weren't cast for the part? So they hang out waiting in the sidelines.

So what’s the difference between a whisker and a hair?

@pantry. I'd say an inch. An actual inch. In my case. Like Angus says just literally out or nowhere and pp with their tit hairs. Come out fully formed.

I thought it was a thing for like, in my sixties???!!!!!

No - they just get much, much worse in your sixties

Trust me on this ...

I'm 34 and there is an increasing amount of fine white downy hair on the side of my face and neck under my ears, what do you do with that? It covers too large an area to wax. I'll just leave it til it looks too beard like.

Just wait until your eyesight starts to fail and you don't see the - as I call them - mutant hairs, until you're standing in a check out line surrounded by people and your beloved - aka dead to me - daughter, shrieks out "OMG mum you've got granny whiskers". Her time will come.

I'm 54 and, on a bad day, have a better beard than all some of the apprentices I work with and my DS's best friend. I bought from e-bay a bargain version of a no-no and things are better now as I don't like using tweezers.

@AllTheUserNamesAreTaken Yes! I can absolutely totally advise now - thanks to this thread!!!
So - don't use wax for top lip way too late for me now - from experience it rips your top 6 layers of tender skin off along with the fuzzy layer. Use cream. Then afterwards slather in Sudocrem to aid healing.

For chin hairs it's best to pluck the plucky fuckers - using excellent tweezers that one must buy at least 5 pairs of and which must be kept in strategic places including ones handbag and the car glove box. They must be well hidden from all family members as they can be utilised for a cacophony of other things! Also buy a huge magnifying mirror so one can see the unlucky fuckers waiting to be plucked. I have it on excellent authority that the best place to pluck is in the car. Using the little vanity mirror and light in the sun visor.

Also it appears that one should also check nipples and toes for hairy growths... I'm not so clear how to deal with those areas of need though...

I think that covers it? This has been enlightening! I'm so grateful for the advice!

In all honesty I think the number has stayed the same on me for at least 20 years. They seem to abate for a while to lull me into false security the sprout again just as I've got complacent.

toes for hairy growths... I'm not so clear how to deal with those areas of need though. DO NOT PLUCK THOSE, it hurts like and really isn’t worth the pain 😭

Hurts like hell

Wait till it grows back op it won't be smooth it will be the sharpest hair on your body.

You may aswell check your nipples now.its all going on now you have a beard on the go.

@IHeartMarmiteToast Many thanks for "hag whisker"! 😂 😱

I discovered years ago that plucking, creams etc inflame my skin, so it looks worse than any hair
Same for creams on legs and underarms

Hence the odd hag whisker on chin or nipple gets zapped when my legs, forearms & pits get their weekly shave

Contrary to many fears, shaving doesn't accelerate hair growth, as I've been doing this for 40+ years

I occasionally shave my big toes too

I get these all the time and have done since I turned 30s,,had the moustache since puberty. I literally have to do maintenance every 3 days, and there are always new hairs

I swear most of us posted on a thread exactly the same a week ago 🤣

Nice to see you all again
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Yeti