to think that chin hair is stuck in much stronger than other hair?

[Corkchester]

And that it makes a little squeak when you finally get it out?

Mine was bad before DS but has been horrendous since then - I have a trail all down my neck! I epilate every day, with tweezers for the ones it misses.

My chin hairs are too firmly rooted for waxing or that spring thing, believe me I've tried!
So it has to be tweezers, and I average pulling out around 10 a day! So if I got marooned on a desert island like a PP said, then there's no doubt I'd grow a beard!

Unfortunately my ship has sailed on the Lumea front because 99% of mine are white.

Is there really nothing else I can do except pluck or shave? And I hate shaving because within a couple of hours I can feel the stubble.

Anyone with any brilliant ideas??

They are tenacious little fuckers. I have some amazing tweezers that I bought years ago that I literally guard with my life. I often think that if there was some kind of nuclear winter sweeping the land and we all had to pack up our stuff in a rucksack and hike to the Hebrides, the first thing I'd pack is my tweezers!!!!!

I also use an epilator over my moustache and chin, which is great for the downy stuff but not quite so good for the really thick chin pubes. In the nuclear winter, I'd have to accept being downy (although appreciate that this may not be top of my priority list in the bid to survive!!!!!).

I have two little clumps of them that grow either side of my chin. Had them since my twenties
An ex of mine used to call me ‘Fu Man chu’ (Emphasis on the EX obv )

My sisters! I feel like I have arrived home!

That squeaky sound is so satisfying, and no, no amount of tugging with bare hands will get those buggers out. I keep my tweezers in my makeup bag and set myself up near the window for the best natural light possible and pluck away, otherwise they're impossible to find.
So gross and wirey (the ingrown spirally ones are my faves) yet so satisfying to pluck! 😳

off to sporners corner

So, are epilators not really up to the challenge of whiskers? I don't want to waste any more money!!

I'll have to ask my husband but there must be a reason why men shave so carefully so I would think, yes it is tougher on the chin.

It's because they are not hairs. They are whiskers.

@girlandboy I use an epilator and it gets 90% of them. Tweezers for the awkward ones

Try plucking with a lazy eye. I'm looking in the bathroom mirror jabbing away with my tweezers when the hair is actually an inch over that way! -> It gets very frustrating.

I have a lot of peach fuzz (White, downy hair on cheeks.) and was thinking about the Lumea but have read on this thread that it's no good for white hair.

Has anybody tried the Flawless way? I don't want to get rid of the fuzz only to replace it with thicker, black hair. Is it a razor, does it come back thicker, do you need to do it daily? TIA for any info/help.

The squeak is them screaming at being removed!

No it isn't, it's them screaming 'I'll be back' in a sinister maniacal voice.

Yup about the pubes 😦😣
To quote (vaguely) someone on here from a while back, you start to find them lower down your leg suddenly (or further upwards) like it's sending out some kind of bloody "scouting party".

Mac47
I have a recurring fucker, in the middle of a bloody mole!!!! I'm like Nanny mcphee without the regressive loveliness.

^This. My mole is halfway down my neck and I get 2 black and 1 white bristles grow out of it at random. I am particularly fond of 3 hair days.

I use a spring for the fine hair above my lip (which is NOT a moustache) and on my chin and cheeks but the thick wiry ones congregate on my jawbone and are almost impossible to get at with the spring so tweezers it is. They are also just in the fuzzy spot for my varifocals so I end up getting them out by feel. Running my fingers over my jawline has beome a habit.

I'm glad to know it's not just my chin bristles that grow to amazing lengths in an hour or so, but am i the only one with rapidly growing eyebrow hair in white?

Poor mil has a chinful of them but notices every other little thing !

I have a theory about why suddenly they spring up a lot longer than expected (can you tell I've thought this over for a while? ):
For me, they seem to have a much deeper root than other facial hairs, and they seem to grow under the skin for so long, and then have nowhere else to but through the skin.
It makes sense in my head, anyway!

Ellen, I think literally everything tries to 'head south' - certainly my hair line is slightly higher at the front than it used to be, and definitely much lower at the back. I recently described it as my hair trying to escape from my head.
(I also suffer from the much lower pube line, as well as thicker hairs on the backs of my thighs.)

I don’t mind normal chin hairs after experiencing the horror that is an ingrown chin hair. Several weeks of fretting over what to do about the growing bump on my jawline, one night of savaging my face with a pair of tweezers, one 8cm hair removed along with a lot of truly gross face insides, one traumatised ronniemipperton.

@FairfaxAikman thanks very much, it might be worth buying one then!

I have also found my people.

It’s the curly ones sprouting on my neck I can’t stand in particular.

I’ve had a whiskery thing on my chin since my early twenties. Now about twenty of the fuckers. But oh, the satisfaction of yanking one out by its enormous root...

@girlandboy I use it on my underarms too.

Normal body hair grows like flowers. Slowly and without you noticing. Chin hairs grow like weeds. They wait until you're not looking and then 💥, you're tripping over them.

@FairfaxAikman sounds ouchy! Do you might telling me which epilator you have?

I've black and white ones. I painstakingly clear them all and overnight I've a goatee. So I also get one ultra fine blond on my cheek.. It goes from nothing to 2 inches I swear i look for it everyday it def all got worse at 40.

@mineofuselessinformation oh I hear you!
My leg hair in general is so ridiculously prolific there is barely any point shaving (five o'clock shadow) or waxing (I have stubble within 2 weeks these days)
I despair 😑😅

I have PCOS so I've had a full-on beard since I was 18. Tried everything I could afford from later (the fuckers grew back in six months), threading (in full view of everyone in Superdrug), cream (burnt my face), tweezers (took me an hour a day) and shaving (5 o'clock shadow at 3pm). Twenty five years of dealing with dark brown chin pubes when I am a blonde.

Discovered a local beauticians did electrolysis three and a half years ago, when I could finally afford it. At the start I was going twice a week and it cost me £400 a month. Dropped down to monthly after two years. I'm still going but only three or four times a year now - it's probably cost me around £6k and was worth every penny.