Bloody chin hairs!!!

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Ladies, help me. I'm mid 40s and the bastard chins hairs keep on coming. I keep plucking them out, but am I going to have a beard by the time I'm 50? Nasty course black thick hairs. Do I need to go and see my GP? ARGH!?!?!

I carry tweezers in my handbag so I can dash to the well-lit mirrors in the Ladies' when I feel one emerging. The little mirror in the sunblind in the car is also useful but the Children get embarrassed if I am doing them and someone sees me ...

Tweezers every 2-3 days

Full beard now

Had Laser treatments done, didn't last and the problem with Lumea is that you have to let it grow in between, and I just can't, I let it grow to get it waxed and was then unwell beforehand and hospitalised, and had to wait before fixing it and not even two full boxes of Veet strips got rid of it all

I bloody love my lumea. It is awesome.
BUT when I first did my chin and tash hairs they went away and all was good until they grew back white which is no fucking use to my magic laser machine. So now back to the tweezers.

No-one seems to have mentioned those spring things - search amazon for 'spring epilator' & it's a big spring with rubbery end caps & costs about a quid. There are youtube videos showing you how to use them.

I've tried electroysis, bleaching & finally plucking with tweezers. But this spring thing is the best so far because you don't have to see what you're doing, so you can use it while watching TV.

@Iwantacookie 😂😂🤣

I have a thick white one on my jaw, whenever I feel the stub creeping back out, I’m at it with the tweezers again, and I do tell the bastard thing off, makes me feel better.

I’m blonde but I have black hairs (oddly) on my nipples random ones - since having my son.

I get the chin and neck hairs. I can't wax, tried it once and my face erupted (Same with leg hair.) I have a lazy eye, so no 20/20 vision (Bad depth perception.) and I spend ages at the mirror trying to co-ordinate tweezers with hair!

@73kittycat73 have you tried a magnified mirror?

Will match your black coarse chin hairs & raise you black coarse neck / nipple hairs too

Am never far from a set of tweezers

Would definitely explore laser one day, especially for the neck hairs.

It does feel satisfying plucking the little bastards out but

Sorry to sound ignorant, but why doesn't the Lumea work on white chin hairs? Was thinking of buying, but after seeing the above comments might save my money

I use these things. I'm blonde so lasers won't work, and have sensitive skin so Nair rips my skin off. These are faster than tweezers and grab shorter hairs more easily. I've seen them in Primark, or get em online. I'm glad to know I'm not alone, have had to tweeze for years.

Anyone tried electrolysis?

I have but they were able to treat so few per session that I had had to switch to laser which did very little. I even got a home IPL so I could carry on with treatment and that hasn't been much help either.

Vaniqua was another waste of time and money.

I'm thinking of investing in a strimmer.

I have threatened my DCs with regular haunting if they don’t bring tweezers to whatever nursing home I am in, in years to come, in order to keep me moustache and beard free.

I only have a couple of thick black hairs on my chin, but I could easily take part in Movember. Yet the hair on my head seems to be thinning!

Lumea doesn't work on white hairs because white hairs don't absorb the energy required to burst the hair root the way dark hairs do. It's the same way that dark colours absorb heat whilst paler colours reflect.

Will match your black coarse chin hairs & raise you black coarse neck / nipple hairs too

I went through a phase of getting these in my 30s. I think it was related to hormones and I'm struggling to remember whether I was taking the pill at the time.

I didn't have any 'treatments' other than a tweezers (and sometimes even a sissors!) and don't get them anymore. I still get the chin hairs though and the odd tough hair above my upper lip.

@VenusTiger Thank you for the suggestion. I recently bought one from Superdrug, never thought to use it on chin hair, doh! Will give it a go soon (Was going to start with eyebrows, ouch! ).

I started getting them when I got my face threaded in my early thirties. I never asked to get my chin threaded she did and then they started sprouting up. Only way to truly rid of them is lasers. Never shave or thread them. Pluck or wax

I think plucking mine made them worse. I wish I hadn't started.

I use a "No No" on my mum's chin hairs, she hates me doing it but it does the job. I did once attempt to pluck the hairs out and she became very annoyed, so the "No No" was the way to go.

I've had these since I was 16!!

"No No" is one of the few things I haven't tried. I'd be interested in any more commentary.

Is it any good on the ones that tend to ingrow?

@73kittycat73 you’re welcome just be careful you don’t shit your pants when you see those hairs magnified eh

@PinkiOcelot I go to a beautician who does it...has made such a difference and really clears the pores as well

I used to get dark hairs on my lip, but now nothing, nothing on my chin, but a solid cluster of about 20 black hairs on my neck. I’ve done a few sessions of laser, a few sessions of electrolysis, but really feel I’m fighting a losing battle as I have PCOS and adrenal gland issues.

@UpfieldHatesWomen What is this please?

I quite enjoy plucking mine. Black ones, white ones that take a lot of tugging. The worst are the stealth ones that appear like magic - 2 feet long - that you only notice when you've out of the house for hours. Bastards.

LOL. This is me!