Bloody chin hairs!!!

[GreenFingersWouldBeHandy]

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!?!?!

What is the difference between the advanced and the Prestige Lumea?

I have a lot of fine pale hairs rather than individual thick ones. I'm teaching myself to thread them and it's going well so far

I call them pig bristles.

They are eyebrows that migrate to your chin.

I don’t have a moustache but I do get chin hairs and hairs on the side of my face plus belly hairs and the odd really long nipple hair. I’ve just accepted that I’m a hairy bastard, I’m not even 30 yet.

I am 28 and having the same problem. My hair is fair and blonde all over but I am getting nasty dark hairs under my chin towards my neck and I am plucking all the time which is probably making it worse. random dark hairs amongst little blonde hairs. I mentioned to the doctor when I went over another issue and he didn’t seem concerned. It’s upsetting me so much!

I am also getting random dark hairs around my nipples. Only about 3 or 4 and they don’t seem to grow overly quick after plucking but they are thick and wirey. 😥

I call them pig bristles

Haha; who knew there were so many of us?

Welcome to Club Pig Bristles everyone!

I think I may be secretly piebald.

I have dark hairs and grey ones. The dark ones aren't so bad (you can see them coming), but the grey ones are the ones that go from 0.001mm to obscuring my vision overnight.

Tweezers. Every day. Tweezers.

Always carry a range of tweezers in my bag for facial hair emergencies, I get a white one that grows out of my ear lobe, drives me bloody bonkers, one minute it's there the next it's gone!!

If i get ones that are too short for me to extract I get my bestie to have a go, she is also well versed in the chin hair removal game!

I love my lumea. But it's a pricey piece of kit and I was lucky to receive it as a gift.

Another poster mentioned them too, I think it's just called a 'spring epilator'. Much quicker and less fiddly than tweezers because it rips out several hairs at once, and less likely to grab a bit of skin and hurt yourself. I'm blonde and haven't got a dark hair on my head and then all of a sudden I'll get a thick, dark bristle sticking out of my chin! Why?!

I get them too. Going to ask for a no no thing for Christmas 😂

Ah some time back I did a little research about the hairs that aren't visible one day and the next day are two foot long.

Seemingly, they grow in a coil and when they burst through the skin, the coil unwinds and that is why today you have a long hair when yesterday there was nothing.

Same issue for me but I'm 28 😭

Sewbean "I found one at work today, couldn't stop fiddling with it all day but couldn't grasp it tightly enough with my fingers to pull it out. I'm going to need to keep tweezers in my handbag now for ever."

I hear you! I have had the same thing!

Seemingly, they grow in a coil and when they burst through the skin, the coil unwinds and that is why today you have a long hair when yesterday there was nothing.

Is that the same for those long hairs (like several inches long) that are really fine, almost translucent - that you think are stray, but when you brush them, realise they are attached to your neck or cheek etc? Where do they come from?

Oh this thread is resonating with me! I pluck my chin and use was strips for my moustache.... :(

One weird thing is that I do low carb dieting from time to time (or stone to stone!) and I find that the chin hairs hardly occur when I am on v low carb.

im only 38 but need to shave my face daily due to severe PCOS

ironically i dont shave anything else as it growns back too quick.

been dong this since my teens

If you work in an office then a small-ish bulldog clip makes for a handy emergency replacement for tweezers. You can thank me later...

I just have one, thick and white! Also a stealth hair, isn't there for about 3 weeks, and then just appears, about a centimetre long!

I plucked it the other day and a further 2 centimetres came with it, like I was actually pulling something out of my face!

Amazing, and utterly gross at the same time!

Phillips Lumea. Job done.

I know they're a pain, but the Lumea sorts them.

I'm (almost) too embarrassed to admit it, but when I discover a new crop of stubble, I quite enjoy fondling them. I like to think that my manual stimulation brings them all fully to the surface so that I get maximum results when I attack them with my spring epilator.

The lady who does my eyebrows waxes mine at the same time!
they're very common apparently.

I have been having my chin area threaded for years every two weeks. However I’ve recently bought a threading machine on Amazon for about £15 and it’s pretty good. I wouldn’t use it on my eyebrows though as it’s a bit clunky. I’m looking at that contraption that has some sort gold plated circle thing at the end (think they sell them at JML) which might be better for precision.

I'm a field-based worker and I keep tweezers in my dashboard - any time I am running early for an assignment or stopping at the nearest McDonalds for a loo or tea break I park up and get plucking, somehow they are more obvious in the daylight and car mirror.