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I’ve come up with the best business idea ever. Come see my logo!

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ComfortablySeated · 27/09/2025 21:03

(Tongue firmly in cheek before anyone goes fully Deborah Meaden on me)

Introducing- ChinHairBnB.

You’re walking along, minding your own business, when your hand brushes your chin and you discover a wiry little bastard of a hair that’s apparently grown within seconds because it definitely wasn’t there when you looked in the mirror this morning.

Enter ChinHairBnB: the world’s first emergency chin-hair removal network.

Our hosts display the logo outside their home. A passing peri- or menopausal woman in follicular crisis can knock, hand over a small fee, and be granted access to a sterilised pair of tweezers. Job done. Dignity restored.

Look, I’m not saying this will be the biggest business in the world, but it’ll surely make top ten, right?

(Logo will take a while to appear- worth it though cos it’s amazing).

I’ve come up with the best business idea ever. Come see my logo!
OP posts:
Enough4me · 28/09/2025 00:23

If it takes off, can you have a side line in fixing frizzy baby hairs at the top of hair that were controlled when leaving the house but 30 min later become wirey?
It wasn't an issue when I was younger but these hairs are either grey or losing colour and the fight to control them is one I'm losing.
Places to stop and spray down would be helpful.

MrsTerryPratchett · 28/09/2025 00:30

Can the service have a VIP version where a lovely young thing, with perfect eyesight, finds the fucking thing when you can feel it but not see it?

I’d pay handsomely for that.

Nat6999 · 28/09/2025 06:03

Can you combine your new business with a zit popping service? Design a new logo for spoilers to put in their window, or maybe a yellow light outside when they are available for business.

damemaggiescurledupperlip · 28/09/2025 06:16

make a running knot in a thread, OP , or even a long head hair, loop it around chin hair, pull it tight, then heave ….

OldBeyondMyYears · 28/09/2025 08:55

Pebbles16 · 27/09/2025 21:20

My 80 year old Mum will be your best client. She is obsessive! I have escaped the downiness on the chin, but would you extend your services to those of us with hairy nasal cavities?
I swear I go out in the morning fuzz free, come back to a profusion of black hairs (I am a redhead/blonde, nowhere on my body do such black hairs exist!)

Haha bless your mum! My mum was the same…I have core memories of her sitting on the sofa in the evening attacking the ‘wiry little bastards’ (direct quote 🤣) with her tweezers.

She lovingly passed on the ‘wiry little bastard’ gene to me! Thanks mum! 😬

ComfortablySeated · 28/09/2025 09:25

KrystalStubbs · 27/09/2025 23:19

Can I ask that you expand your business model to include travelling pluckers who will visit the bedside of any hairy chinned woman who is unfortunate enough to be in a coma and, if her chin (and upper lip) are left to their own devices will grow a luxuriant goatee, embarrassing her intensely when she wakes up (one of my many fears)

My late, lovely, MIL spent the last years of her life immobilised in a nursing home and ravaged by dementia. She was always so glam and well groomed that seeing her with a whiskery chin that she didn’t know about seemed like such a kick in the teeth- she’d have hated it.

I did have some chats with DH about the moral issue of bringing in some tweezers and plucking her chin when the nurses’ backs were turned.

OP posts:
KrystalStubbs · 28/09/2025 09:37

ComfortablySeated · 28/09/2025 09:25

My late, lovely, MIL spent the last years of her life immobilised in a nursing home and ravaged by dementia. She was always so glam and well groomed that seeing her with a whiskery chin that she didn’t know about seemed like such a kick in the teeth- she’d have hated it.

I did have some chats with DH about the moral issue of bringing in some tweezers and plucking her chin when the nurses’ backs were turned.

How sad, I can understand your feelings seeing your MIL like that, it's undignified.
I'd have hoped whoever was giving her personal care would include a quick shave - they do it for the male residents I'm sure.

SepticPegsSepticLeg · 28/09/2025 09:40

Do we not all just get our respective OH to pull them out then?

KelsCommemorativeSausage · 28/09/2025 09:46

SepticPegsSepticLeg · 28/09/2025 09:40

Do we not all just get our respective OH to pull them out then?

We don't all have OH.

ComfortablySeated · 28/09/2025 10:29

SepticPegsSepticLeg · 28/09/2025 09:40

Do we not all just get our respective OH to pull them out then?

With what, though? Mine has big fingers and short nails. Him using a tweezers would take longer than me doing it myself. That said, he is a certified Manly Man™️ and carries a proper Swiss Army knife which has the most teeny-tiny tweezers secreted at the top. It’s brilliant.

OP posts:
Fizbosshoes · 28/09/2025 14:14

I have several way too many pairs of tweezers, but other people in the house are always nicking the best (slanted) ones.DH nabbed some once for getting bones out of fish!! 😠 This is so not ok!!

Ideally it would become a fashion statement to have them attached on a chain round your neck...

Mellowbear · 29/09/2025 19:49

Just back from two weeks in Greece and I could feel hairs on my chin but I couldn't see them to pluck them and my husband wouldn't help! This would have been great lol

BreadInCaptivity · 29/09/2025 19:58

Suggest another business opportunity in having business adoptees sporting bags with your logo or a sticker to show they are carrying concealed weapons of hair destruction.

Then when you are walking around the city centre or a park (whatever) and need emergency removal you can locate a friendly provider to nuke the bugger.

ComfortablySeated · 29/09/2025 20:19

Mellowbear · 29/09/2025 19:49

Just back from two weeks in Greece and I could feel hairs on my chin but I couldn't see them to pluck them and my husband wouldn't help! This would have been great lol

We’re going global.

OP posts:
FeetLikeFlippers · 29/09/2025 20:20

This is why I always have a pair of tweezers in my bag. And my bathroom, and my bedroom, and another pair in the bag of useful stuff that lives on my coffee table. I like your idea and logo but not the name. I’m assuming b&b is a nod to Airbnb but it makes no sense in your context. I’m in if you change the name but I can only invest 50p and I’ll want 90% of your business for that as well as full control over all decision making.

stomachamelon · 29/09/2025 20:22

The men in my life seem to take some pleasure out of telling me about chin hair whilst I can do nothing about it eg just leaving the car to go out.

Antimimisti · 29/09/2025 20:53

I pull them out with my fingernails, during boring bits on the telly.

Mslongears · 29/09/2025 21:00

I'm in my mid/late 20s, but was warned I had this to look forward to 😬 I've heard laser works well, apparently plucking only makes them stronger?!

Sunshineandrainbow · 29/09/2025 21:09

DramaAlpaca · 27/09/2025 23:24

I reckon you're on to something here, OP.

I spotted a woman sitting in the driving seat of a car outside my local supermarket last week, using the natural light and the car mirror to attend to her chin hairs. Your target market, right there.

This could easily have been me.. I plan my supermarket parking space away from others so I can attack chin hairs and grey head hairs in the car mirror!

Noseylittlemoo · 29/09/2025 22:11

I had a very good pair of tweezers which I was sure my OH took for something bike or DIY related . He admitted he had but couldn't remember what he had done with them!!
I reluctantly bought in emergency an inferior pair but they also went missing. I was adamant that he had must have taken them and he insisted that he hadn't ! I couldn't find a single pointy pair and so had to buy another set of four to include the pointy ones. He felt bad and ordered a set from Amazon. Then I found the back up pair.
And 2 years later while having a clothes clear out he found the original superior pair !
Therefore @ComfortablySeated I feel with around 11 pairs of tweezers and a strong empathy for the cause that I am very well equipped to join you in your business!

Noseylittlemoo · 29/09/2025 22:13

Could an additional line probably administered by the same practitioner be plucking of random hairs just behind the knee or on your ankle that definitely weren't there at time of waxing but are now virtually plaitable length?

Fizbosshoes · 29/09/2025 22:27

Noseylittlemoo · 29/09/2025 22:13

Could an additional line probably administered by the same practitioner be plucking of random hairs just behind the knee or on your ankle that definitely weren't there at time of waxing but are now virtually plaitable length?

🤣🤣🤣

BrieAndChilli · 29/09/2025 22:40

I have a tiny penkibife on my keys which aha a little pair of tweezers

Tamrastarr · 30/09/2025 17:19

@KrystalStubbs You made me LOL!
The coma situation is definitely a real fear of mine! And I have had laser hair removal! Unfortunately, new ones still appear

SepticPegsSepticLeg · 02/10/2025 09:17

ComfortablySeated · 28/09/2025 10:29

With what, though? Mine has big fingers and short nails. Him using a tweezers would take longer than me doing it myself. That said, he is a certified Manly Man™️ and carries a proper Swiss Army knife which has the most teeny-tiny tweezers secreted at the top. It’s brilliant.

My husband just.... Pulls them out with his fingers

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