to think these long black chin hairs are implanted by elves in the night?

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Because I absolutely refuse to believe these things are growing naturally, in full view, over a period of several weeks.

I inspect my face. I own mirrors. I have functioning eyes.
And yet every so often I’ll casually touch my chin and discover a hair so long and established it should have its own council tax band.

There is simply no way that was there yesterday.

I think it’s the same elves hiding out of date food in my kitchen.
Two weeks ago I went through the entire spice rack and ruthlessly binned everything past its best by date.
Today I found a jar dated 2022.
Explain yourselves, elves.

Are they (the chin hairs) the same bastards that taunt you with their thick wireiness when you run your finger over your chin, but completely disappear when you've got a good light, a magnifying mirror and a pair of tweezers?

Are they different to the elves who turn some chin hairs white, so you are really confused about whether it's better because they are less visible or worse because WHITE CHIN HAIRS!

I hear you op! Just popping in to say that tiny “face” wax strips work a treat. Same for boob hairs. No more fucking around trying to grab those tiny little bastards one at a time with my terrible middle aged eyesight 🙄🙄🙄

White pubes!!! 🙈🙈🙈

I have the same Elves here
They are really busy little sods!

I’d guess that most normal people would have spice jars expiring well before 2022 so not something to brag about.

Philips Lumea kills 'em dead. Get them while they're dark because once they turn white they're there for life!

Witches, not elves.

When people think I'm thinking 🤔 I'm not, I'm checking for the little buggers.

OMG yes this! I can feel them, I know they’re there, but when I go in for the kill with my tweezers they have disappeared.
Also those perculiar buggers which are white above the skin but deep dark black when you pull them out. Two-tone extra wiry bastards.

Chin hairs are a beast all their own. They also reproduce like rabbits and frequent plucking makes no difference. Hate the MFers.

I have my own counter elf in the form of my DD, who will tactfully say 'if you had a 2cm black hair growing out of the middle of your neck, would you want someone to tell you about it ?'

They must be. Every morning I'm going round with the tweezers!

I will tell you about chin hairs. They are undefeatable.

My mum had cancer for 11 years and died. Shit loads of treatment. She lost every hair on her body below her neck. She lost most of the hair on her head. Her fucking chin hairs were not dead. They remained on her body throughout everything. Even after she’d died, the chin hairs were staring back up at me. I almost took the tweezers from her bag to get the buggers off but I thought the hospice staff would think I was deranged. So I didn’t.

It is the bloody white ones! Caught the light barely a week or so go and there was one just hanging out, well over an inch long. Ripped it out and had a good look all over but that seemed to be the only straggler. But no. Just yesterday there's another one on the other side! There's no way an inch long hair popped up like a daisy in the space of a week therefore the leading theory of elves must be correct.

Yes, I have the same chin hairs being left by elves here too!

They have also gifted me one incredibly long arm hair. Just one.

I promised my dc I’d grow it to see how long it would get…2 inches and counting. I feel like an odd sort of Rapunzel. So bizarre.

On my fore arm, not under!

I like Angela Barnes' explanation:

'It's like there's a spider trying to escape my chin, one leg at a time'

And they seem to grow faster in hot weather 😞

I read on here that they grow under the skin and then pop out fully formed, which must be how they manage it.

Great thread and some very humorous comments, the OP title made me snort with laughter.

I'm mid-50s and mine have diminished a bit, I just to have a couple on my neck but they've disappeared.

Pulling the chin (and upper cheek) ones is very satisfying though.

My elves currently can’t decide if mine should be black and long or white, stumpy and great at catching the light in important meetings. So they are leaving both.

White eyebrows and white pubes too. I am not sure whether to ask my hairdresser for “matching collar and cuffs” when he dyes my hair.

Hilarious 😂 😂 😂 😂 love this thread!!!!

I seem to have wiry hairs growing out of my inner thigh. Only the left leg mind, right leg is completely smooth.

I have a hair that grows from the centre of my FOREHEAD!

It does the same thing, appears when it's 2 inches long. How the fuck have I not seen it before then??