How would you deal with this ingrown hair?

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Experts on here I'm sure!

Tweezer head for scale!

I've got many of these out by gently digging with a sterilised needle.

Thanks @Yellowpapersun do you have any idea where to start 😂 or do you go in blind so to speak? Ive a feeling this may involve more than one follicle 🤔

Do you sterilise your needle with a flame? That's what we used to do with blisters.

I always hold the needle in the steam of a boiling kettle (with tweezers). I always go for the bit that looks closest to the surface and hook the needle under the hair until it pops up. I don't think I've ever had a multifolicular one!

You need an assistant to take pics....

Haha no way am I involving anyone at home in this, but I'll see if I can get something somehow for you guys 😄

Unsold hot flannel the area before digging around with a sterilised needle. Sterilise either with surgical spirit/TCP or pouring boiling water over it

Big blob of Germolene cream and plaster overnight, makes it numb ish and soft.

Then stab away at it with my super sharp pointy tweezers. Once I break the surface, squeeze like mad 😃.

Guys, thanks for all the advice. I have only just got around to tackling this and I can't find the hair, it just bleeds. Any more suggestions? I'm so disappointed 😞

Edited to add there was a teeny bit of white pus initially but then just blood.

Are you sure there’s a hair there? Last time I had these in my bikini line it just turned out to be pus filled spots which I just squeezed and no hair!

Maybe not any more @Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain who knows?

Could it have been a hair that then reabsorbed perhaps? I'm going to do another wax soon so I'll get a proper look at the skin around the area again.

Mine was the same as yours, bleeding and a bit of pus. But no hair!

It does look as if there is a hair in there, but sometimes a collection of blood under the surface looks the same as an ingrown hair.

Like a PP suggested, I’d pop some cream on under a plaster overnight then, in the morning, sterilise a needle by scalding with boiling water and approach it from the edge of the inflamed area. Pop the needle under the skin almost as if you were going to sew a stitch through it and bring the point out the other side; then, gently drag the point back out towards where you started, so it scrapes across the underside of the skin. If there is a hair in there, that is often enough to hook it and get an edge out so you can then attack it with tweezers.

Good luck!

Skin Doctors have a lotion called Ingrow Go to treat and prevent ingrown hairs. I used it when I had them and found it effective