Why am I not supposed to pluck hair from a mole?

[DoraBelvedon]

And if I don't pluck then what am I supposed to do?

dunno I've always wondered that...

watching with interest

I've a mole with a hair in and I pluck. I also found a hair on my chin today , the shame, so I plucked that too.

Waiting to see why I may regret it....

marking my place. I wax and tweeze my hairy mole, but I'm not sure why it's bad.

My nan told me all my hair on my head would come out too if I did and my bottom would fall off

Well my Gran told me I would get cancer if I plucked the hair on my mole..

wholelotofarse - Your Nan was wrong, your bottom only falls off if you try to undo your belly button!

You can pluck hair from moles, old wives tale about it turning cancerous if you plucked.

Pluck away.

But do NOT undo belly buttons, dangerous on epic proportions, no one wants to be arseless.

I shall chose to ignore random grandmothers and their tails of doom and will believe knobbing.

PMSL at undo tummy button
I have a fat arse- might give it go later

I think it's a misunderstanding of the fact that sometimes, when moles become cancerous the hair falls out. Ie the cancer caused the hair to fall out, but some people thought it was the other way round.

I pluck hairs from moles with great enthusiasm, as I have many, and would look even MORE like a man if I didn't.

Sorry, I didn't mean to scare anyone! I know it's an old wives tale, but I still can't pluck mines!

Hehehe!! My nan was still giving me this line a few years ago bless her very worried about the belly button now I will have 3 buttless children if that were true, might be handy considering how tuneful they have been of late

I plucked a hair from a mole only this morning.

Readers, it was grey.

I have hit a new low.

tethers

mine is WHITE and POINTY-ENDED like a needle, you could pierce the end and use it for embroidery

[sobs]

I thought you didn't pluck because next time you would have 2 hairs, not one

It's the beginning of the end, random... the beginning of the end.

Doesn't it really hurt to pluck hairs from a mole?

I pluck the hairs from my mole.

Seriously, I have a mole with hairs, but have held back because of -old granny tales-- fear of the pain. Hit me with the truth sisters.

Doesn't hurt at all; mine are like RandomMusings.

Not even the first time?

mine are em, well... quite sturdy hairs, will waxing hurt? I really am too much of a wimp to pluck (had my eyebrows done once so I know plucking is bloody painful) I find waxing less painful.

Nah, I don't hurt and I am a WUSS

I wouldn't wax because you really don't want to be disturbing the surface of the mole any more than you have to

Plus the hairs are enormously long, having grown through one's comely eperdermis then forged a path through the mole atop one's skin

about this long: ___