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Random chin hairs

50 replies

Lindor2828 · 17/08/2019 22:01

Please tell me I'm not the only one? I'm only 30 but every few months I will randomly develop a dark single hair on my chin. Obviously I instantly pluck the damn thing out but am I alone in this? I didn't think this was a thing at my age?! Never had it until I hit 30!

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2beautifulbabs · 17/08/2019 22:21

Hi OP your not the only one I'm the same as well currently have two of the pesky buggers that pop up on my chin and I got them just before I turned 30 😬 it's so embarrassing I have to keep checking my chin every so often because the second hair I found was long and curly 😱 but I don't really want to go down the route of waxing just yet so I pluck them out when I spot them I do wonder if it's since having my DCs if that's why I've suddenly started sprouting them

dudsville · 18/08/2019 09:29

I have 3. One of them has recently turned white thankfully, it's less visible that way!

userabcname · 18/08/2019 09:33

I'm 31 and I've had this since puberty! Only now it's more like 6 rather than 1 along with spiky/thick blonde ones too. Delightful.

MissClareRemembers · 18/08/2019 09:41

Oh God I now (at 43) have a fine collection of these little bastards. They seem to spring up overnight and if I don’t remember to check and pluck each morning, find myself absentmindedly toying with them throughout the day.

I also have neck hairs. This is a new development.

Miseryisabutterfly · 18/08/2019 09:43

Oh yes, I’ll join this club 😭 I’m 35 but I’ve had them years. Always pluck. I’ve often wondered if I have pcos.

Babdoc · 18/08/2019 09:43

There have been threads on this before. If I recall correctly, we decided to call them “hag whiskers”!
And if you find one or two annoying at 30, wait til you hit the menopause and sprout a beard and moustache....!

Fudgenugget · 18/08/2019 09:44

I get them. A good pair of tweezers are your friend!

TokyoSushi · 18/08/2019 09:47

Yes, one, but it's persistent. One day it's not there, the next, thick and about a centimetre long, plucked out immediately and then it pops up again a couple of weeks later!

sleepyhead · 18/08/2019 09:49

Yep normal. I got my first in my 20s.

I'm in my late 40s now and usually have 2 or 3 that I need to pluck every couple of days - chin, cheek and neck.

ecuse · 18/08/2019 09:50

Welcome to your 30s Grin

Overseasmom100 · 18/08/2019 09:50

Me too a lovely collection of them.
Ive gone for electrolosis but after 5 block of 10 some cone back some dont. Am thinking of laser treatment

Shangrilalala · 18/08/2019 09:50

I’m on holiday and our bathroom has one of those illuminating/enlarging shaving mirrors. Emphasises every hair and it’s
quite traumatising. I’m torn between recoiling in horror and googling to find out where I can buy one, when I (and my luxuriant chin) get home.

user1474894224 · 18/08/2019 09:51

I have one under my chin. But last year I found a foot long (it felt like it) massive hair on my upper lip. It's pale and thin....but how long was it there and why did none of my friends tell me about it. I've now become conscious of facial down which I don't think was there when I was young....I don't want to start doing something that might make it worse.....but don't want to become an old lady with a beard either!! Lol.

AnnaMagnani · 18/08/2019 09:53

Ha! Had them since age 16 or earlier.

When they reached an insane amount I wasted a large amount of money on laser which didn't work as hormones kept growing more.

Electrolysis was the answer.

I work in end of life care and we were all agreed that the most important thing on our care plans should be 'make sure my chin hair is dealt with' - God, the humiliation of being seen with all those bastard hairs.

MrsBertBibby · 18/08/2019 09:55

I have trained my son to tweeze them for me.

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Fishcakey · 18/08/2019 10:04

Ugh. I have a few. They just appear! I even waxed my chin once. God help me. I fear I will have a full beard by the time I get my pension!

GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman · 18/08/2019 10:06

Wait till the bloody menopause. I hate the fuckers.

Temporaryanonymity · 18/08/2019 10:10

I love tweezing mine. Every night before bed!

swingalongsidney · 18/08/2019 10:17

I'm horrified.. I paid £25 for full face threading on Monday and I honestly thought "why have I never done this before?"
Fast forward 6 days and the peach fuzz is already returning and I've plucked out 3 whiskers in as many days!! Gutted!!

Comps83 · 18/08/2019 10:18

I’ve had mine since early 20s

Sigh81 · 18/08/2019 10:22

Totally joining this. Mine are blonde and once they grow past the stubbly stage, impossible to feel until you're under a certain kind of light, brushing away what appears to be one of your cat's hairs on your neck/chin and finding that it's attached to you!

Am in my 30s and mum has made me promise for many years now that I will make sure I pluck her chin hairs when she is too old to see them.

sleepyhead · 18/08/2019 10:29

My mum had a serious accident several years ago (she's fine now) and when I rushed to the hospital almost the first thing she asked me was to nip out to Boots and get her a pair of tweezers.

peachgreen · 18/08/2019 10:32

I have zillions. Okay maybe not zillions but definitely in double figures. I carry tweezers with me everywhere I go in case of emergencies!

Comps83 · 18/08/2019 10:32

I always remember talking to an elderly lady in the bus station
She was immaculately dressed with her hair perfectly styled, but then she had these bright white whiskers which must have been about 2 inches long hanging in spirals from her chin
I’m always mortified if I’ve missed one

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