How common is it for women over 40 to have chin hairs ?

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I'm a 41 years old woman and I'm very embarrassed. I keep getting these chin hairs and I keep plucking them. I hear that unfortunately this can happen to women over 40 but I'm wondering how common is it.
Also what to do about it, other than plucking them with tweezers.

61 and had a magnificent moustache.
I've been having it lasered. It's definitely lessened it

Extremely common sadly. Recommend the Braun FS1000 mini face razor - just use every other day- takes a few seconds!

That's me also! Late 60s and I give a quick whip around the chin area while in the shower every day. It takes a couple of seconds and it's done. Has to be! I did try other methods but none really worked that well. This way is so easy and many many women do it but often won't admit it.

I have left strict instructions that if I go ga ga I am never to be visible with a sprouting of chinnies! Such fun, such larks, such a ridiculous thing to have as a woman too. We don't get many breaks do we?

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Handy tip - keep a good pair of tweezers in the car. All the windows and the light they let in make it easy to see them and pluck them.

But no, not whilst waiting at traffic lights!

Mine suddenly sprouted at 40 not that many just two on my chin and one above my lip. What they lack in number theybmake up for in sporadic growth disappearing for months after plucking to suddenly being an inch long. The roots are incredibly deep and strong too so they are a bastard to wrestle out.

Pretty much every woman I have such conversations with. Welcome to peri/menopause.

I have had a few since 50. Lucky they are fair but I just flick a razor over them every morning in the shower. I know they will get worse though.

.y eyebrows have simply migrated to my chin ...I'm early 50s lol

I keep tweezers in every room at home. If I travel, I have a pair that I reserve for travelling only. I invested in a lighted mirror - game changer!

I can't find any way to slow down the growth, and tweezers are the only thing which works for me.

Early 50s but have had this for about 10 years now. Needs doing daily but when it started, it was only once a week. They quite literally do grow back overnight.

From my experience, closer to 100% than 10%

I find it helpful that for me it coincided with a deterioration in my eyesight.

I've got one like that. Grows from nothing overnight.🤨
On the plus side, my leg hairs are getting sparse with age, so there's that.

What i really don't like are the white eyebrow hairs. Can't get the buggers out without taking normal ones too.

Two on my chin that won’t be there one day and the next are like fully 1cm long, one on my top lip since I was 35, also…2 round the nips 🙈🤣 appeared after I had my youngest son 13 years ago, I realised when I was feeding him one day, thought there was an eyelash on his lip and realised it was attached…to me 🙈 pluck away lovely, welcome to the club! ♥️

Oh so common!!

My friend and I call them the 'thinking hairs'. As in, you're at work mulling over something, and suddenly you find yourself fiddling with a magnificent, long and dark chin (or neck) hair 😆

Nature's bonus point that your close up vision starts to get worse so you can't see the buggers.

I recommend very pointy, sharp and good quality tweezers, and a decent magnifying mirror. Those little ones that you can stick onto a big mirror or flat surface are ideal.

One thing I’ve learnt since I’ve been getting them is always to keep tweezers in my bag! More than once we’ve been going somewhere in the car and I’ve realised that there’s a monster sprouting from my chin - and I have no tweezers.
Mine are fair, so I don’t easily notice them unless I’m in a good light with my glasses on!

I have a couple of whiskast on my lower chin. One in each side. They grow over night and very irregularly. One month they don't grow the next one they grow twice. They are a continuous source of annoyance. I'm 48, and they have been with me for about 4 years.

Top tip, hormone replacement cream, the 1% stuff you can get from online pharmacies slows them down.

Yeah, moustache to rival a teenage boy started about mid 30’s, and then chin at 40 something.
Also get a blonde super fine, but extraordinary long hair just below one eye and another one middle of forehead - they're my nemesis as you can’t feel them like the sturdy chin ones and only see them in certain light. 😂

I’m in my 50’s with virtually no grey hair and have really thick glossy hair still, so I imagine i just have good hair genes! My mum still had dark thick hair at mid 60’s.

You are lucky if you've only started to get them after 40. Mine turned up after I had my second child at 30 and on my neck as well as chin.

Omg I get them on my neck…I remember plucking my Grans chin hairs for her 😂

Yup, I’m 36 and have a couple of recurrent thick chin and cheek hairs. Yes they’re annoying but I’ve never given it much thought beyond that tbh! Plucking them is very satisfying

I've had them since my 20s. Now I'm into my 40s, I could probably grow a beard if I wanted to. I think chin hairs are more common than not by the time women hit our 50s (at least for white women, it may well be different for other ethnicities).

People get weirded out, but we are mammals after all, just like men, and we therefore have hair on our bodies. It's only society that wants women to believe we're actually hairless amphibians and any hint of body hair is a deviation from the norm. 🐸

I'd say it is more like at least 90% of women over 40 have chin hair. If you are only just noticing them you are lucky!

I'm 46 and don't have any. I've always had a fine moustache which I used to use hair removal cream on but haven't bothered for the past 15 years.