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

[MomWithChinHairs]

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.

I'm 30, I've got about 6 dense thick brown wirey chin hairs and a lot of long fluff. I have also got a random chest hair that just grows and grows and grows, but its so fine and pale it is invisible so I keep having to spray dry shampoo on my chest to see it and pluck it, but the first time I discovered it, it was longer than my fringe 😬 my arm hair is still fine and blonde but getting longer and I recently discovered a long thick brown wirey hair on the underside of my forearm where hair has never grown before.

Then there's the toe hair, needs a regular shaving, and I am worried about the sparse thin short blonde hairs on the top of my feet turning dense and dark, because then I will truly start to resemble a hobbit or a mountain dwarf.

And my 6 year old pointed out my moustache hairs prickle him when I kiss him.

I think you are doing really well if you've got to 40 and have only just started getting chin hairs.

Found my first this year, am 46 :(

Do you have to have dark hairs in order for electrolysis to work?

I’ve been getting them since my 30s.

im in my 50s now and could grow a goatee if I wanted to 😂

Yes, I started getting them after my second pregnancy at about 31! Jet black even though my natural hair colour is a sort of dirty blonde. It's so weird that you can pluck your eyebrows into oblivion and they won't grow back but these do!

I’m 47 and for a few years I have had one really thick coarse one which I pluck and repluck…

consider myself lucky. Yes very normal I think

I'm early 40s and recently bought a facial epilator to deal with mine. Had a single one since my early 30s, then in the last couple of years a bunch more have started up.

Not RTFT but my advice is to invest in a very good pair of tweezers like Tweezermans. Game changer.

Touch wood, but I've never had them and I'm mid 50s. I've never had underarm hair either though, and even the hair on my legs is patchy and sparse.

I think I am getting away quite lightly after reading this. 49 and only have one singular hair that grows out of a tiny mole I have on my chin. The bastard is plucked as soon as it is long enough.

I'm 61 and now wet shave my face every 4 or 5 days. I always had a bit of a moustache and waxed it for years but after menopause the neck hairs and thicker chin hairs started to grow, then became too many to pluck. The hairs are blonde/ white so laser won't work.

A brilliant tip I read a while ago on here was to forget the razors designed for women, buy a man's razor because they're specifically designed for face shaving. I did this and it makes a real difference in efficiency and speed, takes literally a couple of minutes to do.

No, I had this conversation with the beautician a couple of weeks ago.
Electrolysis works on both the thick dark ones, and the long fluffy blonde ones.

I have had a regular appointment since my mid thirties, now late forties. It gets rid of them but it doesn't stop new ones from forming. So I'm just trying not to collect them. Gave up tweezing when I found myself having to do it at work at lunch time after doing it in the morning. The buggers were growing in that fast.

I've been pulling the buggers out for years. I swear I'd have a full Father Xmas beard by now if I just left them.

Granny chin hairs!!! I am convinced they grow by witchcraft because there were none there yesterday but today there are 3 and they are all an inche or two long! I use the light on my phone to inspect my chin every day and pluck as needed but they still sneak up on me :)

I’ve had 9 months of elecrolysis on my hormonal chin and lip hair - it’s helped ever so slightly but some of it feels like it’s getting worse! It’s very painful too.

I’ve had them since I was 14!! I don’t have pcos or anything, I am just naturally hirsute as is all my family. I hate pain so I shave my face twice a day….they grow back even within that short space of time 😳

At 56 I got sick of the relentless plucking & began the long & painful process of electrolysis. I still get to pluck out the nose hairs that suddenly started appearing in middle age though

I've just had my bathroom redone. The builder, who I know a bit, kept asking "Why do you want a shaving mirror when it's just you, eh? eh?" All snark and 70's innuendo about some imaginary bloke and I must not actually be a lesbian after all. Had to point out that a mirror you can angle and has 3x magnification comes in bloody handy for tweezing as well as shaving. It's not all about you, boys!

I’m 33! In the past few months I have found a handful of inch long hairs on my chin! I’m truly horrified 🤣 I don’t understand how they suddenly appear, despite daily inspection!

mercifully I do not have them but my eyesight is so awful now that there is always the chance I do have them and can't see them, rushing off to check in the horrifying magnifying mirror that makes my wrinkles look like pot holes!

The seas will rise, the earth will burn, all life as we know it will end...yet that same flipping chin hair that I pluck out every week will still find a way to reappear!

I'm like that, hardly any underarm hair for which I am so grateful, legs only need shaving about every two weeks, eyebrows and lashes all normal but sadly getting sparser with age.

Yup, my son pulled a big one off my chin yesterday and said how did you not know it was there, its huge 🤣

I have two. One left of my chin, just under it. One just under the right side of my mouth. I'm 57 and I very rarely get any others, but I do check those two areas regularly. I can feel the tops of them when I put face cream on, so I know when they are coming through. One is always dark, the other can be dark or white, leading me to think there's actually more than one there in fact, but they must be pretty close together.

I just pluck them out as soon as I can get hold of them with the tweezers.

I love a good pluck