Chin hairs

[probablyamunreasonable]

What fresh hell is this. I’m finding little hairs in places I didn’t before which need to be plucked out. In the right (wrong) lighting I can see a few fine hairs. Not enough for a beard by any stretch but this is not a problem I’ve had until recently.

I’m only in my mid-30s, I didn’t expect this for at least another 15 years.

Please tell me I’m not alone and how do you get rid of them!

I had a colleague like that. She'd just never had chin hairs, you know.

We didn't like to point out that what she'd never had was a good look at her face!

It's amazing how they're totally invisible to you when you look in the mirror, but from other angles they're surprisingly obvious.

I have to shave my chin every day thanks to PCOS. I'd grow a very impressive goatee otherwise.

Ahhhh the lovely days when it was just one or two and I could either pluck or use removal cream. Now I shave it because it’s the only way to have it completely gone without having to let it grow out enough that people can see it.

I hate it, but if I don’t laugh I’ll cry, and at least nobody ever sees it except me and my husband

Just get electrolysis.
Plucking, eventually, damages the root, so the hair might grow in strangely or in-grown. And soon, feeling the tiny little spikes coming through the skin and then plucking them will become an obsession. Plucking (and the hairs then growing through under the surface) caused my skin to be constantly red and then caused scarring. Go straight for the electrolysis. It took a handful of sessions once a month to get rid of the all. I go in now perhaps once a year to deal with the tiny number that return because you do get a few new ones as hormones shift.

Mid 40's and actually have to shave 😬🙄🫨🫣

Yeah they say I don’t have PCOS but one period every 2 years on average since my early 20s, a belly in the perfect shape (almost no fat on legs though), and a full beard.

I only have sons, so not sure how they’d feel if I asked them. Luckily I have a great DDIL and she won’t mind being co-opted. She has PCOS so KNOWS about unwanted hair.

I occasionally get long hairs - over an inch or so - that seem to mysteriously appear on my neck almost overnight. I can have a good pluck the night before and wham!, there’s one that’s made an unwelcome appearance in the mirror the next morning. Because of the length, I’m wondering if maybe it’s been there for ages and I’ve just not noticed, and that when I’ve been up the gym flat on my back doing bench presses or something with my neck exposed, the hair has been there waving around for all to see. I would check with my Personal Trainer who is very observant and watches me very carefully, but he’s a bloke so that’s a no-no. I don’t know why nature hates us so much.

I spent an open bloody fortune on electrolysis in my 20's and got rid of the buggers. Now I'm in my 50's and it's multiple mirrors and tweezers everywhere ffs.
Mind you I just googled that Simple Human mirror recommended...£161 🫣

I knew it was you without looking at your name so true 😂

I get them on my neck now 😭

I use the magnifying side of a shaving mirror. On a recent holiday there was an illuminated mirror at about 10 times the strength. Spent many a happy half hour with the tweezers.

Oh, and I also have a few hairs that grow round my right nipple now and one on my left nipple. And then there’s my belly button. The list is endless.

I have a selection of Christmas cracker tweezers just as a back up

I’m 56 and struggling with how to remove the ever-increasing peach fuzz. I did use the Flawless but it feels too small for the job now! I’m very fair too. I have been wondering about using a proper razor but fear it growing back thicker/stubbly. What should I do - is it time for cream maybe? Help!

Pluck, pluck, pluck !

It gets easier because when you hit 60 – 70, they go white/grey so even if you can feel them they are less obvious but, yes they do pop out at least ¾ of an inch long, the little buggers.

I now have bathroom tweezers, car tweezers and handbag tweezers and a few more I’ve lost, when I die my DS will think I have some kind of weird obsession!

I find the electrolysis weakens hair

I am mid 30s OP. I derma-plane once a week but it’s now not enough 😂😂

I use hair removal cream every second Sunday on my chin and now slowly moving down my chin onto neck and also above my lip.
The hairs are spreading 😭
I then do a hair check in the mirror morning and night and keep a tweezers in the car of course.
The first day or two after hair removal are the best and I feel smooooth.
I used to wax and sometimes think of going back to it….

You’re lucky you’ve only started now… I started mid 20s after having my DC. It’s like a part time job now 😩. The shame I feel when I spot one at the end of the day knowing I’ve been out in public/work/seeing friends is next level!

Tried this approach but hate to think of stubble. I now get them threaded once ever week or two and honestly it’s reduced them so much, far more than IPL which I’ve tried twice and much cheaper too.

Two cups of Spearmint tea per day, electrolysis, and car tweezers

It's one of the perks of getting older. So, so satisfying! 😂

Which razor do you use?

Too many to just tweezer here.
Wax, usually on a Sunday evening then tweezer them during the week to keep them at bay. By Sunday there's enough to wax again.
Car tweezing is the best.