Another chin hair...augghhh!!!

Every now and then, I find a fine blonde hair on my cheek. By the time I see it, it's about a half inch long. Then I wonder how long it's been there. Funny thing. It's always in the same place.

I went through a period of time where I was having my brows waxed, but I gave up on it. I was often burned by the wax. So instead of needing to tweeze, I walked around with little scabs. Not very attractive. Then they tried using wax for sensitive skin and it happened again. So much for that.

Don't have to shave your legs much!!

What's up with that. Lord girls, I can practically watch the hairs on my legs grow. I must have gotten your share.

Probably why God gave me boys.

My daughter's adopted and she hardly has hair on her legs. Thank God.

Laurel

Oh...all of you have made me laugh and feel so much better. Isn't it funny; how sharing halves the annoyance?

One more thing...one of my friends and I have given the stray chin hairs a name: WOLF HAIRS.

Oh, and every now and then one particularly long one magically appears on my neck. I don't ususally keep an eye on this area, so it gets away from me until it is long enough to curl.

Really, there must be a little hair waiting line, kind of like the teller line at the bank. The second one is plucked, a new one instantly steps up to take its place.

Ain't life grand?

Rhett, I love that description. What a hoot. Being a redhead, what hairs are left on my legs barely show and I could use a curling iron on them before I had to shave them. Thank goodness. I don't have hairs that have to be plucked off my face, but I also don't have eyebrows that show up. They are so light, you have to get IN MY FACE to see if I have any. So I use a pencil. Being half blind, I sometimes end up resembling a vampire; with red hair. Red and gray, that is. Would somebody tell me why the hair right around the front of our face WILL NOT hold hair dye? I'm asking for a friend, not me. Ahem...

JawJaw, as someone with a hairdressing and coloring license, if you put the haircolor on the front first and then apply it to the rest of your head, it might make a difference. That just means the hair around your face is healthier and more resistant to the chemicals in hair dye.

Also, you could try putting a bit of bleach on the front first , just briefly, then wash it out and let your hair dry, just to open the hair shaft prior to applying the color.

What can I do about zits? I get small ones sometimes on my chest and on my face. I hate it and can cover one up with cover-up but maybe its my diet or lack of water.

Dab a bit of plain ordinary rubbing alcohol on each one a few times and they will dry up and usually not come back ever.

I am always yanking out chin hairs and some of those suckers are long, black and curly. Whats that about? The more I yank the more they grow and yet not one hair on my legs or under my arms since my early 20's and then never very many. Now all of sa sudden a spurt of growth and why my chin for heavens sake??? I'm a old woman NOT an old man!

Its hormones....all about hormones...the estrogen is being replaced by androgens...it happens. That's why couples start to look more and more alike as they age together.

Oh...so, does this mean that I will finally be able to tinkle standing up without it ending up in my hiking boot?
I always like to find a way to put a positive spin on things, you know...

The day that anyone thinks that me and Hubbo are the Bobbsey Twins, I'm exiting...

lol, Meredith, same here!!! I think you have to be a LOT older for the resemblance thing to kick in.

I HAVE noticed the resemblance between people and their pets though, especially the dogs. If I owned a dog, it would be a Golden Retriever or a golden Lab but I want a Boston Terrier.

Oh great, does that mean I look like my floppy-eared fat beagle? The truth comes out....

Well, at least he's very loving.

Rich and June, my mom and dad have the fattest beagle I've ever seen in my life!! What is it about beagles?? Her name is Ginger and when she lays on her back someone has to help her roll over to her feet.

Mom has taken her to the vet who put her on a diet, but she sneaks and hides snack food....no kidding!!

I guess this means I look like my Guenia Pig....sheesh!! That's depressing.lol

Browser, I may try that Tweez'e - does it really work? I usually use Salley Hansen on my upper lip, yet it's rather goopy and involves pain, too.

MustangGal - it does work - but it 'smarts' on the delicate skin of the face. I've heard (for eyebrows) to rub the skin with an ice cube before tweezing - and I think I'll try that next time. Numb the skin a tad.

I have a Boston Terrier. Lord I hope I don't look like him. I love him to death but I don't want to look like him.

I have seen people who look like their pets though.

There was an old couple in the 80's that went to my church that looked alike. She made all her dresses out of calico and made him a shirt to match out of the same fabric.

I don't guess he cared what he wore. She had real short hair and they looked like twins.

Laurel

laural you always make me giggle with little sutle bits of humer and turnes of phrazed and way to view the world lol

bless you!

celtic

LOL, I see couples who look alike all the time. After I brought in one couple for a tour, the sales manager called me over and asked which one was the man. "Of course," I said, "The one with the hat on." I swear!

Okay, I may be feeling a bit better today but the antibiotics have reduced my spelling and typing skills.

OMGosh...everyone says my husband and I look alike...now I am depressed...I'm my husband with boobs...!!!

It ain't fair, I tell ya!

Have you ever been sitting at a traffic light and played with the end of your chin only to find a very, very long hair? Then, since there's nothing else to do at a red light try to pull it out only to find your fingers keep slipping off. making the hair curl up tightly? Then the harder you jerk the more curled up the hair becomes until you're jerking at the little sucker so hard the car is shaking? THEN you realize what you must look like sitting at the red light jerking your hand back and forth or left and right as you desperately try to yank out the pesky hair from your chin and wonder why everyone is laughing in the car next to you? I've now put tweezers in my car.

LOL Chick...love you little smileys…and your comments.

Dee, that's where the term; 'hairpin turn' comes from.
Just not sure if it means the people in the other cars are turning to look,
or you're so busy ranking it out, that you do the two wheeler thing.

LOL Hannelore.

Oh lord, y'all crack me up.

Well we have to laugh. It's better than crying.

Laurel

Dee, what a riot. I think having tweezers in the car is probably a good idea. I'm sure the sunlight has a lot to do with all we can see when we use those car mirrors.

So, did you get the sucker?

Dianne says she goes once a month to get waxed. I wonder if that means she gets her whole face waxed. Yesterday I waxed my entire face, chin, neck. It's not hard, and it is effective. Until next month, when all the fine gray fuzz and the coarse dark single shoots erupt again...and again. Of course, the hair that used to be on my legs has diminished. And gone to my face. Oh, and then what do we do when our eyebrows are turning grey and we pluck the gray ones but if I keep plucking the grey ones I won't have any eyebrows left? Girlfriends, I am not liking this at all. I want my youth back!

From time to time I practically have to MOW my chin hairs, not just pluck them, whats with that? Is there some special growing season I am unaware of...? Me too Princess, me too!

I think they grow more in the summer heat. It comes from all the watermelon juices dribbling down the chin.

This is too funny! I keep tweezers by my chair because I get those stupid little ones that stick straight up! They may be gray but they are sharp and coarse! I hate it when I go to my MIL and forget my tweezers! Plus I have a birthmark on the side of my face that little black hairs sprout from and they do it overnight! lol....age, isn't it a wonderful thing?

I have a triple magnifying mirror that I got at thelocal Linens and Things. It has a little light too. It's perfect for finding these little buggers.

You know what the hardest part is? It's when you get a gray hair on the chin. Hardest to find, you turn your head this way and that hoping for it to hit the light so you can cut it off. It's so frustrating to have those hairs. I'm constantly on guard for them.

The thread is funny but it's so true that we all get them eventually. Irritating. Gone one day, back the next. Worse than having to shave the legs when we were younger.

Vicki...you cracked me up reading that post again...my doctor's nurse was talking about that yesterday. Why do we always see them in traffic? there should be a hair plucking lane, don't you think?

Dee, that's too funny!

I don't see them o much as feel them. Always running my hands over my chin ... just in case. Ugh.

Meredith...I totally get it.

Anne...you're funny. Yes, payback is. LOL

Hahahahooohooooha. Hair plucking lane? That's good Dee. Maybe we could run our cars through a tunnel..like a car wash...and when we come out, we are all plucked and puuurdy.

Does hair really grow faster in hot weather? Now that we're wearing shorter pants, I have to shave my legs more often.

I saw a product on TV called No, No - no hair, no pain. Anyone had the nerve to buy and try?

Either it grows faster, or we are just more aware because we know our legs are being shown to the world.

Just found one of those teeny long hairs in the 3x magnifier mirror this morning. So glad because I'm going to a many hour, all women's meeting today.

I read somewhere that hair grows faster after sex. (oh, boy, I can just imagine the responses this comment will get...LOL).

There goes the macho reputation of all those bald men...

A policeman spots a woman driving and plucking her chin hairs at the same time.
Driving up beside her, he shouts out the window, " Pull over the side!"
"I tried that," she shouts back, " But they're damn stubborn little buggers!"

Hair grows faster after se_, Dee? This celibate will now cease to wonder I have none to pluck!

I'm laughing so hard my side hurts...

Hairless in Alabama....

Okay...I have to share this with all of you...have any of you heard of the 'feel good' shot? That's what my menopausal doctor calls it (she's about 29, cute, and tries to keep me feeling perky with this 'feel good' shot). Let's just say it's supposed to do wonders in the sex drive department. At my age everything's hanging, dried up, wrinkled, gray, and sagging and wagging. I had one of those shots about a year ago and they last about 6-8 weeks at which time I can go back in for another shot if I want. However, I never went back and here's why.
About two weeks after having the shot I was having a normal conversation with my husband when suddenly my voice dropped way way way way way low...I mean reeeeeeally low. Freaked me out. Larry looked at me and took a few steps back...I think he thought I'd just sprouted an adams apple. Then, the hair growth really freaked me out...I sprouted hair on top of hair and it turned really dark. I felt like a 13 year old boy whose voice is changing and whose hair appears over night.
Fast forward to this year...old lady female checkup time and in bounces my 30 year old perky menopausal doctor. (I hate her). She goes over my chart and asks me why I haven't come in for more 'feel good' shots? I calmly explain that my husband didn't like going to sleep with a sex goddess and waking up with Barry White. He wasn't too crazy about the extra dark facial hair that sprouted up out of nowhere either...talk about a pluck fest.
In her youthful, perky, never had a bad sex day in her life, said, "I'd pluck hairs everyday in order to have great sex." Uh-huh.
Then I laid back on the exam table and there starring down at me from the ceiling were two styrafoam bowls and something that I'm still not sure of that had been made to look like nipples with rings through them. I asked her what the heck were styrafoam boobs doing on her ceiling. Without skipping a beat from her exam, she said, "Oh, those are from our last Halloween party here." I didn't even want to ask her how they got up there.
Reluctantly, I agreed to get the shot...mainly to get her to shut up so I could sit up. The styrfoam boobs would starting to freak me out.
She left and sent in her as youthful, perky menopausal assistant who had a grin on her face and a needle in her hand. Are 'we' ready? I'm certain SHE wasn't in need of a voice changing, hair growing menopausal injection so I don't know why she thought to include herself in the equation. Just stick it anywhere, I told her. She then made me point my feet inward until my toes touched each other and then bend my knees and hang on to the counter. Why the heck do I need to stand like this, I asked her? So you won't jump when I give the shot. If I could have looked at her she would have seen a look of complete surprise. I mean, who the heck can jump in that position anyway? I steadied myself and gripped the counter until my knuckles turned white while she swabbed a hunk of fat on my hip.
"This will sting a bit."
"I thought this was a feel-good shot." It took her a second to get it and then she laughed. I hated her, too.
As she pulled the needle out she said in a rather surprised voice, "Wooooooooow. Usually there's leakage back out at the injection site. Your body just sucked that stuff right up." All I could think to say is, "I'm dry."
Okay...it's been 3 days now and so far no facial hair and no Barry White voice. But, in case you don't hear from me for a few weeks...it will be because I'm plucking.

Lol, Dee…this is the funniest story I’ve read in a long time.

I would rather think, if we don’t hear from you it will be because you’re doing something other then plucking….hee hee. So are you swinging from the chandeliers? Geez I could use a double doses of that stuff myself! Let us know if it’s working, and the name, will you?

Whatever, I’m glad the big boobs didn’t fall on you. Although then Hubby could sing, “You are so boobyfull to meeeee.”

Dee, you had me doubled-over with laughter. Girl, what a funny picture you painted! OMG! Girl! Stay out of the humor business, would ya? Like I need this kind of competition? How hilarious!

And EW....I love that song title...I may have to use that in some of my writing...

JJ...I don't think you have to worry about me getting into the 'professional' humor writing...No one can touch you as far as I'm concerned...I just tell it like it is when it happens...but, thanks for the compliment...coming from you that means a lot.

EW...my doctor's office says it's B12 and testostrone in one shot...and it's working I'd recommend this to anyone. I haven't started plucking yet but when I do, I'll let you know.

So, anne...how's the chain hairs in the hair follicles coming along? Any results yet? You cracked me up!!!

Anne...You're cracking me up, girlfriend!!!

I was hysterical already from Dees story then was zapped with the answer from Edelweiss, thats when I wet my pants from laughing. You ladies are too funny!!!

Anne and Dee, WAAAYYY too funny!!

I get one black one and one gray one, they are just there sometimes and I pluck them out.

You know I am 58 and the hot flashes are still really bad.
I get cold flashes and hot flashes and they are so bad they make it impossible to go out much in public alot. I wonder just what Eve did to make this so bad for all women

Does any one have the problem of your pudenda going bald and what is left is gray, really makes you feel old. Oh, that is what Whoopi Goldberg calls it. To funny

I take it the "pudenda" means the nether region. First time I have heard of it going bald. Going gray, yes. But, bald? Geesh, another thing to look forward to after menopause.

I haven't had a hair on my legs since I was 17. Honest Injun! I never have anything to shave there or under my arms. Now, my chin, thats a whole nuther story, LOL!!!

Thyroid issues can influence hair growth...as will hormones depleting..
Chatty
I never have to shave underarms either..we are sisters???
Mountain ash

Anne, I don't shave my legs in the winter either, but unfortunately our summer is like, 9 months long. But this is SoCali, and we are all about summer. Except in actual summer, and then we're all about going somewhere north.

I HAVE CONSIDERED ELECTROLYSIS! What about heel spurs? Has anyone ever had shingles? My chin hairs are white now. I enjoy tweezing my chin hairs. Nair for the rest!

Anne327, I was selling in 94 degree heat last Sunday (on the blacktop.) I would've been happy to send at least 20 of those, even 30. Our summers would fry your computer!

First Baby Boomer,

Yes, I have had shingles on the back on my neck and lucky found in time so they did not spread . They are very painful and I had to take "Valtrex" for only one week and the shingles left no scars . I guess I was lucky there , Oh but the pain . I don't think I will every forget it .

Wax chin hairs if you can .

Chatty I went to high school with a girl that did not have.
hair on her underarms and legs . How lucky . I do shave feel cleaner , but this is a matter of choice for each person what you prefer to do .

Renee

I have developed this habit of scraping the underside of my chin with my fingernail absentmindedly.

Several times I hadn't seen the darn thing (now things) until to my horror they were highlighted in the daylight exposed in my car's rear view mirror!

So I have this theory they wait patiently just under the skin to emerge strong and mature when it would most embarrass me, as revenge against my tweezers. LOL.

WELCOME susannadeyorkies, wow, thats a mouthfull isn't it? Anyway glad to see you here, and YES those pesky little hairs that sometimes become long black hairs if you don't get them right away, are a pain in the drain... Damn, why does this have to happen to women too? Don't we have enough to bother about during menopause?

Welcome susannadeyorkies! Wow, we've had some really high numbers here lately with new members and I for one am so tickled!

WELCOME! Share as little or as much about yourself as you would like to do, and whenever you are comfortable doing so. Please just know that we are very happy you are here!

Why is it that we cope and manage thru puberty, periods, and childbearing years only to become echoes of our fathers with the new growth on our faces once menopause has occured? If I don't keep up on this new mustache with depilatories or shaving, it is such a scary sight! Plucking doesn't seem to deter the growth,and waxing means waiting til it gets REALLY noticable. Is there anything other than electrolysis that works? Of all the "bonuses" of menopause, this one is the one I hate the most. I haven't done HRT, can't and won't- the rest I can cope with but not this doggone face hair! Any info out there? Thanks

Judy, always good to see you in here! You've been missed!

Judy, search as I may, I have not been able to find a cure for having to MOW MY CHIN! Electrolyses is okay but the hairs keep popping up in different spots so it would be an unending battle. I guess plucking those pesky hairs is all one can do, ho-hummm!

thank you girl, really appreciate it. DH is out of Iraq and now in Okinawa, life is always interesting! Just got back from a visit there and it was wonderful. Back home here to lonely land and trying my best to keep the chin up now that the jet lag has left me (yes it's true, at least one full day to recover for each time zone, especially West to East!) Thanks again!

You know, the worst part of it is, I need one of those 10Xmagnifying mirrors to be able to see to pluck the darn things. I can FEEL them, just can't see them- and that is totally a scary sight and makes every bag and wrinkle look like a topographic map of the Grand Canyon! Like you say, oh well- and I'm thinking theres a lot worse things to whine about, and feeling chagrined to even have mentioned this dilemna. In truth though, really great to have a place just to vent, and any support or feedback you get is an uplifting blessing- we are not all alone in whatever we encounter in our lives, and there are a lot of folks out there - the miracle of the internet and this website gives our locational personal herizon a whole new vista of info and support. God Bless You ALL!

Judy, I picked up one of thos mag mirrors at Tuesday Mornings...there is a new one over by your house, too..where that new Publix is...know what I'm talking about?

I can't do without my mirror. I don't have chin hairs, but I do need help in slapping the old make up on.

yeah girl, that is where I got mine. Too funny. Wish they were bigger, you can only see a bit of the damage when go peer into them. Maybe that's a blessing? Where oh where is the magic mirror that Snow White used? We should all be awarded one when we get past 50. No doubt it would be a kinder kind of mirror!

One word for hairs on face:
Vaniqa.
This is a perscription cream that stops hair from growing on your face after you use it a bit.
It is new and you'd probably have to pay for it because it
is a "vanity," purchase but it's worth it!
Dancer

Here's an idea!!

DEE, you've been a member since '05 and only have 12 posts... we have to do something about that, girl.

I have been receiving an email through your subscription service for awhile... had you not posted this, I'd not know you are a member.... well, that's not true... you could post at a future time.

I bet you get this question all the time, but I'll ask it anyway: Will we ever get to see her face?

Please, be active here... I've gotten many a laugh from your site.

gims, I've corresponded with Dee a couple times by phone. SHe's a delightful woman. I love her cartoons. They speak volumes for boomer women.

I like her cartoons, too. I wish she'd join in, esp. to answer my question... lol. I wanted see what Minnie looks like.

I will ask the dermatologist next time I'm in there, and research it- I guess it must be topical application and that may be just the ticket. So doggone tired of this facial hair! Thanks!

All right ladies, this hits WAY too close to home (grin)...This cartoon is soooooooooo perfect.

I was writing some stuff the other day for my teleseminar series and what popped into my head was (said to the tune of Jeff Foxworthy's "you might be a redneck if"):

You might be a Silver Sage if you can grow a better goatee than your 21 year old son!

And I swear it is true and I swear a "Plucking Party" fits the bill perfectly! I'm starting to wear out my tweezers!

P.S.--Silver Sage is the name I use for those of us who have reached the stage where we have both "age" and "wisdom"!

Hmmm...but if you put Sage and Wisdom together, don't you get "sagdom?"

Too funny! In my case that would definitely be true! I no longer wear a cup size, I wear a 42 long with commercial grade stays to bring the girls up to somewhere near their origins!

mama, I just tried going to your site to see your photo and to see if there was any truth to that last statement!

FYI:
your site wouldn't come up

so I'm still wondering about your girls...

Dots, it came up fine for me....and down here we call them "the bad boys." Or in some cases and if we're feeling musical, "the dogs," like at the end of the day when one can finally take off the old bra it's--WHO LET THE DOGS OUT...

Hi Dotsie

I don't allow myself to have photos taken too often (grin...not my favorite thing to do!)...however the one on this page What We Do page gives a bit of an idea (I'm not sure the steal stays are quite working properly on this one!...giggle).

I swear, I would love to know why pages come up sometimes and not others! Arghghgh...technology!

LOVE it- and lordy, it's so true!

I was waxing them; now I am doing electrolysis. It is painful, but it works!

My favorite saying when tired of being around the people I'm with is: GOT TO GO HOME A MOW MY CHIN HAIRS!!! I have to laugh inside at the expression on their faces...

lol chatty...as long as you are just mowing...and not harvesting,...there is hope.

Oh heavens no Edelweiss, no harvesting here. I wonder however what makes our otherwise hairless faces sprout these darn things before and after menopause. Where the heck did the word MENOPAUSE come from anyway? No men involved, and nothing pauses it just gets worse...Only the O part makes any sense as in O shit! I think this condition needs a new name, something like:

WHATHEHELL???

Come on ladies help me here, a good name....

Oh lordy Chatty...you're too right by half! I was joking around the other day about this exact topic. The teleseminar I'm creating is named "The Silver Sages Teleseminar Series" and I started hearing Jeff Foxworthy's "you might be a redneck if..." series. The first one out of my mouth was 'You might be a Silver Sage if you can grow a better goatee than your 20 year old son'. And I swear, that ain't far from the truth.

"PAUSE" my arse! (oops, can I say that on this forum). Maybe we could name it "WholeLotofNoFun" instead of "menopause"!

PS...and I think I'm mowing not harvesting, blast it all!

And now I get to blush with embarassment...forgot I had already posted this smart aleck comment...my bad and my apologies for the duplicate! Another side effect of this lovely state called "menopause", right? Memory loss (at least that is what I tell myself!)

Mama, hope you don't mind. I'm laughing at you! I can totally relate. Just ask my kids. "Mom, you already told me that." And I so remember saying the very same thing to my mom.

Anne, sometimes when I'm speaking, I feel like I should be playing FILL IN THE BLANKS with whomever I'm talking to. It's so frustrating. Then an hour later, it comes to me...out of nowhere.

Those are not really chin hairs ladies, they are misplaced eyebrows...

Dotsie I have to admit that you do seem forgetful, case in point, how many times have I sent you my address? Plus emails and PM's have gone to you and you will answer it SOMETIMES, and then forget in the next one that you did, or what was said.
I must admit I have asked myself more than once whether you realize you do this...