Comments on: Why is there hair growing on my chin?

By: PQ

PQ — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 03:13:51 +0000

Could be worse, I once told my boyfriend that he needed to shave his goatee and he said, “I will when you do!”…I wanted to cry of embarassment…it was only one hair then but now I get many and now am thinking about waxing…and yes I eventually married him…lol

By: Eliza

Eliza — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:03:48 +0000

@Lillian – first of all, your writing style is laugh out loud funny. Love it!!! Might have to get you to write some Silver & Grace stories Okay, as for those nasty red facial hairs and irregular periods at the tender age of 26 … there are other reasons for facial hair and irregular periods besides perimenopause and menopause, such as your thyroid being out of whack. I recommend that you book an appointment with a health care professional and discuss your symptoms with him or her. If it is your thyroid, you definitely want to get that back into working order before you experience other complications. Hope this helps, and thank you so much for sharing your story with us.

By: Lillian

Lillian — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:06:13 +0000

Ok, Ladies!
It’s not just nicely aged women (we are like wine, as they say) who get these hairs…*sigh* here it goes:
It was a dark and stormy night I’m sitting in the car waiting for my husband to get out of Wal-Mart, trying to pass the time by staring at every pore in the mirror. In our car, the light is really bright, so I can see EVERYTHING. I’m looking at my eyes, a small crease in the corners, not too bad. A little downy light hair over my upper lip, on or two slightly curling over the edge; annoying, but I’d take care of those when I got home with the tweezer. One shallow crease in the forehead…well, I’ve got two boys, that explains that. I’ll put some wrinkle corrector cream on that bitch every night to stop her before she takes over. And then I see it. Who COULDNT? There, underneath my chin, on the bump that is my evil double chin wannabe, a long, THREE INCH *RED* HAIR. Ohhhh my GOSH. How the hell did I miss that? I thought it was part of my hair, (I am a fair skinned, auburn haired lady) so I tried to push it back with the rest of my then-long hair, but it TUGGED it. Hard. That’s when I looked closer, and there is not one, but three! One long one and two short ones next to it…So my husband comes back, gets into the car, looks at my face, and says “what happened!?” I show him the hair, his eyes get big as plates, which is quite a feat for him as he is Native American and has “chinky” eyes, and says, “Holy shit, baby, I thought women only did that when they went through menopause!!” So now I’m freakin the hell out, cause my periods are NOT like clockwork, I want more children, and it’s come back four times since then. AND the hair on my lip? It’s rebelling too. Oh yes. Now I have to wax the little bastards, cause apparently they took offence to me plucking their minnion cousins under my chin. NO ONE in my family has any kind of hair problem. Just me. So my question is to you lovely, more experienced, wise, understanding, humorous and wonderful ladies…should I take estrogen or something? Because I am only 26 years old, with one biological birth under my belt, and no genetic predisposition for this malarky. Thank you for hearing me out,
Lillian

By: Eliza

Eliza — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:24:16 +0000

@Julie – ‘unzipped zipper ‘ LOL It’s true, eh?

By: Eliza

Eliza — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:23:14 +0000

@Lori – yes, funny eh? I can accept curves that weren’t there before and wrinkles. But facial hair? NOOOO!

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:42:29 +0000

Being olive-skinned, I tan easily. Nevertheless, I often wondered why in the world my upper lip tanned so much more than the rest of my face. …until the moment I was sans contact lenses (all the better for close-up clarity), was looking in the mirror while coincidentally standing in the ray of sunshine that came through the window. OMG, it was a MUSTACHE! And no one had been kind enough to tell me. (Maybe they couldn’t see, either?) Please. It’s akin to have an unzipped zipper. Embarrassing. People, please please please tell us these things! My solution is to periodically stand in the sun with my mirror and tweezers—and have tissues handy for when I sneeze. (Why does tweezing trigger sneezing?)

By: Lori Hoeck

Lori Hoeck — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:45:01 +0000

Hi Eliza,

I wondered when you would get to this topic. No wild hairs yet, just a trace of facial fuzz that wasn’t there before. I don’t mind a lot of what happens as we age, but scary hairiness is too weird!

By: Davina

Davina — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:25:12 +0000

Yes these hairs DO grow at a mutant speed! I was thinking that after I’d commented. Like… how come I don’t see it when it’s at least a half inch? Why does it just magically appear overnight and wave at me in the bathroom breezes? *she shrugs*. If I’d known what this aging thing was like, I would have had more compassion for my mother and grandmother.

By: Eliza

Eliza — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:04:06 +0000

@Davina – comb over … you are too funny. Okay, so it’s not just me. These hairs do grow at some mutant speed.

By: Eliza

Eliza — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:02:12 +0000

@DeepFriar – I can’t say really. My grandmothers were always ‘made up’. They didn’t go to salons and stuff, but they always had their hair done nicely, and their faces ‘powdered’. But then I read Davina’s response to you, and I think she nailed it. Seems it’s all YOUR fault *grin*