My hair is migrating!

Underarm hair practically gone, but the hair on my arms is growing longer and longer! I never had much hair on my legs, for which I was always grateful. I keep having to pluck ? my nose hair, and trim my eyebrows which are increasingly Dennis Healey (sp) like. Facial hair is kept at bay with tweezers and my little rotary shaver.

The thing I dislike more than the hair or lack of it, is the senile warts popping up on arms and legs.

Snap coco51 same as me, pred and azathrioprine, good though no hairy arms or legs but never have had from young, the thing that gets me with under active thyroid is that hair at roots where parting is has gaps

Oh yes Minerva The thyroid does wonders for the eyebrows. I look permanenty angry, or confused! But at least we don't have to pluck them.

I have the cure for the down below hair worries - eat more cake and biscuits and you won’t ever have to see that area again.
Sorry Lemon some of the Argy staff have been telling porkies. I think some have been vagasiling.

These messages have really made me laugh this morning! Thanks everyone for such wit and humour xx

Ditto Bluebellwould. Your post is both hilarious and reassuring.

Life is full of paradox. The young ones go and get a bikini wax and we grieve for the loss of it!!

I have never been hirsute.
But.... since the menopause arrived I have peach fuzz on my face ?
Its fair so not so bad.
I've never had hairy armpits (oxters to those in Scotland) which has been a blessing.
I shave my legs occasionally but nobody is looking at them at moment (mores the pity, bloody covid) .
When I could get to the place that deals with hair, what's it called now? Oh yes I remember, the hairdresser (bloody covid) I have to have my hair thinned because its seriously thick and unruly and won't hold my style (haha) without it.
Dickydido hair I can't see, and I'm not showing to anyone else (bloody covid) so I'm not fussed what that looks like ?

So funny! - thank you for the light relief

Oh lord,i have to do face of every other day which my dh thinks is hilarious.
I dread loosing my tweezers.

Great post! Shame it describes me too though.

I am enjoying wearing the masks while out and about on dark winter days; But when we get a bit of winter sun and i am driving with husband next to me he must get a shock at the beard growing. I do try and keep up but twice weekly is pushing it. The masks are a blessing and social distancing!

Mine has lessened everywhere (barring a couple of stray ones on the chin) but wasn’t noteworthy as it happened gradually over time.
DH, who was very hairy, now has the soft hair free arms and legs of a baby and it happened almost overnight ?

I was glad to see the back of underarm and leg hair but could do without the facial hairs. I have one or two single ones which literally sprout an inch (at least) overnight and hairy moles that electrolysis practitioners are 'not allowed to touch now'. I don't wear my glasses when I look in the mirror... The does help to some extent.... 'Down below' seems much as before except for patches of grey... Can't understand why people shave that off. Did it once...never again!!!....but that is a whole other topic....

The hair on my head is thinning. The hairs in my nose have turned dark so they are more noticeable. As for the rest I leave it for winter to help keep me warm.

Just as well we don’t go visiting anywhere lately, but pre lockdowns I’ve often got in a tizz in the car, after realising that chin hairs have sprouted overnight (or at least since I dared to look in the mirror with my glasses on) - and I haven’t got any tweezers! ?

Maybe that’s one NY resolution I might just keep - never go anywhere without tweezers!

Tweezers would have to be a priority on my desert island list plus a magnifying mirror. Would I be allowed both?

It is the downstairs hair turning into piano wire that I hate. Instead of brown and glossy it is now gray and wirery. (if there is such a word). I keep getting one dark hair on my upper lip which I have to pluck same with my nose hair which grows at a rate of knots. I have used a silk epil on my legs for years so the hairs on my legs are not as bad as in youth. Used regularly they eventually kill off the hair root. My eyebrows however are coming in white! Trying to pluck up the courage to dye them. If I keep on plucking them out I will have no eyebrows left!

Yup, apart from the head/lip one this all happened to me during perimenopause. Arm hair more or less completely vanished.

I haven’t shaved my legs since my mid 20s after leg surgery before which my legs were shaved THREE times a day for three days and treated with some kind of gloop and then wrapped up. It was supposed to lower the risk of infection. The result was, apart from successful op outcome, lovely smooth, shiny, hairless legs ...forever. They should have patented it. Wonder what the gloop was ?

Completely - almost - identify with Bluebelletc. Down below hair had gone before my hysterectomy nearly 3 years ago. ( I'm in my 70s) . 2 years later it began to grow back. Doesn't make sense.
As for head hair, yes it's thinning, and whenever I'm particularly stressed, which has been quite often for various reasons over the past few years, my hair definitely falls out faster.

Oh Bluebellwould thank you so much for putting this post up. I thought these things were only happening to me and I was keeping quiet about it!

I love this post! Def make me feel like less of a freak! Underarm hair is less sparse but now cover a much greater area and has def moved down the body to nipple height! Hairy toes - yes, my girls laugh and I used to have them waxed before COVID. Down below hair has def moved outwards and downwards too, nearly reaches the knees now! Beard and moustache are coming on a treat. Oh - and I now have one stray hair in the middle of my left buttock which likes to grow long and grey. Difficult to remove from that location trust me!!!!

Great post. I was fine - hair wise - until I went on medication just over a year ago. The steroids I was on made my hair thin, luckily it has grown back but with a kink in it. With the other meds I am on I now have a hairy chin and top lip, hairs up my nose, my legs have man hair as do my arms, my 'down below' is long and wiry (lovely) and it is now a chore to keep it all under control. One benefit of a face mask - no one can see if I have missed a bit. Happy days I am still here.

The hair on my head has thinned considerably, but seems at the moment to be considering a tentative come-back. It will be welcome!

Underarm hair has been a thing of the past for ten years or so, but those horrible wiry hairs round my nipples are still there!

Pubic hair a good deal thinner than it used to be, but still there.

Hair on legs and arms still present and correct - wish it wasn't.

Moustache and beard running wild - visualize me haring after with the tweezers.

Eyebrows as thick as ever, and developing long wiry white hairs!

My mother and grandmothers were the same, although my mother lost the hair on her legs too.