Billygoat Gruff, Yikes !

I have this theory that the lack of hairs on my legs and underarms which used be really thick have decided to come up and party on my face instead !!! Else the 2 or 3 hairs that used to adorn my chin have decided to rebel and call in the troops in revenge to mowing them away for years.200 pulled from face and neck this morning grrrrr.

Oh dear, I think I'd better have another look in the mirror. I've been poorly with flu for a week so I had not looked closely in the mirror. But this morning when I looked there were five very white whiskers on my top lip which got the tweezer treatment. I've never really examined my chin but I certainly will now.

I have a lip and chin wax every few weeks which I also top up midway with the odd pluck. However all other body hair seems to diminish as the years go on - or am I unusual. Underarm hairs nearly disappeared and leg hairs doing similarly.

I bought an IPL machine Philips and have never looked back. Hardly ever have to check now. I've had facial hair problems with very dark hair, although I am fair skinned, since I was a teenager. I'm now 71. Bought the machine 18 months ago after successful IPL sessions in beauty parlour. They were very expensive. The machine was around £300. Its only disadvantage is that it doesn't work on white hair since it relies on the melamin in the hair to kill the root. You have to shave first which I'd never done before and found very scary but it's been fine. Other advantage is you can do underarms and legs too. Works for me.

I'm sure these rogue hairs pop up & grow overnight. I use a magnifying mirror to do my make up every morning & for weeks there will be nothing then all of a sudden one pops out & is quite long.

My friend's GD asked her in a very loud voice at the supermarket checkout why she had a nasty long black hair growing on her chin!

Oh the joys of getting older!

you want to start worrying when you find a two inch nipple hair
Now that's freaky. Sadly I wasn't the one to notice it

I have my etebrows and chin threaded avery 6 wks or so and use tweezers in between. My husband has a habitof telling me AFTER a social occasion asin 'did tou know you have a long hair on your Chin ' just after a posh meal out with friends! 'Why didnt you tell me sooner?' I ask.' 0nly just noticed tonight!' Grrr!

So nice to see others sharing this problem. It makes us all feel better I think. I have always been blessed plagued with plenty of dark body and facial hair, since my teenage hormones arrived. Mediterranean ancestry gave me olive skin which tans beautifully but comes with plenty of hair. And with the menopause it only got worse. DH is kind and careful about what he says but does shy from telling me when I need to pluck. I have done it all -bleaching, plucking, electrolysis, waxing (forearms) and epilating.

And now it is getting harder as my eyesight gets worse. The magnifying mirror has to be stronger and I worry as I miss more and more of the strays. I will have to have a chat with my DD, who has the same problems, and find myself an understanding beautician now I have moved away from my previous electrolysis angel.

Is it time for laser treatment?

I hate selfies, but I forced myself to take one on holiday with my husband on my phone.

When I looked at it, I saw a really long ginger hair coming out of my chin which I had never noticed IRL. I must have been walking round with a one-hair beard for weeks! I also have a bristle on the other side which pops out every now and then.

These are the things nobody tells you about ageing. Someone in a facebook group I'm in started telling someone off for saying she felt old, saying 'age is just a state of mind'. I'm assuming she is young enough for her facial hair not yet to have gone rogue!

I'm quite fair and my husband once asked me what the fur was growing on my face - very fine downy hair but my daughters always tell me when I'm hairy and off I go to my threading session. Works a treat. Daughters are the best to tell you the truth!

NanKate - you're lucky to have just the one unwanted hair. My chin sprouts about half a dozen of them.

When I use my magnifying mirror to check, I see that my cheeks have a fine blonde down all over. I have to hope that the cheek hairs don't grow longer and darken or I'll have a full dark beard.

I'm feeling so much better after reading all your comments, I get quite a crop of dark hair on my chin and top lip, I have tried tweezers but there is just too many of them so now have to use a razor or hair removal cream. I laugh about it now and my husband likes to bring it up with others how hairy I am.

All I can say is thank the Lord I am not the only one with this problem. And they seem to appear overnight. I look at myself in the mirror every morning and an old witch looks back at me!

i'm afraid that i can't be bothered with tweezing so it's a razor for me! and i need to do it most days otherwise i get bristles - don't tell me that i shouldn't cos i find it so much easier to shave ............... a quick whizz around my chin and that's it.

Sarahellen your Mum sounded as if she was a cracker at 91.

Old age is difficult to define. I'm still 18 in my head as could be witnessed last Friday when my 6 year old GS said 'Do you want to come and boogie in the bedroom with me Nan using my new disco ball with flashing lights'? What fun we had

I have a friend with a moustache but can't bring myself to say anything as I don't want to embarrass her! She has 3 dds so live in hope that they'll say something. I get everything waxed! Facially I mean!

One reason people don't notice hairs is that to see them most older people need reading glasses. Sadly the hairs do come and I check once a month with mirror and tweezers. Also keep same in car so if left waiting have a chance to check.

Yes threading ever 6 weeks or so and tweezing in between
Have had electrolysis in past to sort out the worst but I think another session is due
My daughters have promised to tidy me up regularly when I am decrepit and in a home
I do think daughterless women are more likely to let them sprout ....

A lady I worked with had her hair cut and it was dreadful, longer on one side than the other. Whilst having lunch it looked like a hair was going in her mouth with her food. I leaned over and said "oh there is a hair" and pulled it out of her food.....it was about 3 inches long and still ATTACHED to her chin. I nearly died...We laughed for years about that. I know she had long hair but how could she have missed it. We were only in our 40's. Happy days!!

I find a small electric shaver is my best friend tbh!!

Nankate what is your definition of old age.My late mum at 91 had less grey hair than me when in my sixties.Her skin was as smooth as a baby's b---m.

I treat myself every 6 weeks to a lip and chin wax and use a whizzing in between I find its a bit of a confidence boost to know I'm whisker free?

Facial hair in my experience starts to appear around the menopause and continues. I get my eyelashes dyed every month and at the same time have 5 minutes electrolysis. It doesn't actually get rid of them once and for all but it certainly weakens them and a small session once a month keeps on top of the problem as different ones grow each time!

I wouldn't be without my 'Wizzit' about £5 from Amazon.......amazing results and they don't grow again for ages and often not at all.

I have one like a phone cable it is so curly..........why? what are they for?

However, in life now, I have very little satisfaction but getting one with the tweezers is a triumph of sorts, not sure what else I can do for entertainment.