They say that everything happens for a reason.....

Is you can afford it try getting your colours done. It’s made a huge difference to me and my confidence.

The answer is a change in hormone levels.

So, how do I get rid of skin tags? I have tried lemon juice with no success.

A x10000 magnifying mirror with enough LED lights on to illuminate Wembley Stadium and I'm good to go. ;-)

Love it Nanabilly lol

I am soooo lucky. Got to about 40 before I even realised women had to shave body hair. Wasn't something girls talked about when I was young. One sister and myself are both blonde but my other sister is brunette. Other than a little underarm in the summer and the obvious other bit, none of us has ever had any body or facial hair. Neither did my mother. I tell my DH that I am very low maintenance.

I’ve concluded that this is one very good reason why we shouldn’t take a young lover or marry a significantly younger man. I find it very reassuring that mine is old enough that he can’t see close-up without reading glasses. Consequently, he probably never sees my hairy chin!

MillieBear - I read somewhere if you tie a piece of cotton aound a skin tag it will eventually fall off. Last winter (knowing said area would be covered up with scarves or wooly jumpers) I was so fed up with the little blighters around my shoulders and neck I asked my OH to tie cotton around them. It worked and they haven't come back this year. We also had a great laugh whilst doing it!! {grin]

I wish there was a way to transplant chin hairs on to my head. Where did it all go wrong!

i get hairs on my top lip regulary .i just shave them off and lighten any that are left.not really bothered its just they way we made. but it is a hormone unbalance...

Most of my body hair has disappeared, and my scalp
is noticeably thinning. However, I have the most magnificent and extravagant eyebrows.
I try to keep them under control, but am now wondering if I might let them proliferate and use them for a ‘comb-over’

It comes as news to me that eyebrows don't grow, mine have become more bristly and the individual hairs are longer now than before the menopause. Moustache and to lesser extent beard are flourishing! No noticeable difference to my hairy legs - and how I wish the hairs would go away there, but "bush" is thinner and underarm hairs are a thing of the past. Odd isn't it.

Hair on head is getting thinner. Wouldn't it be nice if we could re-direct hair to where we actually want it?

I've had a good chuckle reading these posts. I love the sense of humour. Thanks ladies!

Poppy I think the hairs on the chin are the ones that once upon a time lived a cosy, sheltered life in their owners' armpits. One day they all decided to up sticks, move in together on the chin and live out their final days in the great outdoors. It would seem they enjoy the fresh air and sunshine...

I think all these post-menopausal facial hairs, spots etc are nature's way of making us unattractive to the opposite sex once we are no longer fertile.

Well, its certainly worked in my case, Hilly.

Purlepoppies I have the down too, otherwise called peach fuzz. The answer for me was to buy an epilator which does a multiple plucking operation and my skin stays smooth for months. It also deals with those stray wiskers and has attachments for eyebrows and also a small shaver. It does make your eyes water a bit the first time you use it but the results are so well worth it. Quick, easy and foolproof. Get a mains operated rather than rechargeable for reliable operation,

I cut skin tags off with my nail clippers.
I have a plaster at the ready because they bleed a lot, one well placed snip and they're gone.

Let’s be grateful ladies, my friend is totally 100 per cent bald, male pattern baldness evidently. The plus side is that she looks years younger than the rest of us in her really lovely wig and to her embarrassment is often asked where she gets her hair done. Still hard thing to bear though.

A neighbour got a relative to tie cotton around some of her numerous quite large skintags. She found it extremely painful

This, apparently, is why many women become more assertive after the menopause!

Oooh, DoraMarr that's interesting.

Next time I become bossy or snappy with OH I shall say male hormones are to blame (His - but I won't tell him that!)

I did notice that I'd become less willing to appease and turn the other cheek after the menopause. I thought it was just an age thing and I was being my true self at long last, in being more assertive.

Spots on the bum!! For goodness sake - messes with my sexy thong look ????

Be glad they only came with the menopause. I started tweezering coarse dark facial hair in my early 20s and have been having electrolysis regularly since I was 40.

Perhaps the early arrival of coarse black facial hairs is why I have always been a bolshie member of the awkward squad! I didn't need to wait for the menopause to get like that!

I try to keep up with the chin bristles too but seem to miss them when tweezing. DH told me the other day that there was a really long one on my chin just as we were arriving at a restaurant to meet friends. I said 'Don't tell me now !' He said 'But you told me to tell you!' 'Yes, but when I can do something about it!'. Men!!

I was mortified recently that I'd had guests stay for the weekend without checking my face in the magnifying mirror first. (This is in all the etiquette books you know - use a magnifying mirror before having guests stay.. )

About three days after they'd gone I did use a magnifying mirror. One very fine long white hair was sprouting from my neck - about two inches long it was! - and I had various curly white hairs on the very sides of my cheeks, near my ears. My eyebrows, though extremely thin were poking around at all sorts of angles. I see myself in the mirror every day but my eyesight (even with specs) isn't what it was. The evil magnifying mirror (which I tend to avoid) is both my friend and my enemy it would seem!

I am sure without their specs our guests didn't notice but - when they did wear their glasses? Oh how embarrassing! I spent a good half hour plucking and tweezing once I'd realised how much growth was on show! I moaned at OH. Surely he'd noticed? He swore he'd not noticed. However, he left the kitchen saying "I'll give the mower a quick run over your face if you like?"