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Most women as they approach menopause start noticing chin whiskers. I was wondering if there are any mature women here who don't have this problem?
My mother would drive me crazy when she ignored them to the point they got curly. I would come at her with tweezers and tried to get her to take care of them herself but she never did.
At what age did you notice chin whiskers? Do you pluck or shave?
I have a little swiss army knife on my key chain which has little tweezers. I depend on them so much cause it seems I mostly notice them while in the car. Guess I fiddle with my face while stuck in traffic.
Most women as they approach menopause start noticing chin whiskers. I was wondering if there are any mature women here who don't have this problem?
My mother would drive me crazy when she ignored them to the point they got curly. I would come at her with tweezers and tried to get her to take care of them herself but she never did.
At what age did you notice chin whiskers? Do you pluck or shave?
I have a little swiss army knife on my key chain which has little tweezers. I depend on them so much cause it seems I mostly notice them while in the car. Guess I fiddle with my face while stuck in traffic.
It's the bright sunlight -- makes them MUCH easier to see. I do the same thing.
I did some threading before I went home on vacation -- NEVER AGAIN. My hair is very fine and pale. I pluck the crazy ones (and I have one that's not there and not there and not there and then its grows an inch overnight... what IS that?) and the few dark ones that show up in my "moustache", but I noticed something interesting. Sans hair, I could see more of the crepey lines over my mouth. It made me look older.
With the hair, which you can't see unless you're right on top of me -- there's like a fine diffusion of the lines (also of which there aren't many), so I look younger. I'm wondering if it's like what they say minerals do -- diffuse the light and reflect it back.
I have a set of tweezers in my car because the harsh light of day is so much better than my dim bathroom for catching the "OMG what is that?" goat hairs that crop up.
Statred around 50 with me....I pluck or wax....and yes...bright light is a major MUST to find those pesky hairs! At least we women don't get hair growing out of our ears!!!!
If you can afford it, get the laser treatment to permanently remove them. It's expensive because it's not a one shot treatment. There are some products that claim to work almost as good as laser but I've never tried it. Besides the smell, would hair removal creams like Nair work on the face? I'm a guy so I only shave with a razor. I have to shave daily and in a certain way. Get scaley sores if I grow out my beard/moustach. Get horrible ingrown and infected hair if I shave against the growth to get baby smooth. Wife didn't believe me so I proved it to her. She now accepts my scruffy, but clean shaven, face.
You say, "most women," however, I don't know of anyone that has this problem. I think it must be a genetic problem and would show up more in certain groups.
You say, "most women," however, I don't know of anyone that has this problem. I think it must be a genetic problem and would show up more in certain groups.
Meh. Plenty of women of all ages have an errant hair here and there. It's not usually dinner conversation.
You say, "most women," however, I don't know of anyone that has this problem. I think it must be a genetic problem and would show up more in certain groups.
You know, you're right. It is a genetic problem, and the group it shows up most in is the group with the second X chromosome.
I am 70 now and last year I used Olay's treatment on a fine moustache. It hasn't come back. I now live near Dallas in some VERY bright sunlight and I would have noticed it. Both my mother and grandmother had something similar - very fine, light, and hard to see.
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You know, you're right. It is a genetic problem, and the group it shows up most in is the group with the second X chromosome.
