I’m a fairly hairy guy. Most of the hair on my chest/stomach is what I’d consider typical. Short-ish, straight hairs, each one neatly lined up and conforming with its neighbor. Except for one.
On my stomach, on the left side of my body, is the albino. It’s an incrediably thin, white, almost transparant, and elastic-y hair that’s about two inches or so right now. When I say thin, I mean thin. If I’m walking around without a shirt on and I look carefully, I can see it sort of floating around with the breeze. It’s like a spider thread attached to my stomach. It generally grows to some gianormous length, and then must fall out or break off or something. It’s the only one on my body. It’s kind of cool, in a strange way, but I keep worrying that it’s the tail-end of some alien implant I recieved in my sleep.
I hope it doesn’t spread. The last thing I need is to end up looking like a fine-haired yeti.
I got one of those once, right between my breasts. Needles to say, I was utterly horrified, and plucked it. Well, maybe plucked is too gentle of a word: I ripped it out with the violence that, normally, one would reserve for a huge leech.
It must have learned its lesson, because it never returned.
I have a hair that grows out of the middle of my forehead. It’s incredibly fine, and very nearly colorless. If I forget about it, it can be about half an inch long before I pluck it. It’s been there since I was a kid.
I get these, too, from time to time. Good to know I’m not the only one. One of the hairs is along my left jaw line and another’s on my right shoulder. Others pop up here and there. I only find one every couple months or so, generally. They seem to spring up overnight, and I find them because they itch. I chalk it up to the occasional mutant hair follicle.
I have one on my jawline, too. I never see it when I look in the mirror, so about twice a year my husband dives in suddenly and plucks it. Yowch. I think he enjoys it.
MIne is about one inch above the center of my right eyebrow. It usually gets to be about 1/2" before I notice it. I’ve shaved it, plucked it - pretty much everything short of direct nuclear detonation - yet it returns. Wierd.
I have a hairy birthmark that looks more like a mole on one side of my cheek. I just snip the hairs occasionally with a scissor, that seems to work fine.