Yea, I got a body hair story. When I was 5 I loved Elvis and desperately wanted sideburns. I remember laying in bed one night while my mom was tucking me in and asking her how long it would be until I could grow some. She looked at my face for a few seconds (looking back, this was purely for dramatic purposes), and said “oh, by the time you’re about 15.”
WELL GUESS WHAT MOM?! I’M 23 NOW AND I STILL CAN’T GROW MY GODDAMN SIDEBURNS!!!
Another body hair story? Hmmm…I put Nair on my balls once and got chemical burns. There’s a thread about it somewhere around here…
Yes, Trunk, plucking those nose hairs can have really spectacular effects. Use scissors!
My beard used to come in all sorts of colours, even a patch of red, but the grey has mostly hidden that now. It has always been very stiff and bristly, and has enough wave that clumps try not to all go in the same direction. That makes it hard to trim evenly, so I usually pinch up a little clump and hold on while I cut so it doesn’t fly around. SolGrundy, lining the sink with a strip of TP gives you a place to put those pinches of hair; it isn’t perfect but helps.
As I get older, I’ve started to get hair around the rims of my ears and on the little pointy bit in the middle. It’s pretty close to invisible but I can feel it an need to pluck.
I haven’t noticed any other oddities, but now I’m sure I’ll be checking at every opportunity. :rolleyes:
I don’t exactly have a hair story, more like a lack of hair story. I’m 26 and I have just recently accepted the fact that I will never in my life have any chest hair.
I was very lucky growing up with the same circle of friends, and as we developed I watched them develop chest hair. Some are now very hairy and others with just a little patch. I would gaze longingly into the mirror at my bald chest and wonder when I too would develop chest hair. Now that I’m 26 I’ve accepted that puberty can’t possibly last this long, and I’ll likely never have any chest hair.
It doesn’t really bother me though. It’s just something I’m used to now.
On the same token I can’t grow sideburns or a beard. Again, after all these years of shaving, I’ve accepted that I’ll never have a full face of hair. All I have is a patch under my chin, a full area above my lip, and two patches on my cheeks. It looks ridiculous if I don’t shave. That really bungled up my plan to grow a mustach like Lennon had on the cover of Sgt.Pepper. I really wanted to grow that, but alas, it is one thing in my life I will never be able to indulge in.
I only have two puny chest hairs, and my “taint” is not exactly furry either. But, I do sometimes get those loooooooooong nose hairs. I pull them if they get long enough to annoy me. Lately though, there’s a new thing. Every so often, I “discover” an eyebrow hair that has gone crazy. One was so long it was tickling my eye. After trying to just push it back where it belongs and failing, I gave a good hard yank. Shit that hurt!
Her aunt was walking down the stairs one morning while using an eyelash curler. She missed the bottom step and began to fall, reflexively flung her arms out (without letting go of the curler first), and ripped all the eyelashes out of one eye. I can’t begin to imagine how much that hurt.
She considered false eyelashes afterwards, but remembered that you need to have real eyelashes to attach them to.
Same friend, different relative: Her grandma got an angora (rabbit fur, for the uninformed) sweater, apparently very fuzzy. Clumps of fuzzies kept leaving the sweater now and then to float away. Grandma just grabbed them and stuck them back on the shirt.
This post suddenly became a lot funnier when I noticed your “location”
Hey, don’t sweat it, some of us like our men that way. Mr Ruadh has no more hair on his chest than I have, it’s one of the thing that turns me on about him.
As for myself … don’t have any interesting stories really, except that I apparently have unnaturally little leg hair. I haven’t shaved my legs in over two months (one of the benefits of being in an LDR) and you’d probably have to be looking pretty close to even realise they’re unshaved. I inherited this trait from my Mom, apparently; my sister hates us both for it
I have to check my husband’s body about every other day, looking for those damned black circles. He gets them ALL OVER. If I don’t find and remove them, they get infected, and cause him considerable pain.
I try to tweeze out his ear hair, but he usually won’t let me, unless he wants a favor from me.
I get these long, transparent hairs on my face every now and then. I also grow a long dark hair from my lower right shoulder blade, which I have my husband pluck whenever he finds it.
I had the same deal with my ex-husband…if he wanted a foot rub, he had to let me tweeze the mutant hairs on his earlobes. He was extremely finicky about his appearance, so I could never understand why those freakishly long hairs sprouting from the edges of his ears didn’t bother him.
I have one white eyelash. It appears every six months or so, and it is straight instead of gently curved like all the other eyelashes, so to me it is extremely noticeable. I let it grow until it is long enough to very carefully pluck (doesn’t hurt at all, but scary to get so close to my eye with tweezers.)
I once found a long, dark hair sprouting from the center of my forehead. Luckily I wore bangs at the time, because it horrified me to think of how long it had been growing there and whether anyone had noticed it before I did.
As I get older (40 in six months) I discover I am getting hairier and hairier. Gorilla hair is now growing on my back, just above my love handles.
I have grey hair on two places on my body: my chin and my scrotum. Everything else is the luxurious chestnut brown I’ve had all my life.
I pluck my nose hairs on a regular basis. Not one by one, but in bunches. Otherwise they grow out of my nose and tickle my septum, driving me insane with itchy distraction.
My ears are now growing hair at the same rate, but they don’t tickle when they stick out.
Before I was domesticated, I let my beard grow out and get thick and curly. But there would grow these itchy, extra stiff hairs, twice the diameter of the other hairs. And when I would root around and find them and yank them out, the subdermal part would be all soft and squishy. They reminded me of the things Geena Davis clipped off of Jeff Goldblum in The Fly.
Every time I shower, I find the little short and curly knots as well, but they’re not from my taint, they’re in the crack of my ass.
I have the same wierd curse you do- I can’t grow a full beard. If I let it grow out, it looks like a joke, because its really uneven across my face where some places it is mildly dense, but other parts of my face yield no hair at all. If I groom right, after two MONTHS of growing, I can have what looks like a future goatee.
I have freaky eyebrows myself, not exactly in league with some of the other stories… :eek: …but I’ll tell it anyway. My eyebrows are quite normal except one when it heads towards the bridge of my nose at which point it fans out so I have this spiky eyebrow look going on. I think it’s pretty cool.
There is also a thread floating around somewhere involving my pubic hair and wax…that’s all I’ll be saying on that
That I know. Nice tight spandex shorts seems to help me though. You can even wear another pair of shorts over those so as not to embarass others.
I have an extra set of nipples about four inches below the main ones. The left one has a ring of hair around it. The right one only has two long hairs pointing in the direction of its partner. Damn assymetry!
I started growing chest hair when I was 11. By the time I was 21, I looked like King Kong in tennis whites. Luckily, it has never migrated to my back - but most everywhere else has hair.
The only thing that I can share is that I, too, shed. Head hair, chest hair, body hair - it all starts coming out, but since there’s so much it isnt’ noticeable. Makes for a fun time cleaing the shower and and bathroom floor.
I find these occasionally in my beard. They are almost copper-coloured (the rest of my beard is brown of various shades where it isn’t going grey) and are so stiff they feel like wire.
I haven’t had to shave my legs for years. My leg hair was never thick and it just gradually gave up the ghost. Occasionally these days, I will find a longish, fine hair, but I just pluck them out. I love not having hairy legs.
Not to gross anyone out but when I first started getting hair “down there” I used to Shampoo and Condition it. Probably paid more attention to that hair than I did to the hair on my head, for a little while anyway.
