Try a micro-trimmer for those nose hairs, It’s what my dad used. He didn’t like traditional nose hair trimmers. My mother would also trim his ear hair with it.
Nose hair trimmers always remind me of the classic House, where the fastidiously groomed guy has a problem in his nose. He disparages House’s appearance and House asks if he used a toenail clipper in his nose. Yes, it’s more effective.
“I’m wearing a rumpled shirt and I forgot to brush my hair this week. You have athlete’s foot in your nose. I’m ready to be judged.”
I can’t understand the speed at which this hair grows. I will check my face and chin out carefully before I go somewhere. And I mean carefully. I pluck everything that doesn’t beong.
I go to lunch or whatever. I get home, glance in the mirror, and there is a two-inch hair in the middle of my chin or on my upper lip. Now, I know that wasn’t there because I looked carefully! Where did it come from? How could it spring up so quickly?
I have this small razor eyebrow shaper that I use to shave my upper lip. I mainly pluck, but sometimes I look in the mirror and know there’s enough where only a razor will do.
I hate this random hair just popping up on my face.
It’s the vision thing! Has to be, right? Like Kelby said in post 6.
I too am 55, as of last month. It’s a never ending battle fighting the OFHs. I have a couple of things going for me. First of all I’ve been going to the same place for my haircut for 20 years. Blanca takes good care of me. She always includes an eyebrow and ear hair trim. One thing you didn’t mention is earlobe hair. I get a couple of those nasty buggers on my earlobes. Fortunately when I’m in the shower shaving, I just swipe once over the ear lobe and get rid of them. Nose hairs are a different animal and not many people are going to like this much… but I keep a Gerber tool (Like a Leatherman, but a different brand) in the console of my Caddy. If I see some stray nose hairs; I’ll whip out the Gerber tool while at a stop light and yank those F’ers out there!. Clean as a whistle!
How do you do that without sneezing your head off? Pulling out those nose hairs always gets me sneezing.
What’s really bugging me is how can I be getting OFHs and still getting zits?
Plus the little fuzzy hair on the top of the nose are turning to OFHs too.
Ah, the Giant, White Spider Legs that grow in the nose.
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating:* My Wife has a standing order to kill me in my sleep when hair grows out my ears.
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She can’t be trusted anymore. I need to find a Second.
Bald, with boobs and body hair. Bad.
It’s not just plucking hairs. It’s plucking joint pain and plucking not being as plucking agile or strong, and plucking memory glitches. Getting older plucking sucks.
You would think so.
I would think so, if I weren’t so aware that my vision needs so much help. I really check myself out, though, because I know my vision stinks. I can forgive myself a gray hair or two, but when I look in the mirror and it’s one of those long, thick, dark hairs, then I know it just popped up.
How it is even physically possible though? This long hair has been developing underground for how long? And then what – it’s on a spring which allows it to propel itself aboveground out to its full length??
I don’t know, but it seems to happen to me a lot. How can I not notice this long, dark, hair?
Obviously it’s not all curled up, just waiting to surprise me, so somehow I am missing it when I do my leaving the house check, but I check so carefully in what I think is a good light.
Everything about old age just annoys me.
I’m only 43, but they’re beginning. My eyebrows are pretty thin, so I’m okay there.
Nose hairs, I’ve been yanking for a while, to the point where I don’t even feel it much anymore. Pulling is much more satisfactory to me than trimming, because nose stubble is just…no. I use tweezers, or sometimes even a cuticle trimmer (like this) to grab a bunch at a time and yank. Just don’t squeeze all the way, so the cutter only grips but doesn’t cut.
What really bugs me are the hairs that occasionally show up at the top of my ears. What am I, the Cat in the Hat? Those things are just pointless. Grip, yank.
Not only does the vision go, but so too does the brain and memory. I think we have Pai325 fully diagnosed.
Like I say to my kids:
I am a legend in my own mind.
The older I get, the better I was.
Old age - more plucking, less fu[sub]nthings[/sub]
So is another strange habit of getting old replacing the “s” key with the “5” key? I don’t get that shit.
<Dean Wormer>It’s no way to go through life, son. </Dean Wormer>
I think sometimes it is an exfoliation thing. The hair is growing away, under the skin, kind of humped up I guess. Then the skin finally exfoliates sufficiently for it to boing free. I think exfoliating before plucking helps you get a better grip on the little fuckers.
I am so stealing that! LOL
Early this morning as I was reading, I thought post #1 was maybe 3 weeks ago. Maybe a month. Because as I was reading my hand venture up to my ear and felt an OFH that wasn’t there after I plucked it with tweezers and wrote that first post. That ear had been cleared of all OFHs. Damn – it’s back!
It really bugged me so I got the tweezers and plucked it. Will I have to do this every 3-4 weeks for the rest of my life???!!’
But no, post #1 wasn’t 3-4 weeks ago. Post #1 was exactly 1 week ago. (sigh)