Okay. I’m about to tell you something that scares the living bejezus out of me. But you have to promise not to tell anyone. This is between us.
I’ve begun to grow hair in unusual places. Unusual for me. Not a lot - Just some random hairs. My father always said that hair began to migrate south as you got older. They left the head and took up root in warmer climates. He’s bald now. Very bald. I don’t want to know where it all went. Luckily we’re not blood related. (I know that male pattern baldness is supposed to be passed down on the mother’s side, but not that I’ve seen. He’s bald, His father is bald, My brother’s halfway there…) My mother’s father had a full head of hair. Thank god. But I’m still scared. A few of the “peach-fuzz” hairs have darkened up. They grew too. Okay, its more than a few. Ten, twelve - who’s counting?
But that’s just alarming. Not weird. Not SCARY. What about the lone black hair on my shoulder blade? I’ve pulled it out several times. It keeps coming back. If it truly is a hair migrating from my head, how long will it take to go bald if I keeping pulling it out? And you want to talk about really weird, I get a SUPER FINE colorless hair that periodically shows up close to the corner of my eye! Its usually a good 3/4 of an inch before I notice it. I can’t see it in a mirror. Its too fine and colorless. I just sort of sense it in my periphial vision and have to fumble around my face trying to find and pull it out.
I hope this process doesn’t continue. Or worse - accelerate! I’m too young. Good god. I’m going to go buy a better set of tweezers…
- Shai’tan
Anyone else experiencing follicle migration?
Just for your edification, the 10 or 12 hairs were on the chest.
Maybe you could save the plucked ones for later use… er… just in cast you need them. 
Hey, let’s share the blame! Grin. Actually the genes for male pattern baldness come from both male and female parents. But the gene acts differently in males (Dad) and females (Mom) due to the hormones that they have…yup, your parents have hormones, as much as that might seem improbable.
That same testosterone that causes lots of hair to fall out of the scalp (with the right genes) over time…will cause hair follicles in various places to grow hair. By your eye the hair follicles are programmed to produce fetal or lunago hair. These follicles lack the genetic programming to produce anything but lunago. Body hair can also begin growing in response to long term testosterone levels. Think of your chest and legs and so forth. This also includes nose and ear hair.
In fact, you are not growing hair where no hair existed before. As a fetus, you had very fine hair (lugano) all over your body, excluding the palms, soles, lips, eyelids, and parts of the genitalia.
All normal humans still have hair on all of the body except those listed above; you just can’t see lunago as it is microscopic in adults. But those hair follicles are still there.
Under the influence of age some of the follicles produce a different kind of hair. Think of your head, eyebrows and eyelashes.
At puberty, genes in follicles located in the pubic area, axilla (armpits), face, and so forth cause changes from producing the lunago hair to visible hair. This hair embellishment process will continue for some time…guys typically won’t have a full beard and chest hair until well after the time their groin and axilla hair is filled out. So nose hair and back hair show up later in life.
There is a reason my sons call me “Greyback”
You mean this process will continue??? Not to imply that everyone is not in their own way “beautiful”… I’m not a big fan of body hair. I’m sure that your back is quite lovely. But as for myself… well I shave the boys (and trim the rest), and the discovery of new areas to groom disturbs me. I think I might wax everything from the neck down. Haven’t shave my legs in a while…
Yup, Shai’tan, it will just continue.
One of my great satisfactions in life is to see that my younger son, who teased me about my superhirsute dorsum, is now beginning to back off a bit as his nasal hairs blossom.
(TMI) Now we have discussions about the relative advantages of pulling nose hairs vs trimming with scissors. In fear that the lad would damage himself with the Swiss Army knife he was using, I gave him a nose hair trimmer for Christmas.
I could wax on, but it is late, so Ill just pluck myself up and trundle off to bed.
Y’know what scares me. I’m starting to grow some rather fine nasal hair. Yet it’s not your usual nostril hair, instead I’ve got hair growing on my nose, for God’s sake!