I’ve actually got two of the buggers growing on a scar on my jawline right side. Used to pluck them, but it got kinda old so I just shaves em off with the rest.
I haven’t any any of these Big Hairs, but I’m popping in anyway to say that the OP and Jurph’s post could qualify as trichotillomaniac porn. :eek:
I have a Big Sideways Hair. It’s down on the soft skin near my neck, and always tries to turn itself around and bury back into the skin. Even after just 48 hours, it’ll be trying to break the surface.
Hypno-Toad, are you sure that your mutant hair is single? If it’s as thick as you’ve indicated, could there be two or three hairs tightly wound together? If you grew this hair out, could you use it to hook up audio components? 
As I claw my way, screaming, through my 40s, I increasingly fall prey to what I call “Poopdeck Pappyism.”
And this isn’t a sexy thing. Nossir, it is not. My only solace lies in the knowledge that if I find myself stranded on a desert isle, I can use the suddenly precious wirelike protruberances as makeshift needles for use in clothing repair and sailmaking.
The Jurphean Hydra! :eek:
I have one of these. It grows out of a scar under my jaw at my chin. It’s thick and black and a bitch to pull - all the more weird, because it’s the only black hair on my body.
I have one that I keep plucking. It grows on the right side of my mouth.
I remember walking around Bed Bath and Beyond and looking in one of the magnifying mirrors. To my horror I saw this huge black hair growing out of my face. I was so disgusted I managed to yank that thing out with my fingertips.
I don’t know where this stray hair comes from, but I regularly check that part of my face now. In fact, I can feel it, prickly and slightly longer than the rest of the down on my face, but it’s not long enough for me to grab it with the tweezers yet.
Where do they come from?
I have to confess I have those - about six around each nipple. I am fair so it is odd to have these black wiry things. I pluck them as soon as they appear.
The odd thing was that both times I have been pregnant, they never grew at all. As soon as I gave birth, they gradually grew back.
I get that one weird hair also on my chin also. medstar is correct. Its really a bunch of hairs. Next time you pluck that baby out, try to stick your finger nail or a pin in the center and seperate them. Sometimes its hard to do. Its almost like they’re glued together.
Um…OUCH!
I get a hair that grows off of my left arm.
We call it my arm-lash, 'cause its much the same consistency of an eyelash.
My wife takes much pleasure from grabbing it as soon as she finds it, and yanking the lash from my arm.
She’s weird, but I loves her so…
Yep, I get the uber-hair too, on the left of my chin. My gf takes great delight in plucking it out. The first time she found it, thinking it was a blackhead, it hurt like absolute hell. No kidding, when it came out, it was about 5mm long and a perfect spiral. A tiny facespring, if you will.
I’m pretty sure it is a mono-thread since it seemed to have just the one root. And that root was pretty damn thick as well. But since I was without glasses, it may have been a multi-thread structure. Do these braided hairs come from one follicle or from two or more adjacent ones?
I get the big hairs too. In my house they go by the rather pedestrian name “Mutant Hairs.” They are always right around my jaw line. I used to think that they were mono-filament, but Mrs. nrd pointed out that you can separate them like string cheese. I usually have five or six separate hairs in there, all seeming to come from the same source, definitely the same follicle.
Mine are prone to causing massive pimples if I’m not careful. I remember one of the infomercials for a skin care system that was listing the causes of pimples; one of which was facial hairs that get imbedded in the skin. These don’t curve around and go back in. The theory was that the hair is sharpened by shaving, and then tucks back in under the surface of the skin. The sharp point can get trapped under there, and as it grows, it pushes the skin out and traps a bunch of crap in there. I don’t know if there is any basis for this theory, but it seems true for me. I can tell when a particular pimple is caused by a mutant hair because it is harder than normal, and will NOT go away. These have to be popped because obviously the hair will not go away by itself. So, eventually it gets big enough that a small amount of pressure will cause the hair to pop out like the thing that pops out a turkey when it’s done cooking. Then the hair can then be deconstructed with all the individual hairs being separated. The zit location usually feels like a hard lump for a long time afterwards, even though noting else ever comes out.
This exact thing happened to me for the first, and so far only, time last year. I had no clue that it was an ingrown hair under my chin until it finally annoyed me enough to pop it. I was extremely surprised to get a 1 cm hair out of that “zit.” I don’t know if it was a mono- or multi-thread.
Ahhh, I remember my first time. Imagine my surprize when I popped what I though was a zit a found a piece of what looked like brown rice in my hand. (In and amongst a mélange of blood and pus for all you zit lovers out there.)
I have one of those on my shoulder. It’s at least 4 inches.
My experience has been the same as rpinrd’s, even to my calling them “Mutant Hairs.” They will show up on my face every six months or so and are very satisfying to pop.
This is one of the great things about the SDMB – I would never dare discuss this question elsewhere. It is nice to know that my “Mutant Hairs” are normal, or at least if abnormal, they are in good company.
I find this thread strangely - and I do mean strangely - comforting…
That is all.