# WTF? My hair is stabbing me in the foot!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 31, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726 "2010-07-31T21:13:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/1 "2010-07-31T21:13:09Z")
Seriously! Not the hair still attached to my head, the hair I had cut off me this morning!
I went in for a hair cut this morning and there was a lot of dry cut off hair ends involved (she cut it dry, not wet.) And I wore sandals. Which I did not in a million years think would be a problem, because, I mean, what?
So later I kept trying to shake the rock out of my shoe, and I can’t, so I take a good look at it to see that there are _pieces of hair stabbing my foot like little porcupine quills._ For real! Some of them were really in there like splinters, a centimeter of hair under my skin! I spent fifteen minutes de-furring my feet!
Somebody else PLEASE tell me this has happened to them.
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/2 "2010-07-31T21:18:14Z")
I get what I call hair splinters from my dog’s short hair. It always seems to happen when I wear sandals, perhaps because I’m not wearing socks and the hair manages to work it’s way under the skin. They’re painful, like an actual splinter.
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### Author:  [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/3 "2010-07-31T22:01:33Z")
I’ve gotten many a hair splinter from the various people I’ve lived with over the years. They are painful.
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### Author:  [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/4 "2010-07-31T22:16:03Z")
Yep, happens. I tend to get several when I give my dog a haircut.
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### Author:  [@Elysium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysium)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/5 "2010-08-01T03:58:10Z")
Ugh, yeah I had a cat hair do this in my big toe once, it hurt like hell. Not to mention, my skin swelled up and itched after I extracted it due to my cat allergy.
I think the cat planned it all out.
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### Author:  [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/6 "2010-08-01T04:02:15Z")
My Dad used to get dog hair splinters in his foot now and then. Thankfully, I never have.
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### Author:  [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/7 "2010-08-01T13:49:18Z")
I’ve found what I thought were weird whiskers around my neck and shoulders, days after a haircut, and then when I tweezed them realised they were hair bits which had buried their ends into my skin.
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/8 "2010-08-01T21:05:39Z")
it is amazing how much one little tiny cat hair can cause so much pain. i couldn’t believe it when it first happened to me.
now when i get a sudden sharp pain on the bottom of my foot cat hair is my first thought.
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/9 "2010-08-01T22:15:48Z")
I have never heard of this before. If it happens to me in the next week I will finally know for certain that this is the matrix.
That’s just bizarre.
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### Author:  [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/10 "2010-08-02T19:40:32Z")
My hairdresser was just telling me about this - she says it’s the worst. I assume it’s a common occupational hazard.
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### Author:  [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/11 "2010-08-03T00:59:57Z")
Yep. Happens to me occasionally.
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2010, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/12 "2010-08-03T01:09:40Z")
The hair in your feet isn’t the same as the hair that got cut off. Hair gets confused sometimes when it gets cut and starts growing out of the wrong places. It is rare but it happens and it is permanent unfortunately. In a few weeks you won’t ever need to wear fuzzy slippers again.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2010, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/13 "2010-08-03T13:21:19Z")
But I’ll win all the Middle Earth costume contests. So there’s that.
Also, I’d stop having to Swiffer the floor. Win win!
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2010, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/14 "2010-08-03T13:39:35Z")
My previous corgi had very coarse hair and would occasionally get in my husband’s feet through his socks. I don’t think he ever felt it. Our current corgis have much finer hair and it has never happened with them.
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/15 "2010-08-03T13:41:24Z")
Did you tease it? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/16 "2010-08-03T15:01:15Z")
I’m so glad I’m not the only one! Mine was cat hair. Our cat’s is mostly light colors so when I first started feeling it and looked at my foot I didnt’ see what it was. The next day it had moved from irritation to pain so I investigated more closely under stronger light. I tweezed it out carefully and half the length of the hair had been under the skin. What conditions have to all happen at once for that to even happen?
My sister once had troublesom ear symptoms that weren’t like anything she’d experienced before. After a few days she saw a doctor and they figured out it was tiny haircut hairs bouncing around in her ear.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/17 "2010-08-03T16:23:05Z")
This happens to me once in a while. I have short hair and it’s pretty rough, so that makes it ideal for forming hair splinters. Usually I find them in my fingertips or palms after I give myself a trim.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/18 "2010-08-03T16:52:33Z")
I get the hair splitters in my finger sometimes.
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### Author:  [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-my-hair-is-stabbing-me-in-the-foot/548726/19 "2010-08-04T03:38:40Z")
a friend of mine owns a salon - she says this happens pretty frequently. I have never had it happen, but she says its pretty painful.