Old Lady Facial Hair

Olivia said:
This subject matter IMO is just too stupid a subject matter to be on a forum where apparently older wiser folks shouldn't be sitting and discussing stuff like how often do you shave under your arms and in your ears.
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I kind of enjoy these threads, it's interesting to know how we all deal with these annoying little issues in our lives.

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oh my' my tweezers are my bestist friend lol -- I get tiny ones which are a pest ' it is sad that women older get this and not bother
but you would think the care home =would do a monthly facial' as things do get neglected as we get older in years -at the end of the day these women where young and pretty once .
 
I wonder if it's that it has become normal for them now or they just don't care. Sometimes I forget about mine or just don't see it. My eyesight is tricky sometimes. I try to keep up with two spots where the hair grows but two weeks ago, my son pointed out to me the hair was there. Reminds me...better shave those areas today because I'm going out. :)
 
chic said:
Plucking them out with a tweezer is worth the effort because over time it will destroy the hair follicle.
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I have never plucked anything with tweezers and never intend to. I've shaved my eyebrows since I was in my teens and still do. Used to use a single edge razor now I use eyebrow shavers. Just seems like tweezing would hurt. Ouch! :eek:
 
I once put on my glasses to look up a phone number, then made the call leaving my glasses on. There is a mirror hanging on the wall next to our phone so while I was talking on the phone I looked at myself in the mirror. Jeez-o, I suddenly saw these little hair antennas sticking out from both my eyebrows. So I took my glasses off and there was HazyDavey, put them back on and there was antenna dude.
The was some years ago when I first needed to start wearing reading glasses. That lesson was well learned.. 🧐
 
charry said:
olivia ....behave .....you love these threads really .....haha....
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Behave? What's that? Anyhow thank you. Keep forgetting by some of the threads that this is a Senior Forum, not an "Old Ladies" forum where we have to pluck our long curled chin hairs. So sad. Next time I look in the mirror I'm no longer going to say Hey, you, you're a young 71 kiddo! Nope, I'll have to say, Look at Yourself, isn't it time to tweeze those hairs? Don't kid yourself. You're old, old old! 😧
 
Olivia said:
Behave? What's that? Anyhow thank you. Keep forgetting by some of the threads that this is a Senior Forum, not an "Old Ladies" forum where we have to pluck our long curled chin hairs. So sad. Next time I look in the mirror I'm no longer going to say Hey, you, you're a young 71 kiddo! Nope, I'll have to say, Look at Yourself, isn't it time to tweeze those hairs? Don't kid yourself. You're old, old old! 😧
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i dont know how old you are ? but im def not old.....so dont ask about shaving armpits etc etc ...🥴😂
i have nothing to smile or laugh about really...but sod it.....life goes on......enjoy hun xx
 
charry said:
i dont know how old you are ? but im def not old.....so dont ask about shaving armpits etc etc ...🥴😂
i have nothing to smile or laugh about really...but sod it.....life goes on......enjoy hun xx
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Thank you, I shall. Be well and happy yourself as much as you can. That's all that life gives us. Think young. At 71, I do that.
 
The clue is in the title ‘Beauty and Grooming’, what do people except to see discussed on here ?

I’m with Charry, anything lurking dosn’t get to see the light of day before it’s plucked !
 
All I can say on this subject is that I fight it daily. Believe me, it is no myth that it will grow back stronger and darker or gray. I have tried all things and it grows back fast. I have one of those small razor things that is made for doing this and use it daily. Do I ever go out with those nasty hairs showing? Yes, sometimes I forget or need to be somewhere. I think it is hormonal and part of the aging process. I saw a woman at Walmart who had a beautiful mustache and didn't seem concerned about it. Not for me!
 
I have a small 10X magnification mirror with suction cups that adheres to the corner of my regular bathroom mirror so I can see all those annoying facial issues without struggling. I get ONE chin hair...ONE!!!! I swear it's not there for weeks and weeks, and then the very next day it's half an inch long!!!! I pluck it out as soon as I see it.

I have personal epilators for the faint mustache I've developed since menopause, and to remove the hair from my legs and underarms. I use once a week or so. I've found that over time both my facial hair and the hair on my legs and underarms has gotten softer and seems like there's less of it.

I prefer the epilators to shaving, that way there's none of that rough stubble as the hairs grow out.
 
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Ronni said:
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I prefer the epilators to shaving, that way there's no stubble feeling.
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Same here though it can hurt the delicate under arm skin. The trade off is only having to do it once every week to couple of weeks. So far, no chin hairs but am only in my mid 50s. Over the past 30 years or so, my mom has developed a few chin hairs. She's so obsessive about them that she will go for the tweezers when the hairs are just beginning to resurface and there's not enough to grab. If she can't get it, she goes around rubbing on it until it's long enough to tweeze. She's made me promise that if she's ever not mentally capable of pulling them that I'll keep them tweezed ...even to specify that I do it or have it done even if she's in a coma on a ventilator. :ROFLMAO:

The only out of place facial hair is one super fine, colorless hair that grows about a half of an inch under my right eye. Usually don't realize it has come back unless it gets caught in my mascara wand. My sister has the same but no one else in the family that we know of does.
 
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debodun said:
I couldn't help but notice at the senior's club meeting yesterday, how many women have long hairs on their face. One woman I used to deliver meals-on-wheels to had ones so long they curled up and over her chin - I wanted to grab them and yank them out. I keep after mine and do stray hair patrol evey few days and pluck out any I can see or feel. Am I OCD about this, or don't other women consider it necessary to do this grooming procedure?
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I worked with a woman who had a couple that waved at me every day from her chin. It was disgusting. I do a little whisker patrol every couple days after finding one a half inch long on my chin one day that had been there for who knows how long. LOL
 
I'm fortunate in that I really have never been a hairy person...I no longer have to shave under my arms, and once in a blue moon do I have to do my legs..I keep my eyebrows in check by plucking them every other week..although I check them most days.. , and I get them waxed twice a year....but otherwise I really hardly ever have to shave any part of my body, and I don't have any kind of moustache, or chinny chin chin hairs :D
 
I rarely have to shave underarms and legs. Eyebrow check now and then for a stray or two. Just have a couple of upper lip hairs that have decided to show up that I tweeze out every several weeks.
 
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