3:00 snapshot #1057: Aberrant long white hair

[urbpan]

Middle age is similar to puberty, at least in my experience. Strange new hairs keep emerging from my skin, only these ones are single very long white hairs in various places: my beard, my arm, my nostril, and most recently: among my eyelashes. It extended a full eighth of an inch past the normal eyelashes, bumping up against my sunglasses (I have now given up sunglasses).

During my last haircut the barber tried to pluck it and I almost squirmed out of the chair. I'm very squeamish about eye stuff. I could spend an hour in a coffin full of mealworms no problem, but show me a mascara commercial and I'll have to call in sick to work. The trust inherent in my marriage was proven when I held still and let Alexis trim my aberrant white eyelash. It grew back in a month.

Comments

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, the mutant hairs. good stuff.

i call the latest ones "ear puberty". waah, i hate that. i make them gone.

some of the skin stuff. gah. oh well. old age is better than no age.

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[jostajam.livejournal.com]

You are allowed to trim mutant eyelash hairs to the same length as your other eyelashes. The same holds true for mutant eyebrow hairs.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

You make it sound so simple! I can't bear to do it. It's lucky that I never had to wear contact lenses because I would rather stick needles in my skin than touch my eye.

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

Ah, I have the opposite problem. My hair is falling out. :(

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. My hairline began thinning right about when I started to get hair growing on my shoulders and back. Very funny, nature!

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

Well, so far I have not had any rogue hair growth, but I am told that women can grow mustashes after menopause...I like me a good mustash!

[uneko.livejournal.com]

well it's very fetching XD

I've ALWAYS had random, long "ghost hairs" as I call them -- tiny thing barbie hair line hairs. I"m a FEMALE and I randomly found one of these between my breasts--ATTACHED-- that was a good 5 or 6 inches long. I think I was talking on the phone at the time.

I also have one that grows below my left eye.. it gets about an inch or two long generally before I notive it again D:


On which note, perhaps you should trust your dear significant other to attempt to pluck it from you? It will, at the least, take longer to grow back.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Oh, middle age. I am sliding gently into perimenopause, which is resulting in spotty but persistent beard growth and entertainingly curly eyebrow hairs, in addition to my aggressive graying.

One of my favorite comedians, Kate Clinton, said that as she and her friends were hitting menopause, she thought they should all start carrying tweezers so they could just yank the random long hairs growing on each other's chins and noses while they're talking. "Hang on, just hold still. *YANK* That's better."