Everyone has hair. Whether it’s a lot, or a little, we all have it. As we get older though, it seems, the hair we have tends to forget where it belongs.
For example, some men, as they get older, start going bald. What they’re missing on the top of their head however has been found in abundance in their ears and nose. My (il)logical theory for this is gravity. As men get older, the hair falls from their head, landing in their nose and ears. I could be totally wrong about this of course, but for now that’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it.
It’s different for women. While we don’t typically lose the hair on our head, we do seem not to have to shave our legs and under arms as much the older we get. Sounds good, until you start finding where that missing hair went.
It starts out gradually, you look in the mirror one day and you see this little black spiky thing sticking out of your chin. You don’t think much about it, just pluck it out with a pair of tweezers and go about your business.
A day or two later, you find another one, or two. Okay, not a big deal; pull those, and move on.
This continues for awhile; until you discover the hairs keep coming back, and bringing their friends. Shaving is not an option; this only encourages the hair to continue to hang around your chin area. It’s even been known to attract more hairs. The tweezers are still doing a good job; it’s just taking a bit longer to weed the hairs. You continue with this pattern of hair elimination.
Next you get a magnified mirror. The hairs are getting smart; they hide then pop out full grown. Seriously, you can look in the mirror, see nothing, and an hour or so later, you have this inch long thing sticking out of your face!
The magnified mirror helps with finding the hairs that do that. With a good mirror and pair of tweezers, you can catch the little buggers before they can spring out of your face. This is good, you’ve got the situation under control; at least as much as you can, and still have a life.
Then one day you notice, there are less hairs on your chin than before. You begin to rejoice in your victory; until you discover all of the hairs are still there, they’ve just gone incognito. They’ve gone white or gray, making it almost impossible for you to see; yet being very obvious to anyone near you.
The magnified mirror and tweezers are doing an okay job, but it’s getting harder to see the hairs you’re trying to get. Add the fact that by now your eyesight is going bad, (whether due to age, or all the hair hunting you’ve been doing); things just aren’t looking good overall.
You keep up the fight though, knowing if you don’t, the hairs will take over your chin. And they’re getting tough. While at first you could pluck a hair out easily, now each one holds steadfast, trying it’s best not to be uprooted.
The next stage is, you’re holding your own against the hairs on your chin. You’re not winning, but neither are they; it’s a stalemate. Okay, it’s doable. Not necessarily the best scenario, one you can deal with though. Until you discover the hair that has migrated to your upper lip. So not fair!
The chin is one thing; you can pull hairs out with tweezers with little to no pain. The upper lip however is a different story. That hurts!!!
Okay, it’s not a major hurt, but it does hurt, nonetheless. Also, I’m not sure if it’s the location, or what, however, the hair on your upper lip is never small, like on your chin. For some reason upper lip hair is just instantly long. And there’s never just one hair. Upper lip hairs rise up in masses. Even if your chin hairs have gone gray or white, upper lip hair always comes in dark and long. If a face was a garden, the chin would have regular soil, while the upper lip would be using Miracle-Gro.
Just when you think it can’t get any worse, what happens? Whatever it is that’s going on with the hairs on your upper lip, the hairs on your chin have caught on. They seem to have smuggled some of that Miracle-Gro for hair down to their area. Now the chin hairs are popping up longer, stronger, and more frequently. Plus, they still have a stronghold on your chin, making it almost impossible to pull them out.
And thus the cycle continues, day in and day out. I have no idea where this whole chin and upper lip hair deal is heading; I’m just along for the ride at this point. What I do know is, if I had a choice, I’d shave my legs and underarms every day, if it meant the stupid hairs on my face would go away!
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