So, About That One Awkward Hair
"I have a rogue neck hair, and for some reason I never see it until I'm in my car looking into the visor mirror. There’s something about natural daylight that lets you see EVERY LITTLE IMPERFECTION. Anyway, this one hair just pops up out of nowhere and it’s long when I find it. I’m so horrified that I now keep tweezers everywhere: at my desk, in my car, at my bedside. And I’m constantly checking for it. Now I definitely touch the side of my neck 100x a day and there’s probably some skin sagging that’s going to result. Ugh." —Julie, 26
"I have two weird hairs. The first is on my chin. It’s a pain in the ass to pluck because it grows at a weird angle. I get a weird sense of glee whenever it returns because it’s such a challenge to remove and so satisfying when I do get it. My fiancé has caught me more than once staring in the bathroom mirror chin thrust forward, and he just turns around and walks away because he knows I'm there for a whileeee. The other weird hair grows on the back of my right arm and is one shade darker and longer than the others. It’s harder to catch because I don’t see it day to day." —Anna, 26
"When I was a sophomore in high school, my chemistry teacher always liked to say that our more difficult lab experiments would 'put hairs on our chest.' I LOVED chemistry—I lead group studies in the library and participated in the inter-district Chemistry Olympics. I was also familiar with the concept of gentle science-lab comedy. So Mr. L's body hair warnings didn't resonate with me. That remained the case until I was a year or two out of college and discovered a rogue hair, the same color and consistency of one of my eyebrow strands, growing about two inches right of my collarbone. It appears Mr. L was right all along and I've been plucking it ever since." —Bernadette, 27
"Mine isn't a single hair, rather a small patch...on each big toe. Ever since I heard a guy friend of mine nickname a girl 'Hairy Toes' in high school—ugh, teen boys—I've been paranoid about shaving them. And people wonder why I prefer booties in the summer." —Lindsay, 27
"I swear—I look in my SimpleHuman magnifying mirror every morning and it's not there, then one day, bloop—it's a damn one-inch pigtail curly-q in the middle of my throat. Where did it come from?! Of course, that mirror is also rude enough to show me when I get a gray brow hair. Those did not exist before that evil mirror came into my life." —Paula, 45
On that note, I'm off to order the SimpleHuman mirror and probably regret it for the rest of my life. (Rubs chin stub pensively.)
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