“You never see it growing. It’s either freshly plucked or 3 inches long.'
and professor of dermatology at Howard University and George Washington University, tells SELF. The culprit, she says, is usually testosterone; everyone has this hormone in their bodies, but some people produce more of it than others and each person’s hair follicles react to varying hormone levels differently. Cis women “mostly have vellus hair with very few thick dark hairs on the face,”Depending on your health history, you may be more prone to robust body hair growth.
And, again, each person has a unique hormonal makeup and genetic predispositions, so those random chin hairs are just part of what makes you, well, you. It’s hard to say exactly why you might have one or two that grow like a weed in thespot, but Dr. Rodney says it can happen on a hair follicle by follicle basis. “I think of it as those particular follicles have a lower threshold for testosterone,” she says.
“Hair growth occurs where hair follicles are concentrated,” Dr. Massick adds, “so it’s not unusual to have the same hairs popping back up again.” That means you may simply be battling the same hair each time or hair from its sister follicle that’s lurking nearby. As for getting rid of these? You may have heard that you shouldn’t pluck a hair because more will crop up in its place but “that is absolutely false,” Dr. Rodney says. “Plucking hair is a good, safe way to remove unwanted hair.” Just be sure to avoid pinching your skin, so you don’t wind up with inflammation, bumps, or a dark patch in the area.
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