Ingrowing Hairs
Bloody things - I'm a martyr to them, I am.
Long-standing readers will recall my efforts last year whereby my jawline was lasered in order to reduce the amount of trouble I had in this area.
The results, I have to say, were impressive. I still maintain a certain amount of muzzle stubble since they left that alone and the blonder hairs still grow along the rest of my face, but that's okay: for one, it was only the darker, wirier hairs that ingrew anyway, and I also find a wet-shave rather therapeutic.
But once in a while I still get one even where the lasering had occurred. A rogue hair just decides it'll grow anyway and rather than emerging naturally up through my skin, takes a slight left at the traffic lights and travels along under it in parallel.
Thankfully, unlike most sufferers, it's rare that I get a huge spot-like growth occurring when this happens, it just finds its way along between the layers somehow. Anyone eagle-eyed enough may notice a faint dark line under my skin which gets slowly longer as time goes by.
The only course of action available to me, therefore is to put up with it until I've shed enough layers for it to get reasonably close to the surface. And then I grab a needle and hoik it out.
So this is what happened to me on Saturday. I noticed that a dark line was fairly close to the surface so I grabbed a needle, gently broke a layer of skin and hooked the hair out to the surface.
Three centimetres, it was. I kid you not.
Incredible. Must have been in there weeks.
2 beatings:
Saw some programme on C4 last night (well, I happened to be sitting in front of the telly when it was on) called Ten Years Younger. My over-arching impression was that here was some mid-thirties beardie, who liked a pint and a smoke, being made to look like one of the guys from Franz Ferdinand by a bunch of body fascists. No beard, glittering white teeth, and now he "conforms". Dunno, just made me feel a bit uncomfortable.
I know what you mean, they can be a bit disquieting.
As long as the makeoveree actually wants to make the changes it's probably okay. But sometimes it does come across as just adult-parenting and interfering.
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