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Post by gar on Aug 23, 2014 16:36:46 GMT
Stuff like this is why I will never leave this place. With.His.Teeth. That's what she said. I know!!!!!
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Post by Mary W on Aug 23, 2014 16:39:39 GMT
So I've been feeling a bit unattractive as I age, and reading these makes me at least feel that I'm not alone with some of this stuff. How do you make yourself feel attractive with these oddities and old age changes? I'm not saying any of you are unattractive! I just mean that's how I feel and don't know how to not feel that way!
I have white hairs popping up in my dark eye brows. My biggest complaint is the skin tags. I have a small one near my eye that I am so self conscious about. The ones under my arm pits I can live with. Then there's the age spots. I have them on the top of my hands. I'm so scared they'll start popping up on my face.
I hate these changes! I'm unattractive enough without them. I don't need more things to make me ugly!
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Post by Lexica on Aug 23, 2014 17:14:33 GMT
So I've been feeling a bit unattractive as I age, and reading these makes me at least feel that I'm not alone with some of this stuff. How do you make yourself feel attractive with these oddities and old age changes? I'm not saying any of you are unattractive! I just mean that's how I feel and don't know how to not feel that way! I have white hairs popping up in my dark eye brows. My biggest complaint is the skin tags. I have a small one near my eye that I am so self conscious about. The ones under my arm pits I can live with. Then there's the age spots. I have them on the top of my hands. I'm so scared they'll start popping up on my face. I hate these changes! I'm unattractive enough without them. I don't need more things to make me ugly! I had a skin tag and it bugged the &*^% out of me. I looked on line and saw that some people just cut them off themselves. There are numerous ways listed to remove them from creams to string on them. I sterilized my fingernail clippers in alcohol and used Betadine on the area around and including the skin tag (This was on my center chest area, so it showed in shirts.) I carefully pulled it out and cut it off. Zero pain. A tad bit of bleeding, but not much. It healed up to where you can't even see where it was. Or you can take the sensible way and just ask your doctor at your next visit if he/she can cut it off for you. I was impatient and fortunate that it didn't infect. I was super cautious with keeping it clean until it healed, which was only a couple of days. ETA: I also have my eyebrows dyed. My white hairs were starting to outnumber the light brown ones.
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Post by dulcemama on Aug 23, 2014 18:11:01 GMT
I have one chin hair. I got it after having kids. My husband loves to pull it out. His method? With his teeth. He loves me. My mom had the same exact one hair. I think I took the confession a bit too far. Quite a Romeo you've got there.
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Post by dulcemama on Aug 23, 2014 18:15:54 GMT
So I've been feeling a bit unattractive as I age, and reading these makes me at least feel that I'm not alone with some of this stuff. How do you make yourself feel attractive with these oddities and old age changes? I'm not saying any of you are unattractive! I just mean that's how I feel and don't know how to not feel that way! I have white hairs popping up in my dark eye brows. My biggest complaint is the skin tags. I have a small one near my eye that I am so self conscious about. The ones under my arm pits I can live with. Then there's the age spots. I have them on the top of my hands. I'm so scared they'll start popping up on my face. I hate these changes! I'm unattractive enough without them. I don't need more things to make me ugly! I had a skin tag and it bugged the &*^% out of me. I looked on line and saw that some people just cut them off themselves. There are numerous ways listed to remove them from creams to string on them. I sterilized my fingernail clippers in alcohol and used Betadine on the area around and including the skin tag (This was on my center chest area, so it showed in shirts.) I carefully pulled it out and cut it off. Zero pain. A tad bit of bleeding, but not much. It healed up to where you can't even see where it was. Or you can take the sensible way and just ask your doctor at your next visit if he/she can cut it off for you. I was impatient and fortunate that it didn't infect. I was super cautious with keeping it clean until it healed, which was only a couple of days. ETA: I also have my eyebrows dyed. My white hairs were starting to outnumber the light brown ones. Oh, how could I forget the skin tags!?! They seem to multiply overnight. And Lexica, your post had me wincing and gritting my teeth and taking shallow breathes. I'm not too squeemish but home surgery puts me over the edge.
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Post by sisterbdsq on Aug 23, 2014 18:25:17 GMT
I did the same with a skin tag. My biggest issue is my spider veins. I've always had them, it's hereditary. I hate my legs.
And the third nipple should be named Chanandler Bong.
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Post by Lexica on Aug 23, 2014 18:55:18 GMT
I had a skin tag and it bugged the &*^% out of me. I looked on line and saw that some people just cut them off themselves. There are numerous ways listed to remove them from creams to string on them. I sterilized my fingernail clippers in alcohol and used Betadine on the area around and including the skin tag (This was on my center chest area, so it showed in shirts.) I carefully pulled it out and cut it off. Zero pain. A tad bit of bleeding, but not much. It healed up to where you can't even see where it was. Or you can take the sensible way and just ask your doctor at your next visit if he/she can cut it off for you. I was impatient and fortunate that it didn't infect. I was super cautious with keeping it clean until it healed, which was only a couple of days. ETA: I also have my eyebrows dyed. My white hairs were starting to outnumber the light brown ones. Oh, how could I forget the skin tags!?! They seem to multiply overnight. And Lexica, your post had me wincing and gritting my teeth and taking shallow breathes. I'm not too squeemish but home surgery puts me over the edge. Yeah, there was a time I couldn't have done it. But ever since I've become a chronic pain patient, and had the weird pains of fibro that doesn't respond to my normal pain meds, I have a much more relaxed attitude toward "little" pain. Once you've dealt with the heavy stuff, clipping off a piece of basically blob skin that has no pain nerves in it anyway becomes no big deal. And I was sick of seeing it. I also pierced my ears myself with a sterilized needle and an ice cube. This was as an adult for a second hole next to my holes previously pierced when in jr. high. There was no pain, just an odd popping sound as the needle went through each layer of skin that gave me the shivers.
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Post by gizzy on Aug 23, 2014 19:42:39 GMT
Me, too. Except, I'm still in peri menopause. To add insult to injury, I had to have a vertical caesarean cut & all the fat has deposited to give me a front butt. I can't have one in the back, totally flat there. But my front is nice & round.
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Post by Scrapbrat on Aug 24, 2014 0:28:08 GMT
Have not seen Anyone else mention my problem -- grey hairs in my eyelashes!! I pluck them and if hurts like hell. I also have two weird pigmentation spots, one on the inner part of each eyelid. It's a drug side effect, not aging, but TBH, that doesn't make me feel better about the spots. They are noticeable and ugly.
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Post by ametallichick on Aug 24, 2014 0:56:27 GMT
All I'm going to add here is that if you have only two nipples, consider yourself blessed. Not so fast. I have a third nipple on my belly (I tell people it's a birthmark. Looks like one anyway). My ds has one too in the same spot.
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Post by ametallichick on Aug 24, 2014 0:59:09 GMT
BTW, I am constantly removing unwanted hair from my bod. I wax my lip and eyebrows about every 2 weeks. Shave my lady parts. The hair is sparse and unattractive. I have noticed lately, for the last year or so, that I have peach fuzz on my cheeks so I grab a razor whenever I notice it. I am trying to hold on to my youth for as long as possible. I'll be 50 in October!
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Post by whipea on Aug 24, 2014 1:07:04 GMT
Lets see; Random white eyelashes Eyelashes in the corners of my eye - had those weird things all my life and of course they are not turning white Patches of white nose hair - if they grow too much it looks like I have a chronic booger up there Weird growths on my skin that look like the belong on the bottom of the sea - dermatologist says they are nothing. Yeah they are not growing on her body.
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Post by Erica on Aug 24, 2014 1:27:29 GMT
Have not seen Anyone else mention my problem -- grey hairs in my eyelashes!! I pluck them and if hurts like hell. I also have two weird pigmentation spots, one on the inner part of each eyelid. It's a drug side effect, not aging, but TBH, that doesn't make me feel better about the spots. They are noticeable and ugly. I have one in my lashes too. I pull it out with tweezers.
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Post by MrsDepp on Aug 24, 2014 2:40:09 GMT
I have those little gray eyelash hairs, a few gray nostril hairs, 1 cheek hair that will grow to astonishing lengths and droopy cooch lips. I wish I was warned about the drooping. I didn't use them much younger. I was hoping to get in the mansion as an older bunny. That dream is now shot
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Post by k8smom on Aug 24, 2014 6:18:12 GMT
Oh for the love of all things holy, I am so glad I found this thread! I have the lady garden issue as well and thought it was only me, as I've never once heard this discussed in real life or online. Whew! Hair on my head started thinning about a decade ago (40) but I am the master at camouflage, I have the white prickly chin hairs that grow at the speed of light and can't be removed with electrolysis because they lack pigment... I am always plucking those! I have an age spot on my cheek that bugs the heck out of me and have inflamed hand joints from arthritis (my newest malady after the big 5-0.) On the upside, I've yet to get wrinkles, so there's that, and the dry skin bumps on my upper arms and thighs went away magically in my 30s. I am going through menopause now, just recently started the heat flashes but so far, so good.
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Post by gar on Aug 24, 2014 7:09:19 GMT
I have the white prickly chin hairs that grow at the speed of light and can't be removed with electrolysis because they lack pigment... I am always plucking those! Just as an aside - electrolysis doesn't need pigmentation to be successful. You may have meant laser treatment wouldn't work and that's true, but electrolysis cauterises the blood vessel that feeds the hair root so if you haven't tried that it might be worth it for you
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Post by miominmio on Aug 24, 2014 7:33:23 GMT
I think I'm going to buy new glasses! I haven't noticed any of these problems, and it makes me worried that I'm hairier than Chewbacca and everyone sees it, except me!
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Post by Why on Aug 24, 2014 8:06:46 GMT
I think I'm going to buy new glasses! I haven't noticed any of these problems, and it makes me worried that I'm hairier than Chewbacca and everyone sees it, except me! New glasses, a 10x magnifying mirror and sunlight. Enough to make you never leave the house again.
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