Or is it more of a gradual descent over a period of time?

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Not sure, but goddamn I could have done with some warning that I’d need to start shaving my ears when I turned 30.

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My nose has become a thing…

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Ear hair is when I knew I was officially old.

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No major ear hair here, but every once in a while a single follicle somewhere on one earlobe or the other decides to vomit out a 15mm hair in like a day and a half (or so it feels)

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18 points

This happens to my chin (I’m a lady).

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Same here. It’s also thick as a beard hair. Used to be once every few months. Now it’s several a week. Annoying as fuck.

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Do you get hairy nostrils? Like one or two really long nose hairs that need to be clipped?

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“clipped” - you just reminded me of that episode of House, where the clinic patient (tw: gross) has been using his toenail clippers to trim his nose hair, and he developed a fungus.

PSA - Buy a trimmer specific for that purpose.

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14 points

This is why I read Lemmy: valuable life lessons.

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2 points

And clean it!

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4 points

Not the nose, but the wolf ears are awful.

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I started to get occasional gray nostril hairs. It’s annoying because they are super noticable but also in there far enough like a normal hair that I can’t just yank it!

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5 points

nose trimmer

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If I yank em out, I sometimes get some sort of weird ingrown nose hair. It’s painful for a few days. Now I’m nose hair trimmers so the way.

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8 points

I know, right?? Ear hair just gets super aggressive one day in your 30s.

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Wait what… now I’m gonna be paranoid and check my ears in the mirror every day

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5 points

You’re in for a treat!

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2 points

Spoiler:

You’ll get to have a “the calls are coming from inside the house” situation when something keeps “crawling” on your ear…

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You see, what’s really happening is that the hair-line gets lowered.

It’s like a hat with no top that you pull a bit down your head. So ears will get covered, nose hair will get head-hair length. You’ll even grow hair high on your cheek like over the cheekbones just under the eyes.

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Basically they… fall out from the head and wherever they land that’s their new place?

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Yepp- some are lucky and end up with medium-long chest hair with pony tail on their backs, and some of us end up with hairy ears

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I’m 59 and I’ve worn briefs my entire life. My wife calls my balls “high and tight”.

Your mileage may vary.

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proof?

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37 and they sag a little, but they can also go all brain mode randomly too 🤷‍♀️

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Just to add to the choir. Noticeable in 30s, worse in 40s…

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Betty Swollocks

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Let me save you some time. It all happens way quicker and way younger than you expected.

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