A rather delicate question for all gentlemen of a certain age

hi.

I think you need a ear scissors or go to a beaty farm and they will help you.

Maria

.... and the first reply is from a lady !!!

A really good hairdresser will address the issue. They will also keep rogue eyebrows in check too !

A beauty farm may also advise a back, sac and crack wax...........

The Remington thingy cuts fine. Mine has just died after a several years service. Like most hair it appears once you start cutting it seems to come back quicker and thicker,not sure if that's true in reality.

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A beauty farm may also advise a back, sac and crack wax...........

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OOOchhhh!


Howard

Maria, you might be a very nice person but you are defintely not a gentleman...

Kevin, a tweezers is best ime!

I think hair appears to grow in thicker after shaving / cutting / waxing etc. as the ends are cut squarely, leaving the hair shaft a constant thickness. Normally hair would taper.....

No doubt there are more knowledgable to advise accordingly.........

I don't understand it - why does the hair on your head dissapear but then start to grow out of your ears, nose, eyebrows..........

Andy

I think it's one of the last Great Scandals that men know so little of the Second Puberty that awaits them in their fourth decade. All sorts of hormonal changes and weird stuff begins to happen - but are we warned? Are we buggery.

Parents, usually so keen to interfere in sons' lives, could for once be of great help and leave discreet pamphlets lying around or something, but by this time they are usually too busy ogling Alan Tichmarsh and Multiyork furniture to give any sensible support.

Kevin - ear hair is just the start. There's back hair, nose hair, eyebrows you can plait and chest hair that is worth saving if you have any interest whatever in upholstery.

The Remington jobs do work, but be warned that there is something quite strange about lobe stubble. Dealing with the rest of the hair is a matter of technique, and the eyebrow is a very unforgiving medium [People do notice when things go wrong]. Waxing is best for the back, if you can stand it.

On the positive side, I found that my muscle tone greatly improved in my 40's, I FINALLY stopped getting spots, and my beard [no doubt encouraged by the inroads that hair was making elsewhere on my body] began to grow evenly, and not get irritated by shaving.

You're in your prime, make the most of it.


throb

Yes, back hair is becoming a problem for me, and it seems to be the type of hirsuiteness that women (don't know about men) find most objectionable.

I've heard laser treatment is the best way to shift it - waxing can apparently cause ingrowing hair, which sounds extremely painful (imagine if you got that after your back sac 'n' crack wax)

Kevin (BBC Radio 4: Question Time)

I don't think that anyone, whatever their sex or orientation, is wildly keen on back hair. As Ms Austen would have it, it seems to be a truth universally acknowledged; although I suppose that love mitigates the horror to a certain extent.

Even this proposed dating agency:

http://www.luna.co.uk/~charles/bakhair2.htm

didn't come to anything, and this site:

http://www.hairyback.com/

which should be hairy back central seems a bit sad and neglected.

Given the number of hairs on a hairy male back, laser treatments seem to be just a licence to print money. Waxing is cheaper, and hair gives up and grows through in a very fine and incipid form after a few goes. Never heard of any ingrowing hair problems myself.

fluffy throb

Just for clarification, is this nose hair on the inside or out?

Joe, who turns the big four-oh in less than two months and is beginning to worry about the inevitable decline

Inside. Although at around 43, I did have one stray hair that came quite out of nowhwere from the side of my nose on the outside!!!!!! Totally vile, and a tweezers job. Went away after two goes, thank God.

throb

There is NO excuse for nose hair! Whatever it takes to get rid of it, get rid of it. Ear hair is marginally less gross, but the same rules apply.

Electric trimmers are the easy, pain-free method of choice at Casa Del Bhoyo.

Davie

Agree Bhoyo. I just yank it out. Makes yer eyes water but job done.

Cheers

Harry

Bhoyo,why do you want painfree? Tweezers is the way to go, no pain no gain

You youngsters should get this under control right away. Just wait until you get to the big 60.

Unlike normal hair, plucking with tweezers is not only masochistic but allows the garden to become more fruitfull.

Hair clippers with a set of differnt heads for various locations become a fact of life. I grew a beard some long time ago but alas you still have to wage the war else you face would just dissappear and half the beer would be wasted.



"Just trying to make a NAIM for myself"

We have a friend who has just started a beauty therapy course and is on the lookout for victims... er... models to practice on.

She asked me if I wanted my back waxed, I politely refused. As for sac and crack she was too polite to even ask. (Mrs S has read this and just said that she likes my back hairy).

Farnborough Tech has three classes of nice young ladies all looking for people to practice on. If you want some free treatment try your local tech college.

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Originally posted by AndyFelin:
I don't understand it - why does the hair on your head dissapear but then start to grow out of your ears, nose, eyebrows..........

Andy

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It's a simple answer......... GRAVITY

Looking back, it wasn't Maria that said that.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by bjorne:
but you are defintely not a gentleman...

Sorry I am not a gentleman!!!!!

Maria

Hi kevin.

This my advise, go to a good hairdresser or a good beauty specialist, they will help you.
Let me know when it did work, when not i will look and help you.
Maybe we all can solve this problem.

Maria

Maria:

It's so refreshing to have a female voice in this testosterone-heavy forum. Don't let us scare you off too soon.

Regards,
Davie

While I maintain that eyebrows give mature gentlemen an air of authority and wisdom. My wife hates the eight-ply cream pasta with a veangance.

On my visits to the unisex hairdressers in the village the young lady simply lays a comb through my eyebrows. Then just snips them off flat where they stick out! Without as much as a 'by your leave'! Her look of disdain is probably worth the asking price.

My beard is getting ever shorter with age. I use one of those cheap and cheerful electric razors with four precision depthing combs these days.

I find a full beard makes me look like one of those stiff (stuffed?) old portrait photographs from the early 19th century that you see in nice oak frames in sad secondhand shops!

The salt and pepper look came late and is taking an extended rest in the midst of change.

Thanks to an unsatisfactory combination of hair in assorted places. My passport photo makes me look like an exteremely dangerous titled refugee from somewhere on the borders of Transylvania!

My bank card photo made me look like an eternally surprised TinTin having a bad hair day. Now they've gone over to chip cards I am at least spared that final embarrassment. Thank goodness for high technology!

Nime

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bhoyo:


It's so refreshing to have a female voice in this testosterone-heavy forum. Don't let us scare you off too soon.


Hi,
Thank you Davie,
But i am not scared from man.
I am planning to stay here.

Maria

Hi, Kevin..

How is it with the probleem, i hope you did solve it.

Maria

Why thank you for your concern...

I bought one of those little Remington ear trimmer tthinngs, it seems to work quite well. The old back shagpile will have to wait, I think, as I don't have the money for those kind of extravagances...

Kevin