Occasional Mutant Facial Hair?

[Riyame]

For your viewing pleasure... a 'normal' on the left, and my 2 types of mutant. Hard to tell with white background, but the mutants never have the white root sheath that the normal has

I have had the same. Rarely on my face I get very thick hairs. They slide out easily and are soft and rubbery in texture. I can usually squish them between the flats of my finger nails.

Body hair I can commonly get several growing out of the exact same spot but only when they get ingrown do they seem to all merge into a single "hair".

 

[Brenton1979]

This in fact describes me perfectly.

Not so rare it seems.

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[Wiley]

Does anyone recommend something non-hardware but rather software that could help with this problem? I have a plethora of them on my face. I pluck from time to time but usually just shave daily. Any proven solutions?

 

[Brenton1979]

Does anyone recommend something non-hardware but rather software that could help with this problem? I have a plethora of them on my face. I pluck from time to time but usually just shave daily. Any proven solutions?

Rooted or rootless?

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[Wiley]

Rooted or rootless?

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Usually rootless
Mostly 2 hairs growing out of same follicle. I pluck one and the other one is still in there.

They like to curl as well

I also get the big mutant that has a root but I guess I’m referring to the rootless being more problematic for me.

 

[Brenton1979]

Usually rootless
Mostly 2 hairs growing out of same follicle. I pluck one and the other one is still in there.

They like to curl as well

I also get the big mutant that has a root but I guess I’m referring to the rootless being more problematic for me.

Well, I'm not sure about everyone else but I've been using bump stopper 2, kiels razor burn relief and every once in a while tendskin. I've tried everything and I find that these three products along with a good razor (Rockwell 6s) and blade (gsb) have helped but not completely eradicated the mutant hairs. The absolute worse thing I tried for my ingrown and mutant hairs were electric shavers.

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[Porgy Tirebiter]

Reading this thread reminds me of those horrific YouTube pimple popping videos...don’t watch them...seriously, don’t even think about it!
In my electric and cart days I’d have the odd steel wool wire come poking out the side of my neck. I don’t recall ever plucking them but would just shave over them. Since switching to proper wetshaving I haven’t had a recurrence.
Some twenty five years ago I had this itch on my back at the base of my hairy shoulder blade that I couldn’t scratch at without disclocating my elbow. After months of me rubbing my back up against tree trunks, stucco walls, and cheese graters, my wife checked it out and told me I should have it properly looked at. A week later I’m face down on an examination table at the hospital feeling a tugging sensation on my back as a doctor is using what looked like needle nose pliers to remove what I had been told was a sebaceous cyst caused by clumped up hairs. Once I was stitched up the doctor showed me a nasty chunk of what looked like squished up melted wax. Gross.
Several days later I got a phone call from the doctor’s office telling me the clump was found to be benign.
Wait...”benign”? As in tumours and cancers? And then I try to remember which cancer is the good one? Benign or malignant?
The person on the other end of the call, sensing panic and confusion on my part assured me that yes it was a sebaceous cyst, no it’s not a tumour* and it’s not cancerous and yes they run tests on pretty much everything they yank out of one’s body. She might as well have said, “Yes we also like to make these phone calls to freak out idiots like you...”

*Read that not a tumour bit again, and you hear Ahhnold’s voice, right?

 

[Helloeveryone]

Every now and then I notice that some of my razor bumps are not just due to my normal curly hair that curled back in, but also from these "mutant" hairs that seem about 2-3 times as thick as normal hair. It's almost as if some of my hair follicles occasionally have Siamese twins. I was wondering if anyone else (or perhaps everyone else) has the same issue. It seems these big-little guys are that much tougher for my blade to work through, though using a sharp blade in a slant-bar seems to help.
Thanks!

Hello. I found this thread by googling this little understood phenomena. I noticed I had some thick hairs in my facial hair area once in a blue moon.

Interested and with tools at my disposal I looked into it. I used a specialist magnifying device used for print work. I noticed it didn’t look like a hair under these conditions. It didn’t have a root, nor any other hair identifying features. Using a scalpel I sliced into it and noticed no shaft.

A while passed before I had another. This time I used a 600x microscope to investigate. I compared to a regular facial hair. It wasn’t one in any shape or form. Yet they look identical without visual aides. The only different features being theyre super easy to pluck out presenting no “catch”. They just slide out.

I soon discovered they were in fact a form of subcutaneous filament. Likely caused by debris filling up within an old hair shaft or sweat channel to the surface of the skin.

So that’s what those things are. Should you ever noticed a thick hair, but that it’s very short/close to the surface of the skin, plucks out with ease … look closely at it with any magnifying tool you have. Notice it doesn’t have a shaft, a bulb, but that it’s 3 times thicker than a hair. It’s just a blackhead effectively, skin debris.

I wish my body made more of them. They’re incredibly interesting I find!

** these are not multiple hairs growing out of a single follicle! That is a separate phenomena. Both exist. What these things are aren’t standard subcutaneous filaments, as these project outwards like a hair would. Personally I’m all for calling them something like that ‘projected subcutaneous filaments’. For funsies I also investigated a blackhead on my microscope and they are composed of the same stuff/same structure. For any other fellow scientists among us I used 600 and 1200 magnification. Due to the size of these any more magnification were moot**

 

[dieselfuel79]

Reading this thread reminds me of those horrific YouTube pimple popping videos...don’t watch them...seriously, don’t even think about it!

...A week later I’m face down on an examination table at the hospital feeling a tugging sensation on my back as a doctor is using what looked like needle nose pliers to remove what I had been told was a sebaceous cyst caused by clumped up hairs. Once I was stitched up the doctor showed me a nasty chunk of what looked like squished up melted wax. Gross.

I was waiting for “....and I posted it on YouTube anyways, and you can see it here.” [emoji16]

Glad the cyst was nothing more serious.

Brad.

 

[macduff67]

I once had a shaft of "boar bristle" among the normal hairs on the back of my forearm. So, it must have really been a subcutaneous filament.

What explains the odd, horrifyingly-long ear hair?

 

[Gearhog]

I thought I was the only one who had this and I didn't think I would find anything on Google about this but I found this thread.

In my beard, I have two thicker-than-normal hair follicles, one on each side of my chin. This led me to believe maybe it was natural to have two huge whiskers. Mine didn't look like multiple hairs but just one hair that was much thicker than the others.

It's almost a fetish now to feel around the beard searching for those hairs just so I can pull them out since those hairs in particular do not hurt when pulled. Also, I play around with them for a few minutes, bend them around and stuff because it's kind of neat.

One thing I noticed is that those mutant hairs can be flattened, as if the hair folical is hollow or something, which makes it even more interesting.

This is a curious find that definitely needs to be explored more. I would really like to get to the bottom of it.

I just made an account to reply to this. I'm female so no beard shaving (if only.... Maybe one day I'll evolve to a bearded lady)... But let me rub some girl all over this thread
I gave birth to my daughter ten months ago (as of today, actually) and soon after I noticed this weird spot on my outer arm. Initially I thought it was a tiny scab from scratching a bump off or something. Regardless, I kept messing with it. It became obsessive. Then I finally noticed there was something inside this spot... Like an ingrown hair but it was nothing like ingrown hairs I've had in the past. Under further investigation I noticed it was very large/thick and white. I have white body hair but this was a different kind of white... I can't even explain it. It also looked flat. And honestly like a piece of plastic sticking out of my arm. When I'd mess with it (even a little) I also noticed that my entire arm would hurt - specifically deep in my bone. I mean... That's not super unusual I guess since I'm ridiculously thin (5'6" 98lbs) but man... My bones would ache.
I finally managed to get it out with help from two more people. I dropped it, of course... But before I did I got a decent look at it and this thing was LONG and not the same size all the way down. It would get wider in some spots and then thinner. It looked like a bone shard... Not even kidding. I'm pretty sure it broke though (so I didn't get the root).
Now it's back again. Before messing with it I got a good look at it (while still in my arm) and noticed it wasn't flat.... Until I tried to use tweezers to yank it out. So, like you, this mutant hair of mine seems hollow or something. So weird.

I can't get this beast out of my arm and it hurts continuously.... Deeeeeep within my arm.

But someone else's reply gave me an idea: Definitely going to get my needle nose pliers to rip that sucker out by the root. Tweezers can't get a good enough hold on it (even the fancy ones I have with ridges).

Glad other people have weird hairs like this. I mean, I assume other women do too... But I know I have more testosterone than most women, even though I'm a petite, frail looking model. I use men's razers to shave because women's are seriously awful & don't give a clean enough shave. Also cost way more - which is ridiculous considering they are made of less material and, again, don't do a good enough job.

But WHAT are these things?! I don't think mine had multiple hairs but I've actually had those before. They're usually ingrown & painful... But ripping them out is so satisfying and such a huge relief.

 

[Gearhog]

Hello. I found this thread by googling this little understood phenomena. I noticed I had some thick hairs in my facial hair area once in a blue moon.

Interested and with tools at my disposal I looked into it. I used a specialist magnifying device used for print work. I noticed it didn’t look like a hair under these conditions. It didn’t have a root, nor any other hair identifying features. Using a scalpel I sliced into it and noticed no shaft.

A while passed before I had another. This time I used a 600x microscope to investigate. I compared to a regular facial hair. It wasn’t one in any shape or form. Yet they look identical without visual aides. The only different features being theyre super easy to pluck out presenting no “catch”. They just slide out.

I soon discovered they were in fact a form of subcutaneous filament. Likely caused by debris filling up within an old hair shaft or sweat channel to the surface of the skin.

So that’s what those things are. Should you ever noticed a thick hair, but that it’s very short/close to the surface of the skin, plucks out with ease … look closely at it with any magnifying tool you have. Notice it doesn’t have a shaft, a bulb, but that it’s 3 times thicker than a hair. It’s just a blackhead effectively, skin debris.

I wish my body made more of them. They’re incredibly interesting I find!

** these are not multiple hairs growing out of a single follicle! That is a separate phenomena. Both exist. What these things are aren’t standard subcutaneous filaments, as these project outwards like a hair would. Personally I’m all for calling them something like that ‘projected subcutaneous filaments’. For funsies I also investigated a blackhead on my microscope and they are composed of the same stuff/same structure. For any other fellow scientists among us I used 600 and 1200 magnification. Due to the size of these any more magnification were moot**

Also... This is amazing. Thank you for this! Our bodies are disgustingly fascinating. I've never actually had one of these and assume mine isn't this, as it feels like it's attached at the bone... But it's awesome how you went all out to investigate. We'd get along

 

[Sinnbad11]

I believe this is called Pili Multigemini when it's multiple hairs coming from a single follicle. About 10% of my facial hair grows in in this way. Most of it along my jawline, mine comes back no matter what and I'm fairly sure it's the reason I'm more prone to ingrown hairs than most.
Edit: I edited this to say 10% I originally said 20% and I think that was a bit dramatic.

 

[SterFry]

Yeah, I grow fused facial hair from time to time

 

[BGO37]

I have heard that this is more common than expected. Since we dont check our head hair like we do our face it probably happens all the time up there. I get these PM's all the time around my chin area. I was under the impression it was from touching my face a lot when I had a beard but it still happens after I have started shaving. I guess it could be from face masks and stuff.

@Gearhog I would love to see pictures. Professional curiosity

 

[BGO37]

Fun fact. I actually found this forum by searching about Pili Multigemini. Found this wonderful thread. Problem area - at 50x | Badger & Blade (badgerandblade.com)

 

[mars]

I've had these before and they are fascinating. But they are nothing like what @Gearhog describes above. Painful all the way to the bone? I'd probably get that checked out.

 

[KJI]

Get these often...3-6 super thick hairs (sometimes oily hairs) coming out of one follicle...usually happens around my jaw line or underneath my chin...the wife usually gets to work with a pair of tweezers. Not sure the cause of these..

FYI i shave daily..