| Now that I am "mature", I can laugh at the | | | | have to go out in public for a couple of hours, it is |
| phenomenon that drove me nuts a couple decades | | | | okay to ding that hair off with a razor, but don't plan |
| ago. What is it about our hormones or DNA or | | | | on shaving as a perpetual solution. |
| whatever that makes a hair grow out of our face, | | | | Frequently, these 'wild hairs' feel different, more |
| usually our chin, OVER NIGHT!! And frequently of a | | | | coarse, when I run my hand over my chin. |
| dark color that has absolutely nothing to do with my | | | | Putting my hand on my face is something I don't like |
| complexion. Or a stiff, white little thorn! I think the | | | | to do. Fingertips around the eyes lead to all sorts of |
| ease of stress began when my daughters found their | | | | problems. Fingertips on an itchy eye get cold germs |
| first 'wild hairs' and we could laugh together. I am the | | | | moved on for a chance to get into my mouth. I |
| first generation hairy person on the maternal side of | | | | seldom put my fingers in my mouth since infancy, but |
| my family; thank goodness for the company of | | | | I do put fingers on those cookies and chips. You get |
| fuzzy daughters. My mother and grandmother don't | | | | the picture. |
| know me. I know of a hairy aunty on the other side; | | | | Can't rub my eyes any more, like a little child |
| but that is another post. I have read that while the | | | | awakening. That is so cute in kids, but it makes |
| 'wild hair' phenomenon is normal, it is also hereditary. | | | | bruises on mature eyelids! Well, I ramble. Where was |
| Even with maturity, it is kind of hard to feel assured | | | | I? |
| of beauty success when I find the 'wild hair', doesn't | | | | Brushing fingers softly over and around my chin; |
| matter if I am a brave baby boomer woman. Even if | | | | finding something that doesn't feel quite like ME! More |
| I have achieved feminist goals and been an amazing | | | | like someone else , from another planet! Sometimes I |
| boomer woman. That darn hair is just a deflating | | | | can get ahold of that hair and snap it out by the |
| experience. | | | | roots without going for a tweezer. Believe me, if a |
| At the sight of it, my first thought is, OMG, how long | | | | tweezer isn't handy, I will try the snap maneuver till I |
| has that been there. It ranks with leaving a smudge | | | | succeed! There aren't many days when a tweezer |
| of mud on my face or something! Sort of unkempt | | | | isn't handy; I have learned to keep one in my purse |
| or unwashed! One comfort is that a hair of this | | | | and near the bathroom mirror. Of course, if you see |
| magnitude is not difficult to get ahold of with a | | | | the tweezer in my purse, I will tell you that it is there |
| tweezer -- There; be gone!! | | | | in case you, my darling, get a little splinter. Or, if you |
| My biggest warning that has a bigger place in a | | | | laugh at the hair on my chin and I have to pinch you! |
| future post is this: Do Not Shave these little babies! | | | | Sometimes, even a baby boomer woman will not |
| That will lead to a frightful stubble. Well, if you cannot | | | | behave as mature as her skin, hair and hands indicate |
| find a good tweezer and you cannot stand it and | | | | she is capable of acting. |
