The ear hair
Is getting ridiculous.
I have no specific desire to look like Andy Rooney by the time I’m 60, and I’m damned if I’m gonna cut them, the resulting stiff little bristles are painful.
No, they need yanking. I should see if there’s still someone making the Epilady. I could remarket as the Earpalady.
Nah, that sounds like some kind of heimlich manouvre. “Why are you earping a lady?”
They make that “nono” thing too, for women’s legs. They don’t show how it works, really, but it looks like it uses radiation to kill the hair follicles. Maybe if I just stood realy close to the smoke detector?
All I know is, it’s getting out of hand. And it isn’t even hair inside the ear canal, it’s the shit on the edges, the stuff that looks like a wolf’s hair, black tipped with silver in the middle and amber at the follicle. Wirey, annoying shit.
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The woman goes after mine with some kind of little buzzy device. That would be fine, but for the cackles of evil glee as she does it.
The joys of old age, hair falls out where you want it and grows where you don’t.
Apparently you can have ear hair removed by laser, which is permanent. More costly than trimming or plucking, but once done, it’s done.
Do they use sharks?
Embrace the suck.
Ain’t no way somebody’s gonna pluck ALL that hair out of my ears.
I’ve thought about letting it grow and making dreadlocks out of it, or perhaps weaving colorful little beads in it like the moms of little black girls do.
But until I get that crazy, I trim mine, or I get my barber to trim it as part of my haircut.
MC
About the laser hair removal; as I understand it the existing hair follicles (including the root) are removed completely, but if you are genetically inclined to grow hair in a given portion of your anatomy you will remain so genetically inclined after the procedure. The hair can be removed, but new hair will eventually grow there again someday.
Not specific to ears, but…
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=A0LEVi8negRVSLUA0YYPxQt.?qid=20140121163316AA1I0K1
Fill in the blanks on your personal cost/benefit matrix and proceed appropriately.
Agree with Mostly Cajun… I didn’t know about the laser gig… sigh
Soldering iron.
But it’ll grow back eventually.
I do have the big Weller pistol grip soldering gun, i bet that would work a treat.
Flick a Bic, quick.
Oster 76, #2 on the vandyke and eyebrows (they get wolfmanish if I don’t trim them), #1 up top, #000 on the sides and back, and #00000 on the cheeks and earlobes (if I haven’t got them with the safety razor already).
I think my nose and ear hair are in awe of my beard at the moment.
“The joys of old age, hair falls out where you want it and grows where you don’t.”
I feel your pain.
Seems as I’m getting older I’m saying to my barber “Trim a little off the top and thin out the eyebrows and ears jungles…
Yeah, laser will help keep unwanted hair in check for the most part.
Hair follicles that have been subjected to laser DO have some regrowth of hair but what comes back is much less and finer in texture than what has gone before. You just keep having laser treatments every couple of months until it gets to a point where you have zapped the follicles so much/so hard that they more or less give up. After that it’s maybe some touchup every six months or so.
You may still have a bit of plucking to do, but not on the scale you’re having to handle now.
Based on price quotes I’ve seen for this work, I would expect to pay $75-$100 per treatment. If you book a set of sessions at the same time they are often discounted, sometimes as much as 50%; ask around. They also really really like cash and will often give you a discount just for that. Ask ’em! But probably not covered by your insurance, though, dammit.
On the pain scale, it’s much less than the other forms of epilation — plucking or waxing or electrolysis, all of which can be incredibly painful. It’s been compared to having a rubber band snapped against your skin. Believe me when I tell you that’s a picnic in the park compared to even the most basic eyebrow waxing.
Check it out. Talk to a real doctor about this, not just someone with a storefront laser who also does mani-pedis. A technician who works under the direction of a doctor is probably sufficient but check they out first. The treatment should take about five minutes per session.
They can also do unruly nose hair as well, cure monobrows too.
It’s not just about vanity — those are the hairs that tend to get clogged pores/infections, which are even more awful than having laser treatments.
This is dark hair, right? Laser’s not much good on gray hair/white hair. So it sounds like it’s black but going gray so you should see about this before it goes all gray. Beat it down to something you can handle while you still can.
Jenny