Had to laugh; I noticed this change in hair growth over the years and seriously looked at myself one morning. Honestly had to admit that while I believe the underarm and leg hair is just not what it used to be, neither is my eyesight! I think I'm shaving in the shower just out of habit.

Well, since I am the one who started this, I had better reveal the fact that baldness has indeed staked its claim, albeit not on my head. Not much hair left anywhere else now. Haven't shaved or waxed anything in more than twenty years. (Whis is just as well, as the skin on my legs is so thin nowadays that even the thought of a razor or a waxing would set it bleeding.) Yet my bearded, furry-all-over partner who used to resemble a reddish-brown hearthrug, has simply become a gray hearthrug.
By the time my Mother was 89, the hair on her head was a beautiful white but she had lost every single body hair she'd ever owned. I guess that made her fashionable for once in her life, since totally waxing one's pubes is now trendy, apparently. Which means I, too, am getting trendier by the minute.

I shudder to admit that I am following in your footsteps, Marian.

I got my first chinny chin chin hair in my 30s and a girl in the 4-H group I was leading asked me about it. I found them easy to remove over the years and if I stroke my chin, I'd just feel one there and pull it out with my fingers-- whenever I'd remember. Other facial hair is about the same along I did have a stray near my lips the other day that required tweezers. I doubt anybody but me would have seen it.

For body hair, mine was always very light, barely noticeable and has stayed about the same with minor change. I think the pubic hair is thinned and there are a few white ones down there but I sure don't pluck them.

I do pluck the stray whites that show up in my eyebrows. That's what made me wonder whether people eventually get all white eyebrows. Mine have been only a few and easily removed as I don't want to have to color brows. Those are usually longer than the usual brow hair also which is another reason to pull them out.

Oh, I'll join in on this sensitive subject.

Men: Mine reports that his mother had Alopecia, and when he was a kid she wore a wig for many years. When I knew her, she had very thin, very receded hair. He now thinks that Alopecia is genetic. He's had a beard since the army years......and ended up shaving it off because of Alopecia. Now he is getting giant holes in his head hair.

Me: At almost 70, I have lost my eyebrows....as my mother did, have skimpy underarm and leg hair, receding but brownish head hair, but white and skimpy pubic hair. Then again, there's that mustache. I pluck.

I can't believe that my story is on the same page as chin and pubic hair...you gotta love it and it so well goes with my life. I would expect nothing better to have fame among the hairs...oh my God!!! Thanks Ronni - I can't stop laughing...

I share with you the woes of hair loss and the growth in unwanted areas. The chin area is sometimes a challenge to grasp but I have scissor shape tweezers so I just poke around until I grasp it.

The eyebrows are a real problem. It is true that the white/gray grow longer and coarser. I find when I tweeze - I am creating space because of the length of these brow strands. So, the most expedient solution is bangs. Yes bangs, forgiving and hiding and even these are almost too thin to "hide" very well.

Mammals have fur -- get used to it. ;^)

Shaving it off underarms and legs is a waste of time and effort.

And waxing? Good god, no. Way too painful.

I do tweeze the chin hairs. Mostly because I have a habit of stroking my chin at times and they bother me, and I'll sit and play with them if I don't yank them out. ;^)

When I was young, I had noticeably long hair on my arms. My mother thought that it was very "unladylike," so she would have me hold each arm over a low fire on the stove and singe the tips. She did the same thing with the fresh chickens she bought. My singed hair smelled just like the singed pinfeathers. It was amazing that I never burned myself.

These days, the hair on my arms seems to be dissolving like the hair everywhere else. I don't shave my legs all winter because I live in jeans. And it doesn't take much to shave off what's left in the summer.

My chin hairs bother me, and it seems that, no matter how hard I look, I never see them until I get into my car and look in the mirror. I keep a pair of tweezers in my car.

I miss my eyelashes and eyebrows as well, but I'm not adverse to using a little makeup if I'm going out. I'm still vain.

I had "five o'clock shadow" on my legs and lots of armpit and public hair when I was young. My head hair was thick and straight. Now the body hair is much lighter and sparser. My head hair is not as thick as it was; it has turned curly and is still dark.
But do I have chin hairs. And a mustache. And nose hairs! Have to be after them all the time.
It's just hair, folks.

My mother, who died young, had this theory that if you plucked or shaved, five fresh hairs grew to replace the one that had vanished.
I've always believed this and it was validated one day about 8 years ago when I had my eyebrows plucked for the first time and low and behold ever since then my eyebrows grew this stiff snow-fence that I keep hacking with a scissors.
and speaking of scissors I use them on my chin, with a magnifying glass and glasses. I'm always amazed that when I seek and destroy these bandits they are like an inch long which means I've been running around with them bristling at all and sundry for a while.
Also in the dim history of time they shaved my pubes off for first baby delivery and they never grew back like before, always this sparse soft growth now nearly vanished completely.
And I am so so so glad I missed out on the age of pubic grooming and sculpting. And yeah the men do it too.
I shave pits and legs about once a month, mainly because they get itchy and I don't want to add incessant public scratching to the long list of my elder aberrations.

My hair is white and thinning on my head. I have white hairs on my chin which I shave. My pubic region has been bald for years and I have very little on my legs and armpits. The peculiar thing is I still have dark brown eyebrows that seem to be as thick as ever.
My grandmother who went gray in her 20's like I did still had dark eyebrows in her 80's.

I'm younger than most of you, 47, but battle a few amazingly strong and stubborn chin hairs.

Shaving, except for under the armpits makes me angry. I do it now and then, and feel stupid every single time, especially if I get one of those fun razor nicks that bleed all over my bathroom.

My head still produces a very thick lot of dark blonde hair and I have yet to see a gray one. I do think about Ronni's post about coloring gray...(Its why I come here, preparation HA )
I don't think I like the idea of the chemicals or expense.

Bring on the gray, I say. I care more whether I can touch my toes or hop on a horse bareback. (I can still manage those!)

Pubic hair - I haven't noticed that area in 35 years....the rest of the hair on my body is also kind of disappearing and the hair on my head is nice and short since it was all buzzed off and in the growing back seems "a bit" thicker or is it my imagination....Syd is growing his bald hair long in the back so he can push it up and cover the top of his head - tee hee tee hee...no he is waiting for spring. Ronni this is too funny a post...your gang rocks!!!

By the way, on Dr. Phil the other day he said 70% of men would rather amputate a body part than go bald!! WOW!

Well, I'm only 4 years late answering...but, I guess you know how I got here...yep, a google search..because...I've noticed all my hair is slowly going AWOL...except those "stray eyebrows" that now live on my chin...I remember once in my twenties, a fellow once told me he'd "NEVER seen a woman THAT hairy" down there...I was embarrassed every time I took off my clothing...(and it would grow to 6-7 inches in length!!) now, what little is left, is barely 2 inches long...and half white...(if it had only done so 30 years ago, it would have saved me a great deal of embarrassment!!). My son informs me that the men his age do "MANscaping", because, he says, "if you mow the lawn, the tree looks bigger!" Well, ok...if genetics is true, he won't be MANscaping in 25 years...

56 still real hairy legs. Underarms not so much. Head still thick but graying. Pubic thinning, lost curl (?) & graying.

Birds of a feather flock together. Except there’s nothing feather-like about these suckers on my chin! It is getting harder to see them, too. All nine pairs of tweezers can’t be belly-up. Either hair is sliding from tweezers or else I’m breaking it off at surface. Hmmm..how to position face in natural sunlight (what, go OUTSIDE like this?) and get the stray neck hairs? Recently tried spa waxing. Really the gal just tweezed the coarse hairs and waxed the peach fuzz. Face smooth as baby’s butt for about a week before the tough ones sprouted up again. Next stop: threading. Until then I’m a Chia Pet.