The eyebrow thing is different for women … well, for me, anyway. My brows stopped growing a few decades ago. The hair on my head is still growing fast, although thinning a bit, but I now have graying, wispy eyebrows. There is one silver lining, however … I haven’t had to shave my legs or underarms for years. There is one hair that needs plucking about once every few weeks, though — it’s on my chin.
I can still wait until my bangs start to fall over my eyes. I like to wear my hair longer because the brown on top covers most of the gray. When short, my hair looks like a badly matched brown wig on top of gray. :)
Gandalf’s eyebrows reportedly extended beyond the brim of his hat. If the hair on the sides of my head gets too long, it makes weird, scratchy sounds in my hearing aids.
Husband has his hair longish into a “queue” (pony tail at bottom of the back of his head which points down – not sticking out) for reenacting. I have mostly had long hair over my life. I tend to put my hair up in a plastic clip or a metal barrette (latter, again, for reenacting as hides under my cap easier than the plastic clip).
I have come to realize that long hair is easier to deal with than short hair. When either of us need a trim of the length of our hair I do it. For him he puts it in a rubber band for the queue and I clip it at the length he wants and then use a hair trimmer to clean off hair on his neck and such. For me I put my hair in a rubber band into a pony tail. I then flip the pony tail forward over my head and clip it to what I guess the length should be. Since I don’t wear my hair down if I have not cut it straight across or it is too short-long it does not matter as it is not noticeable when it is up in the clip or the barrette.
Zykoic 9 months ago
That and when the ear-hair drives you bonkers with the tickling.
PraiseofFolly 9 months ago
… when Animal Control stops him on the street as a possible unlicensed Yeti.
bobpickett1 9 months ago
I was thinking the same thing this morning.
juicebruce 9 months ago
Eyebrows … The last hair with color that still grows ;-)
Doug K 9 months ago
A nose and ear hair trimmer with an eyebrow comb trimmer attachment is really nice to have.
david_42 9 months ago
Another disqualification: there’s only one hair on each of my eyebrows that grows continuously.
ctolson 9 months ago
I swear my ear hair, nose hair and eye brows grow faster than the hair on my head.
maureenmck Premium Member 9 months ago
The eyebrow thing is different for women … well, for me, anyway. My brows stopped growing a few decades ago. The hair on my head is still growing fast, although thinning a bit, but I now have graying, wispy eyebrows. There is one silver lining, however … I haven’t had to shave my legs or underarms for years. There is one hair that needs plucking about once every few weeks, though — it’s on my chin.
ladykat 9 months ago
Three of the hairdressing salons I’ve used in the past have shut down in the past year. I guess I’ll never get a haircut again.
chief 9 months ago
As you get older hair starts growing where it shouldn’t and stops growing where it should.
mistercatworks 9 months ago
I can still wait until my bangs start to fall over my eyes. I like to wear my hair longer because the brown on top covers most of the gray. When short, my hair looks like a badly matched brown wig on top of gray. :)
SofaKing Premium Member 9 months ago
Exactly my benchmark.
PoodleGroomer 9 months ago
I don’t trim the eyebrows. I want to warn people that the crazy is not that deep.
jmcenanly 9 months ago
Peter Capaldi has turned that into his trademark
dbrucepm 9 months ago
cover your eyes with hair, long eyebrow hair
Billy Yank 9 months ago
Gandalf’s eyebrows reportedly extended beyond the brim of his hat. If the hair on the sides of my head gets too long, it makes weird, scratchy sounds in my hearing aids.
mafastore 9 months ago
Husband has his hair longish into a “queue” (pony tail at bottom of the back of his head which points down – not sticking out) for reenacting. I have mostly had long hair over my life. I tend to put my hair up in a plastic clip or a metal barrette (latter, again, for reenacting as hides under my cap easier than the plastic clip).
I have come to realize that long hair is easier to deal with than short hair. When either of us need a trim of the length of our hair I do it. For him he puts it in a rubber band for the queue and I clip it at the length he wants and then use a hair trimmer to clean off hair on his neck and such. For me I put my hair in a rubber band into a pony tail. I then flip the pony tail forward over my head and clip it to what I guess the length should be. Since I don’t wear my hair down if I have not cut it straight across or it is too short-long it does not matter as it is not noticeable when it is up in the clip or the barrette.
DebUSNRet 8 months ago
Reminds me of my Dad. Mom had to cut them down once in awhile.