What did I pull out of my face?

northernpower

A few weeks back sitting in class, caressing my stubble i ran my finger over something that felt like a splinter sticking out of my chin, when i got to the bathroom I saw what looked like a VERY coarse black hair, fair enough...

..so i couldn't stop fingering it all day cause it was really pointy and thick, so when I got home I had a better look, took out a pair of tweezers and pulled it out (it came out surprisingly easy, not like plucking a hair) so there was this thick black thing, maybe just over half a centimeter long ( not overly long admittedly but still long and far too thick and strong for a chin hair) and I poked at it and studied it and couldn't work out what it was.

Fast forward to today and on the otherside I noticed another very coarse looking hair, this one was white (yes i'm gettin on) and same again I pulled it out fairly easily, but whats weird about this is that it looks like a bit of string, not as coarse as the first one, but definately made up of individual strands???

So any suggestions? my face isn't anyway weird or gross by the way.

chin_grin

northernpower wrote: »

A few weeks back sitting in class, caressing my stubble i ran my finger over something that felt like a splinter sticking out of my chin, when i got to the bathroom I saw what looked like a VERY coarse black hair, fair enough...

..so i couldn't stop fingering it all day cause it was really pointy and thick, so when I got home I had a better look, took out a pair of tweezers and pulled it out (it came out surprisingly easy, not like plucking a hair) so there was this thick black thing, maybe just over half a centimeter long ( not overly long admittedly but still long and far too thick and strong for a chin hair) and I poked at it and studied it and couldn't work out what it was.

Fast forward to today and on the otherside I noticed another very coarse looking hair, this one was white (yes i'm gettin on) and same again I pulled it out fairly easily, but whats weird about this is that it looks like a bit of string, not as coarse as the first one, but definately made up of individual strands???

So any suggestions? my face isn't anyway weird or gross by the way.

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Johnny Foreigner

northernpower wrote: »

A few weeks back sitting in class, caressing my stubble i ran my finger over something that felt like a splinter sticking out of my chin, when i got to the bathroom I saw what looked like a VERY coarse black hair, fair enough...

..so i couldn't stop fingering it all day cause it was really pointy and thick, so when I got home I had a better look, took out a pair of tweezers and pulled it out (it came out surprisingly easy, not like plucking a hair) so there was this thick black thing, maybe just over half a centimeter long ( not overly long admittedly but still long and far too thick and strong for a chin hair) and I poked at it and studied it and couldn't work out what it was.

Fast forward to today and on the otherside I noticed another very coarse looking hair, this one was white (yes i'm gettin on) and same again I pulled it out fairly easily, but whats weird about this is that it looks like a bit of string, not as coarse as the first one, but definately made up of individual strands???

So any suggestions? my face isn't anyway weird or gross by the way.

Sebum in a blocked pore.
You pulled out a sebaceous cyst.

PinkFly

It's obviously gross and weird if there is back and White strings hanging out of it?!?!

catthinkin

Thanks for letting us know but maybe you should go to the dr.

squod

<Insert ''the fly'' clip here>

stupidusername

male or female?

The King of Moo

I think someone's growing their first moustache!

Bless.

LH Pathe

twas a Growth. The same one you pull out to smear the blood of all over your cell

earpiece

Ohhhhhh, sounds like stage seven. St. Clabberts for you.

storker

That sounds like what they call an ingrown hair and I think it's caused by bad shaving technique, although I can't remember the details.

A sebaceous cyst is bigger, I think. I had to have surgery to remove one of those last year.

Stork

Abi

Would you be so kind as to post up some pictures? I'm afraid we cannot make an accurate diagnosis without them.


*clasps hands together*


/looks over glasses

DazMarz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flGCik0MMKo

You're turning into BrundleFly... not human... be afraid, be very afraid!

stoneill

Earwig eggs - that's what it was.

starbelgrade

It was probably the start of Face AIDS.

Chuck Stone

POGTFO.

maybe not actually..

RobFowl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFLQS12z8K4

northernpower

stupidusername wrote: »

male or female?

with stubble?

and I just had a look at sebaceous cysts, definately not i'm afraid, it was literally a thing that looked like a splinter and a thing that looked like a string.

I might be able to get a pic of the stringy thing up, but not the one from a few weeks ago, i don't hold on to that sort of stuff.

Badhb

northernpower wrote: »

A few weeks back sitting in class, caressing my stubble i ran my finger over something that felt like a splinter sticking out of my chin, when i got to the bathroom I saw what looked like a VERY coarse black hair, fair enough...

..so i couldn't stop fingering it all day cause it was really pointy and thick, so when I got home I had a better look, took out a pair of tweezers and pulled it out (it came out surprisingly easy, not like plucking a hair) so there was this thick black thing, maybe just over half a centimeter long ( not overly long admittedly but still long and far too thick and strong for a chin hair) and I poked at it and studied it and couldn't work out what it was.

Fast forward to today and on the otherside I noticed another very coarse looking hair, this one was white (yes i'm gettin on) and same again I pulled it out fairly easily, but whats weird about this is that it looks like a bit of string, not as coarse as the first one, but definately made up of individual strands???

So any suggestions? my face isn't anyway weird or gross by the way.

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booboo88

northernpower wrote: »

with stubble?

and I just had a look at sebaceous cysts, definately not i'm afraid, it was literally a thing that looked like a splinter and a thing that looked like a string.

I might be able to get a pic of the stringy thing up, but not the one from a few weeks ago, i don't hold on to that sort of stuff.

some women have stronger growth than men:eek:

stupidusername

northernpower wrote: »

with stubble?

hey, i'm not judging you lady

woodoo

Sounds like the early stages of the Plague unfortunately

lastlaugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWBueYWLB6M&feature=fvst

northernpower

Ok pics, not great, from cameraphone

one is wild blurry but shows scale compared to tweezers, and the other you can see 'fraying' like a string

lastlaugh

northernpower wrote: »

Ok pics, not great, from cameraphone

one is wild blurry but shows scale compared to tweezers, and the other you can see 'fraying' like a string

Check out that link I posted, I googled "pulled strange hair from face" and it led me to that, the video is a bit weird but some of the hairs look like what you describe...

Stripey Cat

How do you shave?

Regularly, with a sharp, good quality razor, or once in a while with a cheap plastic razor, or an electric one?

northernpower

lastlaugh wrote: »

Check out that link I posted, I googled "pulled strange hair from face" and it led me to that, the video is a bit weird but some of the hairs look like what you describe...

yeah i looked at that, very strange, according to wikipaedia joni mitchell thinks its gonna blow up one of her organs??

electrobanana

Weirdest thread ever..

d1992

ewwwwwwwwwwwwww

Ricardo G

Have you been munching on a homeless persons arse by any chance ?

northernpower

Stripey Cat wrote: »

How do you shave?

Regularly, with a sharp, good quality razor, or once in a while with a cheap plastic razor, or an electric one?

about once a week / 2 weeks with a beard trimmer, so constant stubble which is probably why i never saw the first thing until I felt it, and today I probably shaved closer than I have in a long time and noticed this coarse white hair, which ordinarily I would've left but after the last one I was suspicious, but as I said before, they were both very different?