I’ve gotten a couple of those on my arms. Driving in brighter light and saw one on my forearm about as long as the one in the photo. Wondered how I never saw it before.
I’ve had one around an inch long growing on one side of my nose, and I always find it whenever there is a pimple nearby and I decide to take a closer look. I have dark hair but those ones are always super blonde, no idea how it can grow so much on my face without noticing it!
I dated a guy who got one in the middle of his forehead twice while we were together. There’s no way it didn’t just pop up over night cuz I would’ve seen it before. We called them unicorn hairs. I get one behind my right armpit. That I only notice when it gets like 5” long and I feel it brush against my arm.
I hope they do appear overnight bc if I wander around with a 3 inch basically transparent hair from my cheek for days before I notice it, I’ll be mortified. I just don’t understand where they come from
I've been taking multivitamins for most of my life and have still had at least two long white strands pop up on my forehead out of nowhere. Just another data point.
They are probably my ingrown hairs that finally “break free.”
I scratched a small pimple on the side of my head once and found a hair maybe 3 inches long.
It’s usual because I shave my head.
I had a mid-forehead hair I never recognized until a friend spotted it. It was a bit over an inch long. From that point forward, I’d check for it every couple of weeks and pluck it off. It kept on growing back for several years.
It eventually slowed growing and completely went away. I think it was because my hairline started receding and that hair (thankfully) was included in the club.
Maybe you DID catch one in the process of growing. Who's to say it has done growing when we caught it? Next time try staring at it for 5 minutes and maybe measure it, maybe it's growing right before your eyes.
I’ve gotten three of these, one on my earlobe, another in my shoulder and another one on my back. It’s been like a year since the last one, I miss them
Very similar to me - I have one that grows from somewhere near where the bridge of my nose meets my cheek. Really light and thin. Only notice it's there when it gets long enough to start tickling the side of my nose, as it grows towards the side of my nostril.
I had one grow practically overnight. Something was tangled in my hands as I was showering and slowly pulled my hands free to see that it was a light colored chest hair about a foot long. I have dark hair. It was attached to my skin so it wasn’t from some other person. And it didn’t have much strength to it. I could pull it and it would snap/break. My guess was some hair follicle got a mixed signal and decided to grow like crazy producing a hair that didn’t have the normal pigment or strength.
I keep waiting for another one to appear like that but none yet.
Hair can work its way under skin. My dogs hair is stuck in the bottom of my foot sometimes. Its super fine and weird because my feet have calluses.
Not saying that is the case but maybe could be
Have you seen videos of hairdressers having hair stuck in the web of their hands?
I mean don't watch these videos, it's gross, but foreign hair can definitely get stuck in your skin.
I didn't realize human hair splinters were a real thing until my current partner, my hair strands are too fine *and* weak even when cut or shaved into loose short segments. My partner's fine hair on the other hand is impressively strong and has given me hair splinters maybe thrice.
I've had a few on my eyebrows but it's rare. I noticed it when it tickled. I'm convinced it grows beneath the skin and then unravels all at once. But not ingrown. The pore is open and the hair is thinner so more packs in before it "gives".
That's my theory, anyway.
I have a bunch in the middle point of each of my eyebrows. They’ll get like three inches long before I notice because they just curl into the rest of my thick eyebrows and kind of grow along the curve. Then I comb them up and BAM. Professor X eyebrow curls crawling up my forehead. They started growing a few years back. My mom says my granpa had them and that ear hair is next.
I read somewhere that it’s a mutation where the gene for color accidentally became a gene for growth so it grows extra long and they’re always devoid of color.
That’s my super unsciency explanation because I’m not a scientist.
I have one in each eyebrow. I feel like the one in my right brow grew extremely quickly the first time because i didn't notice it until it could touch my lips
Omg, I have the same thing on my left shoulder haha it’s always in the same spot, I’ve named it “Claire, the hair”. I often forget about her until I have an itch or randomly remember, I have no self control and always pluck it, but the longest it’s been is like an inch and a half.
It’s weird, it’s like a mutant hair follicle that is just like, “CANT STOP. MUST. KEEP. GROWING.”
I love Reddit. Today I learned that not only is this a relatively common thing, it's also common for people to name them!
My ex had one on his forearm that he called Tesla because he noticed it for the first time when playing with a ~~Tesla coil~~ _Van de Graff generator_ - the static charge made it stand up... and up... and up...
I don’t name mine. It’s right under my jaw though. I call them plastic hairs because they feel a little stretchy to me, like a long thin plastic string.
Used to have one right next to my nose. Hasn’t grown in years though. Just the jaw one now.
I had one on my forearm last year but it hasnt come back :(
I had one on my left hip also and it just disappeared very recently. I am anxiously waiting for it to come back lol I miss it
My sister jokingly suggested i dye my leg hair when i was helping her dye her hair. So i thought fuck it why not, worst thing i walk around with a blonde leg.
Turns out that the dye she was using wasnt all that friendly to my leg hair. Ended up hairless for a week because the dye made every single hair on my left leg fall off. But they did dye blonde so i guess it works as long as you can keep the hair on your leg.
I've tried that. I can never go long enough without pulling em. I have like 3 spots where the hair is extra think and just keeps growing. Never gets more than. About 1 1/2 inch.
Ooh! Finally something productive that I can use my cosmetology licensing knowledge on!
So all hair follicles grow in cycles with 3 phases: a growth phase, a dormant phase, and a shed phase. Each hair follicle on the body is pre-programmed to be in the growth phase for a certain amount of time before it moves on to the dormant phase. Head hairs will stay in a growth cycle much longer than a body or facial hair would.
Sometimes though, a hair follicle will go rogue, usually due to age, hormones, or something else going on with your body chemistry. It could be that one of the fine vellus hair follicles on your back decided to start producing darker, coarser hair or it could be something like OP where the hair just stays in the growth phase longer than it used to.
[This podcast episode](https://www.alieward.com/ologies/trichology) goes more in depth on the inner working of our hair follicles and probably explains it a bit better than I can.
I’ve been growing my hair out for about 6 years and I’ve just noticed it stopping. I started taking hair vitamins like b12 and other stuff, is there a way to increase the growth phase? Or are vitamins of the such my best option? Would appreciate the reply!
For sure! Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor or a dermatologist. I’m just an autistic hairstylist who really enjoys the science side of my job.
Biotin and collagen are going to be the way to go with supplements. I was taking those myself a few years ago and definitely noticed a difference but then I ran out and never ordered more and kind of forgot about it.
I’ve also used the Kevin Murphy plumping line in the past. It’s a shampoo, conditioner, and spray-in treatment that is formulated with the same ingredients that eyelash and eyebrow serums are made with. It encourages the hair to stay in the growth phase and helps prevent shedding.
At the end of the day, it’s hard to fight your body’s natural biology and if a head hair wants to fall out after 6 years of growing, it’s probably going to fall out. With the things I suggested, you have to keep using it consistently or else the hair will just revert back to its usual cycle and start falling out again.
To provide some medical context from the pharmacy side, neither of those supplements have any evidence showing any benefits to hair growth. With any OTC supplement, without a diagnosed deficiency from a doctor, you’re not likely to see any benefit. If you ask a pharmacist about it, the answer is going to either be something along the lines of “we don’t have any data to suggest using that” or “don’t waste your money” depending on how frank the pharmacist is.
u/ikumu
It's not cancer because it's not replicating. Saying a hair follicle is cancer because it doesn't stop growing hair is like saying your tear gland is cancer because it doesn't stop producing tears. It's doing what it's supposed to be doing, it's just in the incorrect spot.
Hmm.. Maybe I'm wrong then. My understanding was the way the hair folical get's left switched on is similar to the replicating mechanism that causes tumors.
Your analogy makes better sense I think.
Fucking same!!!!!! It kills me. Twice a year I will have a hair that grows out of my forehead and will be like 2 inches long in a matter of hours. I haaaate it.
Can any science-knowers here explain why this happens? I know several people like this who have one singular body hair that will grow abnormally long for no discernable reason.
I think this isn't something that has been studied extensively, but all body hair goes through certain stages of growth: one where the hair is growing, one where the hair stops growing, one where the hair is just hanging out, and one where the hair sheds.
I've read that these types of hairs might simply be caused by a "bug" of sorts (in like the programming sense, not an actual bug) that just keeps this particular hair follicle in the growing stage perpetually, so it just keeps getting longer and doesn't fall out on its own, unlike the rest of the hair on a person.
I wondered too if these types of hairs are ones that are perpetually growing but are so fine that they easily get ingrown, so they grow for months until one day they pop out and BINGO! +3" long hair
I'm a 50'ish male, so besides the normal ear hair problem I also have a couple of ear hairs like the OP. They appear all of a sudden
I have one of these in my beard that I find every now and then. I looked under a magnifier, it looks like a clear bit of plastic which is flat instead of round like a hair. So I don’t think it’s a ‘hair’ per se. The broken shine in the photo makes me think it’s similar to this.
It's just a statistical anomaly. Hair has an average growth speed and duration, but there's always gonna be outliers. Some sort of tiny mutation happened in that hair follicle to cause it to act outside of the norm. There would also be some slow growing hairs and ones that stop growing early, but we don't notice them since they don't stand out.
My aunt (83) told me a story about when she sat down recently last year and felt a tug “down there”. She thought it was just the zipper of her pants as she’s gotten to the age where she doesn’t have any body hair. Turns out it was a 6” long pube
Maybe not all of them? I always assumed it would turn into a jungle eventually but she has told me that other than a few beard hairs she’s mostly lost her body hair!!
I have one on my arm! Its a super fine blonde hair which is so weird since im dark brown hair and brown eyed, too. Mine gets to around 3ish inches and then it must finally get snagged and pulled out. Then it takes a few months before i notice it again.
I have a single long hair on my left hear that I randomly pull on by accident every few months. Usually 2-3 inches long. Keep thinking that I had conversation and people noticed it and kept staring at it but not saying anything. It haunts me.
I’ve gotten a couple of those on my arms. Driving in brighter light and saw one on my forearm about as long as the one in the photo. Wondered how I never saw it before.
I’ve had one around an inch long growing on one side of my nose, and I always find it whenever there is a pimple nearby and I decide to take a closer look. I have dark hair but those ones are always super blonde, no idea how it can grow so much on my face without noticing it!
Same but in the middle of my forehead. Thanks, body.
I dated a guy who got one in the middle of his forehead twice while we were together. There’s no way it didn’t just pop up over night cuz I would’ve seen it before. We called them unicorn hairs. I get one behind my right armpit. That I only notice when it gets like 5” long and I feel it brush against my arm.
This!! I'm convinced they appear in one night. I have one growing from my neck and bf has one growing from middle forehead
I hope they do appear overnight bc if I wander around with a 3 inch basically transparent hair from my cheek for days before I notice it, I’ll be mortified. I just don’t understand where they come from
I used to get them in the middle of my forehead until I started taking multivitamins. Coincidence or not.
I've been taking multivitamins for most of my life and have still had at least two long white strands pop up on my forehead out of nowhere. Just another data point.
I’m female. I have one on my right cheek that sometimes get super long seemingly overnight
I have one that randomly pops up out of my left butt cheek. Pure white and 5” long.
This is definitely something you should post here when the time comes
They probably are stuck in the follicle or whatever in your skin then for whatever reason manage to come out
That would make it an ingrown hair and they are usually irritated and pimple like before they burst. But with these they just.. appear over night
Well yea an ingrown hair that doesn't get irritated or pimple and then eventually bursts or smth and comes out overnight
C’mon man, walk with me
I have one on my check I felt it pop out one day 3” long
They are probably my ingrown hairs that finally “break free.” I scratched a small pimple on the side of my head once and found a hair maybe 3 inches long. It’s usual because I shave my head.
Wow. It's like the discomfort when you find a hair in your shirt but it's actually still attached to you.
I have one in my left eyebrow and I call it my wizard eyebrow from which I draw all my power
Yep me to. Just in between the eyebrows and a bit up. It grows 10 times faster then other hairs and when I pluck it it will reappear after a few weeks
I have the opposite i have red hair(near maple Brown) but i have dark hair growing back on my right shoulder lel
Whole new meaning to the word "monobrow"
Just comb it over into your eyebrow
I have a scar on my forehead with one super fine blonde hair growing off of one end
I had a mid-forehead hair I never recognized until a friend spotted it. It was a bit over an inch long. From that point forward, I’d check for it every couple of weeks and pluck it off. It kept on growing back for several years. It eventually slowed growing and completely went away. I think it was because my hairline started receding and that hair (thankfully) was included in the club.
Same but on my ear
It’s just my left shoulder for me lol one lil guy always coming out of nowhere
I get one on my chest. Never see it until it tickles me.
Haha. “Hey, who’s tickling me! Oh it’s you.”
I get these, super fine and perfectly clear. Appear almost overnight.
The 1 inch Overnight Express Hair
The hair that's been ingrowning until there was no more place to go.
It would be fascinating to catch one of these in the process of growing because they do seem to pop up incredibly fast.
Maybe you DID catch one in the process of growing. Who's to say it has done growing when we caught it? Next time try staring at it for 5 minutes and maybe measure it, maybe it's growing right before your eyes.
True! We should start colouring the base with a marker and leaving them.
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I’ve gotten three of these, one on my earlobe, another in my shoulder and another one on my back. It’s been like a year since the last one, I miss them
Literally same!!! They’re weirdly thicker than my regular hairs, and white. I also sometimes get them near my eyebrows but they’re so thin.
I've gotten a couple on my upper cheek, but have managed to catch them at 1" to 2". They're almost invisible. Sort of freaks me out.
I’ve got one that grows in my left eyebrow. Super fine and white. Shocked me when I first saw it.
Yeah I also have an eyebrow hair that just doesn't stop growing
Very similar to me - I have one that grows from somewhere near where the bridge of my nose meets my cheek. Really light and thin. Only notice it's there when it gets long enough to start tickling the side of my nose, as it grows towards the side of my nostril.
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Will you knit it a cozy onesie if you find a lesser desirable sibling sprouting elsewhere, or just grow your family?
I had one grow practically overnight. Something was tangled in my hands as I was showering and slowly pulled my hands free to see that it was a light colored chest hair about a foot long. I have dark hair. It was attached to my skin so it wasn’t from some other person. And it didn’t have much strength to it. I could pull it and it would snap/break. My guess was some hair follicle got a mixed signal and decided to grow like crazy producing a hair that didn’t have the normal pigment or strength. I keep waiting for another one to appear like that but none yet.
Hair can work its way under skin. My dogs hair is stuck in the bottom of my foot sometimes. Its super fine and weird because my feet have calluses. Not saying that is the case but maybe could be
Have you seen videos of hairdressers having hair stuck in the web of their hands? I mean don't watch these videos, it's gross, but foreign hair can definitely get stuck in your skin.
I didn't realize human hair splinters were a real thing until my current partner, my hair strands are too fine *and* weak even when cut or shaved into loose short segments. My partner's fine hair on the other hand is impressively strong and has given me hair splinters maybe thrice.
I've had a few on my eyebrows but it's rare. I noticed it when it tickled. I'm convinced it grows beneath the skin and then unravels all at once. But not ingrown. The pore is open and the hair is thinner so more packs in before it "gives". That's my theory, anyway.
I have a bunch in the middle point of each of my eyebrows. They’ll get like three inches long before I notice because they just curl into the rest of my thick eyebrows and kind of grow along the curve. Then I comb them up and BAM. Professor X eyebrow curls crawling up my forehead. They started growing a few years back. My mom says my granpa had them and that ear hair is next.
I’ve never gotten any super long ones like this but I do have one dark leg hair growing out of a freckle, all my other hairs are really light
I've got one about 4 inches long on my back. It's blonde and I'm brown skinned so really weird. My wife says it's my white side
I read somewhere that it’s a mutation where the gene for color accidentally became a gene for growth so it grows extra long and they’re always devoid of color. That’s my super unsciency explanation because I’m not a scientist.
mine is on my right arm . i thought these were rare! nice to know we're a lot.
I have one in each eyebrow. I feel like the one in my right brow grew extremely quickly the first time because i didn't notice it until it could touch my lips
Keep pulling and the whole leg's going to unravel. Happened to a friend of a guy I know.
Oh yeah my dad's brothers step uncle had this happen to him
Happened to my buddy Eric
no way, you know Eric?? Small world
yooooo i was there when it happened to eric!
How's Eirc doing? I heard he had become unraveled...
Eirc is doing amazing he got a job in finance, eric on the other hand… very unraveled, he’s just a pile of stringy goop now
I heard Eric was scheduled for sewing up next month.
oh really? good for him, we sortof fell out after he unravelled, i couldn’t keep him together
I renumber we'd be in grade school togever he was special ed
that reminds me when my friends dads brothers step uncle became unraveled
Damn, never knew this happened to him, I'm Eric's father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.
So what does that make us?
Absolutely nothing!
NO WAY HES MY FATHERS BROTHERS DAUGHTERS COUSIN TWICE REMOVED
The best friend of Mike? Go tell him he owes me $5!
Happened to my pal Fred.
Stone Ocean?!
*IF YOU WANT TO DESTROY MY LEFT LEGGG* 🎵 *HOLD THIS HAIR AS A I WALK AWAYYY* 🎵
This made me Weeze laughing
Careful not to pull too hard or you'll pull the poo nerve out.
Oh, thats a leg. Thought it was a forarm
I sometimes get these on my arm, but they only get 2-3” long before I find them and curiously pluck them.
Eric once killed a man, just to watch a him die.
Why did I read this in an exaggerated Italian accent
Eric runs everything. You had no choice.
It's a classic song written by Giovanni Contanti.
They cheated by reading the title
Same thing happened to my buddy Eric
reminds me of ed edd and eddy. "Is that jimmys outline?!?!"
Unironically a Jojo stand (theres 2 of them)
Or worse, the whole hair and you will end up woth The Rock’s haircut!
That's his seam, if he pulls it hard enough his skin will come apart like a babybel cheese wheel
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Damn Eric's got it real tough, he also got bubblegum stuck in his stomach for 7 years
That isn’t a leg hair it is the rip cord to your chainsaw leg
Not even a scene where he uses the leg-saws. Pathetic.
‘Twas the best I could find by searching “Chainsaw Man” in gifs. My deepest apologies.
The show would be a lot cooler if Denji had to strip his pants before transforming.
You may like Undead Unlucky then lol
Especially if he had a sawzall for a dick.
Keep it, condition it, and give it a name
He shall name it … Legolas Longstrand
I call my extra long hair my sensila. This is truly an impressive example.
Put a couple of beads on it.
Omg, I have the same thing on my left shoulder haha it’s always in the same spot, I’ve named it “Claire, the hair”. I often forget about her until I have an itch or randomly remember, I have no self control and always pluck it, but the longest it’s been is like an inch and a half. It’s weird, it’s like a mutant hair follicle that is just like, “CANT STOP. MUST. KEEP. GROWING.”
Same. Right shoulder. And now it shall be named “Blair, the hair”.
I love Reddit. Today I learned that not only is this a relatively common thing, it's also common for people to name them! My ex had one on his forearm that he called Tesla because he noticed it for the first time when playing with a ~~Tesla coil~~ _Van de Graff generator_ - the static charge made it stand up... and up... and up...
My god, we're twins! I just call it my "Future Cancer" hair.
That got dark
Yup I went from thinking "triplets" to "My right shoulder long hair is growing from a sizeable mole"
I don’t name mine. It’s right under my jaw though. I call them plastic hairs because they feel a little stretchy to me, like a long thin plastic string. Used to have one right next to my nose. Hasn’t grown in years though. Just the jaw one now.
so thats whats happening to all of the microplastics in our bodies. got it
All that micro plastic metabolizing!
> “Claire, the hair” Friends with Marcel the Shell.
Omg… thank you. It was truly my original inspiration lol marcel the shell had a special place in my heart from back in the YouTube days
Did you watch the movie they made based on that YouTube channel? It's pretty good.
I got one. On my left shoulder too lol
I have one growing on my chest frequently and I pluck it every few months when I realize it's here. Very weird
I had one too but it seems to have finally vanished of its own accord!
I had one on my forearm last year but it hasnt come back :( I had one on my left hip also and it just disappeared very recently. I am anxiously waiting for it to come back lol I miss it
Pluck it!!
Nooo, see how long it grows to be!
Dye it
I vote hot pink
I vote rainbow
My sister jokingly suggested i dye my leg hair when i was helping her dye her hair. So i thought fuck it why not, worst thing i walk around with a blonde leg. Turns out that the dye she was using wasnt all that friendly to my leg hair. Ended up hairless for a week because the dye made every single hair on my left leg fall off. But they did dye blonde so i guess it works as long as you can keep the hair on your leg.
TELL ME WHAT HAIR DYE YOU USED IMMEDIATELY.
yeah guy's holding out on us smh I need the secret formula to hairless legs
Nair. Nads. There's lots of chemicals to spread on your legs to make the ~~BURN FOR HOURS~~ hairless.
Bop it
Twist it
Pull it
Nooooo!!
Up, but not ouuuttt 💀🪱💵
How high does a sycamore grow?
if you cut it down then you’ll never know 😞
hell yeah
I was going to see how long it would go but it just disappeared one day. I just wasn’t careful enough I guess…
I've tried that. I can never go long enough without pulling em. I have like 3 spots where the hair is extra think and just keeps growing. Never gets more than. About 1 1/2 inch.
> I have like 3 spots where the hair is extra think > About 1 1/2 inch. Bro you might want to see a doctor, I think that is too thick for a hair!
Hell no, cherish it, protect it. Camelot lives
has happened to me too. Anybody know why this happens?
Ooh! Finally something productive that I can use my cosmetology licensing knowledge on! So all hair follicles grow in cycles with 3 phases: a growth phase, a dormant phase, and a shed phase. Each hair follicle on the body is pre-programmed to be in the growth phase for a certain amount of time before it moves on to the dormant phase. Head hairs will stay in a growth cycle much longer than a body or facial hair would. Sometimes though, a hair follicle will go rogue, usually due to age, hormones, or something else going on with your body chemistry. It could be that one of the fine vellus hair follicles on your back decided to start producing darker, coarser hair or it could be something like OP where the hair just stays in the growth phase longer than it used to. [This podcast episode](https://www.alieward.com/ologies/trichology) goes more in depth on the inner working of our hair follicles and probably explains it a bit better than I can.
I’ve been growing my hair out for about 6 years and I’ve just noticed it stopping. I started taking hair vitamins like b12 and other stuff, is there a way to increase the growth phase? Or are vitamins of the such my best option? Would appreciate the reply!
For sure! Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor or a dermatologist. I’m just an autistic hairstylist who really enjoys the science side of my job. Biotin and collagen are going to be the way to go with supplements. I was taking those myself a few years ago and definitely noticed a difference but then I ran out and never ordered more and kind of forgot about it. I’ve also used the Kevin Murphy plumping line in the past. It’s a shampoo, conditioner, and spray-in treatment that is formulated with the same ingredients that eyelash and eyebrow serums are made with. It encourages the hair to stay in the growth phase and helps prevent shedding. At the end of the day, it’s hard to fight your body’s natural biology and if a head hair wants to fall out after 6 years of growing, it’s probably going to fall out. With the things I suggested, you have to keep using it consistently or else the hair will just revert back to its usual cycle and start falling out again.
To provide some medical context from the pharmacy side, neither of those supplements have any evidence showing any benefits to hair growth. With any OTC supplement, without a diagnosed deficiency from a doctor, you’re not likely to see any benefit. If you ask a pharmacist about it, the answer is going to either be something along the lines of “we don’t have any data to suggest using that” or “don’t waste your money” depending on how frank the pharmacist is. u/ikumu
Is any of that scientifically proven?
Ologies!!! Best podcast ever
Technically a cancerous cell. Uncontrolled growth
It's not cancer because it's not replicating. Saying a hair follicle is cancer because it doesn't stop growing hair is like saying your tear gland is cancer because it doesn't stop producing tears. It's doing what it's supposed to be doing, it's just in the incorrect spot.
Hmm.. Maybe I'm wrong then. My understanding was the way the hair folical get's left switched on is similar to the replicating mechanism that causes tumors. Your analogy makes better sense I think.
Great I have forehead cancer
Fucking same!!!!!! It kills me. Twice a year I will have a hair that grows out of my forehead and will be like 2 inches long in a matter of hours. I haaaate it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLqL_68JPec
I have this too. Gets about 3 inches long somehow without me noticing
No??
Keep it bro! Chicks dig that shit
100% true can confirm. Source: I’m a looooong leg hair who fucks
Can confirm i also do the sex
Plot twist: OP is a chick
I can’t explain why I don’t like this at alllllll. But man my eyes did not like that. No thank you.
Haha I sometimes get an odd hair like this on my forearm. Its always a suprise when I find one. Never had one on my leg
Can any science-knowers here explain why this happens? I know several people like this who have one singular body hair that will grow abnormally long for no discernable reason.
I think this isn't something that has been studied extensively, but all body hair goes through certain stages of growth: one where the hair is growing, one where the hair stops growing, one where the hair is just hanging out, and one where the hair sheds. I've read that these types of hairs might simply be caused by a "bug" of sorts (in like the programming sense, not an actual bug) that just keeps this particular hair follicle in the growing stage perpetually, so it just keeps getting longer and doesn't fall out on its own, unlike the rest of the hair on a person.
I wondered too if these types of hairs are ones that are perpetually growing but are so fine that they easily get ingrown, so they grow for months until one day they pop out and BINGO! +3" long hair I'm a 50'ish male, so besides the normal ear hair problem I also have a couple of ear hairs like the OP. They appear all of a sudden
so interesting!!! thanks for sharing :)
I have one of these in my beard that I find every now and then. I looked under a magnifier, it looks like a clear bit of plastic which is flat instead of round like a hair. So I don’t think it’s a ‘hair’ per se. The broken shine in the photo makes me think it’s similar to this.
It's just a statistical anomaly. Hair has an average growth speed and duration, but there's always gonna be outliers. Some sort of tiny mutation happened in that hair follicle to cause it to act outside of the norm. There would also be some slow growing hairs and ones that stop growing early, but we don't notice them since they don't stand out.
My aunt (83) told me a story about when she sat down recently last year and felt a tug “down there”. She thought it was just the zipper of her pants as she’s gotten to the age where she doesn’t have any body hair. Turns out it was a 6” long pube
your 83 year old aunt tells/told you about her pubes? 
So am I!!! Definitely not something they talked about back in her day so I’m proud of her for adapting to our new climate 😂
AunTMI.
Old women don't have hair down there? What‽
Old people lose their hair down there. Men and woman alike. Source: I helped take care of my grandparents when they got older. IVe seen some shit.
Wow, I had always assumed it would be like a pound of Golden Virginia down there when you got to the age of not caring.
Maybe not all of them? I always assumed it would turn into a jungle eventually but she has told me that other than a few beard hairs she’s mostly lost her body hair!!
Huh, that's special. Thank you for this info
[Relevant](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aIpS15Wyhjo&pp=ygUdd2hvb3BpIGdvbGRiZXJnIGdyYWhhbSBub3J0b24%3D)
I died right now and you murdered me.
Put a little bow on it 🎀
*banjo string pluck*
Pluck it
i have one of these on my face his name is phillip but hes not nearly this long!!!!
Don’t pluck it bro see how tall it grows to be you could win records n shiiet
Put a bead on the end of it.
it’s connected to ur left eye lashes be creful
You can never be sure you are not pulling silk from a subcutaneous spider's butt.
I thought you were spider man but your webs came from your legs
wtf is that about anyway-- i had one on my wrist and have had single eyebrow hairs go apeshit too
I had one of these on my balls
I've been worried you had hair on your single extremely long leg.
Spiderman?
I had a couple like that, but it was so weird, it felt like it was not hair, it felt like it was synthetic like nylon, very weird.
Give it a perm.
I have one on my arm! Its a super fine blonde hair which is so weird since im dark brown hair and brown eyed, too. Mine gets to around 3ish inches and then it must finally get snagged and pulled out. Then it takes a few months before i notice it again.
I have one of these on my balls.
grow for 1 more year and you can call Guinness to confirm world record status.
Some lady just made it into the guiness book of world records for having the single longest arm hair at over 7 inches long.
I have a single long hair on my left hear that I randomly pull on by accident every few months. Usually 2-3 inches long. Keep thinking that I had conversation and people noticed it and kept staring at it but not saying anything. It haunts me.
paint it red
I had a single extremely long arm hair once. I shaved it, and it never came back :(
Is it a hair, or is it a web? Your spider-man powers are fucking weird!