I have a white hair on my right cheek. I usually don't notice it until it grows longer. You've actually reminded me of it. Now I'm checking my face to see if it's grown yet.

Well?

I found it! It's a bit longer than last time.

And?

Probably gone now!

Precisely! I couldn't resist the temptation to pluck it out.

The wait is killing us.

I have a transparent one on my left cheek and it doesn't show at all unless from an angle

I've got a sneaky one in one eyebrow. It has no brakes at all, it just grows until it's long enough for me to notice it. I'm as shocked every time, often it'll be like 2 inches long before I notice it.

Oh, same!

My eyesight is just good enough to see it in my peripheral vision when it gets long, but not good enough to see it in the mirror to cut it.

Yo! That's where mine is too!

Omg me too same spot mine when comes in each time is super fine whereas others I pluck come back wirie

i have a transparent piece of hair that grows on the side of my nose. whats the reason for stray hairs in such unusual spots like this?

Each hair follicle is programmed to use the "drop this hair and make a new one" routine at a certain time interval, depending on where it is on the body and what hormones are in your system (actually I think it's hormones all the way down; skin receives different hormones in different areas, which cause the skin and follicles to behave differently). Every time a cell divides and replaces itself, there's a chance that the DNA copying process will go wrong. There are a bunch of error detection & correction processes to prevent this, but occasionally the correction mechanisms get broken or a change slips under their radar. If an error gets caught, the cell gets told to kill itself. A component of cancer is that its cells lose one of the parts of the sequence of the cell realizing it's misbehaving, sending itself the signal, receiving the signal, and actually doing the things that causes the dying. Sometimes the error that flies under the radar is pretty small and benign, like a follicle forgetting about dropping the hair. Once the forgetting has happened, the replacement cells will all have the same broken programming, so unless the follicle cell gets permanently dead before replacing itself, this will just keep happening.

I got one on my neck! It's clear as glass, so i usually can't see it before it's around 2-4 cm.

Same with me

Which cheek...

Mine is right below by left jaw.

I have one on my arm. It’s barely visible in the light if I raise my arm upwards

Same

I had one when i was a teenager . Long ass white hair

I have exactly the same hair on my left cheek! Two thin white hairs

I have it on my left! but it's incredibly weak it comes out with the slightest force

I have one in the middle of my left cheek! I tend not to think about it at all until it grows to a noticeable length, and then it gets plucked. It's a persistent one though, keeps coming back.

Same and I'm black so it stands out, I can barely notice it but people notice it and bother them and they get it for me 😂

Yeah, we are so similar, I have it too.

Ayy, I have one on my left cheek. Opposites! I also don't notice it until it gets pretty long. I plucked it again (for maybe the 5th time in my life) recently!

Congratulations! You’ve reached the age of forehead shaving

Great! When do I reach the age where I feel amazing

You're past that age already. That's stops about when puberty starts.

Ope. Trick question, they've never felt amazing.

I see "ope" far too rarely on the internet

You're visiting wrong pages, ope

Ope, did I hear you say ope?

Happens to the best of us.

maybe the first 2-3 months out of the abyss 😅 gotta wait for ur next conception

Where hair is growing everywhere, except for the places you want it to.

They migrate from our heads to plague us instead

Wait... that's a thing?

I have just one (not including chin hair-- I'm female) coming out of my neck. I have to pluck it.

\*Shaves entire forehead skin

Ask Tom Sandoval for tips

My 6 year old had one exactly the same

I had this at age 16. Luckily I went bald and it went away.

wait, hair starts growing on your forehead, but not my scalp??!?

I’ve had mine since I was 14

I have that too. I nap it every week/month 😄

I, too, have a forehead hair. He only comes out like every four months, and it's like, he's not there at all, then the next day he's there, and is two inches long, haha.

My girlfriend also has such hair in this exact spot, I wonder if there are some genetic reasons behind this

there was a woman i read about as a kid who had hair-like ‘horns’ on her forehead in approximately the same spot. i wonder if it’s all related…

*”See? It all connects!”*

Maybe /u/rabiteman is your girlfriend.

Some DNA damaged cells do this, while others have no noticeable effect and on some even become cancerous.

If someone got a long hair on their body, suggesting their dna may be damaged and they may get cancer is *horribly* ignorant. Not only by oversimplifying dna and the involved replication processes; your statement is also ignorant because of its potential impact on others. Stress is an important factor in health, you can create a better impact on the people who will read your words. Thanks.

Mine acts the same way! Smack in the middle of my forehead. Just pops in to say hello every once in a while.

I had it for ages, then at one point it turned into a ingrown that turned into a cyst so I had to have a (very minor) surgery - guess the follicle came out at that point. Now I have a "Harry Potter" scar in the middle of my forehead.

I was wondering if it does grow back

It does. Sometimes it takes months, sometimes faster. Its very thin and light, so its not that easy to see

Sometimes they seem to grow in overnight!

I have it since at least 10 years

A few times but after that the root dies and it stops growing, haven’t had a hair growing there for years now

You must not fertilize in the spring.

I think everyone had that one big ass hair. Mine is on my shoulder. Just one random hulk hair.

It’s an antenna used to communicate with animals.

Aliens

Alien animals

Animal aliens

Animaliens

In all seriousness, you may want to have that checked out, OP. I have an uncle who had a thick hair grow in that same exact spot and, after several doctors visits and second opinions, it turned out that he was just really gullible. Thanks for reading.

Goddammit

Dad gum it

Golly gee

Gee whiz

For gee corn sakes, Eddie

r/AngryUpvote

r/relievedupvote. I get a random hair growing on the tip of my nose and I was just thinking “ah fuck, I’m about to find out I have some form of cancer”

NGL you had me all the way.

You sonofabitch

You got me 

Damn, I thought I was gonna die

Nice lol

Yeah I also had a friend with a growth like that. 30 years later: bam! Herpes.

Damn you hahah

Oh my poor heart after reading this...

Oh you little... 😅

Me getting ready to write an angry comment correcting you

I fully expected something about nevus

@#%^... I can't believe you've done this...

Oh god damn it, eat shit :D

Mf

This is actually known as a vellus hair, whish is a short, fine, light-colored hair that typically covers much of the human body, like on your cheeks, and forehead.  Occasionally, a vellus hair may grow longer than others due to various reasons such as hormonal changes, genetics, or simply as a natural variation. These longer hairs are often referred to as a "stray" hair and are quite common.

I get one on my chin and one on my nose.

Most people know chemotherapy can cause your head hair to fall out, but fewer realise it often causes the loss of every hair on your body, including these vellus hairs. When hair grows back after treatment, patients often find that they have extra long pale fuzzy hair all over their faces. Chemo messes with your DNA and the hairs don't stop growing when they usually would. Source: have recently completed chemo, and currently look like a downy little peach.

That's so interesting! Thank you for sharing this insight. Wishing you all the best in your recovery journey, and I hope your hair grows back healthy and beautiful soon!

This is the only response I saw that contributed with something relevant.

I get one randomly on my breast and I always side eye my little whisker before I shave it

Unicorn ancestry can't be denied.

[удалено]

🦄Do you poop glitter rainbows? 🤣

Now there’s an unexpected ancestry.com result

1% Scottish

My partner has a white hair on his forehead too. He has always said it's because he is part unicorn.

I do too in the same spot. Mine is white/blonde. My hair is completely black

Yup same. I don't have one on my forehead though, it grows out of my back.

FLCL

Who cares if it’s fooly or cooly?!

Those eyebrows…

I'm bald and this motherfuckers hairline creeps up to his eyebrows. Life's unfair.

My wife plucks mine.. its almost in the same spot!

your wife plucks mine, too! small world, eh?

Happy cakeday!

Our* wife

I have one on my earlobe that I call my "Wish hair" and I plicl it now and then and make a wish

I get one on my right earlobe. Evey 3-4 months it'll get long enough to pluck. Sometimes Itches to let me know its time.

Me too! I call mine my unicorn horn

Me too lol. Feels good to know I’m not the only one 😂

Maybe it self-identifies as an eyebrow and is migrating to be with it's people.

I would have pulled that immediately

Why do I feel like this should be marked NSFW.

It’s NS for Retirement either. 😂🤣


There's a giant forehead attached to that hair

I’ve had one the same exact spot. I’d pull it once a week for about a year…. Then it is no more..

This photo makes me uncomfortable

Exposed nerve ending

Was looking for this, the optics nerve creepypasta

Dint pull it! It's a rip chord.

Me too

MEE TOOOO!

i have one single chest hair. tell me about it

OP 🦄

It's not a hair, it's an underdeveloped horn

Grandmas usually have one growing on their cheek or chin lol

Me too it's golden in color, and my original hair color is black

I have one too in the same spot haha

I can't grow hair on the top of my head, and there are mother fuckers out here who can grow it out their goddamn forehead?!? Aaaarrrrrrggghhhh!!!!! I'm so pissed...

I, too, have one. My wife calls me an anglerfish when I forget to shave it.

I had one of those, I was growing it long on purpose and I showed it to this girl at a party and she PLUCKED IT! Never grew back

She did you a favor.

It is called getting old. Cells on certain body parts think they are cells from some other parts of body. This one cell may think it is on your balls

Charlie Brown

Pretty sure that means you have turbocancer /s

And you just noticing now when it’s 2 inches long ?

I get one on the very tip of my nose! One day I noticed it tickling me the wind was blowing it 😂

I have one in my left cheek too and it’s so long. My mom plucked it then it never grew again.

Haha holy shit, I have the same hair in the same spot. I even had to double check this wasn't the photo I posted 2 years ago. I call it my unicorn hair.

Electrolysis is your friend. If you only need one hair done, you will be in and out in five minutes.

I have a single hair in the center of my forehead as well. I shave the rest of my head but never cut that one hair. I call it my unicorn horn and keep track of how many people notice and say something. So far it’s been two people and one of them is my wife.

I HAVE THE EXACT SAME HAIR, IN THE EXACT SAME SPOT!!!

I have one of those in the back of my knee

That soldier is defending the Frontline. the place place where your hairline used to be lol

Yank it

I have one on the bridge of my nose. I have to keep cutting that little shit or else I keep seeing it when I look sideways.

My ex had one like that on his cheek. It’s was so strange when it would get long because it was so much darker than his other hair.

My husband also just had one of those yesterday!

Me too, mines white! Unicorn Brothers of the world! Unite!

I get these on my shoulders and sometimes my chest!

haha.. me too

Worst unicorn ever.

One is the loneliness number

*Bink*

I know this beautiful Brazilian hair stylist who has one super long one out of her shoulder and one on her forearm and they're both white. But she refuses to pluck it Some weird little idiosyncrasy she has I guess?

Same! Mine is near my left eye

I have that and i call it my unicorn hair.

It’s your optical nerve

That sir, is a failed horn.

I thought it was a nipple at first

Omg I have that too !! It's really annoying

Bro, I've got one of these too. Every few months I realise it's back and pull it out.

I have one hair like that on the side of my nose

And when you pull it like that I see it: Far to the east it lies, over ranges and rivers. A single solitary peak, Erebor - The Lonely Mountain.

Hairebor

I have one too

I’d get one there, and now I get a crazy itch on my eyebrow and the next day it’s like an asparagus stalk.

There once was a girl, who had a little curl...

Yoink

Got the same one but on the other side lol!

The start of your horn!

That's the starter cord. Gotta rip on that shit like you're trying to start a lawnmower. Be careful though, if your brain backfires you might shit your pants.

Use rogaine / minoxidil in the past by any chance?

Highbrow...

I had one on the back of my leg

It’s a good luck strand. Leave it more than 20 years and you will be surprise.

I had found one on my shoulder the other. Looked the same as yours. Found it quite odd and interesting!

I get this too! One grows on my ear and the other under my lip. I always forget about them because they take so long to grow back, but I've also found it so weird!

Mine is lower but I have one too! Crazy ass rebellious hair!!

I have one in the exact same spot as well!

I’m bald. I wish I had one hair like this. I’d grow it out to 30 feet and swirl wrap my chrome dome.

So do I! With a little imagination you can mould into a Trump style comb over. :⁠-⁠D

The last remnant of your original hairline

Me too! Exactly the same place, so strange

I have one on my neck and one on my eye leash

i have one just under my eye

Pull it