I know they are there – I can feel them!!!

Okay…  So neck hair…  What the pooh?  First off, why do women even GET neck hair?  Does HRT get rid of neck hair?  If it does, damn the health consequences – I’m in!  Yes, I’m that vain.  You get more vain the wrinklier and hairier you get.

Secondly, half the time you can’t SEE the neck hair, but you can FEEL them.  To which David says “If nobody but you can see them, why are you so worried about them?”  BECAUSE I KNOW THEY’RE THERE!  It’s what happens when you’re sitting in front of the t.v. minding your own business.   You might reach up to brush something off your neck and then you feel the hairs (yes PLURAL) and you have to run to the bathroom and grab the tweezers.  Because the worst scenario is you NOT noticing them until they’re very dark, a cm long and you start looking like Billy Vann in drag as Griselda from the Hilarious House of Frightenstein.  And you think to yourself, My GOD!  How have I NOT seen this??  Which probably means that up until that time, people have been politely ignoring your transformation into the Wild Wolfwoman of Wagga Wagga. 

And then sometimes, there are grey neck hairs, which you really can’t see, but are even coarser than regular neck hairs which means that you feel them EVEN MORE and then become obsessed about getting rid of them.  Grey, coarse neck hairs drive a woman insane and are like poop icing on an already shitty cupcake.  Plus, did you know that laser hair removal can’t remove grey hairs??  Because they laser can’t see the follicles.  I thought lasers were smarter than that.

Really, what you need, is a miner’s helmet and a magnifying mirror that you can sit in front of.  Because the bathroom mirror, you can’t get close enough to, usually because of the sink, and if you get the magnifying mirror up to your face, then you only have the one hand and you can’t use the other hand to identify the hair on your neck.  (Here.  Here is where you should be ripping hairs from your neck.)   You haphazardly start tweezing the fine hairs that totally belong on one’s neck.  And if you try to sit with a magnifying mirror, it’s never at neck level and you have to skooch down and you might put your back out doing that. 

This past week, we were staying in a condo that didn’t have mirror over the bathrrom sink, (they are renovating) which meant that if you were going to stand in front of a mirror you had to stand wedged beside the toilet to look at the side medicine cabinet adjacent to the sinks.  This meant that that you were WAY far away from the mirror.  Or you were putting your back out trying to twist your body sideways over the cabinet to look into the mirror.

Okay, imagine there is no mirror overtop of the sinks, but only the one on the side.  And you have to ignore the magnifying shaving mirror in this picture, because our bathroom didn’t have that. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be complaining so much right now.  Also, imagine that there is a toilet approximately 9 inches away from the right hand side of the sink cabinet which is where you have to stand to see yourself in the mirror.

Then I thought!  Flashlight tweezers!!  Right?  Tweezers with a flashlight attached to them!  I’m sure that I could use a wee flashlight and some duct tape and whip something together.  Doesn’t that make complete sense?  Of course, we don’t have a tiny flashlight anywhere and though I do keep the plastic handle of my curling iron on with electrical tape, I though that my flashlight tweezers with duct tape might look a little déclassé.  Unless I used coloured duct tape, then it could be a statement.  

But then when I actually googled flashlight tweezers, I found these!!!  These might be my salvation.  Plus they’re pretty spiffy looking, yes?  And if I ever have to be in a Sci-Fi film they’d be awesome as something to insert into a body cavity to look for alien caviar.

Possible salvation for the overly-hirsuit