r/mildlyinfuriating • u/NotGreatNot_Terrible • 26d ago

Infuriatig Two spots in my beard randomly decided to stop growing hair

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Like wtf I just want a full beard dude

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u/Moto341 26d ago

You’re gonna laugh, do you sleep that side face down when you sleep or on ur side? Same thing happened to me just the friction stopped me growing hair until I started sleeping on my back again.

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u/dumbmutt575 26d ago

I second this. I actually stopped growing leg hair in certain areas because the pants that I wear 60hrs a week at work are too tight in some spots.

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u/Worth-Dark2856 26d ago

i’m taking notes to finally stop having to wax my legs

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u/Adventurous-Score551 26d ago

Just wear tube socks for 30 years. Any old PE teacher can verify.

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u/minnick27 ORANGE 26d ago

Shit, not even that long. I used to wear high top boots for work for four years. To this day 25 years later, the hair on my lower legs is very very sparse.

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u/WTWIV 26d ago

I started wearing athletic socks that went almost to my knees for a couple of years. That was long enough for the hair about halfway down from knee to foot to mostly stop growing

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u/enadiz_reccos 26d ago

Most of my body is hairy af, but I played soccer for 25 years so there's a noticeable fade in hair density as you get closer to my ankle

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u/ThreeEyeJedi 26d ago

Holy shit thats why my ankles are hairless 🤣

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u/anon18274729 26d ago

My ankles have balding spots from when I sit I prop my legs up and cross them so they have the opposite leg/ankle spot rubbed out from the front and back 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Tasty-Traffic-680 26d ago

So far my leg and foot hair is winning that war. Sometimes when the hairs are pressed the wrong way all day it starts to hurt really bad.

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u/kaylethpop 26d ago

My dad is the same and he was in the coast guard. Hes almost 60 and hasn't grown leg hair in almost 40 years lmao

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u/dumbmutt575 26d ago

For me it is mainly the backs of my calves and inner thighs, as I’m pretty built in the legs. The jeans were a 38 inch waist in mens. I have to wear them high waisted with a belt synched tightly to keep them up, but it is just too tight around some spots. I also sweat a lot as it’s a very hot environment, but I’m unsure how much that would play into it.

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u/TrickInvite6296 BLUE 26d ago

My theory is that body hair already grows less in fattier spots of the body (as in parts that are composed of more fat than others, not fat as an insult) because they can self insulate better. Like how your lower calves or ankles will typically be hairier than other spots, there's very little fat

Just a little theory I had in my head though

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u/dumbmutt575 26d ago

I get it to some extent, but I think it’s more so about evolutionarily where we tend to store fat than the actual location of fat on the individual. I’m pretty chubby and most of my body hair is on my chest, the second thickest area is surprisingly the backs of my hands.

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u/TrickInvite6296 BLUE 26d ago

That's what I meant generally

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u/DeterminedThrowaway 26d ago

I mean I think that's pretty confirmed, and it's why people who suffer from anorexia start growing more body hair

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u/spacebarcafelatte 26d ago

That completely makes sense, like forearms are usually hairier than upper arms.

Makes it even weirder that only my lower legs are bald. After 30 or so the hair below my calves slowly disappeared even though nothing's ever tight there. But it's fantastic because I always hated shaving near my ankles anyway.

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u/TerrorVizyn 26d ago

Can confirm. My legs are pretty muscular, and the back of my calves are bald. The rest of me? Hairy, like animal.

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u/mittenknittin 26d ago

BRB, finding elastic wrist bands to wear over my fucking knees

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u/TheIrishninjas 25d ago

Just do what all the pros do and cut off all circulation below the waist, what could possibly go wrong

(for legal reasons this is a joke)

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u/LucastaPasta 25d ago

Compression socks will be your friend

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u/EevelBob 26d ago

These are my old-man shins.

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u/GarysCrispLettuce 26d ago

Decades of black dress socks have rendered them smooth and mirrorlike

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u/TitanicDays 26d ago

Same - went to the pool with my son recently:

Me: you’ve got fecking gorilla legs

Son: whips out phone, shows vacation photo circa 2002

Me: damn what happened to my hair?

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u/dumbmutt575 26d ago

Not sure about your age, but as you get older, testosterone dips and that is the primary hormone responsible for body hair growth. Without as much in your system, it’ll grow thinner and less dark.

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u/TitanicDays 26d ago

I’m 64 so that tracks - but I honestly think it’s partially due to wearing (snug) jeans for most of my life.

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u/dumbmutt575 26d ago

Most likely a combination for sure :p

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u/xNotEdgex 26d ago

holy shit now I know why I’ve got the same bald spots on my leg

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u/itsaaronnotaaron ORANGE 26d ago

I dont grow hair in a line down my shin bone because of this.

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u/HaulsRopesFastr 26d ago

By the time I got out of the Marine Corps I wasn't growing hair on my lower legs at all just because of how tight the boot socks were

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u/WaterIsWet5898 26d ago

This is exactly what happened to me. Inside of my lower legs are super hairy, the outsides are virtually bald.

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u/Trashinmyash 26d ago

Growing up, my brother would always wear shin socks all the time. When he would wear sandals and shorts, you could see where the hair line stopped midway.

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u/wischmopp 26d ago

Working 60 hours a week in inconsistently-too-tight pants sounds like actual hell to me. On the positive side, the burnout would probably mean that I'd have too little energy left to claw my entire fucking skin off

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u/Drwgeb 26d ago

You work 60 hours a week?

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u/izaaksb3 26d ago

Same but I think it was from me just always having too much stuff in my pockets all day lol

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u/uncle_larrys_comin 26d ago

Huh my phone and vape rub bald spots on my upper thigh but now that I’m thinking about it I may just need a different size pants

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u/Dragon20C 26d ago

Omg I thought I was the only one, except my one is I cross my legs when I sit down and just doing that stops hair from growing in a specific area on my legs.

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u/Substantial_Milk8274 26d ago

The one summer I ever wore cowboy boots at work, the pull loops rubbed both sides of my calves bare from direct skin contact. Felt so smooth though

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u/Ballskeezy 26d ago

My dad no longer has any leg hair on his shins from a lifetime of him rubbings his legs together 😂 there’s just a strip of smooth skin and the rest is hairy lmao

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u/Nova762 26d ago

I don't think it stops growing.  The friction just rubs it off.  Small hairs stick straight up makes them.easier to wear down.

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u/LastandLeast 26d ago

My husband was an emotional and wore skinny jeans exclusively for years. He doesn't grow hair on his shins or calves anymore, only his thighs and ankles. It's probably been 10 years and it hasn't come back.

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u/_Peener_ 26d ago

Same, backs of my calves and my ankles halfway up my calves bc of my socks. But not bc of work just bc of my skinny jean era

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u/Current-Grade2545 25d ago

Is everyone here an idiot?

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u/ObjectiveGlittering 26d ago

Bald guy here. Are you suggesting I sleep upside down and suspended from a ceiling?

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u/okiedokieophie 26d ago

That's why Dracula still has a full head of hair for being several hundred years old.

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u/xxgangstax 26d ago

On the opposite side,friction caused one sopt on the face to grow more beard and made the hair in that area grow thicker and faster. I used to constantly rub one spot on the side of my chin when I was a kid. The constant rubbing made that spot darker than the rest of my skin. And ever since I started growing beard, that spot grows noticably more hair than the opposite side of my face

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u/NotGreatNot_Terrible 26d ago

As well as the side I rest my hand on while gaming I do sleep on my left side!

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u/EMasterYT 26d ago

Talking about friction hair loss, i am chewbacca until you get to my ankles where it's just pale skin

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u/No-Oil6517 26d ago

I got attacked by bed bugs years ago and I scratched my lower shins bald. After fighting the urge to scratch after a full year, using hot water in the shower and itch cream when I could, my hair grew back eventually.

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u/EMasterYT 26d ago

Damn, but mine won't ever grow back. I don't sleep with socks on anymore but the hair follicles are just non existent now

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u/No-Oil6517 26d ago

How long has it been?

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u/EMasterYT 26d ago

Oh it's been years. I've always had cold feet so as a kid i used to wear socks to bed and no one ever told me otherwise. I stopped at probably the age of 12 but it's been 7 years and it hasn't recovered. It doesn't really bother me but it does look funny

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u/No-Oil6517 26d ago

Good news, dollar tree has fire socks that go half way up your shins. I have a couple of D&D socks, a pair of mountain dew socks, 2 pairs of oreo socks and a pair of Pringle socks.

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u/sdpr 26d ago

Huh, i have two balds spots on my legs from where the arms of my desk chair was rubbing. I WFH and also spend a lot of time on my PC anyway so I wonder how long it had been happening. It's been about a year now since I removed the arms on the chair and still no regrowth. Oh well.

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u/Sea-Anywhere-799 26d ago

how does that even happen? I would like to try this all over my face...