Mutant Facial Hair

Around 9 months ago I noticed 3 little black spots on my chin - kind of like blackheads but upon closer inspection they appeared to be thick hairs shaved close to my skin. A couple of months later and they were still there, so I squeezed one, and to my amazement a little black stick slid out!

It was approximately 1cm long and much thicker than a normal hair. It was also fairly hard and solid (i.e. not dirt, skin cells or puss).

Over the next few days I set to work on the other two spots, which proved more difficult to remove. After a lot of squeezing and pressing I managed to get two more of the black sticks to slide from out of my chin - both much the same as the original. I saved one of them on top of a gel pot and dared one of my friends to touch it. But sadly, someone cleaned my bathroom shortly afterwards and I found the stick had been removed from the top of the gel pot.

Now, several months on, I noticed another black spot in the same area. I tried squeezing it, and it just looked like a thick hair so I left it alone. The next day I took a shower and then had a shave. As I passed the razor over my chin I felt a sharp pain, as if the razor had sliced into my skin.

I quickly looked in the mirror, and found it hadn’t cut me at all. Basically, the razor had caught the thick “hair” and plucked it right out. A new black stick was now standing about 1cm out of my face. I tried to remove it, but it appeared to still be wedged in the follicle, so I had to grip it tightly and pull it out.

I did a search on Google for “mutant facial hair” and found someone with a similar experience. In fact, his photo (below) shows one of the little black sticks he removed from his chin, which looks exactly the same as the ones I removed from mine.

I know these are not blackheads, because a blackhead is a blocked follicle whereby the surface of the puss has oxidised and turned black. These black sticks are thick and hard (not pussy or gooey) - just like mutant hairs or several hairs combined into one.