Can accelerated vellus hairs return to normal?

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#1

Not sure where to put this post … I have been doing a bit of reading online and am a bit confused with the conflicting info … has anyone actually seen / heard of anyone who has accelerated vellus hair growth (mainly face) having this accelerated rate return to a more “normal” length / colour at any stage on its own? I thought once a hair “turned” that it stayed this way? Also I thought vellus hair wasnt effected by hormones but a few sites are saying it is?

Does anyone have any definite answers to this for me?
Thanks

#2

I’ve heard that’s the case for women after their pregnancy. And for me personally I had laser done on my face which induced the vellus hairs but about 6 months later now they seem to have become much lighter and natural again.

#3

Thank you.

#4

np and if I may ask how did this develop for you? or are you just trying to get precautions?

#5

My daughter has a couple of longish darkish accelerated vellus hairs on her nose (she has a lot of excess body hair on her limbs as well). A well meaning dermatologist told us to pluck them when they were too obvious. I have noticed that there are a few more there now then what was there initially and I now see from other posts that they have probably been stimulated or, given that they were there in the first place, a few more have naturally grown. My daughter is pre-teen by the way.

Just wondered if puberty could alter these hairs again - preferably lighter as opposed to darker. Just didnt know if it was possible for the hairs to go the other way. Hope that makes sense. Probably only plucked about 3 hairs twice each at the most so maybe it was just what was always going to happen as opposed to encouraging more to grow!!

Its an odd place to sprout hair so I was just curious as to whether it was possible that hormones at some stage may make them drop out or less obvious as she grows.

Thanks

#6

The bad news, the hair won’t “normalize” with age. The good news, it is just a few hairs, so it will be cheap to do electrolysis to remove them for ever. Since this will fall into the mandatory minimum treatment time payment for most practitioners, you should either share the time, or find some other hairs she wants removed, as you don’t really have a lot to do here.

#7

Thanks James.

Actually looking at her in the sunlight today her whole face is pretty much fluffy-ish with these longish hairs its just the ones on her nose dont lie flat on her skin so they seem a bit more prominent. And only the odd one on her nose is dark - cant see any dark ones anywhere else. I have never seen anyone ever with such dense hair growth on their nose. I was really hoping it was some sort of mad hormone thing (even though her tests are fine) and that they would kind of right themselves at puberty for some crazy reason. Im just praying she doesnt end up looking like the poor children you see on the hypertrichosis websites. Especially since the permanent hair removal options wont be available to her for about 7 years :frowning: