Thursday, March 04, 2010

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made!

I'm starting to get a little fur on top.
I was talking to a friend of mine at Karate a few weeks ago, and her little daughter noticed my eyes looked quite different. I explained to her it was because my eyelashes were gone. I said I was rather looking forward to having them back. Then her mom said, "Oh I don't think eyelashes ever grow back!"
Well, this was alarming!
We're both homeschooling moms, so we decided to make me into a science project - a sort of a unit study on hair growth.
Fortunately, I have since been able to prove her wrong, as I am growing eyelashes and all kinds of facial hair again. In fact, I think my face is a little furrier than it was. I hope the hair on my chin knows when to quit!
This brings us to another interesting question. How do eyelashes know when to quit growing? And other types of facial hair? Isn't it amazing that we grow hair everywhere, and even after some trauma, our hair knows to grow just a little above our eyes, a lot on the top of our heads, and a little on the chin if we're female, but a lot on the chin if we're male. Is this really the result of some big cosmic bang?

3 comments:

Mariette said...

It ain't no cosmic bang, and if it is, the "Cosmic Bang" isn't a woman. A woman Cosmic Bang would not have given ladies chin hair, even for a joke.

Bet you never thought you'd be GLAD to be plucking chin hair, but I think I would be. :)

Anne-Marie said...

Haha this was a great post Auntie Joanne. I never thought about facial hair like that before! It's strange how our bodies are able to regulate themselves so well.

Anonymous said...

I just wish the sides of my shoulders were in on the loop. It's chaos. Whoever is in charge of the eyebrows needs to get down there and have a look.

Bob