Why do I have this compulsion to read all the whitefont? Never mind; that was rhetorical.

I'm curious - do all y'all who have ingrown hair difficulties have straight hair? My hair's curly, and I never get such problems, and I wonder if that's why. I've read that straight hair tangles more easily than curly, so maybe it, like, tangles on itself as it grows? I dunno.

The Boy really is a freak.

No, the boy is a gem. I miss having someone who can check out something that I cannot see because I am not a circus performer. See also: ticks.

I have very straight hair, but I have had one ingrown hair before this, and it was tiny and easily identified and pulled out with tweezers.

My understanding is that curly hair actually is more prone to ingrowns.

ETA: I would have no probs dealing with a similar problem on DH, but I possess a strong stomach and a fair fascination with fixing medical stuff. I would be a damn fine nurse, except for hating vomit and poo. Pus I am ok with.

Just wait. Now that I've said that, I'll get a huge awful ingrown hair within a week.

Just wait. Now that I've said that, I'll get a huge awful ingrown hair within a week.

Well, you *did* type the magical ingrown-hair-causing incantation.

Accidental magick.

I've had those. Not fun.

Cereal--

I got my hair dyed yesterday after work (and it's right purty, iffen I do say so myself). We are invited to go swimming at a friends today. I worry that the chlorine is not good for the dye. What do our dye gurus say?

I have straight hair. I've also had ingrown hairs that aren't curled, they grow straight under the skin, parallel to it.

Healing Ma to Suzi-Q Cousin's wife.