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Why do some girls grow a little mustache? Is it
normal or is there something wrong with them?
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Question Date: 1998-03-24 | | Answer 1:
Nope--nothing is wrong with a girl that has some
facial hair. Sometimes, it just takes "biology" a
little while to adjust in our bodies. Men grow
facial hair because of natural hormones in their
body. The hormones are in a different balance in
men than they are in women and that has a lot to
do with why we look so different. This also is
relevant to Miguel's question. Anyway, sometimes,
as our bodies begin to "balance" these different
hormones, they can cause things like facial hair
to grow on a girl.
| | Answer 2:
We all have hair just about everywhere on our
bodies except for the palms of our hands and soles
of our feet.If you look closely at each other's
faces you'll see lots of fine hairs even though
you're probably all way too young to shave. All
mammals have hair. Even whales, which don't have
fur as adults, have hair before they're born. We
have about as many hair follicles per inch on our
bodies as chimps do, it's just that our hair is
short and fine. (Why do you think humans have so
little hair? Why do we have so much hair on our
heads?)
Of course, what you're really
asking is about more obvious hair. Whether the
hair is obvious depends on things like what color
it is, how long it is, and how much of it there
is. A lot of women and girls would have obvious
facial hair, but they are self-conscious about it,
so they get rid of it. On the other side of the
coin, some adult males don't have much facial hair
or only have it in patches. To answer the last
part of your question, there's a lot of normal
variation in hair on both males and females. Why
do you think males usually have so much more
facial hair than females? Why do males get facial
hair, then lose hair on their heads as they get
older?
| | Answer 3:
There's absolutely nothing wrong with them. Some
girls could have more or darker hair growth in the
face than others because of different reasons.
-First, heredity : some people tend to be
more hairy than others, and their children will
have the same tendency. Even for men, you'll see
differences in the darkness (black or blond hairs)
and amounts of hair in the arms or legs in between
two men, but, there is nothing wrong with
them.
-Second, many of the differences in
between boys and girls are due to some substances
produced by our body (they are called hormones).
Those hormones are present in both boys and girls
but in different amounts, and these amounts also
change during our lives. So it happens that some
changes in these amounts produce some hair growth
in the face, and that can also disappear as it
appeared.
So there is really nothing wrong,
we are just all different.
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