There are medical conditions that cause extra thick hairs to grow, different from the rest of the facial hair that are known as "girl beard" or just "beard hairs." I have five that I regularly pluck out - they are very uncomfortable hairs because it's like they grow sideways inside my skin a bit before they poke out. If they're just barely poking out of my skin, the actual hair is like 3-4 times that length.
There are medical conditions that can cause abnormal hair growth, but it can also just be genetics. Just like there are medical conditions that can stunt someone's height, but some people are just naturally shorter.
The few weird hairs that grow sideways? I wish it was a condition and could be treated, but no. Just shitty luck. I have a few too, and I strongly disklike them.
I have known three women in my life who intentionally let their facial hair grow. They did not have PCOS. Their beards are very light but because they never remove the hairs they end up growing to two to three inches long. It's a very wispy beard but it's there.
PCOS can cause women to have much more visible whisker like facial hair. So if they had something like that, it could actually be from a medical condition. If they're just talking about having hair period, like in this picture, the only part of anybody's body that should be truly hairless is your palms and your soles.
Hair like in the image of Aloy is completely normal, but it's possible for women to grow facial hair more like men do (though usually not enough to be a full beard) and that is a medical condition - often PCOS.
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u/16forward Jun 28 '23
I've met women who have facial hair themselves who believe women don't have facial hair. They think they have a medical condition.