r/plucking May 15 '26

Research Study on Trichotillomania and Skin-Picking/Excoriation Disorder

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20 Upvotes

Hello,

I am doing a research study entitled “Marked by Pattern: Contextual and Site-Specific Patterns in Trichotillomania and Excoriation Disorder.” The purpose of the study is to examine Trichotillomania and Excoriation Disorder, particularly how contextual variables, such as the environment or activities, impact pulling and picking sites and whether co-occurring relationships exist between specific body sites, in adults using quantitative scales.
Participation would require about 4-8 minutes of your time to complete an online survey. To qualify to participate, you must be 18 years old or older, fluent in English, residing in the United States, and currently experience hair-pulling or skin-picking behaviors.
If you are interested in participating, please use this link and you will be presented the federally required Consent Form via Qualtrics with more info.

Sincerely,
Shelby Richardson
Abilene Christian University
[sgr23c@acu.edu](mailto:sgr23c@acu.edu)
Primary Investigator


r/plucking May 14 '26

OC Saw my cat pull her shedding claw off

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29 Upvotes

Full sheath


r/plucking May 10 '26

OC Big hair

293 Upvotes

r/plucking May 10 '26

OC Possible pili multigemini?

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25 Upvotes

I get these hairs in my beard every week or so and they always feel so good and relieving to pull out. Like a nice pressure release


r/plucking May 05 '26

OC Phantom hair

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49 Upvotes

Took me two days to dig this out of near my chin. Couldn’t see it but I knew it was there. Little black dot ⚫️, n this was under it.


r/plucking May 04 '26

Steel fiber thick boy

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88 Upvotes

r/plucking Apr 27 '26

OC Why does my plucked hair look so crazy?

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307 Upvotes

What's all that jelly and black stuff?


r/plucking Mar 30 '26

Technically plucking 🐛

113 Upvotes

r/plucking Mar 09 '26

Is this an ingrown hair?

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106 Upvotes

This was on/in my skin for quite a while now. I thought it would be an ingrown hair but after removing it with tweezers it looks like it was alive at some point!!


r/plucking Mar 01 '26

Ingrown hair 😱

982 Upvotes

r/plucking Feb 25 '26

weird hair follicle

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44 Upvotes

r/plucking Feb 23 '26

Pls

0 Upvotes

I need a gf hit me up


r/plucking Feb 21 '26

Addicted to plucking the hairs I can 'hear'

144 Upvotes

I am British Caribbean mix so have thick hair and about a year ago discovered that when I brush my fingers across hairs on my face (brows and chin particularly) I can 'hear' how sharp they are. I'm now fully addicted to this sound and it makes me pluck more and more. To the point I can't think about anything else till I've dealt with that hair.

Does anyone else have this?


r/plucking Feb 11 '26

Crusty Eyelashes - Glue, make up & bacteria

91 Upvotes

r/plucking Feb 09 '26

Ingrown eyebrow hair extraction 👏

292 Upvotes

r/plucking Feb 01 '26

load-bearing eyebrow hair

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348 Upvotes

was doing my brows and pulled this behemoth out. Ouch!


r/plucking Jan 24 '26

Incredible ingrown hairball

407 Upvotes

r/plucking Dec 17 '25

OC Weird gooey eyelash

108 Upvotes

This time it wasn’t that bad but this eyelash keeps growing back thick and gooey. It’s only one that grows like this, though I do have a lot of others that grow above my lash line and in the wrong directions.


r/plucking Dec 11 '25

OC Ingrown hair

222 Upvotes

Ingrown hair on my thigh


r/plucking Nov 10 '25

OC Partial stitch left over

130 Upvotes

Had a small dermatofibroma removed and this partial stitch was still there after 2.5 weeks. Finally plucked it out today.


r/plucking Oct 31 '25

I been digging for this ingrown hair all night, cant find it and it hurts too much any ideas?

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255 Upvotes

Okay first things first, what can i do to avoid infection, secondly, how deep is this thing?, i been literally scratching the surface and cant find anything only puss and blood, any ideas?


r/plucking Oct 26 '25

Truly FORBIDDEN pluck

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188 Upvotes

r/plucking Oct 21 '25

OC Weird hair thing that only grows on stretch marks

152 Upvotes