I wish my eyelashes would take some lessons from the hairs that grow on my mole.
For some reason, the ones I least want to appear end up darker, thicker, and longer-looking than the kind on my head.
Friends have said they experience the same thing, too. So what’s going on?
Why does mole hair grow so thick and dark?
Pigmented moles, or those which are a different, darker colour to the rest of your skin, are melanocytic, the British Association of Dermatologists writes.
That means they “are made up of the cells (melanocytes) which produce the dark pigment (melanin) that gives the skin its colour”.
Healthline says this might affect any hairs growing there.
“In some cases, the hair that grows out of a mole may appear darker or thicker than the other body hair surrounding it. This is because the extra pigment in the cells may darken the hair, too,” they suggested.
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