Do you shave?

[Rebecca]

With cold weather approaching, I feel much less inclined to shave my legs. I rarely shave my pits anyway, and find that I'm actually a bit more comfy with some hair in the pits... and not stinky either.

Actually, I hadn't shaved my pits in months until I got preg, and was suddenly grossed out by all sorts of strange things. I'm over that now.

Anyone else not mind the au naturale look?

[Quickening]

I don't shave, never have since I was about 14! Shaving is such a pain in the arse and the hair grows back hard and bristly!

I use an epilator... its a machine that rips your hairs out! They are great, I did my legs 3 weeks ago and the hairs are just starting to grow back now, fine, silky and soft! I can go for 3 months or so without having to do my legs as the hairs are so sparse and soft.

I don't think I do it any less or more because winter is approaching... but I usually do let my bikini line slide hehe as I maintain it with a eyebrow plucker - don't shave there or epilate there. Then after winter its time for a visit to the waxer's!

[momto l&a]

YES I didnt shave for a few days and when I get goose bumps hair on my legs feels very strange. It also feels strange to me to take a shower with water running down between my leg hairs:LOL

Dh doesnt like to cuddle with me when my legs are are prickely, dont blame him as I dont like kissing him when he hasnt shaved in a few days.

[sunnmama]

I am so laid-back about shaving (luckily, so is dh ) I live in a beachy area, and I only *sometimes shave. Like when I feel that an outfit warrants the effort, lol. And then I might only shave the part that shows....like legs for a cute denim miniskirt. Going to beach in a bikini is not necessarily a good enough reason for me to shave. Dh really doesn't care either way....and that probably has influenced my lax attitude.

[morninglark]

I shave my legs because I like the feeling/look of smooth legs. If I could be patient enough for the hair to grow out and naturally replace itself with smoother hair, I probably wouldn't shave at all.

I do not shave my pits. I just started not shaving earlier this year and I am very self-concious of it as my family is quite conservative about these things and so is my work. I prefer not shaving my underarms, but I find it a bit restrictive in the summer when my collegues are wearing sleeveless tops.

[ja mama]

I don't shave my legs because I don't like the stubble. My dh would prefer I did, so once or twice a year I'll have them waxed, usually summer, just to make him happy. I didn't shave when we met so I don't feel it's a requirement... However, I do shave my armpits. Just personal preference.

[Gemini]

I've stopped shaving for the cold season. Like someone mentioned before, it does feel weird having the water run down hairy legs! And I feel like an ape cleaning my jungle pits.

[MamaOui]

I go through phases. for the last year or so I have been shaving, but I have gone long stretches (months to a year) without doing so.

[mamaroni]

For the most part, yes. But during winter I rarely shave my legs. I keep up with my pits a couple times a week. Too stinky for me if I don't. And the bikini line, ugh! What to do with that?? I've pretty much given up on wearing a suit because it's just torture to try and remove that hair. And there seems to be so much of it now since I've had kids!

I went through a phase in college where I didn't shave anything for quite a long time.

[Irishmommy]

I wax, though less in winter. I shave my pits every shower.

[Sustainer]

I never shave anything. Don't use any other method of hair removal, either.

[Ali]

I'm only seeing legs and pits mentioned

Don't tell me know one has discovered the wonderful feeling of shaving . . . . ummm . . . . well . . . . around your girl parts?

Very nice for sex. That's all I'm sayin'!

[flitters]

i'm with quickening on this one.

i waxed starting around age 15 until i discovered the epilator a few years ago.

slightly off topic, but to those who use one, what brand epilator do you have? i got mine in japan and i think i'm almost due for a new one, but i don't know which of the brands available here is best. thanks!

[mamaroni]

Re: I'm only seeing legs and pits mentioned

Originally posted by Ali
Don't tell me know one has discovered the wonderful feeling of shaving . . . . ummm . . . . well . . . . around your girl parts?

Very nice for sex. That's all I'm sayin'!

Yes, but how do you do it so that you don't get all that nasty itchy stubble afterward?

[flitters]

and in response to ali, i've wax and/or epilator in more places than just legs, bikini and pits. i don't keep up with it all the time but i do enjoy (as does dh) something close to a brazilian now and then.

edited to add:

since it's not shaving i don't get stubble, it just regrows like normal hair, but the occassional ingrown hair is a bitch.

[Quickening]

Flitters:

OOh! Epilators are the best, it was so difficult to find one in the USA - guess you all have low pain thresolds hehe (aussies are superior woohoo) but I finally found a great one at www.shavershop.com

Mine is the blue one, http://www.shavershop.com/ss_product...duct_id=EE1170

and it is amazingly great! The yellow one I had in Australia was nothing compared to the new one (both braun).

Ouch, you epilate pubic hair, how does that work? Doesnt it bleed?

[Sustainer]

You people with the hair-ripper-outers are giving me suggestive pain!

[alsoSarah]

When I bother with my leg hair at all. I use my ancient epi-lady. I love it, but I'm going to have to replace it sooner or later....

Pits, I shave.

Pubic hair, I just trim. (the shaved-all-off look is *so* not my thing... reminds me of the way that small children look. How did *that* become a sexualized look??)

peace,
alsoSarah

[flitters]

quickening, thanks for the recommendation! i will definitely get that one if it's not battery powered. i couldn't tell from the site, does it have a cord and electric adapter?

as for using it on my pubic hair... and sorry if this is tmi...

alsoSarah, i'm not big on the completely bare look either. i think what i like best is called a landing strip, but since i've never seen i pictoral guide, i'm not sure! basically, i like a stripe in front, but close to bare underneath. sometimes though i find that makes me sensitive to detergents in my underwear, then i let it grow out.

as for the actual hair ripping, no, it doesn't bleed. though it did once a bit when i waxed it. i go slowly and don't do it in big strokes like i do my legs... kind of working back to front. slowly. and i probably don't go within an inch radius of my clit.

[Aiyana's Mama]

i pretty much just do whatever i feel like.. i mean sometimes i do, a lot of times i don't. sex is fun whether i shave there or not. i usually wear long skirts & pants so the legs, i really get away with! dh says he likes women "how they come naturally" but if i shave my legs, he's like "ooooh... so soft" : :

anyway, i guess i should be happy he doesn't care! let freedom reign! hehe

ps- yet another "dh is naive" story- he didn't know women plucked their eyebrows until a couple years ago (he's almost 29) just thought some actually came with pencil thin, perfectly shaped brows

mama mia! :

Joleen