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1 for the ladies - how do you keep yours?

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  • miss_corerupted
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    i leave mine natural tbh. I get ingrown hairs everytime, not just 1 or 2 but praticually everyone. red and painful smoe with pus not a sexy look tbh

    i don't even shave my armpits or legs same happens - i don't like the look though as i'm pale with brown hair :(
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  • BitterAndTwisted
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    I used to give myself a bit of a trim and tidy-up before going on my summer holidays but it never occurred to me to take the lot off. I'm not sure I could be trusted with a sharp blade anywhere down there any way and I'm not sure the prepubescent look is a good one on a grown woman.

    I'm in my late 50s and many of my younger friends shave every time they bathe. That doesn't worry me but what it does to men's minds, thinking that hair isn't natural and therefore undesirable, does. Some men I know are disgusted by a woman in her natural state, and I find that idea really rather frightening
  • KitKat00
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    Early 20's and I can't stand the preteen look, I trim the hedge :P I shaved once and it was itchy and annoying. Having a natural bush is a bit consuming as to trimming but I would rather have some hair, it seems unnatural not to
  • KitKat00
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    That doesn't worry me but what it does to men's minds, thinking that hair isn't natural and therefore undesirable, does. Some men I know are disgusted by a woman in her natural state, and I find that idea really rather frightening

    So do I. I can't stand this idea that men have this repulsion for body hair on women
  • Saturnalia
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    I use an electric shaver to remove any hair that shows outside my underwear and the rest is trimmed to a No.2 length. I've tried all-off, landing-strip, letting it grow, and now I've found what's most comfortable for me. There isn't a partner on the scene so I'm the only one that has to be happy with it, and even if I did meet someone, he isn't the one who has to live in this body is he!
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  • peachyprice
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    KitKat00 wrote: »
    So do I. I can't stand this idea that men have this repulsion for body hair on women

    It's not just men though is it? There are many women who would think eeeuuuww if they saw another woman with hairy pits It's all pubic hair, there's no difference.
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  • KitKat00
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    I think its because society has been conditioned to be negative like this. There's nothing wrong with body hair
  • It's not just men though is it? There are many women who would think eeeuuuww if they saw another woman with hairy pits It's all pubic hair, there's no difference.

    Yes, and I'm one such woman who thinks that. Presumably those with rampant pubic hair and armpits take care of themselves in other ways, e.g. tidying up eyebrows, checking for any signs of a moustache appearing, going to the hairdresser, applying make-up - if so I find it a bit confusing and that removing a bit of superfluous hair somehow you are an oppressed woman (by men) or wishing to look pre-pubescent.
    As I've said, I don't feel pubic hair is the one thing that defines me as an adult woman, therefore I feel no need to hang on to it come hell or high water! I feel more hygenic and infact more feminine with it gone. Most of my friends remove theirs totally or at least keep it very trim too, none of us think it strange.
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  • Torry_Quine
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    Yes, and I'm one such woman who thinks that. Presumably those with rampant pubic hair and armpits take care of themselves in other ways, e.g. tidying up eyebrows, checking for any signs of a moustache appearing, going to the hairdresser, applying make-up - if so I find it a bit confusing and that removing a bit of superfluous hair somehow you are an oppressed woman (by men) or wishing to look pre-pubescent.
    As I've said, I don't feel pubic hair is the one thing that defines me as an adult woman, therefore I feel no need to hang on to it come hell or high water! I feel more hygenic and infact more feminine with it gone. Most of my friends remove theirs totally or at least keep it very trim too, none of us think it strange.

    Not really. I very occasionally use hair remover cream to stop getting a single eyebrow and remove upper lip hairs but it's usually weeks before I get round to it. :o I get an £8trim at the hairdresser every six months or so and don't wear make-up.
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  • Not really. I very occasionally use hair remover cream to stop getting a single eyebrow and remove upper lip hairs but it's usually weeks before I get round to it. :o I get an £8trim at the hairdresser every six months or so and don't wear make-up.

    Well I can't comment on the hairdressers really as I only go about once a year on sufferance, they don't seem to know how to cut my hair which is long and curly, or don't do what I've asked then charge about 25 quid for a quick trim. I usually end up chopping bits off myself and I colour it at home too.
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