shaving

I shave my legs, arms, armpits, toes, fingers,down there and pluck my eyebrows and upper lip.
I've got really dark hair, but i'm not really hairy.
But in my opinion i think it's almost been commercialized that body hair on women is almost dirty or wrong e.g porn, magazines etc. And if i'm out or around people they would mention the body hair in a negative manner, which isn't pleasant so i ended up shaving everything. But i really regret shaving my arms D:

jasmine eace:

 

I voted that I don't shave anything, since I stopped shaving several weeks ago. I'd given it some thought and realized I don't like shaving, and nobody can tell me to do something I don't like to do.

Now if only I could get myself to wear things other than jeans and long skirts, and stop worrying about what other people think.

 

stay with what feels good for you, even if it is jeans and long skirts. don't think you have to change to be free!! center yourself and feel what is right for YOU. you are the best expert for you, you know yourself better than anyone else does. you just have to reconnect to that inner knowledge.

 

I don't shave, I don't really like to. Anyway, hair is natural, so why shave it off? Sometimes I do get mean comments, but I tend not to listen (it is MY body anyway!)

 

my dad is originally from italy so i am dark skinned and have dark hair which means i shave/wax pretty much all over. i used to get teased at school about it so i'll never go natural.

 

Well, I don't shave, my husband does it for me. He gets all the places I can't see or reach easily. I love shaving day!

 

"I used to get teased at school about it so i'll never go natural." That is so sad.

Not about your grooming choices, but that you anticipate that adolescent teasing is going to rule your for the rest of your life. What other aspects of your life do you anticipate being controlled by your memory of what 16 year olds said?

 

well when you put it like that, it sounds silly. was you ever bullied at school?

 

Nope, not really.

The sadness I feel about this is on several levels.
1) That social acceptance is so important to so many.
2) That bullying in high school has gotten so bad.
3) That people anticipate trying to appease their H.S. bullies for the rest of their lives, long after the bullies are not a part of their lives.

I do find consolation in the memory that people do grow out of living based on their fears. (Lord that sounds way too intense.)

 

I shave everything because I really like the feeling of being completely bare. Recently I've been sugaring my legs and arm pits which is just a homemade wax made out of sugar it's awesome.

 

I shave my legs, my pits, my crotch... everything. I just like the way it looks and the way it feels. I do it almost daily, even though I probably don't need to. I have very light colored hair and it doesn't grow in very fast. It's just become a routine that I don't even think about anymore.

 

I've quit shaving, kind of experimenting with it, seeing how it'll go... so far so good, I'm not hairy to begin with. It's interesting all these habits the media and society puts upon us that are so unnecessary.

 

Being a teenager I had a friend, whose mother forbade her to shave and she had real black bushes in her armpits... That looked terrible! So I offered her a trick. We cut her armpit hair without any shaving)