Attitudes to your body hair

Over the years has your attitude/preference for your body hair (or removal of it) changed? Maybe you started as a regular pit/leg shaver in early teens, but then grew out this hair which you embraced as natural part of you that you now like or conversely you 've had shaggy leg hair for a couple of years which you used to find cool but then didn't like so much + now prefer shaved legs but perhaps still like hairy pits or any of the other possible permutations ?

Parts where you like being hairy, places you hate having hair?

Just curious how the attitudes to our bodies change with time + other influences such as partners/family/peers/ work-related, etc.

 

Well when i was about 10 i began shaving and always had until last summer of 2007. I always thought id be embarrassed if guys saw that my leg hair was visible so a shaved all of the time, but then i realized why should i shave for others? So now i havent shaved since June 2007. I love my hair. Several of my friends don't shave either which is great. We've accepted the natural beauty of our hair
I don't see why girls have to be so self conscious about it

 

fully...I used to think my legs/pits looked really manly when I did not shave them...but then I thought about why I was doing it, and why I would think that something that grew naturally on woman would look manly...Now I don't shave anymore and I really love it, I think hairy people are really beautiful and if someone is grossed out then that's their issue.

 

personally i'd shave my head, too, if i didn't look like a pinhead on a pumpkin.

 

I just find it uncomfortable and started shaving when I was in middle school... I guess I shaved my legs cuz I was embarrassed about it but I shaved other places just cuz I didn't like it, not any other reason. I still don't like to have it long but whenever I pluck my eyebrows I wonder why I'm doing it haha... I like the way it looks and all its just weird that women pluck their eyebrows ya know.

 

my eyes are too pretty to play second fiddle to a mowhawk growing from my brow. so i pluck my eyebrows.

 

Love your attitude- mine too!

 

I really don't care what other people think, and shave because I like the way that it looks and feels. I have some beautiful friends that don't shave and I have no issue with their choice.

The only time I have ever cringed at body hair is when a woman in line in front of my was wearing panty hose with a mini skirt and LOTS of long black hairs were poking out. Without the hose it might not have been too bad, but with them....wow!

Honestly in my opinion some people can do au natural better than others.....I think a lot of it has to do with attitude.

 

i am moving into my late 30's(how did that happen so quickly) and I have alwasy been a shaver and a bleacher(hair above lip).


As I have gotten older, leg shaving in the winter happens about 2x a week, and I bleach about once a month.

I started getting gray and so this month for the first time i bought a kit and dyed my haird dark(the natural color) for a little ego boost..nothing like gray hair to make you feel just that much older..

I have also notice that my face has teeny fuzzy areas, nothing like thick hair growing, but just fuzz.

I have been tempted to wax it, or shave it(bad idea) and I am not sure if i will or not.

My pits I am obsessive about, i do not like to feel hot and sweaty and that is the 1st place it gets uncomfortable, soo daily shave there.

 

When I see women with pit hair or leg hair it usually doesn't really bother me or even phase me at all, who cares?

 

i felt very empowered when i first stopped shaving, and i still feel that way about my armpits. i really just think theyre the best thing ever lol
my legs are hairy too and they seem to bother people the most. im not about to shave them because i hate shaving and i hate stubble and i think they look fine, but if i was to be close with someone who preferred smooth legs, i would shave or wax them i suppose.
im not taking a stand against shaving, and fully support anyone who does it, i just love my body hair and think bare pits and "downstairs" look silly.

 

As soons as I was self-conscious enough, I started shaving my body hair. I've always done that. I can't see things any other way.

 

I dont shave. Well, i give under my arms a quick brush with the razor once every few weeks, but otherwise i have no need to. My body hairs are blonde and cant really be seen unless youre really close up. And i dont mind the feel. Tis the way im made

 

I'm a guy and I appreciate natural women. I think it's beautiful. I'm kind of fuzzy myself so I appreciate the company.

 

I in short, just cover up and wax when i have to.

 

i think the first time i shaved my legs i was about 11 or 12. i hid it from my mom cuz she didnt want me shaving yet, but you couldnt really tell anyway cuz my hair is naturally blonde. i never really shaved my legs frequently because i never needed to. in the summer, maybe 2 or 3 times a month, but i shave my armpits everyday because i just hate the way it feels when i don't. i shave *down there* pretty much whenever i get the chance. same thing with the feeling, i just hate feeling hairy.

 

we need more people like you guys in the world. lol

 

My x girlfriend shaved her face everyday. Is that ok? She tried to hide it but after a while she talked about. I didn't mind at all. The only problem was if other people could see it. Does boys really care about girls hair?

 

Doesn't seem right to me dude... but if your down with with it, Word

 

I shave my legs and arms but whenever I let it go, Im really not worried and dont give a crap what people say. I just like the smoothness of it. IF I had to go back to when I was 10, the age whenever I first started shaving anything, I would have waited to see how hairy my arms/legs really got. (Im curious) I have a hairy happytrail but it's so cute I think. I dont care if anyone likes it or not, they`ll get over it if they like me lol.