This is serious folks. I'm planning for the future here and I need help. Please... this is NOT a joke. I really need advice, so follow me for a second as I take you on a journey of the weird and mysterious: my phsyche. I'm a fairly hairy guy. Nothing out of control, but those who have seen some of my grizzly pictures or old pictures with long goatee etc, understand what I'm saying. I've got the standard happy trail, surrounded by some dark fuzz, and a decent size patch of chest hair. Real thick leg hair and real dark, semi-thick arm hair. My ass has a jungle, and now we're getting closer to the issue: I'm pretty sure my back is going to get hairy at some point. It hasn't happened yet, but I also didn't have hair on my chest and toes the way I do now, when I was 20. It can happen quick, is my point. The back I'm not even so much worried about, but more if it starts growing into my sides. Does this happen? If it were just my back I can wax it or have somebody wax it... whatever. But if it creeps across my sides and meets my stomach hair, I won't know where to shave it and where to stop. Like now it's just natural and covers where it covers on the front of my belly but if it starts getting thicker etc I'll have to start waxing that too. I don't want a body rug. The questions is, where do you stop? Do places figure this shit out for you? I'm worried. I'm not trying to look like Harry, you know, with the Hendersons, but I'm not trying to end up having to shave my legs and ass because my stomach and back get too hairy. Thanks for your help.
my back's already starting to hair up i don't know what the proper etiquette is for removing it though, i've just been letting it go so far...
If the hair on my chest and shit never got worse and it was the same on my back, I could deal. Anybody ever seen the movie, 'Dirty Work', with Norm McDonald? Look it up on youtube if you haven't. Early in the movie there's a scene where Norm tells a guy to give him his shirt back. The guy removes the shirt and appears to be covered in gigantic black cottonballs...big patches of hair all down his sides, chest and back. I'm not worried about that extremity, but that's my essential fear.
All I'm saying is that shaving it or removing it or whatever will put you into a whole new spectrum of shit. Imagine having to shave your back every other day or some shit like that just because you started shaving it... Imagine that hair growing in thick... that must suck. Just embrace your manhood and wear all that damn hair with pride.
Scratch your arm and then scratch your head. Big difference in feeling isn't it? Both under your nails and on the part being scratched. That's my problem with being hairy. Not so much the appearance of it.
I'm a bit of a hairy guy too. It happens man. Try not to worry about it. Glad I don't have back hair though. I couldn't shave it off if I wanted to, and that concerns me.
Yeah I don't have back hair yet either, but at 19 I figured I'd never have chest hair really either. Something tells me it's coming. . .
If you try to shave some off, you are going to leave lines....it will look like you are wearing a bathmat... as long as you have less hair than this guy, you are fine...after that, well, you could save a bundle on clothes, since you won't be needing them.
Hahahaha. That guy is my biggest fear. Only I'm skinnier so the hair would cover me more. :& I wouldn't shave it, but waxing doesn't strike me as out of the question.
I don't want chemical burn over 90% of my body, thanks. Gary, that's also something that'd crossed my mind, but isn't that super pricey? I used to work for the circus. Apparently you can't be the cannon monkey and a side show.
my advice is, if it will bother you very much, wax instead of shaving. Shaving will allow the hair you hate to grow back in bristly. Shaving will make the hair grow in slower and finer, the more you do it. Its pretty much up to you where to stop the hair removal. What you feel comfortable with.