Shaven or Unshaven?

ClementineGeorg

Legs - Always without hair; waxing/epilator preffered but sometimes I have to cheat and shave
Arms - Most times, always waxed
Pits - Always, shaved ( my armpit lymphs get swolen when I use wax/epilator and my doctor advised me to stick to shaving... but I sometimes feel the need to use the epilator because they look so wonderful after)
Back - Not necessary
Face - Not necessary, but if I think I see something strange I tweeze or whiten
Situation - Most times, waxing and tweezing when I am bored (just don't ask)
Chest - Not necessary

But I don't mind hair on men... well... at least when I'm not seeing any Yeti.

mazzasweet

I want to see my trophy- a wax covered strip, the one that has caused me so much pain, with my hairy pelt sticking to it.

I want to revel in the glory that is my triumph over body hair. I hold up the strip! There's no hair on it.

Where is the hair? WHERE IS THE WAX?

Oh my goodness you are hysterical! I certainly hope you write for a living - you're a great story teller! I'm glad everything worked out okay :-)

WendyTerry420

I stay well trimmed . For women, I like everything shaved except for the obvious region.

Legs?

he is obviously talking about underarms and back

I was thinking he meant armpits. Weird...guess it's not so obvious. :ohwell:

I said region. Armpits are not singular. A back isn't a region.

But by saying "region," it's still not obvious. Just from this thread alone, we can see that lots of people choose to shave, or not shave, various regions on their body.

And seriously, how is a back *NOT* a region of your body? That makes no sense.

WendyTerry420

Sweet Jesus, did you ladies say you epilator your crotch?! Wtf!

Better than shaving. I used to use an epilator for everything but waxing takes less time. It is a big painful but worth it.

I let my husband take care of that. He does a good job. (the old fashioned way, straight razor and shaving cream)

skinnyinnotime

I only shave my face.
I'm a man and wear my hair with a badge of honor.
All real men have hair ladies.

So where's your beard and 'tache, don't real men have those?

GnomeLover1984

Legs - Every Day
Arms - Not necessary
Pits - Every Day
Back - Not necessary
Face - Not necessary
Situation - About once a week.
Chest - Not necessary

On men, I prefer everything unshaven. Except back hair...if you got back hair...handle that.

GnomeLover1984

Sweet Jesus, did you ladies say you epilator your crotch?! Wtf!

My feelings exactly....That **** is traumatic, even just on my legs.

SpeSHul_SnoflEHk

All hair removal methods have tricked women with their promises of easy, painless removal- The epilady, scissors, razors, Nair, and now... The wax.

My night began as any other normal weeknight. Come home, fix dinner, play with the kids. I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next few hours: "Maybe I should pull the waxing kit out of the medicine cabinet." So I headed to the site of my demise: the bathroom.

It was one of those "cold wax" kits. No melting a clump of hot wax, you just rub the strips together in your hand, they get warm and you peel them apart and press them to your leg (or wherever else) and you pull the hair right off.

No muss, no fuss. How hard can it be? I mean, I'm not a genius, but I am mechanically inclined enough to figure this out.

(Y A THINK!?!)

So I pull one of the thin strips out. Its two strips facing each other stuck together. Instead of rubbing them together, my genius kicks in so I get out the hair dryer and heat it to 1000 degrees. (Cold wax, "yeah... Right!")

I lay the strip across my thigh. Hold the skin around it tight and pull.

It works!

Ok, so it wasn't the best feeling, but it wasn't too bad.

I can do this!

Hair removal no longer eludes me! I am She-rah, fighter of all wayward body hair and maker of smooth skin extraordinaire.

With me next wax strip I move north. After checking on the kids, I sneak back into the bathroom, for the ultimate hair fighting championship.

I drop my panties and place one foot on the toilet. Using the same procedure, I apply the one strip across the right side of my bikini line, covering the right half of my *hoo-hoo* and stretching down to t he inside of my butt cheek.

(Yes, it was a long strip)
I inhale deeply and brace myself... RRRRIIIPPP!

I'm blind! Blinded from pain!... OH MY GOD!

Vision returning, I notice that I've only managed to pull off half the strip. CRAP!

Another deep breathe and RRIIPP!

Everything is swirly and spotted.

I think I may pass out... Must stay conscious...

Do I hear crashing drums?

Breathe, breathe...

OK, back to normal.

I want to see my trophy- a wax covered strip, the one that has caused me so much pain, with my hairy pelt sticking to it.

I want to revel in the glory that is my triumph over body hair. I hold up the strip! There's no hair on it.

Where is the hair? WHERE IS THE WAX?

Slowly I ease my head down, foot still perched on the toilet.

I see the hair. The hair that should be on the strip.

I touch. I am touching wax.

CRAP!

I run my fingers over the most sensitive part of my body, wh ich I s now covered in cold wax and matted hair.

Then I make the next BIG mistake... Remember my foot is still propped up on the toilet?

I know I need to do something. So I put my foot down.

DANG!

I hear the slamming of a cell door.

"hoo-hoo"? Sealed shut!

Butt? Sealed shut!

I penguin walk around the bathroom trying to figure out what to do and think to myself "Please don't let me get the urge to poop. My head may pop off!"

What can I do to melt the wax? Hot water! Hot water melts wax!

I'll run the hottest water I can stand into the bathtub, get in, immerse the wax-covered bits and the wax should melt and I can gently wipe it off, right?

WRONG!

I get in the tub- the water is slightly hotter than that used to torture prisoners of war or sterilize surgical equipment- I sit.

Now, the only th ing worse than having your nether regions glued together is having them glued together a n d then glued to the bottom of the tub.. In scalding hot water. Which, by the way, doesn't melt cold wax.

So, now I'm stuck to the bottom of the tub as though I had cement-epoxied myself to the porcelain!

God bless the man who had convinced me a few moths ago to have a phone put in the bathroom!

I call my friend, thinking surely she has waxed before and has some secret of how to get me undone. It's a very good conversation starter- "So, my butt and who-ha are glued together to the bottom of the tub!"

There is a slight pause. She doesn't know any secret tricks for removal but she does try to hide her laughter from me. She wants to know exactly where the wax is located, "Are we talking cheeks or who-ha?"

She's laughing out loud by now... I can hear her. I give her the rundown and she suggests I call the number on the side of the box. YE AH! RIGHT! ! I should be the joke of someone else's night.

While we go through various sol ut ions. I resort to scraping the wax off with a razor. Nothing feels better then to have your girlie goodies covered in hot wax, glued shut, stuck to the tub in super hot water and then dry-shaving the sticky wax off!

By now the brain is not working, dignity has taken a major hike and I'm pretty sure I'm going to need Post-Traumatic Stress counseling for this event.

My friend is still talking with me when I finally see my saving grace... The lotion the give you to remove the excess wax. What do I really have to lose at this point?

I rub some on and OH MY GOD!

The scream probably woke the kids and scared the ens out of my friend.

It's so painful, but I really don't care.

"IT WORKS! It works!"

I get a hearty congratulations from my friend and she hangs up.

I successfully remove the remainder of the wax and then notice t o my grief and despair... THE HAIR IS STILL THERE... ALL OF IT!

So I recklessly sh ave it off. Heck, I'm numb by now. Nothing hurts.

I could have amputated my own leg at this point.

Next week I'm going to try hair color.... Now that's funny...... Not!

The things we women go thru

:flowerforyou: Thanks for sharing. best post I've seen all day!

crimsontech

I have PCOS so hair is definitely an issue... however I am in the process of getting laser hair removal on everything except the top of my head and my eyebrows. Thankfully the lasers have gotten better over the last few years or else I would be in there for hours every 6 weeks!

xDawnsgrace

only shave legs and armpits.. don't see the need to shave anything else.

OneEyeUp

I stay well trimmed . For women, I like everything shaved except for the obvious region.

Legs?

he is obviously talking about underarms and back

I was thinking he meant armpits. Weird...guess it's not so obvious. :ohwell:

I said region. Armpits are not singular. A back isn't a region.

But by saying "region," it's still not obvious. Just from this thread alone, we can see that lots of people choose to shave, or not shave, various regions on their body.

And seriously, how is a back *NOT* a region of your body? That makes no sense.

As a student of medicine, I tend to think of things a little different. A back has so many parts that branch into different regions of the body, I would be more inclined to call it a complex. I suppose technically you could say its a region. *shrug* Other people say far end of my hand, I say "distal."

denezy

Sweet Jesus, did you ladies say you epilator your crotch?! Wtf!

Better than shaving. I used to use an epilator for everything but waxing takes less time. It is a big painful but worth it.

Oh. God. That's sounds terrible.

And I wax!

twiggypal

shavennnnnn

HunterKiller_deleted

Chest, pits and trim the twig n berries.

cklbrown

Pits, legs and situation, no need for anything else!

dinnam

wax

donthesitate

Laser that **** haha! Im in the process of removing all my body hair(besides eyebrows/head) until then I shave it all, disgusts me....my men must shave their chest tho, other than that, tidy is best

summertime_girl

Women
Legs? Shave
Arms? Wax if heavy
Pits? Laser
Back? If I had hair on my back, we'd have a problem.
Face? laser upper lip
Situation? Wax
Chest? Ditto back.


Meg
Legs? trimmed
Arms? trimmed
Pits? very, very trimmed, or shaved
Back? waxed
Face? clean shaven
Situation? shaved/waxed
Chest? Waxed

MissKim78

Well?

To specify ladies and gents....

Legs?
Arms?
Pits?
Back?
Face?
Situation?
Chest?

I am very lucky since MOST of my body hair is very light blond (I call it peach fuzz) haha

Legs? Always Shaven (But less in Winter! LOL)
Arms? Not Needed
Pits? Always Shaven
Back? Def Not Needed!
Face? Not Needed (tweeze the eyebrows)
Situation? Always Shaven
Chest? Also Not Needed!

RichardAshley39

I'm hairy, not that I like it that but the damn stuff grows everywhere, I have tried trimming/ shaving in specific areas but on the whole I am and remain a hairy bloke.

Saying that I do prefer my ladies (sounds like I have more than one, which is weird as I'm married) to be shaven or what ever method they (she) chooses, to have the least possible hair the acceptation of head and eye brows.

Seems that I have some serious double standards, as she always tells me I'm a hairy beast.

greenmonstergirl

lasered it all!!!

tomwatso

Manscaped everywhere.

tzig00

Legs, pits, and situation. Everything else would just take too much time and is unnecessary.

Slim_strategy

Bare from neck down xD

kshadows

Legs, underarms, nether regions - yes

Arms, back, chest - not needed


On a man, I prefer unshaven. It's manly

ETA: I prefer to wax in place of shaving but shave more because it's quicker

MRSpivey

Legs: Trim/Groom
Arms: Trim/Groom
Pits: Trim/Groom
Back:Trim/Groom not needed
Face: Shave
Situation: Trim/Groom
Chest: Trim/Groom

carolsteele45

Legs - Immac twice a year
Arms - no need
Pits - No need
Back - no need
Face - no need
Situation - which situation?? lol
Chest - no need

SusanL222

If we are going to revive this thread, then this story MUST be repeated! Funniest post ever, IMHO!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

All hair removal methods have tricked women with their promises of easy, painless removal- The epilady, scissors, razors, Nair, and now... The wax.

My night began as any other normal weeknight. Come home, fix dinner, play with the kids. I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next few hours: "Maybe I should pull the waxing kit out of the medicine cabinet." So I headed to the site of my demise: the bathroom.

It was one of those "cold wax" kits. No melting a clump of hot wax, you just rub the strips together in your hand, they get warm and you peel them apart and press them to your leg (or wherever else) and you pull the hair right off.

No muss, no fuss. How hard can it be? I mean, I'm not a genius, but I am mechanically inclined enough to figure this out.

(Y A THINK!?!)

So I pull one of the thin strips out. Its two strips facing each other stuck together. Instead of rubbing them together, my genius kicks in so I get out the hair dryer and heat it to 1000 degrees. (Cold wax, "yeah... Right!")

I lay the strip across my thigh. Hold the skin around it tight and pull.

It works!

Ok, so it wasn't the best feeling, but it wasn't too bad.

I can do this!

Hair removal no longer eludes me! I am She-rah, fighter of all wayward body hair and maker of smooth skin extraordinaire.

With me next wax strip I move north. After checking on the kids, I sneak back into the bathroom, for the ultimate hair fighting championship.

I drop my panties and place one foot on the toilet. Using the same procedure, I apply the one strip across the right side of my bikini line, covering the right half of my *hoo-hoo* and stretching down to t he inside of my butt cheek.

(Yes, it was a long strip)
I inhale deeply and brace myself... RRRRIIIPPP!

I'm blind! Blinded from pain!... OH MY GOD!

Vision returning, I notice that I've only managed to pull off half the strip. CRAP!

Another deep breathe and RRIIPP!

Everything is swirly and spotted.

I think I may pass out... Must stay conscious...

Do I hear crashing drums?

Breathe, breathe...

OK, back to normal.

I want to see my trophy- a wax covered strip, the one that has caused me so much pain, with my hairy pelt sticking to it.

I want to revel in the glory that is my triumph over body hair. I hold up the strip! There's no hair on it.

Where is the hair? WHERE IS THE WAX?

Slowly I ease my head down, foot still perched on the toilet.

I see the hair. The hair that should be on the strip.

I touch. I am touching wax.

CRAP!

I run my fingers over the most sensitive part of my body, wh ich I s now covered in cold wax and matted hair.

Then I make the next BIG mistake... Remember my foot is still propped up on the toilet?

I know I need to do something. So I put my foot down.

DANG!

I hear the slamming of a cell door.

"hoo-hoo"? Sealed shut!

Butt? Sealed shut!

I penguin walk around the bathroom trying to figure out what to do and think to myself "Please don't let me get the urge to poop. My head may pop off!"

What can I do to melt the wax? Hot water! Hot water melts wax!

I'll run the hottest water I can stand into the bathtub, get in, immerse the wax-covered bits and the wax should melt and I can gently wipe it off, right?

WRONG!

I get in the tub- the water is slightly hotter than that used to torture prisoners of war or sterilize surgical equipment- I sit.

Now, the only th ing worse than having your nether regions glued together is having them glued together a n d then glued to the bottom of the tub.. In scalding hot water. Which, by the way, doesn't melt cold wax.

So, now I'm stuck to the bottom of the tub as though I had cement-epoxied myself to the porcelain!

God bless the man who had convinced me a few moths ago to have a phone put in the bathroom!

I call my friend, thinking surely she has waxed before and has some secret of how to get me undone. It's a very good conversation starter- "So, my butt and who-ha are glued together to the bottom of the tub!"

There is a slight pause. She doesn't know any secret tricks for removal but she does try to hide her laughter from me. She wants to know exactly where the wax is located, "Are we talking cheeks or who-ha?"

She's laughing out loud by now... I can hear her. I give her the rundown and she suggests I call the number on the side of the box. YE AH! RIGHT! ! I should be the joke of someone else's night.

While we go through various sol ut ions. I resort to scraping the wax off with a razor. Nothing feels better then to have your girlie goodies covered in hot wax, glued shut, stuck to the tub in super hot water and then dry-shaving the sticky wax off!

By now the brain is not working, dignity has taken a major hike and I'm pretty sure I'm going to need Post-Traumatic Stress counseling for this event.

My friend is still talking with me when I finally see my saving grace... The lotion the give you to remove the excess wax. What do I really have to lose at this point?

I rub some on and OH MY GOD!

The scream probably woke the kids and scared the ens out of my friend.

It's so painful, but I really don't care.

"IT WORKS! It works!"

I get a hearty congratulations from my friend and she hangs up.

I successfully remove the remainder of the wax and then notice t o my grief and despair... THE HAIR IS STILL THERE... ALL OF IT!

So I recklessly sh ave it off. Heck, I'm numb by now. Nothing hurts.

I could have amputated my own leg at this point.

Next week I'm going to try hair color.... Now that's funny...... Not!

The things we women go thru

jtgcm

omg I almost pissed myself reading this^^^^^ Lmao!!!!!

And I wax everything!

Myhaloslipped

I shave/wax everything completely except for my eyebrows and the hair on my head. And I also wax my eyebrows to shape them.