This non-lady would like to agree with the above.
My oldest sister has a big ole 'stache that my then 4 year old son asked about during a big family dinner, as in “Aunt Gyn, why do you have a moustache?”
Why, indeed?
Money no object? Laser removal of leg hair, arm pit hair and facial hair, even though it’s not much. Eyebrows would get left alone because I remember the bushy eyebrows of the 80’s and if fuller brows go back in style someday, I can let mine go back to their natural state or if they get skimpier with age, I have some fallback. I’d also have my hairline raised but leave the widow’s peak.
If money were no object? I’d spend it on something else, and be too rich to give a rat’s ass about body hair.
(Actually I don’t shave at all right now; I bought an electric razor several years ago, no idea why. Nobody ever sees my legs or pits except my husband, and he doesn’t care, and my body hair is blessedly light in both thickness and color anyway. So there nyaaahh.)
I’m with those who’d get it lasered off. Anything 'stache-like, any rogue chin hairs, hairs between my eyebrows, the arm pits, legs, and anything in the “bikini area” growing outside my usual preferred “zone.”
Oh god, everything. Legs, underarms, bikini, Brazilian, oh yes, everything between the legs goes, leaving a nice bit in front that I’d only ever have to trim. Feet too, dammit; I hate toe-hair.
Not waxing, though-- something more permanent. Laser hair removal, electrolysis, whatever they’re calling it these days-- whatever’s the most effective way for me to not ever have to touch a razor to my skin again (or at least not for a long-ass time).
And while we’re at it, if it’s truly permanent, just go ahead and make my eyebrows perfect for life. Try to touch them with wax, though, and I kill you.
If money were no object, I’d love to wax my…
…Ex-bosses head. Fucker.
My sis and I always say that had my mom and dad not thrown a ruckus about us going to grad school that we would have banded together and opened a “pelt positive” hair waxing business called Depelterie, offering all badger-gened women a $59.95 special. Essentially you are dipped in a gigantic vat of wax, then wrapped up tightly in cotton muslin like a mummy, put on a spool and spun at a very very high speed (like perhaps we would have built a cyclotron like what they use to split the atom in Naperville or whateversville) and simul-waxed all over very very quickly. Or maybe skinned. Anyway, we figure $59.95 would have landed us every Indian, Arab and Pakistani girl in a 50 mile radius.
*The Pelt Belt extends from Morocco to Bangladesh including Greeks and Eastern Europe.
anu-la1979, Thanks. You made the thread worth it :).
I see that I must amend my previous waxing to “hair removal medium of your choice”. Which totally works. I was being shortsighted.
To contribute to my own thread, as I said, I’ll do my own eyebrows, but everything below that is someone elses responsibility. Lip, cheeks, chin, underarms, tummy (not that there’s much, and it’s one of the Ignore sections currently, but while we’re listing parts), girl parts (not completely, but only leaving decoration), legs and UGH, toes. And yeah, I’ll lazer everything but the eyebrows and some of the girl parts.
Put my hair in a pony tail and dip me in whatever will get rid of everything below my eyebrows.
Would it be like batik? We can apply wax to what we want to stay?
Husbands idea actually. He came up with it when I was bitching about the sheer amount of real estate we shave and yet all the advertising dollars are spent on mens razors.
Like many here - anything not on my head and I would leave some nicely shaped eyebrows. Everything else must go. And I like waxing. But I’ve got a thing for pain. I love getting the full Brazilian - it kind of turns me on. I bet the whole enchilada would probably have me full on hitting on the chick that does it.
I would probably do the laser thing too. Legs. Under arm. Not sure about my arms… and probably something cool looking down below.
I would stick with the wax, but definitely eyebrows, lip, and pretty much everything else but only a bikini wax, not the full monty, on the girly bits. I don’t mind waxing, it’s vastly vastly preferable to shaving for me, and I know it works.
Thanks, Dad, for those hairy genes. I could have done without those!
Sorry, but the post and your screenname made me giggle. Ferret herder indeed!
I’d get my leg hair completely permanently removed. I hate to shave and I get tons of ingrown hairs so I put up with my family teasing me and only shave in the summer. What? It’s all hidden by my pants.
As far as girly bits… um, leave enough so it looks neat. The preprubescent look is creepy.
I yearn to know her answer…
“I’m auditioning as Burt Reynolds’ stunt double”?
Hilarious!
I’d have my legs and underarms done. My bikini area is very sad when it’s waxed (I get horrible skin rashes and ingrown and ow), and my eyebrows are threaded.
Yes! I’ve always been jealous of the guys when it comes to going swimming. All they have to do is throw on some shorts and they’re good. I have to think, “Hmmm, what’s going on with the undergrowth?”
If I could afford it, I would have old men’s ears waxed.
As for my body, well, nothing much grows anymore that warrants waxing.
Nah, I wouldn’t wax. You have to wait for it to get pretty long before you can even do it. So there would be a week or so a month where you’d be atrociously hairy. I’ll stick with shaving.