Brunette here. I also shave my legs only every so often in winte, but MUST keep my armpits shorn. Bleagh.
Random poll, ladies: do you shave your whole leg or just from your knee down? I’ve always done the knee-down thing, just because I have very light brown hair on my legs and no one notices anyway if I’m wearing a swimsuit or something else that shows my thighs. (I keep their attention occupied elsewhere :D)
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From the waist down, ms. tsarina
and yes, I do shave in winter… I have quite coarse hair on my legs, and sensitive skin… it keeps the skin from getting irritated (sounds like it should be the reverse, but if I let my leg hair grow in my skin gets a lot of ingrown hairs, as well as being drier than usual)
That’s funny, I was just about to post and say that I never shave because I find the practice barbaric. Takes all kinds, I guess.
I always shave. I may skip and do it every other day in winter, but I can’t go longer than that-I HATE the feel of fuzzy legs. It’s so nice to have smooth shaven legs.
I shave, even though I end up bleeding from several cuts to my knees and my legs burn like the fires of hell (damned sensitive skin.) I’m very pale, with black black hair, so hairy legs are not something I can get away with. I’m also a very hairy girl-- my boyfriend has less back hair than I do. I’m so disgusting.
I don’t shave at all. Anywhere. My leg hair is very light and so it can be difficult to notice either way and I don’t wear anything that reveals my armpits, so I don’t have to worry about that either. heh
Wow, a competition that I would actually have a chance of winning! I have fabulous leg hair–thick, curly, and bright orange. It’s really something else.
In answer to the OP–I mow my legs with my husband’s hair clipper every month or so year round. I don’t really like shaving, but I also don’t like being so very hairy. Mowing it down every now and then keeps it within an acceptable range. Yes, my stubble shows to some extent, but I don’t really care. It is only especially noticable if I let it go for more than a couple of months. Then it looks like I am wearing fuzzy orange pants.
I shave all year round. I just don’t like hair. I shave everywhere but my face. opps,TMI sorry.
I suspect I must be weird. I’m a male who isn’t attracted to large-breasted blondes with long staight hair and perfectly hairless bodies.
I’m sure this is in breach of some UN convention or other, but it’s the way I am.
I hereby confess that: I find armpit hair in women attractive; I am also attracted by pubic hair that extends beyond the bikini line; the softness of mature leg hair is far nicer than stubble of any length; and there ain;t nothing wrong with hair on arms or the back.
I hate: tampering with the natural shape of the eyebrows; big (head) hair; and makeup.
I’m waiting for the men in the white coats.
I generally take a razor to my pits every coupla weeks, year round.
I’ll shave my legs on occasion in the summer if I’m going to be in shorts in a social situation. But I’m fair and as I’ve gotten older, I seem to have less and less hair on my legs anyway. And anyway, who looks at the legs of a saggy 48-year-old woman - maybe a saggy 45-year-old man?? If he wants 'em shaved, he can do it himself!
I shave my pits every day - I can’t stand even a little stubble there. Legs once a week or so in summer, once every week or two in winter.
Winter was once a time of laziness in my life. I’d shave once every two weeks or so, it’s no big deal because while I live in shorts during the summer, I never wear them in winter and skirts well those were few and far between.
Now I have a boyfriend.
Yeah, so I shave every 2-3 days. Or whenever I think I’ll see my honey and err… he’d be in a position to notice.
He’s not too particular about it, I tend to shave everything from the waist down when I get un-lazy enough to shave. Even though I adore my sweetie’s chest hair. He seems almost sad that I shave everything off… so maybe I’ll stop spending that extra time in the morning.
Kitty
During the summer, I shave regularly. During the winter months, however, it’s rare for me to shave at all. I do wear skirts, but I always wear thick tights with them, so it’s not a problem.
I once asked my brother what he thought about body hair on women, and his response was, “If I ever find a woman I love enough to marry, I won’t give a rat’s ass about her body hair. She could be a sasquatch, for all I care.”
Brothers are great.
I shave every other day even in the winter time. I love the way my sheets feel on my clean shaven legs.
Plus you never know who’s coming over!
I do all the time, unless I am really caught up in work and school. Then I tend to forget to do things, like eat, sleep…
I tend to wear shorts year round, so I have to keep the same shaving pattern going the entire time, which is 2-3 times per week. I love the feel of my legs being shaved (I’d shave even if I were a cloistered nun), but I get razor burn if I do it too often.
I shave every blessed day; sometimes twice. Legs, pits, bikini line - everything. Feels much better to me than hair.
Here’s the routine:
Pits and bikini area get the razor every day.
Legs from the knees down get shaved every other day, year round.
Thighs get shaved every other day in the summer. Once I stop wearing shorts in late summer/fall, I’ll let the hair grow on my thighs since it is soft. Then, it’s like a ceremony in the spring when I am going to wear shorts for the first time. The hair comes off and remains off until fall.