So I was sitting around talking to my wife yesterday, who has had laser hair removal from bellybutton to knees. She loves it, and let’s face it, so do I. I admitted as to how I might like a little trim, especially around the tainted region.
Since I’m not sure I want it to be permanent, I thought I’d try a depilatory first, and then decide if I want to laser it away.
I’m shying away from shaving, as I can imagine how irritating it would be when the stubble really gets going. Waxing is also out for now.
So please let me know which you’ve used, with success, and what you’d recommend. Male opinions are especially solicited.
I’ve used Nair on my nads, but not on my starfish. They don’t recommend either. In fact, they specifically state that you should not use their product on – well, just about any body part that you’d want to remove hair from. Except legs, of course.
The stuff smells like crap, and doesn’t work all that well anyway.
Female here. I’ve used Nair on the, er, starfish region, and it works for me. But note, I don’t have particularly sensitive skin, your results may vary. Mr. Accident is right, they say not to use it on the perianal area, but I like to live dangerously.
That’s really it, as far as depilatories go. There are other brands, of course, but they all use the same active ingredient. Anything that can melt hair can burn skin.
Your other options are waxing (REALLY hard to do yourself in that spot), sugaring (ditto), threading (ditto), tweezing (ow!), an epi-machine (mine won’t fit there, don’t know about others) or shaving (not really too bad growing back in that spot). If you decide to shave, I recommend doing it in the shower in a squatting position, as it spreads things out and makes the skin taught.
There’s always ebay and craigslist. But it uses a light source (lamp?) that does burn out after a certain number of hours so you’d probably have to get a couple of replacement lamps depending on how much area you wanted/needed to cover.
Those are a lot cheaper than the unit itself (which I think comes with 2 lamps), so you should still be able to get a couple hundred for the kit with no lamps.
Also, even if you have dark hair (the best for laser treatments since it absorbs more light), you will probably have to go over the same area at least a few times. Of course once you’re done, you never have to worry about it again. There is probably some regrowth over time I would guess, but you should be able to handle any fuzz with a more conventional method, or you could just hang on to the unit.
If you ever get bitten by a werewolf, you’re covered. And there are hairy palms. Supposedly there’s no way to get rid of that shit permanently - you know - until you deal with the “cause”. Hehehe.
I didn’t find it that funny either… especially since I shave my ass all the time and have never had a problem, so I think it’s entirely made up. That, or the person has horrendous hygiene to begin with.
