August 29, 2004
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if you haven’t read drowningNOTwaving’s insightful and erudite review of Hero, go now and do so. that is an order. I’ll wait right here till you’re done…
too much information, running through my brain
too much information, driving me insane…
–the police
*T.M.I ALERT!!!* (faint of heart and stomach stop here)
Shaving…
I don’t have a problem with body hair, per se: it’s just fine on other people I just don’t care for it on myself. and while I’m not exactly vigilant about its removal, I do try to make an effort on a fairly cyclical basis. a clean sweep, as it were… I don’t bother with my arms or thighs as there’s precious little there to begin with. I don’t go right down to the skin in tender areas. it’s just not worth the ingrown hairs and the damned itching when it begins to grow out. on the day I shave I don’t wear makeup either. I likes to feel the clean all over. mmmmmmmmmm. I don’t feel gross when I don’t shave, just good when I do, so I guess that is a plus (and proof that the therapy “took”).
SO… do you shave anything? often? do you resent it or like it? if you don’t shave does the one you cuggle up to do so? I am just curious. you can tell me to piss up a rope if you like… it’s been a while since I’ve heard that and I’m feeling wistful.
Comments (26)
~~ Piss Up A Rope ~~ Yeah, you made it too easy — LOL.
I shave underarms and calves. Eyebrows get waxed and the other area — the – well – ya’ know — gets trimmed on a regular basis.
The hubster has never expressed a preference for one way or the other so it must not make much of a difference.
Fun question!
Sum
I actually have to darken my eyebrows! wow, wax, scary…
Can I cuggle with you?
body hair is about the most disgusting thing going, at least when we’re speaking of my body. therefore, i shave: arms above the elbows, armpits, mustache, crotchal bits except for the little porn patch (enough so we never ever cross the line into looking like a little girl,) full legs. eyebrows (such as they are) are plucked into submission, and then colored over since only i can see them anyway. if i could find a depilatory that i didn’t react to, i’d also do my finger and toe knuckles, and arms below the wrists (shaving those places is just begging for cuts, at least with me at the razor’s helm…)
there was brief discussion of reciprocal crotchal shaving by the spouse, but after i realized what the regrowth would be grinding against, i put the kibash on that plan.
my dream, and i’m so serious, is to be rich enough for full-body laser hair removal. donations can be sent to my paypal, woot.
LOL
Full legs, armpits, and yeah – what rache said. I don’t believe in going completely bald in the crotch. There’s something just wrong about that. Except I wax that area. Shaving gives me a rash.
If I had the money, I would definitely get laser hair removal.
In the pictures of you pissing up the rope I notice you could use a trim. No, it’s okay, I’m not busy.
Shave legs all the way, and underarms. Wax upper lip once in a while, when I can hack the pain. Everything else is too much work. Any time I’ve shaved close to the pubic area, as it grows back in it itches so badly as to be torturous, nearly painful, so I’m careful just how far up I go. I wouldn’t shave the pubic area for anything, or any man. Love me, love my bush.
I shaved the cat once. Made for easier licking. But really, it doesn’t bother me one way or the other.
I used to shave my face (completely) but now I prefer to keep a bit of the beard thing going as it’s easier (not to nick my chin, where I’ve a scar from when I was seven years old and it opens/bleeds sooo easily) but still semi-annoying.
During the summer, I shave the underarms and leggies just about every day. During the winter, arms twice a week and legs once a week. I pretty much have to touch up my eyebrows daily, but pluck about three times a week.
Being super fair with dark hair is a burden. Even when I’m completely shaved you can seriously see the hair in the follicle. I’ve considered laser hair removal. I have a super low hairline on the back of my neck (seriously yukky) and I am determined to have it removed by laser after seeing it done on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
Body hair. I hate it!
Ah yes, the good old Internet, where we can ponder one another’s ‘pits ‘n’ pubes.
I’ve been an ardent shaver and an ardent nonshaver and am currently in nonshaver mode. The nonshaving isn’t a big deal since I’m a very unhairy person. No, really.
well, evetemisprime, I’ve been inordinately nosy ever since Miss C’s revelation of her shaving techniques (which I now employ, btw) and I just. need. to. know.
WOOOOOOOOOOO, JAMES!
I wax the ‘stache, the pits… shave the legs, and I NEED to shave my thighs… childbirth and subsequent hormonal changes have given me hair in places that give me fucking nightmares…the thighs.. ugh, inner thigh area.. almost pube-like in a couple of patches…terrible. I’m like an old baba if I don’t wax or shave them. I’ve never waxed the goods, but I shave them and have since I was 16. Bushes are too sweaty. Sweat and fucking hair are gross. And yes, I resent being hairy and having to shave. And my hair grows fast. I’m going to try the permanent laser thing in LA next month.. for the pubic area. And yes, I leave the Mr T. I got rid of it once and was TOTALLY creeped out.
I like your “clean” approach on shave days.
everything below the bridge of my nose is GONE.
I tweeze my brows. Wax the stash. Shave my arms and pits daily. Wax my entire she-parts – yes, ALL of it, and shave my legs – almost daily.
I tweeze the hair on my toes if any crop up.
I love being hairless. LOVE it.
i shave the pits daily, the legs whenever i feel like, which isn’t often, and i leave a little grass on the playing field.
(always a reference to grass, yes)
don’t touch the eyebrows, cause there’s barely anything there to tweeze.
MISS C!! muh WOMAN!!
I had no idea there were so many arm shavers.
Armpits get done every day, even if I’m on my deathbed. Eyebrows get waxed, because I’m terrible about keeping them up. If there were anyone sharing my bed, the legs would get shaved more often, but as it is, once or twice a week. I used to just trim the bushes, but now I shave it all off with a beard & moustache trimmer
And I have one of those cool porn stubble shavers, but I don’t use it very often.
My wife wants me hairy; she is smooth all over.
Steve
When you all say arms, do you mean armpits or actual arms? Just curious.
Interesting timing, ’cause I decided I was tired of all my arm hair, so I shaved from my wrists to the pits yesterday. they’re smooth and quite nice, I must say.
i prefer urinate up a stiff hemp, and i know you prefer the stiff!
tweeze my eyebrows, shave my axillary areas and use my epilady on my legs ( I LOVE that thing!), sorry though, no brazilian for moi!
I shave nothing… as is evident in my profile pic…
good lord jesus. rachel shaves her ARMS? she’s going to end up like one of those creepy dr. evil cats.
me: i shave my head, and nothing else. my leg and underarm hair has been going strong since 1997. i started not shaving because i lived in an apartment that wasn’t actally zoned for habitating, and therefore had no tub/shower. i showered at the Y, and after the first time it became too much of a hassle to shave. my leg hair hasn’t been touched since then. i do trim the underarm, and the nethers frequently. nothing worse than getting hair stuck in the leg band of your panties, is there woman?! i waxed my eyebrows once, and that was a disaster, as i looked like someone beat me up. now i pluck, pluck, pluck.
rory found me this way (excepting the shaven head, which i find he really likes. he touches the chrome dome waaaay more than he did when it was hairy) and he doesn’t mind one bit.
when i meet rachel i’m going to terrorize her scene by getting her drunk and making her stroke me.
HAHAHAHAHAHAA!
holy shite!
i shave it all too, minus the arms though.
Right down to the bear skin. I use tend skin and tea tree oil wash to keep the bumps and rash at a minimum and I don’t wear undies the day I shave the delicates. 
I feel gross when I don’t…but I dont have any problems iwth others hair…unless they wear a sweater to the beach. Then houston, we have a problem