Can we talk pubes?

[WitBeyondMeasure]

If the title wasn't enough... this thread is about pubic hair. If you don't want to talk about it, don't click on a thread with the title "can we talk pubes?"

So anyway. I've trotted along most of my life with a manageable lady garden. From my teens to my mid twenties I pretty much shaved it all off or most off and never really thought about it much. The regrown was painless - maybe slightly itchy but never for long. No grief at all.

Now I'm 30. I've had three kids and it's like the bloody floor of a barbers shop down there. It's bloody everywhere! Tops of my thighs rising up to the top of my undies. It's like it's on some sort of steroids!
Admittedly grooming has been more sporadic with lots of small people running about, but now if I shave I get a gazillion ingrown hairs and it's back the day after.

How the heck do I deal with this? Waxing is not affordable. Home waxing.. nope I'd never pluck up the courage to rip it off!
How else can I look less like a ravaged badger down there?

Have you tried hair removal cream?

I can't use it but I know friends that do.

Philips Lumea or Smoothskin for the bikini line. Three months of weekly home IPL and mine is gone. Have also done legs and armpits and get very little regrowth now.

For the rest of the pubes, I use a bikini hair trimmer every couple of weeks, keeps the thatch down.

@kaytee87 can you actually use that down there?
I think last time I looked at the stuff (probably 15 odd years ago) it was not for use in intimate areas. Although fifteen years ago mobile phones were also the size of a house so..

Laser removal - lots of deals on Groupon. I had bikini line done at 30 for the same reasons, and now aged 42 not had to deal with it since!

@Enervator they look great but out of my price range. I could look into it once I'm back at work.

@WitBeyondMeasure 2 of my friends do 🤷🏼‍♀️ don't ask me how I know that 😂

@YetAnotherThing can I be really rude and ask how much it cost?

@kaytee87 hey, I'm not judging! We share what we share!

I used to use hair removal cream down there all the time no issues at all then one day it literally made me feel like I was on fire. It was still in date wasn’t a different brand or anything I have no idea what happened. Too scared to use it ever since lol

@Harrypotterfan1604 that's one of my concerns! Maybe I need to just give it a go 😱

I wax once every two months.
The hair started to grow much slower once I started waxing regularly.
I used to shave before which wasn't very practical as the hair used to grows back the next day :(
For in growing hair I recommend using InGrowGo by skin doctors, it works really well if you use it every time you wax/shave.

Like I said I used it all the time and never an issue just that one occasion but it has put me off. I’m now 28weeks pregnant and struggling to reach down there and debating using it again. I believe there are sensitive ones so maybe one of those and any signs of burning wash it straight off x

Oh god. No no no no hair removal cream! I have an electric body hair trimmer that I even managed to use under a huge pregnant bump and not cut myself. It's not a clean shave but it's cut very short and keeps it all tidy and in check 😂

Word of advice - I roll up a wad of loo roll and pop it in between just to protect the sensitive area - depends how much you’re taking off of course but I’ve always been fine having done this...

I use veet then straight in bath. But means standing legs spread for 10min which is a bit of a pain. Doesn't always get everything but enough to be comfortable.

Cheaply Mens beard trimmer is the way forward then a razor for finishing

I tried some cream and came up in a terrible rash. I shave, gently, in shower or bath, every day but only the bikini line and between legs, If you leave it any longer the hairs seem tougher. I've never removed it all.

Once tried home wax and took off a layer of skin:-).

Try shaving with hair conditioner instead of soap or shaving cream. Fuck knows why but it helps reduce ingrowing hairs.

Another successful laser client here, it cost me about £500 at Sk:n. Don't pay the website prices, they always have 40% off deals.

Waxing really isn't that expensive- as a pp said you could do it once every couple of months?

@JellieEllie I always shave with hair conditioner. I think I read it in a magazine once and tried it and it works for my legs great! Elsewhere is a bloody nightmare. It feels like mr twit's beard (but with less scrambled egg in it!)

@Threeminis it is too expensive for out current family budget sadly. We have three kids under five and only one wage coming in right now, I can't afford a decent haircut these days, let alone a wax!
Thankfully in a couple of years I can head back to work and this will be a worry of the past. Although the thought of an intimate wax is terrifying! I'm still reeling from the last birth 18 months ago!

One word - epilator...it will give you up to 8 weeks between regrowth as it pulls the hair out at roots (looks like a electric razor but plucks out the hairs)

What a lovely image 😂😂
Always use a sharp one blade razor and shave in the direction of which the hair grows. So if you wet your pubes and they lay flat, don't go up against the grain as that's what causes them to curl back in on themselves. Always shave down away from the root not towards it. That should help reduce the amount you are getting.

I swear we had this post last week. Are you not the OP who referred to her ladygarden as Fanjalina Jolie?