Are people shaving their arms now are they?!

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Just seen the venus shaving advert. A woman was shaving her whole arm?! Why?!

Always shaved my arms... 20 years +

The fact some people think it’s abnormal and a stick to beat women with its frankly ridiculous. I did started it off my own back way before any advert or normal socialisation of it. I don’t like hair on my arms!

Didn’t you know women aren’t allowed to have hair on their body? Except luscious long locks on their head, not considered good enough unless thick, glossy and regularly maintained.

Yeah it's a thing. When I was a teen my arms seemed extremely hairy compared to lots of girls in my class who had miraculous ”naturally” hairless arms. They were shaving them.

When I was younger, my arm hair was dark and very noticeable so I started to shave my arms, but only when I was in a relationship - when I was single it didn't bother me.

I worry about the expectations that the media is putting on women (and men for that matter).

I shaved my arms because my arm hair would grow long and made me feel uncomfortable if I had to expose my arms (until the menopause hit.)
I always felt like I was a bit of freak as I didn't know anyone else who had to and I would have loved to just have fine downy hair.

I would have found seeing adverts of women shaving their arm hair as something reassuring, that other women did this and I wasn't freakish for having to, not as something that I had to conform to.

This thread proves that women shaved their arms for years, even though it wasnt on TV.

I for one dont shave my arms and never have. The only tattoo on my arms is one on the inside of my wrist. So no hair. If I have that extended to a full sleeve, I would shave my arms.

The advert, apparently, is a women with a tattoo. The manufacturers recognise that it's something people with arm tattoos do. Why should they pretend it's not? Why hide that away?

Doesn't it grow back spiky?

I have very hairy forearms..dark hair too..but they are still feminine arms. I refuse to shave them. Bugger that. If anyone doesn't like it or think it's feminine enough stuff them. I've worse things to worry about. Life is too short for these endless societal expectations. Body hair is normal!

I don't but I do have dark hairs on my arms.
In my defence I have enough getting rid of hair from my legs, armpits, chin, bikini line and bizzarly feet so sod doing my arms too

@passthecherrycoke yes, Asian here who shaves her arms. I am no hairier than average but I have light brown skin and black hair, so it really shows up. I was called werewolf at junior school! Kids are mean. :( so I started shaving my arms at age 11.

Fucking hair! Cut it, blow it, colour it, straighten it, curl it. Shave it, wax it, bleach, epilate and laser it. Thread it, tweeze it, micro-blade it. Then it falls out and it’s suddenly an even bigger fucking nightmare. Sometimes I think we are all morons. What are we doing to ourselves??

I shaved one arm a year ago because I was getting tattooed. Loved how it looked and then started shaving both of them.

Have reached 35 without even thinking about it, I just preferred the aesthetic. No societal pressure

Just done mine in shower and it took 2 minutes. They look lovely and smooth.
I tend to do it more during warmer months.

To those saying its all about personal choice and fair women are clueless as doesn't affect them

The link I posted earlier was a fair woman who a right telling off on Instagram for her arm hair.

I don't want girls feeling they have to remove what is beginning essentially all hair on face body, eccepr head and brows which require ever increasing levels of maintenance.

It's time consuming, expensive, leads to not joining in with stuff (I can't do x right now as y isn't done /has just been done). Gives further standard opportunities for boys, men, media and other women to judge and find lacking. Feeds into idea that we are not good enough in anything approaching our natural state. It's reason for girls dropping out of sports participTion, being self conscious and hyper aware of their looks, with results that we all have heard about.

If individuals want to remove whatever hair then find but let's not pretend that mainstreaming it doesnt have any impact.

Like PP

Who probably didn't mean it

Shaved arms are lovely and smooth

Therefore hairy arms are, not lovely (ugly?)?

The basic fact of women removing hair, when it's the total norm, does mean that anyone not doing it is seen as odd, out of step. Words relating to cleanliness are often used with pubes armpits. Ideas about laziness and being unkempt come in too.

It's really depressing.

I don’t see why it is any different to shaving your legs tbh

If you want it be smooth and hair free then why shave your legs but have hairy arms?

Are you aware you are suggesting to women who shave their legs (pretty much all women between teen and old in UK) that they are being lazy /foolish /illogical /less attractive than they could be, by not shaving their arms as well?

For those who say it's all about individual choice, are you totally unaware of how humans are with social norms, peer pressure, insecurity, being 'shamed'?

This thread is super depressing.

Why don't we just plunge our daughters in veet every week with only their eyelashes, head hair and eyebrows poking out, and tell them anything less means they are sub standard.

We should start at age 8.

Yes it will burn, but worth it for acceptance.

I saw a teenage girl on the train with dark hairy legs last year.

It was very unusual, and people were looking.

Very brave of her, she had a mini skirt on too!

When it's jarring to see someone who doesn't do it, then it's not a real choice is it. To invite stares and maybe comments.

Blondes shave their legs even though fair.

Give it a couple of years all teen girls and many adults will be shaving arms and it will start to become 'brave' not to.

Can't wait.

Well, tattoos didn't use to be mainstream, either, and the lady in the ad has a sleeve.

I have never shaved my arms-I didn’t know it was a thing! Doesn’t it grow back stubbly?

I veet mine every so often

Bamboo fibre you can't get tattooed till 18.

By that age, girls will have long developed a hair removal routine.

The other point is that tattoos are adding something, the shaving is incidental.

Shaving otherwise, is about removing something natural as it's unsightly.

The woman in the post up thread who got shit on Instagram did not have tattoos.

Arm hair is becoming unacceptable (on women).

I suppose a lot of people think girls with hair do look a bit gross and so this is all go the good.

I know loads of men who shave their arms. It’s not a female only thing