aibu to ask how hairy your legs are ?

[creamola]

I'd appreciate some honest feedback.

I have never had to shave my legs , my legs are hairless....completely hairless.

But I constantly get chatter from friends..........oh i have to shave my legs before i go on date.............oh shave legs before wearing skirt.

Surely I cant be the only female in the UK who has never had to shave her legs

Is there any other, hairless (leg and outer arm) women out there?

i am not that hairy but my hair is very dark so shows up more. i thought i was hairy until i started working as a beauty therapist (long time ago) i soon realised i was average hairiness it just grows in patches. vag hair is very neat triangle, neatest of all my hair the rest is a little wild

I always get ONE really dark pubey looking hair inbetween my clevage. Horrible when I forget to get rid then go out with my tats out.
I have a very hairy birthmark on my right arm which I shave because I think it's awful.
I have ginger head hair, my arm & leg hair is blonde & my armpit & bush hair (I immac my lady area) is brown .

I am so so jealous of people who don't need to shave or wax. Despite being pale skinned, freckled and with reddish hair, my body hair, except my arms, is black and always has been. No way can I spontaneously pop on a pair of shorts, wear a skirt, sunbathe, or go swimming without a military operation to get myself half way respectable. Even when I shave, close inspection reveals it's not really smooth as you can often still see the shadow of stubble under the skin, and just to add to the misery I've myriad scars due to cutting myself over the years (comes of being short sighted and trying to shave in a hurry with steamed up glasses! ) Waxing is okay ..... for all of a fortnight - tops. Whoever suggests you'll be hair free for 6 weeks - as salons tend to do - is lying .... so you then have the choice of covering up again for about a month, or reverting to shaving.

Over the years, this has really knocked my confidence ..... I just can't adopt a "stuff you" attitude and would be mortified to reveal myself in all my disgusting hairyness .... despite objectively knowing it's "natural" blah blah blah and why should women "conform" to society's stereotypical idea of femininity etc etc. In all honesty, I usually feel pretty disgusted at myself because of this and hate looking at myself naked in a mirror. As another poster has written, I've got more hair than some men I've known .... and that makes you feel awful.

Latterly - I'm in my mid 40s - just to add insult to injury, I seem to be getting effing bristles growing in odd places on my face FFS. And I mean bristles ...... odd hairs you could make a paintbrush out of, which always grow back in the same spot, like some old fairytale witch. This means I am constantly checking one of these horrors isn't poking through (I have about 5) and desperately plucking before someone kindly offers to brush off the thick dark hair I seem to have stuck to my chin, before realising that actually, it's attached. I just feel shit about it.

If I win the lottery I will be lasered from head to toe ..... well face to toe anyway. But that's pretty unlikely I guess. OP - and the rest of you like her ..... you don't know how lucky you are !

hair does seem to be an issue for some women

I can't empathise because I don't have any , however it sounds like i'm in the minority and everyone else has leg/body hair

My mother is hairles like you OP, but that is because in her time and in her culture, the women didn't shave their legs and apparently the hair eventually just softens and naturally falls out over the years.

I on the other hand have to shave before wearing a skirt. I started shaving my legs at 12 and went through a phase of doing it every day for a few years.

Right now with prenancy hormones I am like a warewolf

My little girl is just four and already has pretty hairy legs, and a really fuzzy back, especially her lower back. She's got dark hair and it's very visible. She's had the hairy back since she was a baby and I assumed it would go away like the books said, but it never has. It had never really worried me or her until some little boy behind her on the slide at the playground must have caught a glimpse and started taunting her about it - she was in floods of tears. I do worry about all the schoolyard teasing she has ahead of her - from girls as much as boys. It's a shame it should even be an issue.

I have completely smooth legs. Like the OP I've never had to shave them.

I only shave mine twice a week. The hairs grow back quite blonde, especially in summer and I'm lucky that they're quite soft.

When I started shaving them they were darker though! DD1 is the same as when I was little, same hazel brown hair colour, darker hairs on legs and blonde on arms.

My dd gets the sello-tape out and waxes her dolls tashes.

My SIL threads my eyebrows, tash,and face she's brill. She says im so hairy i was bound to end up marrying a Pakistani man and i fit right in with rest of family. [Oddly he isn't hairy,im the hairy one]

MIL tells me stories of women back in her village who used to rip their pubic hair out by hand , that has to be agony.

yeah so it's not just me then nagynolonger

@LDNmummy ...you mention your mum is the same (hairless) and mention her culture..........what culture is that if you mind me asking?

cremola I have never shaved my legs either they are hairless also.

I could braid them I suppose....

Wow this thread has brought me great solace. I am very very hairy and hate it. Nice to know I'm not alone.

at Lunabelly

deste yeah I'm not alone .......I have spent many a year thinking I was freakish for lack of leg hair

I've noticed a weird phenomenon when male relatives of a certain age put their summer shorts on...they have bald lower legs. What the bastarding HECK is that about?

the bastard I married one day when I wasn't looking My dh is starting to lose those leg hairs too. freaky

What happens is love-transference of hair, those leg hairs actually end up on our chins luna .

creamola and double

OH how I wish I were not hairy, how I wish to be freed from the tyranny of hair removal. I don't have hairy upper legs but do have hairy lower legs. I don't wear dresses or skirts much so to be honest, a lot of the time I can't be bothered. I just can't. I will shave or wax for a special occasion or if i get my legs out. But the weather hasn't exactly been summery lately. Ditto armpits.....what a boring boring chore it is

PathanKhansWoman thank you for this evening's first TenaLady moment :o

But why do we delapitated. No, that's the wrong word. DEPILATE? Because it's expected by this misogynistic society. As I get crankier, more feminist and more anti religion and patriarchal society etc, I get hairier and hairier. It's my little rebellion. That and my werewolf genes.

Thats happening to me too! We are de-volving into men really hairy men.

But it really doesn't go with this tits

these tits.

Mind you, nothing goes with these tits. I could always pretend I'm a buffalo, I suppose...

Well i have Gruffalo blood in me, Gruffalo, buffalo maybe.

I have barely any hair on my legs, and two which I pluck under my arms.

I am very dark, Italian DF so consider my self lucky.

All of my kids were born with the hairiest arses this side of London Zoo, and my youngest two came PLEASE EXCUSE ME I BAM TYPING WITH A TODDLER ON MY LAP out with hairy ears. (The other two had Mongolian blue spot birthmarks and a face like a slapped arse) Which was amusing. My DH lovingly stroked the little furry ears and said

"Thank you for my little wolverine wifey"

Do you think that means he's guessed my lycanthropic secret?

henry you are lucky. luna my dd had a hairy forehead, ears and back. I know its totally superficial but i do worry about it for her, girls are so nasty to each other, as i said i had no confidence as a teen.