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AIBU?

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aibu to ask how hairy your legs are ?

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creamola · 24/06/2011 11:58

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?

OP posts:

Lunabelly · 24/06/2011 22:29

Yes, my DD1 who has 75% mediterranean blood, she had a hairy forhead and back as well. She was 10lb and angry as hell. I did think I'd given birth to a shaggy pitbull at one point
She makes me buy Veet cream by the truckloads and stuff, and I pay for her brows to be threaded regularly as well. She looks perfectly fine and beautiful to me, but, teenagers eh?

Didn't you say your SiL threads for you? Have her on standby should your DD say anything.
My youngest daughter (furry-ears) is covered in scars from meningitis - she has a huge one across her thigh and buttocks that looks like a shark took a chunk, so maybe that's I why I have become...I don't know...relaxed about stuff, I don't know.
The scars changed my whole outlook towards what society percieves as perfection - whereas DD was 13 months old and so has no memory of herself without scars. But, you know, her scars are beautiful, because she is beautiful and she is alive.

I see them every day, so they are beautiful to me.

ThePathanKhansWoman · 24/06/2011 22:35

Your so right luna feel now, illness puts it all into perspective. I just want her to be confident,happy,guess thats up to me to help her shes only 3 btw, but your quite right i hate the preoccupation with perfection.

Who knows maybe she'll just embrace her inner Gruffalo/Buffalo.

theanimalswentintwobytwo · 24/06/2011 22:35

I always used to shave about once a week but after my DS was born I have thick dark hair everywhere. Full leg, stomach, chest, back, bum, big toes, underarms, monobrow...its horrid. Never have my legs, back, stomach out so no-one sees. I feel so awful about this Manly hairness I'm thinking about full body electrolisis

bibbitybobbityhat · 24/06/2011 22:37

Not very.

I have been epilating them since 1988 and about 70% of my knee to ankle area is completely hair free now.

ThePathanKhansWoman · 24/06/2011 22:39

theanimals if you are pale skinned, the laser treatment would work brilliant for you, it is painful uncomfortable but results are brilliant.

Lunabelly · 24/06/2011 23:59

PathanKhansWoman My furry-ears is so laid back about her scars and very confident - we tell all of our bubbas every day how beautiful they are. I think that this has helped build up her confidence. I cannot do anything about her scars or her inner Grubuffalo, but I can do something about how she feels about herself...and to be honest, that's the greatest gift I can give all of them but especially her.

What is perfection anyway?

I don't care about my furriness anymore. It's part of me and I am part Grubuffalo, so I deal with it. I could twist myself up in knots about it, or just think "Bollocks".

I worry for DD3, of course I do, but hopefully we've given her enough confidence and taught her enough pithy put-downs for her to sail through life.
Am I angry about the scars? Well...I was . But it's a waste of energy and might make her feel bad. Look, the ambulance (Normally a twenty minute drive) took 2 minutes 57 seconds to get to the hospital, and they thought she'd be DOA in that time , so scars? PFFT! We laugh in the face of scars!

And by extension, we also laugh at our furriness. (Well, DD1 doesn't, but then, she hates everything...)

Lightshines · 25/06/2011 00:05

i have only a small amount of body hair, never shave my legs, underarms only very occasionally

NoobytheWaspSlayer · 25/06/2011 06:17

No hair above the knee, and usually have to shave a couple of times a week below. However I'm pregnant and no hair at all is growing below the knee at the moment - woohoo! Still get bloody big black hairs in my armpits though and quite a curly luxurious mane of pubic hair if I don't strim it.

thumbwitch · 25/06/2011 06:25

the animals - have you had your hormone profile checked? sounds like your testosterone has increased rather a lot there! Might be worth getting it checked?

Luna - I assume you're in the UK? God bless the NHS for getting your DD to hospital that quickly! And for saving her life, that must have been terrifying for you.

Lunabelly · 25/06/2011 09:03

TheAnimals - what Thumbwitch said.

Yes, we're in the UK, and that NHS thingy was magnificent. They treat some meningitis injuries as burns, so we spent 3 of the 6 weeks in hospital in a burns unit.
I do appreciate how bad being furry can make you feel, I do because I once felt it myself.

But after those three weeks on the burns unit and the people we meet at dd3's annual assesment...I simply cannot get wound up about my furriness any more. In fact, I love my fur, because it means that my skin is undamaged, you know?

Lunabelly · 26/06/2011 08:56

Hmmm...dilemma. Going to the beach today...do I shave my paws or risk getting removed from the beach due to the dog ban :o

bubbub · 26/06/2011 09:36

my legs today are hair free!
but it had been such a while that it took two razors!
i have to shave my arms every 3 days, my toes and fingers are covered. my tummy is covered, my thighs are covered i have to pluck my chin, shave my upper lip every day. and my eyebrows need serious plucking after only 2 days.
my youngest dd has a full on hairy back like a monkey, had it when she was born, hv said it would fall out. lunabelly, i could have written that first bit of your post about dd myself, my dad is either greek or italian (i dont know him and mum doesnt give too many details about him, but she thinks it one or the other and in pics he is very olived skined and black haired and so am i) dd2 was covered in hair 9.8lbs and angry as hell too. she is now 2.5 and her back is still furry. i like to stroke it, its so soft!

i worry for her, because i have all my hairyness because i have pcos, apparently the pill can help but i cant take it cos of a risk of breast cancer in family and heart conditions. tried implant and injection to see if that would make me less hairy (nope) but it made me bleed every single day for 3 months! so docs have just shrugged it off so im on my own. its humiliating, i hate my hair but its part of me.

ranimaji · 27/06/2011 17:45

very hairy legs and pcos here too
i wax regularly though so they have decresed somewhat
i guess the OP know how lucky she is

theanimalswentintwobytwo · 27/06/2011 17:52

Thanks Thumbswitch I will check it out, ditto Lunabelly

ThePanthan- I have quite pale skin, with dark hair and eyes, quite a few freckles on my arms. Is it really painful?? On a scale of piercing to childbirth?

Lunabelly · 28/06/2011 09:17

If I'd not shaved on Sunday, I wouldn't have got sunburn. Fact.

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