To ask a very personal question?

[Mrsemcgregor]

I am talking pubic hair. What does everyone do with it? I hate mine (especially as I get older it's getting wilder!) but what I hate more is bumpy itchy red skin whenever I try to tackle it. However I seem to be under the impression that most women are smooth and basically hairless down there and I must seem like some sort of cave woman or 70s porn star in comparison.

My husband hasn't mentioned that he minds at all...but maybe he does?

And if everyone is hairless and neat down there please please tell me how to do it without hideous rashes!!!

I'm another nail scissors trimmer. Only shave bikini line if going swimming. And even then I think with my chubby thighs folding over the bikini line who will notice

I too got itchy rashes from shaving regularly (in my 20s when I felt I had to) and now try to use loads of shaving gel and a good new razor.

Plus, apparently shaving there is not good for you: www.yahoo.com/beauty/shaving-down-there-could-harm-your-health-96633798307.html

I shave with those Venus razors, no bumps or itchyness, I do it maybe 1/2 times a week.

The thought of using a razor is scarier than actually doing it.

Complete wax every 5 or 6 weeks. I'm not very hairy only in a triangle so it takes 15 mins max.

Not a fashion trend for me I've been removing it all since I was 20. So over 25 years now.

I get the occasional ingrown hair but I tease it out with a hot flannel and tweezers. Depends which beautician does the wax.

Two of my friends have had laser removal to leave a small strip which they trim occasionally. The other is a beautician and waxes herself completely. Like me.

Salon wax every 5 or 6 weeks
either all off, or a landing strip depending on how the mood takes me...

I like it trimmed. I don't want a huge bush in my knickers but I don't want it itching.
When I was in my late teens/early 20s I used to use veet and only had a few issues and really liked it being smooth and my DP loved it. Then around 24 I started having reactions and getting lots of thrush so on the docs advice I stopped. DP still likes it shaved and I sometimes miss it too.

As for trimming it we have one of those personal trimmers, similar to what was linked further up. My problem is I don't know how you are supposed to go all around when you can't really see. Do you look in a mirror? DP likes it short so I say if that's what you want then you trim it. He sets to work while I read a book or day dream! haha

I'm 57 and don't look like a child. I also have done it for donkeys years.
Nothing to do with doing it for a man.

I have a trimmer that does the job. I get a bikini wax if going abroad and wearing a bikini though.

I use veet once a week or two leaving a landing strip. I think it's creepy tbh if guys don't like any hair at all down there

I wax it in a salon (had 2 lovely ingrown hairs - spots - should have notified Sporners Corner!

or trim it - Wilkinson Sword do a great bikini trimmer:-

www.boots.com/en/Wilkinson-Sword-Quattro-For-Women-Bikini-Razor_865538/

I'm quite hairy (dark hairs and pale skin too) and have never trimmed or waxed. No partner has ever voiced disgust or even a mild preference for a more ruly bush.

I am, however, enough of a hypocrite that I wear an athletic-style all-in-one swimming costume with longish shorts; I'm brave enough not to touch my pubic hair, but not brave enough to have it poking out the sides of my cozzie in public.

I do the same as Chicky and use a trimmer. I have sensitive skin around there and if I shave I get a terrible rash, I'm haven't got enough time or money to get waxed regularly and while I epliate my legs I wouldn't brave round there.

I mainly do it as tmi alert I had an experimental stage in my teens and well, let's just say it's nicer for the giver if there's not a full bush in your face

OP, IPL means intense pulsed light. Most popular are the Lumea and Smooth Skin. The theory is that the burst of light travels down the hair follicle and zaps the follicle. I say theory because although I have heard people who say it works I am afraid I have had only limited succes despite using it far more than recommended. It is not permanent, supposed to work on dark hair with light skin and costs a lot of money. The salon version is more powerful and very expensive. Next step up is laser treatment, only available in a salon and again very expensive.

The edges get done - and I have one of those trimmers. I sort of try to keep on top of it, but sometimes I forget.
Never gone for the plucked goose look I have to say 😬

Thanks 57968sp!

My poor mum in her 70s is worrying about going in for an operation,and asked me if the Drs will shocked she has pubes....what a world we have created where an elderly lady is thinking she needs to remove them🙁

Trim with scissors...purely for hygiene reasons.
I used to have a variety of styles and tried various methods over the years but seriously cba anymore.
Bald fannies are not a recent thing either. They've been in porn since at least early 2000s.
Done the bald look a few times just for fun but end up walking funny until it all grows back in........and it just looks odd.
DH not bothered. As long as he's getting sex. He comments/makes jokes about my 70s bush. It really doesn't bother me.
The feminist in me thinks "Why the hell should I?" Same with pits and legs.
Life is too short to spend time removing hair that's meant to grow there.

I like mine bushy

I shave it all off twice a week. The only time I get a shaving rash is on holiday when I do it every other day. Been doing it over 15 years, nothing to do with a man as I'm single right now and still prefer to be completely hair free.

I just give myself a nice neat trim every now and then. I have waxed and shaved occasionally in the past but I didn't like how it looked and felt and I hated the itchiness when hair was growing back. Husband professes not to care either way but notices when I've had a trim which is surprising as he doesn't even notice when I've been to the hairdressers

Trim all over with beard clippers and then if swimming shave the edges.
I'm in my 30's and that seems average with my friends. Too itchy to take it all off.

Mine is a bush. I might trim the sides if getting into a swimsuit , or a few stray spiders at the top of my thighs, or lengthy undercarriage ones, but that's it.

I just shave it all off.

To be honest my pubes start at my bellybutton and come half way down my thighs and I can't be arsed with carving fiddly little triangles and shapes into them so it all comes off.

I don't think dp cares either way though.

Get a professional, classic 'triangle' bikini wax every 4 weeks. Have done for over 10 years.

Nothing. But, just before last holiday I shaved the edges and hoped for the best but within a day I get horrendous red spots where I've shaved. Hence I now buy little swim shorts so I needn't bother anymore.