To ask about pubic hair removal?

[cherrycola2004]

I’m quite new here not sure where to post this so feel free to move the post.

I just wonder if you remove your pink hair how do you do it? Shaving is making me so sore and itchy, hair removal cream doesn’t seem to work too well, Home waxing kit was pointless and pretty much just took my skin off (ouch!)

Is a proper wax the only way?

Any tips or tricks?

Thank

I use Home VEET hot wax, I used to get waxed in a salon but it’s just not convenient anymore so bought this and it’s fantastic, I copy the technique a good salon waxer used so I had an idea of what I was doing.

My plan is to get an IPL hair remover (I’m currently pregnant and they’re not advised in pregnancy)

To those that are saying leave it... are you all fair haired? Forget poking out of a bikini, mine pokes out over my JEANS if left untended!

You can get some stuff called bikini zone. It has shaving gel and then an after gel that you put on to stop the itch and ingrown hairs. It's has changed my life (well kind of) I used to buy long legged swimming costumes and bikini bottoms so I did not have to shave I itched so bad it actually hurt. You apply this stuff and it stops the itch almost. It's American, there are some uk stockists but I usually get it shipped from the US as it works out cheaper

Sorry that was meant to be "it stops the itch almost straight away"

Why would you want a foof like a five year old? Just trim around the edges so you don’t get a fringe round your pants and look like a grown woman

Ironic comment from someone who is using the word "foof" as a euphemism.

OP - I either get done professional or use cream. Both work well. I currently can't have mine done and it's making me bloody uncomfortable and feel grim (about no I don't think pubic hair is grim, yes I think MINE is when dealing with nensteual disorder)

Bertrand, not on THIS thread you haven't. We've just been graced with the usual ridicule but, since you brought it up - and I remember debating it with you on the last thread too - removal of my pubic hair feels cleaner for ME and I'm happier. I don't care what other women do with their pubic hair or any of their hair because I don't seek to dictate to other women what they should be doing with it.

Even on other threads where women have said it feels cleaner, they've always specified it for themselves, for their own bodies. Why the hell shouldn't they be allowed to speak of their own feelings about their own bodies?

Whilst we're on the subject, those of you who DON'T agree with other women removing their pubic hair, I trust that you're not hypocritical enough to trim or do anything else with it other than leaving it in its natural state? That means you'll be 'out and proud' going swimming or forego the activity I imagine? I mean, you can't try to stop other women from removing their own hair if you have a little tweak at yours, can you? That would be very hypocritical indeed.

Imagine if a MAN were to post a thread on here saying that women should leave or remove their pubic hair? They would be roundly told to STFU. But when women tell other women what they should do, they are argued with and told that their choice to remove hair is wrong for all myriad nonsensical reasons.

Ecclesiastes posted earlier in the thread that the tide was turning... well, in that case, why bother heckling?

Live and let live is an excellent maxim and it most definitely includes pubic hair along with any woman's (or man's) agency over their own body.

I very much respect you, Bertrand but I've yet to read and agree with any feminist argument that attempts to take away a woman's right to do as she wants with her own body.

I'm a militant leave it alone person. I 've never understood why adult women want to look like little girls.

DiegoMadonna makes the point perfectly about leg and underarm hair and I'll add facial hair to that. After all, it's all natural...

shave in the direction of hair growth. Won’t be baby soft or smooth but won’t itch

Really???

How did I get to 30 years old and not know this

lotsofdogshere, How insulting you are. Do you honestly think that an adult woman's body could ever be mistaken for that of a little girl's? The fact that you don't understand why women want to remove their own body hair doesn't trump their right to do what they want with it.

I 've never understood why adult women want to look like little girls

Ah that old chestnut. The most misused on this type of thread. You must have a rather unusual body shape for an adult woman if removing hair makes you look pre-pubescent. I have boobs, hips and have had children. It isn't the hair that makes me look like an adult woman

lotsofdogshere

I'm a militant leave it alone person.

So do you not do anything to it at all? No trim/shape?
Does it not show outside your underwear?
If it does, do you never sunbathe/swim or whatever could mean wearing something that would show your pubes?
Genuinely curious.

Hot wax.
I can highly recommend an amazing lady in welling that does them.

Just a warning OP there are some militant pubic hair keepers and flaunters on here

This made me giggle, I'm loving the thought of pubic hair being flaunted.

I wonder what the feminist view is on men, like me, that have their pubes waxed off?

Worst of all, I do it to primarily to please my partner (although it does also feel very nice and clean).

We live in a culture where visible body hair on women is socially unacceptable, and it takes more courage than most of us posess to flout the conventions and be seen in a bikini with underarm, leg and visible pubic hair. ( come the glorious feminist revolution, though......)

There is an obvious difference between removing hair that is visible in a swimming pool and removing all of it.

If you and your partner find it sexy then go ahead. But don't talk about smell and sweat and hygiene. That is all obvious bollocks (unfortunate turn of phrase, I am aware) and is disparaging of women who choose to leave it. And it leads to pregnant women fretting about offending the midwife because their hair is growing and they can't reach to remove it.

I don't think you'd be under the same pressure from the feminist perspective, Joey.

From my perspective, men have never been pressurised to remove pubic hair to the same extent that women have. It may have changed in recent years but that has been the case historically.

My only bugbear is that women are being criticised for exercising free choice over their bodies - see the fatuous and deeply insulting remark from lotsofdogs. It's seen as a 'porn' thing with very distasteful overtones of childlike state. Disgusting thing for a woman to say too.

As a feminist, i don't care one jot what men do to their pubes.

However, i'd laugh my arse off if DH shaved it all off. He is SO not into all the manscaping, it would be very out of character. And it would look weird as he is so bear-like.

Hair is hair, do what you want with it, just don't expect my wants to be the same as everyone elses.

But don't talk about smell and sweat and hygiene. That is all obvious bollocks

Why? Is it against some kind of feminist manifesto I have yet to read to say "actually for me it's way cleaner to remove my pubic hair".

I lost virtually all my hair through illness almost 4 years ago. The subsequent periods were a revelation in how easy it was for ME to manage compared to previously.

@BertrandRussell I don't think removing all the hair down there is objectively more hygienic. I'm not saying anyone who prefers to keep things au naturel is unhygienic. I'm saying I personally feel cleaner and happier when I'm completely smooth down below

My own personal preference. Amazing isn't it how we can all have our own individual likes and dislikes

I personally don't like the feeling I personally experience of urine or menstrual blood or semen in the hair on my labia after I've had a wee / on my period / after sex.

That is quite clearly not the same as saying I think others that prefer to keep the hair on their labia as it comes are therefore unhygienic or dirty.

I personally prefer the extra sensitivity I personally get from being completely smooth. That's not the same as saying others who don't choose to remove their pubic hair experience don't experience sensitivity

It's simply saying what my personal preference is for my own body

Oh and I think anyone who'd confuse me with a 5 year old should probably get their eyes tested, as I'm not aware of (m)any 5 year olds who are 5'8" with boobs and hips

I might just keep this on copy paste given the tiresome regularity with which this argument seems to come up

I dunno if the tide is turning. You would suspect so from here but I was chatting to a male friend at the weekend and the subject turned to muffs, we had been talking about beards . He said you never see hair on women anymore and we are 40 so not young things.

Bertrand but it isn't. Women's body shapes are different, our personal chemistries are different - we are different - and we have the right to give personal viewpoints as they relate to us individually.

I can see that sweat/smell is a sensitive issue but it's moot really because everytime a woman says that she feels 'cleaner' she's presented with the 'evidence' to say otherwise, that leaving hair in place is more hygienic. The 'removers' don't start wailing about that. Why? Because they're happy with their choice. The same choice that you and every other woman has. Your choice, you decide.

You can't have it both ways and you certainly can't dictate to other women what they will do with their bodies. The inflammatory 'bollocks' is reductive and unnecessary because you're talking about people's perceptions here. About their own bodies.

“I personally feel cleaner if I remove my pubic hair.”
Some people personally feel the earth is flat or the world was created in 7 days. Just because you feel something personally doesn’t mean it’s not bollocks.

Some people personally feel the earth is flat or the world was created in 7 days. Just because you feel something personally doesn’t mean it’s not bollocks

I have severe fibroids. I lose massive clots which pretty much keep me housebound or no more than 30 mins away from a loo on day one or two. I also have to get up every hour during the night.

Not having pubic hair (as I have discovered quite by accident) has made a massive difference in the dealing with that for me.

It is easier for me to be clean during my periods without pubic hair.

Leave it as it is . There is nothing wrong with au naturelle.

Indeed not; each to their own. I hate having a bloody bush down there, though. I have a cute Brazilian type of arrangement. It's what I like . And it's how it is