What age do you support hair removal?

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My daughter is 9 and since starting swimming lessons at school she has become very conscious of her leg hair and she had started to develop some under her arms. Part of me feels she’s too young to start with removing hair but the other part of me feels I should probably just get her her own razor and teach her how to use it properly before she inevitably steals mine and hacks her legs up! I also use hair removal cream and I’m worried about her nicking that too and burning herself! My mum never supported this for me and I even stole old razors out of the bathroom bin to use as I was so embarrassed and I don’t want my daughter to ever feel this way. Was wondering if those of you with older girls would be able to advise.

When they ask. At that age though a lady shave will be a lot safer - a super close shave really shouldn't be needed at 9.

Yes, when they want to. Though I agree to get an electric razor at her age.

When it's bothering them and they ask. Buy her an electric lady shave .

Definitely when they ask. I was forced to keep underarm hair at that age and to this day it stays with me.

It also created issues where I felt I had to get laser for my underarms!

Please allow her to remove it.

When they ask although my daughter is 12 and doesn't want to shave under her arms yet!

I agree with everyone - when they ask.
My daughter asked at 12 and went straight for a Venus razor. Veet (done by you) or an electric razor would be easier at 9.

Yes when they ask,my daughter asked at 12 after puberty.

When they ask. Hair removal cream might be safer for her at 9 though, I'd say.

We started with hair removal cream a few times when she was about 10 and she asked, then I just taught her how to shave legs/underarms safely and supervised a couple of times to make sure she was ok

My daughter is 15 and just asked for her first razor she just does under her arms doesn't want to do her legs yet tho she is fair haired

I don't support it at any age. I don't support it for adults either. But as you remove yours from somewhere, that's clearly not your viewpoint.

You say she feels self-conscious, but it doesn't follow from that that she wants to remove her leg hair just because she's conscious that she now has it. It's not clear from your post that she's actually expressing a desire to remove the hair at all. If she hasn't said anything like that, please don't give her hair removal things as that only pushes onto her the idea that something is wrong with the hair and that she should be removing it.

There's nothing inevitable about her wanting to remove the leg hair. The only inevitable part is that the leg hair will appear, because that's a normal part of puberty and she's a little mammal. Just talk to her about how this is all normal and part of her growing and that all children will grow her like she is.