AIBU for asking if you pluck your pubic hair?

[PluckedUp]

Shaving leaves bumps and there's long wait times between waxes so what's the downside to just pulling the hair out myself instead of paying someone to do it with wax strip? What am I missing here why doesn't everyone (who wants to remove hair) just pull it out themselves?

Not sure if we're even still removing hair in 2026 but I'm annoyed with it so it's gotta go

I used to use a Wilkinson Sword trimmer thing. That was good. Then I got waxes. I got an ingrown hair and spot one time though and that hurt. Now I just trim with nail scissors or shave the sides. Boyfriend would love me to get a Hollywood but I’d hate the regrowth.

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FFS. More than one weirdo is turned on by this? Bleugh. I hope youve reported them.

I support your scientific research but I am pro letting the bush be wild and free so I will not be replicating your results. On the rare times I shave the ingrowing hairs are horrific. Sounds like some are more prone to them than others.

Can’t recommend lasering enough! Had that done 30 years ago although now wish I’d gone further with it! That has kept bikini line free of bumps and rashes.

I also epilate where it’s safe! I used to pluck - but like a previous poster has said with age comes lack of flexibility and eyesight which make that trickier now!! I’m not 90 btw.

For the more delicate bits I wouldn’t put the epilator near, I’ve a little rotary electric razor which does the business brilliantly and doesn’t give me rashes.

For those preferring things au natural, brilliant, you do you! I am quite happy to go through the faff of personal grooming to keep the benefits it brings me.

Not tried creams, they scare me, peppermint shower gel killed me enough!!

Sorry, my comment wasn’t meant as a dig, someone up thread was a bit huffy about us bothering….

Oh I didn’t take it that way don’t worry, I meant just from chatting to my pals some of us are really affected by them and others not so much!

INSIDE YOUR LABIA????

I’ve had waxing for about 30 years. Tbh I wouldn’t pluck and I think if I couldn’t get a wax regularly or she was continuing to be booked up too much (which I think is what the reason is as to why you just don’t and get waxed?) I would just find another waxer

now don’t get me wrong, I don’t say that lightly, a good waxer is hard to come by. I’d be loathed to leave my lady…and believe me in 30 years I’ve met some amazing waxers and some truly awful ones…but if needs must, I’d be looking elsewhere.

but I’m intrigued, let us know how the plucking goes!!

YABU

No, that would be an eye watering experience. I’m an 80’s child. I keep my hair, just trim and shave the sides.
All this shaving, plucking, waxing, pulling will give you a droopy vulva.

Apparently the Japanese do.

I just shave it off every 3-4 days and that does the trick, no itching, no bumps. I’ve been doing that for 25 years

could explain the biology behind the ‘droopy vulva’ comment please 😂

Basing that on my own experience. 😆 maybe it’s just my own that is droopy.

Jesus, my boobs are droopy enough, do I really have to worry about a droopy vulva, 🤣

Also hairs inside the labia, yep it’s a thing, as you get older, - although not all that common apparently - as I found out to my embarrassment when it came up on a drunken night out. So don’t start panicking yet!

Might need further research before making such sweeping statements 🤣

I've a hard enough time keeping my chin hair down

I'm Muff O'Plenty, it'd be like painting the Forth Bridge.

Another delightful joy. My chin hair grows at great speed. It’s a daily job. I’ve been busy this week. I could run my fingers across the little 2cm spikes last night before hacking them off.

Get a lady shaver/bikini trimmer, short blunt not so short that it upset your skin

My sisters and I have an agreement if any of us are in a coma, we will shave the chin hair.

I have tried epilating, as I epilate my legs. Can only manage to top section, nothing underneath as it’s painful / think you need to be somewhat skilled.
So I have a full wax every couple of months then epilate to tidy the top & sides in between. Shaving is awful for me, very uncomfortable for the days following. Not worth it. Epilating is basically the same as plucking but a machine does it.

an epilator is like tweezers yanking out the individual hairs.

the broader the head the more it yanks with each turn of its wheels/blades/whatever’s inside an epilator lol.

i think it would be too sore for me these days. im more if a comfy shoes person nowadays!!

myself, i use a trimmer when i can be bothered, which isn’t often as i domt expect anyone to see that area of me any time soon tbh, unless im run over by a bus or something snd end up in a hospital ward!!

I need to remember to look in the mirror more often. The other day I realised I had a chin hair so long that it walked into the room five minutes before the rest of me

I told my husband off for not letting me know and he claimed not to have noticed but that has to be a lie - it must have been spiking his eye out every time I came near him

Fine by me but don’t do it in a garden centre.