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Arm hair

56 replies

AtSea1979 · 31/05/2014 18:12

I have dark hair so my arms are quite hairy, I've bleached it before now but never removed. Recently I've been looking at other women's arms to see what they do and most seem completely hairless.
What do you do? Should I wax or epilate it off?

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marleymooo · 01/06/2014 13:29

Yy to above. I don't do it because its a "beauty" thing, or because I have slight arm hair. I've been waxing sine I was 16 and in my first job in a shop a little girl told me I had arms like her daddy Blush little did she know I also had a beard, tache and sideburns to probably match her daddy's too but I epilated those before school EVERY day. It's not always about trends and I can't say I've noticed the new trend for hairless arms.

mswibble · 01/06/2014 13:53

And nature kindly gave me sideburns and a beard that I have spent over £1500 on electrolysis to remove.

I remove hair that I consider unsightly and if im quite honest, debilitating. Unless you have struggled with full on facial hair problems dont criticise.
On the other hand I didnt shave my legs from October through to December last year. Could not be arsed.

Sometimes, just sometimes, people do things because they want to - not to please someone else.

specialsubject · 01/06/2014 15:55

some women seem to have hairless arms, I never have. Fortunately it has got lighter (greyer?) and really doesn't show.

remove it if you want, but I think life is really too short. Normal human beings have body hair to some degree.

BloodFlower · 01/06/2014 19:15

If you really hate it I think epilating would be a great idea. It takes me about two minutes to epilate a full leg, so it'd probably be a minute for an arm, especially as it wouldn't really matter if you missed a few little hairs. As everyone else has said though, don't feel as though you have to.

YoungBritishPissArtist · 01/06/2014 19:36

Maybe the trend for hairless arms has passed me by?

When the weather turned sunny a couple of weeks ago, I saw loads of women with hairy arms out in central London. I was happy to see it as mine are too Grin

WitchWay · 01/06/2014 20:09

I quite like my hairy arms Grin but I do bleach them in the winter if I'm going to a posh do as the hairs are dark. In the summer they bleach in the sunlight, though when I was young I had to bleach at the beginning of summer & then the sun would keep the hairs blonde. As I've got older they seem to bleach more easily.

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