How many leg waxes before it's worth it?

[Iamnotausername]

I know you never get the full 6 weeks hair free after a wax. I also know it's culuminative so it works better the more you have it.

However, how many times do you have to Do it before it becomes worth it? I've had mine done 3 times now. 4/5 weeks between with no shaving. I still get stubble after a few DAYS! So I'm not getting any benefit whatsoever.

Earrings Of course you should do it if you choose. Your choice absolutely. But hair removing is - bologically speaking- unnatural. And for many, many many more generations, until women wore nylons or similar, it was not the norm for ordinary people.

In Ancinet Egypt and Rome, upper class women (eligible to become priestesses) did remove all body hair (including on their heads at times) as a sign of ritual purity, but we have little evidence that ordinary women did. It seems that the modern-style rmoval of body hair is relatively recent:

womensmuseum.wordpress.com/2017/11/22/the-history-of-female-hair-removal/

@scottishnames

You're making the assumption I'm doing it for my partner. No one on this thread has mentioned anything about doing it for anyone else.

I had my underarm hair removed because I get sweaty and find it keeps me cleaner. I keep my bikini area neat because I get physically uncomfortable if I don't. I like the feel of smooth legs.

My partner likes smooth legs too but it's not up to him what I do to my body. I don't think he would ever dare to ask me to shave.

I've been epilating my armpits ever since I was... goodness, 13? There wasn't a whole lot of hair (yet... looking at my legs: I'm definitely somebody that grows body hair!) back then. And that hair has mostly disappeared over the years.

I actually shave my armpits nowadays. Once a month (or less) is more than enough. So.... Not sure how long it will take tbh....
I think I have been doing the shaving thing since my early 20s and they haven't come back.

Yes it does slow or stop growth. But after decades of waxing. Hair follicles get damaged over time. My friends all in our 40s and 50s have very patchy growth now

Damaged hair follicles don’t result in slower hair growth. Damaged hair follicles mean either hair loss or finer hair. The rate of growth doesn’t change due to waxing. You have patchy growth not because your hair grows slower, but because you have hair loss and finer hair.

@Iamnotausername

The word is cumulative, not culuminative.. that’s not actually a word

I epilate. Had the same epilator for years so it’s very cost efficient. Also have blonde hair and it works really well, even on short hairs. I just them a quick going over once a fortnight, sometimes monthly in the winter. Armpits too. Occasionally shave as I like the exfoliating quality, but not often.

I'm sorry but this just isn't true. I'm a beauty therapist, and I've seen first hand that hair does grow finer and finer the more you wax.

How many of us are suffering from too-thin eyebrows now because of the 90s plus trend to have stick thin eyebrows? How did that happen?

My daughter is 19 and she has very thick hair and quite a bit of body hair. I've been doing her waxing for her since she was 15 and the hair is growing back finer.

It's most certainly better than shaving.

You’re taking me out of context. The OP was told that waxing would make her hair grow slower. My comment was about speed of hair growth and was a second reply in a conversation where it was understood we were taking about the SPEED of hair growth, and nothing else to do with hair.

Waxing does not affect the speed at which your hair grows. As I have also posted, decades of waxing will damage hair follicles resulting in finer hair and hair loss (bald patches). This still does not mean the hair is growing slower.

It’s not better than shaving for everyone. Especially if you have curtly hair as waxing often causes ingrown hairs which are painful and can get infected leading to folliculitis.

Well, I do appreciate that if you don't have a wax pot at home, like I do, then it can become expensive to keep going to a salon every time you get growth.

I think I'd try epilation in this situation.

Shaving causes ingrown hairs too. I think most of us have tried to cut corners with a shave-Hollywood at some time and the hairs get ingrown from that.

Regular exfoliating can help that.

Yes, you can get ingrown hairs from shaving as well, but the rate of occurrence is magnitudes lower than with waxing because shaving leaves the hair even with the surface of the skin, whereas waxing pulls the hair out by the root. So a shaved hair is far far less likely to end up growing under the skin compared to a waxed hair that literally starts to regrow well under the skin at the root, with a potentially damaged follicle.

Team wax but quite sure if I had blond hair rather than dark I wouldn't bither removing. Not that anyone asked :) Waxing definitely lasts longer than shaving - no stubble at all - that's the draw to it. Not sure whats happening with your hair OP, maybe go to a beauty parlour and get a professional wax and see what they say?

@Loveisloveis I agree with your comments. I’ve been a Beauty Therapist for almost 30 years, I’ve seen it too, my clients have. It’s understood that it’s a benefit of waxing.

I have been getting waxing done for years but only in the Summery months. April to October. Just abandoned it every Winter. Never had stubble. I would get a good 4 weeks with small amount appearing then. I would get it done depending on what l had on.
Now 30 years later its very sparse. I have very dark hair so l do think eventually it does work but 30 years is a long time from your perspective! At my last visit l had a new therapist and she said you have obviously been waxing a long time so they must know the signs.

This was my legs after 30 years of waxing. It was not getting better. Hormones all OK. This was taken the day before I started lumea.

I think your hair is snapping off rather than being removed from the root, I have no idea why this happens, maybe it’s the texture of your hair, the type of wax or technique used, but it happens to me too, same with threading as well, so I’ve just given up trying and I shave. Not worth the pain and expense to have stubble after a few days.

@megletthesecond.

Yes, my legs look like that but mostly blonde.