Anyone given up and just grown a moustache/beard?

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I’ve just trimmed/plucked/shaved almost all parts of my face and I just think.. why?? I’ve tried laser but it’s painful and expensive, my hair is there in quantity but not really darkness or thickness.

I had a youngish female GP once who had a short thick beard on her chin and clearly didn’t care or she would’ve removed it. I wish I had her confidence. If you stopped removing facial hair what age were you and did you get any reactions??

I’ve had conversations with friends who thought they were abnormal for having nipple or bum crack hair. This is just normal human hair. Why do we feel the need to shave our bum cracks when men are walking around with forests in their ears and carpets on their chests?

Just annoyed with double standard and needed a rant I think 😂

Well, my husband asks me to tweeze any hairs that appear in his ears and wax his shoulders. Loads of my sons’ hairy mates get their chests waxed.

So I’m not sure about double standards nowadays as many men are much more groomed.

You’d need enormous brio as a woman to style out a beard. We have a neighbour who’s happily sported a white beard for about 30 years. But she is known locally as ‘Beardy Barb’ 😮

I think it’s too ingrained in me. I’m the same about legs. I mean, I only shave them if I have them out in public which is about three times a year 😅 But I still couldn’t bear to walk down the street with hairy legs. Even though I can’t say I’ve ever noticed another woman having smooth/hairy legs when walking down the street.

I don’t find removing my moustache that much hassle so I don’t mind doing it.

I have v hairy arms but I’m okay with them for some reason.

I don't care about my bum but my chin hair drives me insane. I'm always fiddling with it so have to tweeze it out. I'm really not vain and don't go in for beauty treatments or anything, but I would be very self conscious with a beard.

I sometimes do wander the streets with hairy legs though 🤣

It's social pressure on women who have been conditioned to think that it's feminine to have no body hair.

Getting rid off all hair including around the anus comes from porn. The makers of porn removed the hair so you could clearly see the genitals and it caught on.

When I was growing up, if a man had suggested I shave off my pubic hair, I would have thought he was a deviant and liked little girls. Even now I've got no idea why a woman would wax such a vulnerable area or put up with ingrown hair.

I don't know why you're taking off facial hair as you said it's not particularly noticeable. I can only assume it's because you think women should. There's a big difference between having a visible beard and barely decipherable hair.

I remove hair because it's my choice to do so, not because of porn or because men like it, it's because I don't like it. I don't want to walk around with a beard or hairy legs and that's MY choice

It is and it isn't your choice. It's a societal expectation that women shave their legs. Your choice and mine comes from that expectation.

Female beards are not the same. Most women do not have beards. That's not so much a societal expectation as biological reality. Hirsutism is a medical condition and can be a symptom of other, serious conditions. If I stop plucking the odd chin hair I won't end up with a beard.

Speak for yourself but for me no, it's my preference, my choice and I'm able to make that decision myself without being influenced by anyone/anything. Please don't speak for everyone

I am currently having laser treatment because as I turned 50 I started getting loads of extra chin hairs . I've only ever seen 2 women with full beards / excess facial hair and it is definitely shocking because we're just not used to seeing it . It's not a look I would ever personally want hence lasering.

The idea of removing female body hair is social conditioning. I shave my legs and armpit hair. It's "my choice" but that choice doesn't exist in a vacuum.

You are influenced by the social conditioning on multiple generations of women and men.

I definitely agree when it comes to peach fuzz on cheeks. I might be a slave to the things that are already ingrained in us as socially required, but I’m not going to help add to that list. A line has to be drawn somewhere, or we’d condition each other into never leaving the bloody house.

Dwarf women are often depicted with beards and the dwarf men love it. Me however, in the non-fantasy realm, not a chance.

OK, well you believe that and I'll keep doing my own thing because I want to...for me

Unfortunately I agree with @IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle, I think unless a woman is doing it purely for reasons of comfort then they’ve probably been influenced by society, as removing body hair just isn’t a consideration for most men. However, as women we have grown up seeing bare bikini lines on the beach, hair-free models in magazines and adverts telling us we are only a goddess if we’re smooth and hairless.