Full bush, bald or trimmed???

[RoRoMummy]

As Spring is around the corner I have started to turn my attention to shedding the hairy 'Winter coat'. Generally my legs and armpits are shaved/waxed. But the question is this:

Pubes / Minge: Full bush, bald or trimmed???

Have realised that quite a few of my friends have it 'all off', whereas I have an occasional 'topiary' trim. What do fellow Mumsnet ladies do? What is the best method?

Just curious.

My husband couldn't give a monkeys.

Aw bunjies that's sweet that you and your DH have such a great level of intimacy...and trust.. to let him near your ladybits with a razor

I go for the landing strip effect when I can be bothered. I usually text DP at work to tell him and it drives him mad with lust till he gets home .

But inevitably I cannae be arsed to maintain it so it grows back into Grey Gardens (Yes I have grey pubes. And I'm not even 30 ).

Only a few mind. That last sentence made it sound like I had this going on down there.

bunny what happened to your legs in that picture on your profile! ob something window related

We came back from a BBQ in the summer and realised we'd 'lost' our keys.

I decided to get into the house through the tiny bathroom window.

My lovely childbearing hips, so useful during childbirth, resulted in me stuck in said window facing downwards at a 45 degree angle.

I was wearing a dress so flashed my knickers to all the neighbours and the firemen that eventually came to rescue me whereupon I promptly lost consciousness and whacked me head on a concrete step.

Oh and the keys were in the back of the taxi all along.

Jesus wept.

trimmed - i look like a plucked chicken if i remove all hair

flippin eck bunny

What was the phrase??????

There are other lines of help available

Hot waxed off all year round. I do it myself, far less embarrassing.

ouch bunny, your legs!

Thank you for this: I must only have 'baldie' friends then!!! The 'little girl' thing bothers me too.

Have now bought some clippers and have decided to just trim as usual and make a nice little triangle shape. Can't bear it poking out of swimsuits or nice undies.

Incidentally: Boden usually do a 'boyleg' swimsuit which is cut deeper round the leg. Looks 50's-ish (I have a red & white polka dot one) or short style tankini bottoms. So if I've let it get out of hand ever it's OK to go swimming still.

Ta for all your responses!

Bikini trimmer very good - number 1 all over.
Do it for hygiene purposes, not for dh. Think it's the younger generation that favour the 'all off' look. So my teenage daughter tells me...........

They favour the all-off look because the media is telling them that they need to look like porn stars. It makes me mad. There's a reason that hair is there. I don't mind trimming and tidying (which I do myself), however.

tiny trim as and when. Hate to look bald.

Number 2 all over.
Much cleaner.

But surely anything other than a trim is very very prickly?
I just think what my armpits and legs are like as it grows back

Trim, and salon wax at the sides.

Shaved it all off ONCE.....and once only. Boy did it itch when it grew back!

what is wrong with au naturel?

says me, that hasn't been swimming in a pool for several years...(at the beach no one else is close enough for it to matter)

But unless you are constantly shaving, it will be stubbly all the time.

And what about the, er, nether regions? How can you manage to reach round there?

I am not v hairy so didn't used to bother at all. But (sorry for unpleasant detail) post-childbirth couldn't use tampax so it all got a bit, erm, messy, and I discovered the brilliance that is the bikini trimmer.

There IS a generational difference isn't there - I was a bit wound up by it for ages because it did seem like younger women got rid of it all in some kind of imitation of the porn look. But then I remembered that my mother refused to shave her legs on feminist grounds, whereas I did mine from teenagedom onwards. So perhaps I can't be arsed to get all worked up about it: each to their own.

(Bald is still a look that I find vile, though.)

Shaving is horribly itchy.

Normally have a hot wax brazillian. Ouch! I try to remember to take a couple of paracetamol an hour before my appointment.

BB

brazillian all year round

regular tim, also in winter, for hygiene and freshness really. (same reasons I shave my pits). I wax or pluck the sides so it looks tidy.

I feel very 70s if I let it run wild

MoChan, do you also leave you pit hair on then? Be honest? Same thing reall, isn´t it?

And tache hair ? Is there a reason it´s there too???

There are reasons pubic hair is there that make it, to my mind, still useful. In my opinion, there's no point in my having a tache (and I don't have one anyway) or underarm hair, so I do shave it off. I admit I am kind of vexed with myself for doing it, in some ways, because men don't shave theirs. But I like the fact that I feel cleaner (as I do when I trim my 'lower' hair - [coy emoticon]).