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Shaving? Waxing? Combination? Epilation?

I tried to 'Nad' my legs - not recommended. My mums long haired dog came over to investigate and try to eat the Nads, his tail got stuck to my leg. Messy and useless.

Shaving is quick and easy, although dry shaving is probably enforced in hell as a kind of punishment.

Hair removal creams have yet to convince me. I tried one when I was around sixteen, it smelt and my legs bled.

Anyone tried laser hair removal? Expensive but permanent.

― rumpie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

Oh GOD tell me about it! I bought a Epilady and it's AWFUL! Doesn't remove all hairs and the ones it does are so painful in removal. I loved that Gilette Women thingie but they don't refills anymore here! Bastardos! If I'd had the time and nerve, I'd wax that shit off.

― nathalie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

I used an epilator on my bikini area (the couple of inches above my pants) I finished the job with tweezers.

It hurt, but I was drunk and it's still smooth.

― rumpie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

I shave my legs and armpits and use nair for the more sensitive bits - gone right off waxing.

― leigh, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

Why?

― nathalie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

I bought an epilady years ago. I used it once, screamed in agony, and threw it out of the bedroom window.

I've tried Nair (smelly, stings, plus I don't have the patience to wait long enough for it to work properly), and those home waxing kits (useless, it just leaves a sticky waxy residue all over my skin and doesn't even remove all the hair I'm trying to get rid of). I even got myself a home electrolysis kit, but it takes for ever .... you have to hold each individual hair in the tweezers for ages before it zaps it dead at the root, and I just don't have that much free time (though I have used it on a few stray eyebrow hairs quite successfully).

The Gillette Venus razor in t'shower of a morning swiftly gets whatever bits smooth I want.

― C J, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, that's the one! But they don't do refills anymore, I have to buy a new one every time. Well BOOOHOO. :-(

― nathalie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

the nether regions: waxed, shaved, trimmed or au naturel?

― g®▲Ðұ, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

oh g®?Ð?, remove thee from this thread with thou silly comments. ;-)

― nathalie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.funfilesandsmiles.com/smilies/2182.gif

― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

I used an epilator a few weeks ago, and every single hair on my legs came back ingrown. Wtf? How does anybody deal with that?

― Zora, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

nath, do you need some venus refills sent to you?

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

[i]I used an epilator a few weeks ago, and every single hair on my legs came back ingrown. Wtf? How does anybody deal with that?[/]

Sandpaper?

― C J, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Exfoliate yr legs with a scrubby thing every other day or so, starting a few days after the epi-ing, I think. And keep lotion on them so skin is softer. But honestly I think those pull-em-out-by-the-roots methods are only good for some people.

― Laurel, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

I tried to 'Nad' my legs

i've no idea what this means, but i do wonder if anyone's tried to nad their nads.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 8 March 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Gillete Mach 3 works like a charm, even okay for the nether regions. I am a hairy motherfucker and I can shave my legs with it daily without irritating my skin too bad....I also love the smell of aveeno shaving cream

. I even got myself a home electrolysis kit,[br]omfg, they make these!??!

but it takes for ever .... you have to hold each individual hair in the tweezers for ages before it zaps it dead at the root[br]that sounds like my idea of heaven actually. I a mildly obsessed with tweezing hair out of my chin and boobs, to the point where I am made big nasty wounds trying to get out an enticing subcutaneous hair

― emilys., Friday, 9 March 2007 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

wow, I killed this one

― emilys., Monday, 12 March 2007 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

Nads is the most hilarious name for a product ever. But gonads technically means testicles or ovaries, and the only thing vaguely similar to hair in either is the ovaries' graafian follicles. Sorry to be dullery pedant.

I tried Nair at 15 and don't remember anything abt it except it must not have been great as I never used it again.

I like the Venus razor for its mad swivel head action, but the only reason I bought one is bcz the translucent white one was pretty. The virbating venus razor would scare the hair right out of me. Too obscene.

I quit shaving almost everything. The special purpose (so to speak) gets trimmed by a pair of Fiskars scissors I keep in the shower to tidy 1 cm, then sheared in the sagittal region.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

This sounds suspiciously like group insanity.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

??? Unspecified pronoun confusion!

― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

Pardon me. This whole thread sounds suspiciously like group insanity.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yah that's why I quit shaving. That and I'm abhorrent.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

I reluctantly and resentfully shave my legs and armpits but spare my bush the indignity. I have had a bikini wax twice and it was unreasonably painful and fairly expensive and to my mind, utterly pointless because, seriously, I am 34 and have pubic hair and if this is a surprise to anyone, they need to put down the Penthouse and rejoin reality. And quit looking at my crotch.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

I want a cross-stitch sampler of those last two sentences.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.subversivecrossstitch.com/kits/images/gofuck.gif

― Jenny, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry!!! I couldn't resist. I in no way shape or form want you to go fuck yourself. As far as I can tell from the internet, you are pretty great.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

No, that is totally spectacular. I made one that says "Herpes is Forever." I also made one of the pedo Blind Faith album cover, which I really regret giving away.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yay! I made that Go Fuck Yourself sampler for my friend Jesse for his birthday. I watched an episode of Uncommon Threads a week or so ago where they ran a cat photo through a cross stitch pattern generator and made this:

http://images.scrippsweb.com/DIY/2006/10/10/duct135_1cc_e.jpg

and now I really, really want to make a cross stitch of this picture of our cat Ed in a plastic TV:

http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif

― Jenny, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh damn. [Removed Illegal Link]

― Jenny, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeff/11132830/

― Jenny, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

I have had a bikini wax twice and it was unreasonably painful and fairly expensive and to my mind, utterly pointless because, seriously, I am 34 and do not enjoy receiving oral pleasure and if this is a surprise to anyone, they need to put down the Penthouse and rejoin reality.

fix'd

Seriously. A little grooming is just courtesy, unless yr partner enjoys munching on heads of broccoli, in which case, carry on. The implication that basic personal maintenance is somehow immature does not fly. This needn't extend to the full brazilian if that's not your bag, but old is as old does in this case.

― rogermexico., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

PS - Tuomas to thread to spank me for that, because we are all beautiful just as God made us and society and the media and false consciousness and etc etc

― rogermexico., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

I solved the whole pube hair problem by buying a bathing suit that goes down to my knees.
I am compulsive about legs and pits, though. Shave every day, in the shower, balancing on one leg at a time like a stork because there's no place in the shower stall to rest my foot. But I figure it's good for the quads. Hate stubble. My husband could care less if I looked like a yeti.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

I solved the whole pube hair problem by buying a bathing suit that goes down to my knees.

Surely you're not suggesting...

― rogermexico., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

Facial hair—gotta get a magnifying mirror, ladies, otherwise you'll go blind. One of those ones that swings out from the wall. And good lighting. Thousands of watts. And don't sweat it if you don't get 'em all—hand-plucking occupies the time during boring stretches of movies.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I compulsively pluck stray (sigh, I'll admit it) tiny nose hairs & eyebrow hairs really compulsively. Sometimes it's the first thing I do in the morning. It's nice to do while the shower water takes 4 minutes to get warm, too.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think Nads was named that 'cause the inventor or her daughter was named Nadia.

― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

So it should actually be pronounced Nods?

― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

Here's my preference. Ladiez, bust out the steno pads.

First and foremost, I like to not get long-ass pubes in my mouth. Shorter pubes are easier to extract without a big scene before continuing. Sometimes there's still a litttle of the ol' "Pbbt! Pbbt!" But we can all laugh about that, ha ha, pubes. Totally untrimmed pubes, however, are a hindrance to the goal that is oral sex. Assuming that this is the goal, or even one of the goals (and I know I'm assuming a lot), yeah, go ahead, trim it. Uh... please. Big full bush is just not as accessible. Sometimes I finally find the clit and want to say, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.rochesterchildrensbookfestival.org/Absolutely_Not.jpg

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

What does you lady say kenan? "I swear it was just there a moment ago!"

― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

I do not have this problem with my lady. :)

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

Does the laser hair removal crap they advertise on the radio work? Never having to shave my neckbeard again would be classic.

― milo z, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

Also, after she sees these posts, I may not be seeing my lady's parts again for a while. :(

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

OMG even the hairlessness leads to Mystery of the Missing Clitoris! I've got Encyclopedia Brown on the case.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

no, no, it's not the bleeding treasure of the sierra madre. We KNOW where it is!

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

Not if she won't let you see it!

― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

I've got Encyclopedia Brown on the case.

He'll just tell everyone to flip to the back of the book like everyone else.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone everyone.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

"back of the book"

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 10 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

avg. hair level, not 5'6" 140 lbs. et. al

That's a lot of fucking hair

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

No Abby Winters, no credibility.

Can I admit this is my favorite porn site?

Hi, sweetie!

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

Locks of Love secretly sponsors the Lose 148 lbs. NOW! diet plan. ie cut yr hairs club

― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

Thank goodness that you came along to show me the light w/r/t what I do with my nappy dugout

Aw, c'mon now... whatever works between consenting adults, but Kenan is pretty OTM here.

― rogermexico., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

My gmail quote of the day is from Bette Davis, and it says: "I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair."

― Laurel, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

Is it really cool for random guys to tell random women how they should style the vajayjay? Is this what 2007 brings us?

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.englishcreekgardens.com/images/topiary_rabbit%20sitting.jpg

"Lookin' GOOD, girl!"

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

No way am I getting ivy caught in my teeth. Prune it!

― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

I think I plainly presented it as my preference. Take it with a grain of.. whatever.

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

Meh, I don't feel bossed around. No worries.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

i would like to start waxing my legs. but when i had it done once it was so painful. it was worse than the epilady. my legs actually turned bright red for 2 days and i had bumps all over them. every pore was a big welt. one other time i did this at home and broke vein and later had to get it burned off at the doctors office. wondering if it is only women who have dark hair and really fair skin who have this problem. my skin is fairly thin, hair thick. OR if it is more the quality of the wax, waxer that matters. with waxing you are hair free for weeks. i also have skin troubles with shaving so its not much of the better option. and i'd have to use hydrocholric acid to burn the hair off. so do i just go to a really expensive salon for an ulti-wax, or endure the pain?

― SusanD, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

I used an epilator a few weeks ago, and every single hair on my legs came back ingrown. Wtf? How does anybody deal with that?

I thght I had bugs in my pants (hah!) but my husband, after I told him about two *zits*, suggested they were ingrown hairs. *sigh* Back to Gilette I guess. Fuck ingrown hairs.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

wondering if it is only women who have dark hair and really fair skin who have this problem.

I'm no doctor, but the only other women I've known who've had this painful a problem have fit this description.

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

Dudes with hair are no picnic for the ladiez either you know.

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: sucks :(

― SusanD, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I was wondering. Kenan is so keen to point out what he wants of the ladies, but does he know what the ladies want from him?

― nathalie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh pleez. I'm not keen, I'm posting on a thread with that theme! And I'm pretty good with hair removal, if that's what you mean. And if that's not what you mean, it's none of your business.

:)

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

It makes it look larger, no?

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think they're on to that trick by now.

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Also reading Ron Jeremy's bio? ;-)

― nathalie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

Dudes with hair are no picnic for the ladiez either you know.

That's what I'm sayin'. Courtesy all around.

Is it really cool for random guys to tell random women how they should style the vajayjay? Is this what 2007 brings us?
We're a supportive community! And if by 2007 we can't share some friendly grooming tips, then 2008 can't come fast enough, Captain Save-A-Bush ;-)

But what do I know? I'm in LA and haven't seen a full bush in the wild since the 90s...

― rogermexico., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

Who?
;)

― kenan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

I find Nad's easy, quick and clean (it's water soluble). The first rip hurts, but your legs go numb pretty fast and it's all fine. The only problem is waiting for the hair to grow long enough, so I usually give in and shave.

Grimly and anyone else who cares: Nad's is named after the inventor's daughter, Nadia (hence the apostrophe - it's her stuff). She was a dark and hairy-armed little girl so her Mum mixed up the stuff using all natural ingredients so as not to irritate her childish skin.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

i'm really pale and dark-haired, but i don't find waxing to be particularly irritating or even that painful, i think i have a pretty high pain threshold for beauty treatments, though.

― lauren, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

But what do I know? I'm in LA and haven't seen a full bush in the wild since the 90s...

I nearly spit my coffee out after reading that.

I want to be ok with bikini waxing, I really do. I've only had one experience with it though and I think it has left me scarred for life. I am not sure what I was expecting but it certainly didn't involve winding up on my hands and knees, holding my cheeks apart while a small Brazillian woman got closer to my bits than any gynaecologist ever has. Did I mention that the room had mirrors on all the walls? The whole situation resembled something out of a medical fetish porno. *shudders* That said, the results were fantastic. Until I get over that particular waxing experience, I'm sticking with shaving/trimming.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Who knew us chaps were missing such a fantastic seam of stories! Though I'm sure several of us have our own sordid depilation shame we could be discussing but won't.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

cutty to thread

― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

There was a news item a while ago about a girl who died because of too-liberal application of topical anesthetic before laser treatment. The salon gave her the stuff and told her to apply it before coming in for the procedure, and she died in her car. Had to have been the first hair-removal fatality.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Death Highlights Dangers of Laser Hair Removal

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

ENBB, your experience sounds the same as my one-and-only Brazillian (minus the mirrors though).
I still feel mortified when I recall to mind the words "So, are we doing the bum today?".

Whaaaaaaaaaat!

― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

This is turning into the "nearly spitting out your coffee" thread. I need screen wipes.

― peteR, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

I nearly spat out my snot.

Anyway the ingrown hairs have disappeared. Or grown out. Whatever it is, it's SOLVED without the help of a knife and cutting. WOOHOO.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

I nearly spat out my snot.

When I've stopped laughing, I'll suggest that hairs that are growing back through the skin often look a lot like they are going to ingrow; a bit like you have spots or something. They tend to settle down when they actually do break the surface.

I am not going to say how I know this. Ahem.

― peteR, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

i have nearly given up completely since becoming terminally single, although i do shave my legs every third day

― homosexual II, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Every third day? You call that giving up? Growing the amazon jungle on your legs, THAT's giving up. Or according to some that's a sign of being a feminist which I find ridiculous.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, i give up everywhere but my legs. i dont know why, i think its something to do while i deep condition my hair.

― homosexual II, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

I still feel mortified when I recall to mind the words "So, are we doing the bum today?"

I take it bleaching is out of the question then?

― rogermexico., Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

enbb's story ilustrates why I will never get a Braziallian.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

HA! What I got wasn't even a Brazilian, just a regular old bikini wax!
A friend and I had gone to the salon together and as we were leaving I told her that I needed the largest glass of wine available at the nearest bar possible. That's when I found out that the hands and knees thing isn't normally part of the whole thing. I think that I just hit the crazy waxer woman jackpot and got very thorough perfectionist.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

that's crazy. she must have had you mixed up with another appointment or else she was deranged. a regular old bikini wax removes a small amount of hair in the front, just what would stick out if you were wearing a bathing suit or bikini underwear, and it's not really worth the waxer's time to do more than that.

― lauren, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

i guess you've got to admire that woman's dedication to her craft, though.

― lauren, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

I know! It was at a really fancy salon and fairly pricey so perhaps she wanted to ensure good value for money? Whatever the reason, the whole thing was ridiculous and something that would happen only to me.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't even meet the waxer's eyes when I was paying afterwards. As I walked away quickly through the shopping centre, I felt sure that everyone who passed me knew exactly why my face was on fire. I kept my horrifying experience a secret until about 6 months later. I told my sisters when we were out on the drink and they laughed so hard that other people in the beer garden turned around to look at us.

― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

OK, I'm going to brave going back to the same place. I think I'll stick to just the G this time though.

― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 02:18 (eighteen years ago)

So you're not doing the bum today?

― Forgot My Pencil, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 03:07 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck no.

― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

Not today, not ever.

― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

Did you see the bumwaxer, or were you saved the humiliation?

― Forgot My Pencil, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

They were full. Have to go back tomorrow.

― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 03:40 (eighteen years ago)

A friend has convinced me to do laser removal. It will have to wait a bit until I get a car, but then it will become my next financial priority. I am excited.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

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