SERIOUSLY! It has to be the single thing I most hate about being a woman. We will torture ourselves endlessly in pursuit of the “silky smooth legs” “she wears short shorts” commercial that told us over and over again the only way to attract a man was to have all the surfaces of our body hair free!!

photo credit: Evil Erin

You have so many options and yet all of them have their downfalls. (aka SUCK!)

First off.. shaving.. Ok, doesn’t seem to hard does it? But I don’t know about you ladies out there, but there are areas of my body that I’m supposed to get hairless that I can’t see.. I’ve never seen.. not sure I want to see, but I’m expected to take a sharp blade to it?  I don’t think so.  Wet or dry, shaving cream or gel, my daughter says use hair conditioner because you always have more of that left than you do shampoo…  So ok, I’ve managed to somehow miraculously de-hair myself to the satisfaction of the TV commercial folks and guess what.. By the end of the day I’ve got stubble… UGG….

Then there is waxing! You’ve all seen the scene in the “40 year old Virgin” where he’s waxing his chest hairs… That really IS how painful that is, and how many men out there are willing to do that for us to have a hair free chest to cuddle on.. NOT THAT MANY!   It’s Painful, Expensive, did I say painful?? Brazilian Wax… I call that INSANE!!!  Even the “Sex in the City” ladies wouldn’t do that!

Cream Depilatories. Ok, these came out with the “who wears short shorts” commercials in the ’60′s..  (yes I’m old enough to remember those) Back in those days you were lucky to start putting that potion on one leg before you were passing out from the fumes.  That much has improved, but this option just never worked well for me.  I’d wait the allotted time, and parts of me would be burned by the chemicals and other parts of my legs would still have the same amount of hair on them as when I started.

I was recently sent a new product to review on my blog by www.fuelmyblog.com .. Smooth Away -Well here goes with that. It’s not too pricey, is the only good thing I can say about this product. It retails in Target, Walmart, etc. for $9.99. Not bad if it worked AT ALL???

The packaging looked attractive, the instructions fairly simple, the brochure assured me I would be silky smooth and hair free head to toe.

I assembled the “crystal…..” to the pink applicator and began to work in small circles with not to much pressure, alternating clockwise and counter clockwise as the instructions had said…..  UM…. NOTHING happened.. not one hair was harmed during the five minutes of working this product up and down my shins.  I couldn’t believe it.. It seemed like it should work, I thought well maybe it’s just my hair… so my daughter tried it, my friends… same result… It just doesn’t work at all.  So now what…

I did discover a fairly new razor the Intuition Razor for ladies which was introduced to me  by Andrea and Andrea of two chicks talk tech podcast.  In it Andrea talked about these razors and told all the guys listening to go and get one for their wives and all the ladies to get one for their friends.  I decided what the heck, nothing else is really much good so I went to Target to pick one up… WOW.. these were different.  You could ONLY use them wet, in the shower, but they really did glide gently around your shavable zones and zapped the hair gone.. even those spots I can’t SEE!!!  Is it a miracle?   Well I wouldn’t call it that but they really do work great.  The only downside is they are pricey and as soon as the soapy, lotiony part is worn down they are less and less effective.  I suspect these were created by women!

If any of the women out there in internet land have anything to share that works better than all these options I beg of you to share it with me and all womankind!