Why do Women have to shave?
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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!!
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!
6 Comments
May 12th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Have you heard of sugaring? I’ve never tried it; it’s suppose to be like waxing so I imagine it sucks. lol
I use a non-disposable vintage safety razor (hubby uses a straight edge). Dull, it is not. Takes a bit of getting used to but I like it.
~Tara
May 13th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Sugaring? I think I remember seeing a commercial about that… I will look that one up. My Mom used one of those straight razors, but she also always had gashes all over her legs. You must be more talented than I!
May 21st, 2009 at 12:10 pm
My wife was stealing my razor all the time,so I secretly have been using hers. It’s not a very nice thing to do and a blunt razor is certainly no fun. Sometimes she playfully calls me a c#$% so I feel that I have every right to use her womens razor. I like it when she shaves.It’s the best!
May 21st, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Louie… too funny, I guess it’s just human nature that we never like what we have! I remember I used to sneak into my parents bathroom and use my Dad’s electric razor when I needed to do a quickie shave job.
Organic Sister – I looked up sugaring at wiki and here’s what it said. “Sugaring is a method of epilation that is similar to waxing,and, for that reason, is “often called sugar waxing or Persian waxing.”
It has been in use since 1900 BC, “when a hairless and smooth body was considered the standard of youth, beauty and innocence for women in Egypt.”
Sugaring can be less painful than waxing, because the substrate sticks to the hair without attaching to the skin, may be applied at room temperature or heated to a lukewarm temperature, preventing burning. Nevertheless, there is some risk of skin irritation, sensitivity, and reaction. One website advises, “Of course it hurts to pull out hair however you do it, but many find sugaring less painful than waxing.” ”
My daughter is an esthetician and she did my eyebrow wax today with a new type of wax called chocolate wax.. it not only smelled great but it didn’t hurt at all… I need to ask her if they’ve ever used it for leg waxing?
June 28th, 2009 at 5:42 am
When I was a teenager I shaved because all my friends did. Then, in my 20s, I shaved because I was a competitive swimmer, and also out of habit. After my daughters were born, I started to ask myself why shave? And I could not come up with a good reason. So I stopped shaving. This was six years ago. There are no (scientifically proven) hygienic reasons why anyone, male or female, should shave their underarms, legs, or pubic area. As women, we shave because we are told we should, because we are taught that our own natural bodies are undesirable and, as a result, we hate ourselves because of them. The first advertisement for shaven underarms appeared in the May 1915 issue of Harper’s Bazaar. Since then the Western world has been bombarded with propaganda insisting that we should be hairless. However, shaving is completely unnatural. Our bodies were created (or, evolved, if this is what you believe) to have hair. We do not need to feel obligated to change this.
That said, I do understand the desire to have a “cleanly-shaven” body. And, it is awkward for me (with my naturally hairy body) to swim in public among men and women who do shave. I just feel that this is an ethical issue for myself.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:25 am
You are absolutely right Amanda. I know there is no “medical” OR “hygienic” reason… it’s all about some weird code of fashion that started and suddenly the natural hair that a woman had on her body but not so for men? I wish I were as brave as you.