I agree one has to weigh carefully whether or not to ever start, as some types of hair will grow in coarser. But the whole thing of how noticeable the hair is and so the option to leave it alone and never start -- I think this heavily depends on how fair your leg and body hair is.
There's a world of difference between a girl or woman who has very fair, fine leg hair that barely shows, and a brunette girl whose leg hair is unequivocally dark and thick even before she's ever taken a razor to it. Also, in the case of dark hair, yes it does change after shaving and the stubble comes in seeming like it's even thicker, because of the chopped-off ends. Blonder leg hair may not seem like it's become coarser after shaving, because it's already finer hair to begin with.
I'm a person with brown head hair but positively black body hair. When I was 11 the hair on my legs was already so black and long and noticeable that I felt acutely conscious of it, as I was changing from a child to a young woman my legs were starting to look like I was a teenage sasquatch. The hairs were black, thick and long more like a boy's leg, and I felt like I was turning into a chimp. It was my choice to go ahead and start getting rid of it, because for me I just didn't want to look like that. I realized I'd never be able to stop shaving because yes, on dark body hair it does grown back coarser, but it was the price I was prepared to pay.
If you're fairer haired it's much easier to opt for leaving it alone, as aesthetically it just doesn't look as startling or as mannish as a dark haired woman's looks.
Having said all this, I mean NO offence to any women here who choose not to remove any hair at all -- more power to you and I respect that philosophy and that choice. I just didn't like mine and the way it looked so I went down that other path.
23 Apr 2015, 10:04 am
