Sweetleaf wrote:
Harmonie wrote:
I hate razors so much, my skin is extremely sensitive to them, even the supposed sensitive-skin ones. The only solution I've found is electric shavers. My skin is sensitive to them, too, but to a much lesser extent.
I like my legs shaved, perhaps in part because I know people will look at me weird if I don't. But I also don't like the look or feel of my legs being hairy.
Nevertheless, I don't actually have to because I wear only capris and long dresses/skirts and thus my legs never show anyway. Lol.
Certainly nothing wrong with that, I figure the big thing for me is it should be a womans choice what they prefer on their body. But yeah I don't really even like how my legs look shaved I kind of like the way it grows. Like a bit longer darker hair below the knee and for some reason it gets lighter on my upper legs and for whatever reason I like that. I do use an electric razor to trim my armpits as they get more hairy than my boyfriends armpits and I don't particularly like that. I still am a bit nervous of wearing a sleeveless shirt where someone will see my armpit hair though but there are even people on the internet who dye their armpit hair...so a little bit of trimmed hair probably is not so extreme.
If I did like my legs shaved I'd for sure use an electric razor as they certainly are much less irritating, than the regular sort of shaver. I always thought those seemed intimidating though, but like it seems its actually rather hard to cut yourself with one. But yeah part of the reason I stopped shaving my legs was because of the little cuts and and I always hated when it started growing back and feeling prickly.
Certainly, I think you and all of us should be free to do whatever we want. Especially in this case where the hair naturally grows and isn't harmful. The only reason we are expected to shave is just long established societal gender roles. That's it, that's all.
Me personally, though I just don't like to draw attention to myself. I hate attention being drawn to me in public. People are way too nosy about the most absurd of things (like what I eat for lunch at work each day), so I most certainly don't want to give them something else to talk about, you know? Also by my personal choice I do prefer to shave. Perhaps that's just the result of society's body image for being a woman that has been deeply-ingrained in me and thus fairly irrational, but again, it keeps unnecessary attention off of me.
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Diagnosed with ADHD, Strongly Suspecting I'm also Autistic
21 Jun 2024, 1:34 am
