Who hates shaving?

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It's not my favourite process but I like seeing myself cleanly shaved in the mirror.

I hate shaving my legs and under my arms. I only shave my legs in the warmer months where I wear shorts. But I need to keep the hairs under my arms shaved because it produces more sweat or something. But shaving the legs is so awkward. I am so envious of men for being allowed to go out with shorts on and legs covered in hair. Us women HAVE to shave our legs. Either that, or we risk being ridiculed by other women. It's annoying because if Britain is Europe, then why do we have to follow the American culture?

I hate shaving my face and when I use a blade makes it my face feel like it's on fire. It's also pointless you shave it and it comes back people do it over and over again. Do they expect something different to happen? I'll beat it back with the clippers but that's it.

^^ This. Body hair on women = gross! This isn't the Middle Ages anymore!

The human body looks far better without all that barbaric body hair. Hair is only acceptable on the head and (for men) the face.

I shave my face, chest (Despite having very little chest hair), shoulders, armpits, and lowers every day. I'd shave my legs, but as hairy as they are, I'd have to go through 50 razors, and my mom always keeps bitching about how men who shave their legs are all either gay, transvestites, body builders, or swimmers. I've considered waxing my body hair and face just to save the hassle of shaving it all. ESPECIALLY my face. Can't grow a proper neckbeard to save my life--only a goatee and mustache. Anything else comes in all patchy. I just plain hate having facial hair.

I just.trim my face hair so its 1-2mm at most. I don't like beards or shaving. And I look.even uglier without face hair. So I stick to scruffy or what its called.

I don't shave, but I don't have a lot of body hair either.

I don't shave, I don't think a razor has been near my face in over 10 years. Most of the time I just grow out my beard and trim it down every couple months.

I quit shaving about three years ago, and it was the best thing I have ever done for myself. After about a year of being terrified of potential ridicule, I decided that women that feel obligated to shave to conform to beauty standards need a reality check; there is nothing more beautiful to me than a woman that defies this malarky about how we must stay clean-shaven and flawless. The US is so brainwashed by the media that it sickens me.

Shaving causes me great anxiety, overwhelms my senses, is time-consuming, messy, a waste of the little money I have, and far too much of a sensory annoyance for me to deal with (I hate the feeling of stubble - mine or anyone else's.) Why would I do something that causes me such great discomfort simply because a society that all ready rejects me says I have to?

No thank you.

Good for you (totally meant in a non-ironic way). Those are pretty much the same reasons I stopped shaving my face as a man. I realise it's very different and that a man with a beard is a less unusual thing to most people than a woman with hairy legs. Overall women have it way tougher in this regard but you do have one advantage in that you can simply cover up the hairy bits if you can't be bothered with people's narrow minded reactions at a given point. If I attempt to cover my beard people are likely to think I'm an armed robber :p

I think this is one of life's great "f**kwit-o-meters" - if somebody thinks less of you/me based on the fact that we don't wish to remove hair which grows naturally on our body (whether that be legs, lady bits or face) then they are probably hiding various other nasty little prejudices and I would rather avoid them. I've slept with an "au naturelle" woman and wasn't especially phased by it. Honestly I would *prefer* that a woman shaves her lady bits but it wouldn't be a deal-breaker if she didn't and I am more than willing to do the exact same thing in kind if I am in a relationship and my lady wants me to do so (the beard is non-negotiable ).

You could wax.

Why don't you give waxing a go and see what it is like?

It's more the point of not doing it because I don't have to. I have waxed, and I find it equally as unpleasant. I prefer being comfortable over conforming to what the masses find attractive.

On a completely off-topic point: AinsleyHarte, every time I see your name I read "Ainsley Harriott" who is a UK TV-chef and B-list celebrity:

I use a product called Shave Secret, which allows me to get a great shave without the messiness of shaving cream. It's not that I hate shaving; I just strongly dislike the shaving cream. That product is made in Cuero, TX, near Houston. I tried it the first time, and I was hooked.

I tried waxing twice. Both times (it was different methods) I reacted to it. Not good. Especially as it meant no shaving for 3 weeks in the summer. That was gross.

One of my things/uber interests is double edged razors.

I have to shave.

I have an assortment of gorgeous badger hair shaving brushes and many DE razors.
My current day to day razors are a 1960 Gillette Toggle refinished in rhodium and a Gillette Fatboy in rhodium with the same date of manufacture as my date of birth 11/1959, nice huh?

Then there's the different shave soaps and shave bowls.

Shaving my face with a good combination of blade, razor and soap is music to my ears as each hair is cleaved cleanly.

Week days I complete a one or two pass shave but weekends, will see me complete a three or four pass shave. For me it's a method of relaxation, a time out period where I can concentrate on a simple thing that brings pleasure.

The good things about using a single blade are no razor burn, ingrown hairs and blades are less than $1 a piece

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