What's your method of hair removal & why?
 

Hello ladies (yes this thread is for the ladies)


What is your hair removal method of choice? Why? I am talking about hair anywhere on your body that you remove.

If you opt not to remove your hair what's your reason?

For me I can't seem to stick to just one method. On my legs I use nair sometimes- but when I get bumps I let it grow out first and the next time I'll shave. In the winter I leave my legs alone 'cause it's too cold where I live. I wax my upper lip sometimes but sometimesI get little bumps that make me look like I have herpes :( and I'm afraid to try anything else.

So let me know what you think ladies. ~nachural ;)

I am lucky because I don’t have hair on my legs. Well, I do but it is blond, super fine, and extremely sparse. They are like a child’s legs. I tried shaving my legs in the 8th grade because all my friends were. I cut myself and never did it again. I do shave my underarms and I use a Bikini touch shaver.

I shave my legs and underarms and the few facial hairs I get under the chin, I either tweeze or wax

I. Want. To. Throw. Up.

-Rudey

I use Nair. Easiest and most painless method I know. And the cheapest

Hair Removal
 

Because I am fairly light in complexion, I have opted to use laser hair-removal methods. I go about once every 2 months. It is relatively painless and the hair grows back finer and finer every time. I highly recommend it for black folks.:D

wax.........

the only way to go. Legs and underarms. Once every two months is all I need. Comes back finer and finer now...eventually I won't have to at all.

Well, just to tidy up, I usually gran a handfull and just yank. I figure waxing can't hurt more than that.

hairy situation
 

I shave my legs & use Veet for anything else. It's my favorite and it doesn't give me as many red bumps.

My roomie shaves her upper lip and doesn't get any red bumps. So, you might want to try that.

i go to the Waxorcist monthly. it works great and i know eventually, i won't need her services:p

Depending on the amount of hair you have on your upper lip, I wouldn't reccommend shaving because the hair does grow back coarser. You'd be better off just grabbing a pair of cuticle scissors and cutting them. I used electrolysis for my upper lip problem and it worked for me. When I'd get bumps, I think she said to put a warm compress. It's been awhile.This was before lazer hair removal.

My sis-in-law swears by lazer hair removal. When Nads came out , I tried it and ended up getting a rash. I wax my legs, eyebrows when I want the arch and remember to tweeze to upkeep. The only place I shave are my underarms.

I thought this article was interesting.
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Thanks for the feedback thus far:p

How much does this cost and how does this work exactly??


When ever I wax my legs they never feel really smooth like when i shave or nair. It feels like a little stuble is there but it grows back a lot slower. I dont know if that happens to anyone else. Plus when ever I wax my bikini area I bleed....every single time:mad:

I get my eyebrows threaded once or twice a month. Everything else is shaved periodically as I dont have much body hair.

What is threaded? I have never heard of that.

It's a technique practiced by Indian women. It involves using thread to pull out the hair- the precision of tweezing, but the speed of waxing. Hurts like a biatch though.

I razor my eyebrows & shave my legs & underarms. I don't have a lot of hair so I don't have to shave too often. I usually use a dilapatory (sp?) for my bikini area. However the smell of Nair can kill a man....

OUCH!!! :eek: I will just stick to the razor blade on the eyebrows. I like schick intuition for my legs and disposable razors under my arms. I use tweezers for those stray hairs that grow under my chin or I will just pluck them out with my hand if I can't find the tweezers.

Girl you ain't neva lied. The hair grows back slower with waxing, too but it hurts horribly.

I get the waxworks myself unless I am feeling self-sufficient and then I will shave but it's hard to get really clean with that method in thise "hard to reach" areas.

Funny I was just thinking the same thing. I've tried the Nair, but for whatever reason sometimes it burns my damn legs. Now if I water it down sometimes it won't work that well or won't work at all on my legs. Now under my arms it works very well with minor reactions. Other area, um, TOO STRONG. For my eyebrows, I'm trying to wax, but it hurts damn it......:( and then if they're not even then they have to fix them. I usually go to the barber shop and let this guy hook me up. When I was at Lincoln my girlfriend used to pluck them one by one. LAWD HAVE MERCY.... after the swelling went down they were cute:o

My girlfriend used to have the same reaction to nair, but that was because she always used soap afterwards. I would tell her what the directions said but she insisted the smell was too horrible not to use the soap and her legs would burn the h-ll outta her.

I pluck my eyebrows about every ten days or so. To minimize swelling and pain, I press a hot/warm towel over each eyebrow for a few minutes beforehand to open up the pores. It makes the hair extraction much easier and a little less painful.

I used to wax my brows but found that no "waxer" was able to give me just the arch and thickness of brow that I wanted. Everyone wanted to wax my brows so that they were straight across on the top?? I don't know what was up with that. Sistagirl has to have that arch so she had to learn how to do it herself. :)

SC

I get my eyes threaded about two times a month. To me it is much less painless than waxing. But i have very thick hair on my brow. And the lady that does my threading knows how to arch your brow. Not just thread them straight across your face.

I recently began to get my upper lip threaded also. I thought it would hurt worse than waxing, but it actually is a lot less painful than waxing.

Plus, it is cheaper! I pay $8 for both.

My sister was raving about threading, so I decided to try it recently on my brows. I love it! :) Before that, I would get them waxed and tweeze the few straw brow in between waxings. But, many people that wax brows (as Summerchild said--at one point I too was hooking up my own brows) want to wax them in a straight line, and/or wax them too thin. Tweezing never hurt me in the past, so I new threading wouldn't hurt much eaither (actually, waxing hurts for me more--go figure). Now I get my brows threaded every two weeks. I like them b/c she never does them too thin.

As for other body hair, I shave using my Venus razor ( idon't have too much body hair)...

Well it does. Maybe that's what I'm doing wrong.:(

I use Nair for my legs and underarms. I get my eyebrows waxed. Hubby hates the smell of Nair, so I have to do it when he's not home. I get my waxing done at JCPenney Salon once a month. My what-is-taking-my brother-in-law-so-doggone-long-to-go-on-and-marry's girlfriend does it and it does not hurt. But since she's been on baby siesta, another stylist does it and it hurts like heck!!!

Re: Hair Removal
 

I have been thinking about this. How much it cost?