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quinara(Ah, girlchat, how rarely I have you...)
So, of late I've been growing increasingly bored of my leg hair. I haven't shaved my legs regularly in at least three or four years, mostly because I'm lazy, but also because it's boring (if those two aren't synonymous) and only achieves the effect you want for about a day, if that, considering I've never been very adept at catching everywhere and was always left with a patch of hair on my ankle. Considering I tend to wear tights, leggings or trousers practically all the time, it's always been kind of a moot issue. Now, though, I'm bored of it.
Because of this, and on top of a few investigations a while ago, resumed today, I have just invested in an epilator from the Boots website. o.O I tweezered out a few of my leg hairs, decided the pain was livable until the roots were naturally loose, read some positive reviews and now it's on its way... Supposedly to bring conveniently hair-free legs that I don't have to give a crap about for weeks at a time? With no extra crap to be bought for many years to come?
Does anybody else use these contraptions, which seem like rather peculiar torture devices? How do you get on with it?
PS. Since we're talking of leg vanity - this of course will do nothing about the bruises and scrapes where my bike pedals are constantly eating up my ankles, but never mind. (What? You try wheeling a bicycle in the dark while tipsy and chatting; it's hard. :P)
So, of late I've been growing increasingly bored of my leg hair. I haven't shaved my legs regularly in at least three or four years, mostly because I'm lazy, but also because it's boring (if those two aren't synonymous) and only achieves the effect you want for about a day, if that, considering I've never been very adept at catching everywhere and was always left with a patch of hair on my ankle. Considering I tend to wear tights, leggings or trousers practically all the time, it's always been kind of a moot issue. Now, though, I'm bored of it.
Because of this, and on top of a few investigations a while ago, resumed today, I have just invested in an epilator from the Boots website. o.O I tweezered out a few of my leg hairs, decided the pain was livable until the roots were naturally loose, read some positive reviews and now it's on its way... Supposedly to bring conveniently hair-free legs that I don't have to give a crap about for weeks at a time? With no extra crap to be bought for many years to come?
Does anybody else use these contraptions, which seem like rather peculiar torture devices? How do you get on with it?
PS. Since we're talking of leg vanity - this of course will do nothing about the bruises and scrapes where my bike pedals are constantly eating up my ankles, but never mind. (What? You try wheeling a bicycle in the dark while tipsy and chatting; it's hard. :P)
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Date: 19/03/2011 23:00 (UTC)Opaque tights and boots are my preferred method of leg hair grooming.
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Date: 19/03/2011 23:12 (UTC)Mine too. :D The thing is, I've accepted now that I'm never going to have the mindset to cheerily walk around with hairy bare legs - so not having the choice is beginning to feel restrictive, at least thinking ahead to the summer. (For some reason I've decided it's going to be warm this year, which it hasn't been in the UK for about three years.)
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Date: 19/03/2011 23:17 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 19/03/2011 23:25 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 19/03/2011 23:38 (UTC)I can pluck or wax my eyebrows, but I have a pretty low pain threshold, so I stick with shaving for larger areas, lol. It also seems to help with my dry skin (I guess the shaving helps to slough off the dead skin as well as the hair?).
Besides, when else would I use the now-perfected skill of balancing on one leg while in the shower??
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Date: 19/03/2011 23:51 (UTC)and onto the 'sticking out of the fabric of my tights' stage...Yeah, I think shaving is good for an extra bit of exfoliation. :D
And double hee!! See, that I never managed; it was always sitting down with a bowl of water for me, or being in the bath. Mostly because I did it so irregularly it became almost a military operation, but also because shower shaving just led to my cutting myself.
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Date: 20/03/2011 00:41 (UTC)Hahaha, that'd be me. When I'm in shorts I don't give a fart what people see, but on the two days a year I take it into my head to wear a TINY MINISKIRT, hairiness seems...incoherent. Miniskirts require advanced planning, though, because the depilation process generally involves a machete, a grindstone, a shop vac and a pre-brainstormed list of profanities taped to the mirror.
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Date: 20/03/2011 00:52 (UTC)Exactly! I have a fondness for miniskirts, but have never worn them without tights/leggings... I used to have this lovely knee-length thin cotton skirt that looked great with flipflops, but hairy legs completely killed the vibe.
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Date: 20/03/2011 20:11 (UTC)Then, when she was like "enough of this nonsense," I used my dad's old electric razor - which was meant for faces, not legs - until the epic amounts of leg hair clogged the damn thing up beyond usefulness (also, it took forever).
I finally braved the disposable razor and stuck with bathtub shaving while I lived at home, but college dorm life kind of required me to learn the balancing act. We didn't have bathtubs, and sitting down with a bowl of water would be kind of weird and inconvenient.
And that is the TMI/tl;dr story of how I learned to shave standing up, lol.
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Date: 20/03/2011 20:20 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 20/03/2011 20:33 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 20/03/2011 05:11 (UTC)And growing it out in the winter is a nice break. I just did my annual end of winter shave this week - it took about thrice as long usual!
-Gingerwall
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Date: 20/03/2011 10:29 (UTC)Shaving does seem to reward regularity; I'm just far, far too lazy to build it into my routine (there's so much stuff in it already!).