But…whatever!

I still shave my armpits and legs. I wax my brows, lip, and bikini area. However, after reading your post, I will have to look into waxing my armpits. Discoloration is on the rise and being lighter-skinned doesn’t help.

I would probably not try waxing myself there since it just seems kind of logistically difficult, but I think I wouldn’t mind letting someone else do it if not for the cost of regular upkeep. I have had a Brazilian wax before, which my husband was VERY pleased with (and which hurt, but I just kept myself thinking about how floored my husband was going to be when he saw me…later he was kind of unnerved at the thought of how much I’d had to expose myself to get that done). I achieve nearly the same result at home with a depilatory now.

I’m off track a bit… I was going to say that I notice much less bump-irritation when I use a depilatory on my underarms, and I’m sure if I stuck with it, I’d see my discoloration go away, too. I just keep reaching for that razor because it’s such a quick and easy method of doing the job. But it drives me crazy to hang out with my white sisters-in-law, who have no discoloration, or see white models on tv with no discoloration, advertising razors, and then know that even with my underarms shaved, I still don’t feel as confident as I want to in exposing my underarms. Before Afrobella’s thread, I felt like it was just something black women were doomed with, and that any black models I saw were probably airbrushed or something. Thanks for the heads up.

I hope people are still reading this thread, because I’d like some advice. I’ve always shaved my legs and underarms, pluck eyebrows and the ocassional lip hair, but only today heard about the link b/t shaving and armpit discoloration. I’d like to try waxing, but frankly the hair there if left unkempt is SO illogically thick that yanking those tenacious follicles out scares the hell out of me.

Is there something I can do to prep my pits and decrease the pain? Sorry if this is such a basic question, but I am as the kids say a “n00b” at this business.

A few years ago, I came down with a funky rash on my legs,and discovered it was because my hair follicles were being irritated by the blades of the razor. So I switched to Nair and Neet, which I did/do once a week.

As for “down there”, I know Im a woman, and its natural for me to have hair there, so I would leave it natural. HOWever…the trend is to either be bare or barely there, and if thats what a man wants, then Imma do it. I do it with my current partner, and I am well rewarded for my efforts!

I am planning on writing another post about this, so please come by and check it out!

L

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I remember opening it at home and thinking, “How DARE he???” And, in protest, I think it took me until long after we were no longer boyfriend/girlfriend to start using it. When I did decide to start using it, I haven’t looked back since–and, those creepy pantyhose no longer looked quite so…creepy.

So, I’m definitely a shaver. It’s a morning ritual for me. I have my hair locked too and I have to say that I see no relationship between that and shaving–it’s just simply a matter of personal choice.

‘Specially in the summertime it makes me feel sooooo clean and fresh!

My mom says shaving your legs is white girl stuff, but yet she shaves her pits. I can’t get into all the old fashioned thinking. If I would listen to her, I’d never use the telephone during a thunderstorm either (Gotta love ya Mom!)

I rock an Afro puff daily, but there is no way in world I’ll leave home sporting a mustache, unibrow, hairy pits or legs. Body hair on anyone (male or female) is unattractive to me. I shave and wax religiously–it just looks better to me and it feels better. There’s nothing more sensual than the way fresh cotton sheets feel against your skin after you’ve exfoliated, shaved and moisturized.