OK - I'm putting this in the "off topic" area, but it does relate to hair..... just not hair on the head. ;D

I'm a fair haired person.  I'm also somewhat lazy.  Having long hair is actually easier for me to care for than short hair.  As for the rest of the hair I have, I find it a "bother" to maintain it as society has defined as norm around here.  (Read between the lines .... SHAVE the legs and pits).  I bend to society during the summer months when my legs are exposed all the time, but come fall, I go into a minimalist mode and let it all grow.  (I know, TMI).  Am I alone in my efforts to grow my own winter coat?  

Well, as a yoga teacher in Arizona, I'm in exercise clothes as my work attire.  Since it is important to me to appear professional, I do shave pretty regularly.  I am also fair haired so I let it go as long as I can, and do shave less in the winter since I usually have long sleeves and long pants on during the colder months.

When I lived in Michigan, I hardly ever shaved.  I never wanted to get out of my longjohns!

lol BB. Interesting subject...

Sorry, but I'm afraid that I am unable to join in on the Wooly Mammoth party. I shave everything. Well, ok, maybe not everything...[insert flashbacks from Pink Floyd's "The Wall" movie] Arms and eyebrows and such are usually spared. lol But everything is absolutely maintained, regularly and often, year-round. The whole unkempt, uncomfortable hippie approach really isn't my thing.  :P  ;D

I think I am cursed in a way being of Italian and Irish decent!  I have the fair skin of  being Irish,but curse of having dark hair growth where I don't want it!!!(legs and pits!)  I thank God though that I don't have lots of dark hair on my upper lip or a unibrow!!!  There are some Italian women and Italian decent women that are so hairy at age 12,they are shaving!!!!!!!
I try to follow the Morrocan Method for shaving and trimming hair.  I do this year round.  Me,personally,I don't like hairy legs in any season.  This was especially true when I was teaching yoga.

There is a word for people who are hairy and do not shave:     hirsute

Jerry

I once listened to a blonde talk about how she never had to shave her legs but once a month because the hair was so fine and soft...she didn't understand the lack of sympathy from those brunettes who grow black wire.  

Of which I am one, although it's german wire and not italian.

I've got the hairy Itailian thing going, oooh it's a pain to shave. And it grows so fast! I've tryed waxing "ouch" and it still grows back fast.  I have to do my arms too. :P  And yes I have the dreaded upper lip thingy, no unibrow thank god.  I would love lazer hair removal!

Curlgirl, I can completely sympathize. Irish skin, italian hair here too. Even freshly shaven legs look like they need to be gone over again. The hair under the skin is visible! frankly, though, unless I'm going somewhere special, or wearing shorter than usual skirts, I don't bother shaving my legs. Anybody paying attention enough to notice I don't shave my legs... probably ought to get the heck away from me before I call the cops, since I wear ankle-floor length skirts.   :o
 pits, though... they stay as smooth as possible. Othersise I just feel unclean.

And I do have a slight touch of unibrow so that goes too. I still refuse to wax, shave, pluck, or otherwise mutilate my natural eyebrow shape past that, though. I LIKE my eyebrows. they fit me well. anything skinnier and I'll look like either a trashy whore, or mr.spock, depending on where the hair is removed from.  I've got enough of a vulcan thing going on without that, thank you.

I hear ya,sista!!

So far looks like I'm the dirty hippie of the group!   ::)  I shave my pits when/if I think about it, legs only on the rare occasion that they see the light of day.  I prefer to wax, but hate to spend the money.  Someday I'll do laser hair removal, but until then...  I'd be shaving at least twice a day to stay smooth, and I just can't say its worth it.  

My hubby and friends joke that I'm growing out my leg hair to braid into my 'hair'.   8-)

I am also a "dirty hippie."  I really hate the whole shaving business.  Since I wear boots in the winter, there is no use in doing it.  Armpits dont show, so unless they are very hairy, I dont.

Debr

Years ago, I've had several sessions of laser hair removal but I never got around to completing it.  Anyway, because of the hair removal, my hair has thinned out immesnsly and now grows at a very slow rate but I do shave as soon as it appears, all year long.  I actually got a pretty bad cut today from shaving my legs. :o

don't ya just hate those cuts???? >:(  Sometimes I don't even feel it until I see a red line going down my shin and then visual snaps mental pain thoughts into action!!

Who doesn't hate those cuts? ;D  It's amazing how something so small can be so painful.  Although, I didn't really think it was too bad until I saw the red line. :P

oooh... I hate those shaving cuts... I've actually got a scar on my left shin where I basically peeled my leg like a carrot. :( that... that was uncomfortable, to say the least. 's one of the reasons I don'tshave my legs as often as I should... I'm worried about peeling myself again. I'll also not use anything with less than three blades, since in my experience, that's less likely to cut me.

I love the feel of smooth, shaved skin. However, my skin is very delicate and in the winter it becomes very dry = an insane amount of small and not so small cuts (I can peel my skin very easily away like a carrot)  :'(. So, I guess I should say I shave when I can. Luckily, my Scandinavian heritage "fur" is very light colored and there isn't much of it, so visually it's no big deal either way- a pair of 20dr pantyhose can hide whatever there is to hide.
In summer, when my skin is in better shape, I shave both armpits and legs once a week- more often than that is a big, painful mistake. In winter, it's armpits only. I don't like the feel of hairy legs, but hairy legs is better than peeled, bleeding legs.

This has got to be one of the weirder topics I've seen!   ;D  But since everyone else is sharing, so will I.  I shave the pits on a regular basis, regular being 1-2 times a week.  The legs?  Fuggitaboutit.  I may, MAY shave the gams once a month IF they're lucky (and they're usually not).  In fact, I'm sitting here, trying to remember the last time I shaved them.   :-/  Ah, but I have a special occasion coming up on November 10, to which I will wear a skirt/stockings, so I must shave before then.  

I'm imagining poor Jerry, reading all of our "hair" entries and thinking, "What sort of crazed site have I gotten myself into?"   ;D

It is an interesting topic but not weird to me ::)

But, I do prefer long hair on the head and not other places ;)


My wife Barb  shaves regularly.

Jerry

Trisha wrote on Oct 31^st, 2007 at 2:08pm:

I'm imagining poor Jerry, reading all of our "hair" entries and thinking, "What sort of crazed site have I gotten myself into?"   ;D

I'm not too worried about Jerry - I have known him for several years and know for a fact that this subject is pretty mild compared to some topics that have come up at other sites.  ;D

LOL, I too think this topic is still a pretty mild one. Besides, it's always refreshing to know what real people do instead of getting only commercial information (you know those lovely commercials who tell us that not shaving everything every other day is abnormal...)