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Hair of another type
Oct 23^rd, 2007 at 3:37pm

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

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?

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Re: Hair of another type
Reply #1 - Oct 23^rd, 2007 at 3:54pm

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!

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Re: Hair of another type
Reply #2 - Oct 23^rd, 2007 at 4:52pm

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. Tongue

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Re: Hair of another type
Reply #3 - Oct 23^rd, 2007 at 5:01pm

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.

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Jerry Diamond Offline LongLocks Rocks! Posts: 662 Montana Gender:	Re: Hair of another type Reply #4 - Oct 23^rd, 2007 at 5:23pm There is a word for people who are hairy and do not shave: hirsute Jerry
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texian.traveler Sapphire Offline LongLocks Rocks! Posts: 182 Gender:	Re: Hair of another type Reply #5 - Oct 23^rd, 2007 at 5:28pm 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.
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Lisabelle Stardust Offline Kami wa onna no inochi - A womens hair is her life Posts: 2797 Southern Ontario, Canada Gender:	Re: Hair of another type Reply #6 - Oct 23^rd, 2007 at 6:11pm 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. And yes I have the dreaded upper lip thingy, no unibrow thank god. I would love lazer hair removal!
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Re: Hair of another type
Reply #7 - Oct 23^rd, 2007 at 7:28pm

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. Shocked

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.

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Curlgirl64 Stardust Offline Practice Yoga,give and receive Reiki Posts: 2974 Brooklyn,N.Y. Gender:	Re: Hair of another type Reply #8 - Oct 24^th, 2007 at 1:46pm I hear ya,sista!!
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Re: Hair of another type
Reply #9 - Oct 24^th, 2007 at 9:41pm

So far looks like I'm the dirty hippie of the group! Roll Eyes

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'. Cool

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Debr Diamond Offline LongLocks Rocks! Posts: 549 Gender:	Re: Hair of another type Reply #10 - Oct 25^th, 2007 at 2:48pm 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
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Godyssey Stardust Offline Posts: 2375 Georgia Gender:	Re: Hair of another type Reply #11 - Oct 26^th, 2007 at 1:24am 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.
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Curlgirl64 Stardust Offline Practice Yoga,give and receive Reiki Posts: 2974 Brooklyn,N.Y. Gender:	Re: Hair of another type Reply #12 - Oct 26^th, 2007 at 8:11pm 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!!
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Godyssey Stardust Offline Posts: 2375 Georgia Gender:	Re: Hair of another type Reply #13 - Oct 27^th, 2007 at 4:47am Who doesn't hate those cuts? 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.
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Re: Hair of another type
Reply #14 - Oct 27^th, 2007 at 6:47pm

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. Sad

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.

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