The Hair "Down There"

[taperjeangirl]

I don't want to come off as bitching, but I would not say it is more crucial to use sunscreen when you are a kid than when you are old. It is true that what you do in your youth destines what your skin will be when you are old, but don't think you don't need sunscreen as much. The worse thing of not saving your skin from the UV rays is not aging of your skin, but the risk of skin cancer. True, you have a more sensitive skin when you are young, but do use loads of sunscreen on sunlight, no matter what your age is.

As for the actual topic of the thread, I am again one of the people who find their skin does not like shaving their pubic hair. I have tried to soak in a bath before shaving, I have tried exfoliating and using a load of moisturizer afterwards, but always end up itching and with red bumps (ingrown hairs?). I have a very sensitive skin, but is there a way for me to succeed in this? Would waxing be more effective? I'm interested in having a brazilian done, but I am afraid of weird looks for being all "porcelain" ... it makes me think of pre-pubescent girls and pedophiles.

There is also a product called "Ingrow no more" or something like that with helps with red lumps caused by shaving/waxing,

 

[TekkaMakki]

I discovered this thread a while ago when I was bored, and I have to say it's kept me pretty entertained! Now I feel like adding my own two cents...
No one seems to have mentioned using sugaring paste ... it's a thick brownish lump, you break off a hunk and knead it between your hands till it becomes soft and malleable. Then you press and smooth it onto wherever you want to go hairless and pull off... it's kinda like wax strips without paper.
I find this the best option, I even give myself a brazilian with it (no need to face the embarrassment of going to an institute). Yeah, it hurt the first time, but if you keep maintaining it instead of waiting for your hair to grow out again, the pain is a lot less. Oh yeah, and you can pluck out pesky reluctant ones too.
I just think it's way more practical than shaving, which is painful, and other waxing, cause sugar paste adheres less to the skin anyway. And I'm not going back now that I've started sugaring / waxing / whatever. Hairless is just way more practical! I leave a strip down the middle though...

 

[xmodel citizen]

Haha, this is very awkward, but I have to ask, do any of you guys have one or more hairs that are a completely different color than the rest? I'm a redhead, but I have this one jet black hair that keeps on growing back after I pluck it

 

[iximisspiggyixi]

HAHAHAHA OMG! ME TOO! That's so funny, I'm a redhead as well.

 

[BadHairDay]

They have fake mustaches, I wonder if they have fake...nah, that'd just be silly.

They do!!
I saw Thandie Newton on Jonathon Ross last night and she said that shes has had to wear pubic wigs in the past when filming nued scenes in "period dramas"..... LOL

 

[pinksatin]

^^^ I never would have thought. I guess you learn something new everyday.

I get brazilian waxes but where I go it's about $60 so I can't do it every month. Sometimes I have to trim in between appointments but I won't go back to shaving because it will ruin the wax. I mena your hair starts growing less if you wax so if I shave I'm afraid it will go back to normal.

 

[JoyNips]

I mena your hair starts growing less if you wax so if I shave I'm afraid it will go back to normal.

It won't, no worries. With wax you pull out the whole hair from the root. There's like 3 hairs in every sheet, but som sheets are at rest and the hair grows in cycles. Anyways, that means that when you've pulled out hair from the same sheet 3 times, it's empty and will never grow hair from that sheet again. So, in theory, at some point, there will be no more hair growth -but as sheets can rest for years it will take, well years before you get to that point. Only about 20% of the hair you have down there is at growth -which obviuosly means, that 80% is at rest!
When you shave, you just cut the hair close to the skin, which means, that it's still in the sheet and will continue to grow -but you won't get MORE hair from shaving, and of course, the sheets you've already emptied will remain empty.

I've been waxing for a couple of years now, and I can definitely see, that there's less hair. If I shave one month instead of getting waxed, the only thing that happens is, that the hair feels thicker and less soft, obviously because it's been cut of in a right angle and therefore is not "pointy" like a hair that grows out after waxing will be.

/JoyNips

 

[kissmesweet]

TWEEZING!!?? LOL... OUCH

 

[pinksatin]

JoyNips - Thanks for your explanation! You seem to know a lot and it makes sense. I always thought if I shaved if would go back to the amount of hair before I ever started waxing. But based on what you said that doesn't really make sense. If I have to skip a month or so of waxing because I don't have the cash to get waxed (it's more of a luxury than a necessity in my mother's eyes anyway, but I think it's a necessity) then I trim it. I hate when I can't get waxed!

 

[JoyNips]

JoyNips - Thanks for your explanation! You seem to know a lot and it makes sense. I always thought if I shaved if would go back to the amount of hair before I ever started waxing. But based on what you said that doesn't really make sense. If I have to skip a month or so of waxing because I don't have the cash to get waxed (it's more of a luxury than a necessity in my mother's eyes anyway, but I think it's a necessity) then I trim it. I hate when I can't get waxed!

You're welcome

 

[jjbunny79]

Haha, this is very awkward, but I have to ask, do any of you guys have one or more hairs that are a completely different color than the rest? I'm a redhead, but I have this one jet black hair that keeps on growing back after I pluck it

lol i have dark brown/ balck hair, but the one down there is brown. tis' strange tis strange lol.
actually i wannt thin them down... as in overall, but i dunno how... anytips?!?!

 

[Priestess]

Be careful with that Ingrow Go stuff. I've used it before it and it peeled off big sections of skin. It was like a chemical peel or something. So those with sensitive skin should be really careful.

 

[JoyNips]

And I obviously can't spell. Everywhere I wrote "sheet", please insert "sheath" instead. Damn.
Well, I'm excused. German's my first language

 

[Belowen]

The fake pubic wigs are called "merkins"

 

[farren fashion]

hahahah. they had that word in the l word. one of the girls was calling another girl, whose last name was merkin, a vagina wig. i was like.. huh? i guess she was being truthful. i thought she was just being silly. geeesh. i learn something new every day. =]

 

[WhydoIlovehim]

Quick question: I got a wax maybe three or four weeks ago and I'm leaving for the beach next week...Do you think that's been long enough to go back and get it waxed again?

 

[ParadEyes]

i had laser hair removal . thankgod

 

[anhphan]

u can have laser hair removal down there?? i didnt no that.. anyways, I use epilators for my bikini line.. ahhh the bleeding..i cant imagine using wax ==> ultra bleeding

 

[cuteshoes215]

^ same problem. i can't shave there at all because i bleed and then get bumps everywhere. i've tried everything. so i just don't go swimming at all. depressing.

 

[anhphan]

Anyways, epilators pulls out the strands from the root and the hair doesnt grow back for weeks. I have really coarse hair down there and even with shaving I bleed. So, epilators are better than shaving for sure. I do get bumps after using epilators.. but what i do is i exfoliate almost everyday.. and so the bumpiness went away.