Eyebrows...I know totally off the topic.

[pepe6599]

I'm a plucker.. of eyebrows and armpits. I don't trust anyone to wax anything on my body.

[teigyr]

armpit plucking seems logistically awkward not to mention time consuming. All hairs? Or just pesky ingrown ones?

[annie]

Pluck the eyebrows. Shave any other unwanted hairy areas. Tho' I've noticed, as I age, that my hair grows less agressively. Yay! There needs to be some advantages to aging!

Annie

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I've pretty much waxed everything there is to wax at one point in my life. I get bored and, I don't know...

Come on over to my place and do my furniture!


Plucking armpits????? AGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

[teigyr]

Lisa S.H. ----

shhhhhh, now we don't want DH to learn the true meaning of waxing, do we? I've been able to slide thus far and would hate to give up precious riding time for, ugh, housework!

[Susan Otcenas]

My mom plucked her eyebrows for years and year. She grew up in the late 50s and early 60s when they style was super thin eyebrows, much as it is now. Well, by the time she hit her late 40s, early 50s, she'd been plucking for so long that they hardly grew anymore, and she found herself using an eyebrow pencil to draw 'em back on.

A few years ago she tired of that, especially since brow pencil tends to smear when she sweats.

Soooo, she had new, perfectly shaped eyebrows tattooed on. And if you didn't know they were a tattoo, you would NOT even register that they weren't real. They're that good.

Susan

[Pedal Wench]

Threading!!!

So, I did it. Went to an Indian salon, and had my eyebrows threaded. It was a very different feeling than waxing or plucking. I thought it was less painful, but I've been waxing for a few years, so I'm desensitized to it. I usually get these itchy red bumps after waxing. This itched and was red for about two hours, but it's great now.

Susan -- I have permanent eyeliner. I love it. It's not too heavy at all, just makes it look like my eyelashes are thicker than they are.

If we keep plucking in a nice natural shape, will they eventually just stay that way?

[KnottedYet]

Pluck the eyebrows. Shave any other unwanted hairy areas. Tho' I've noticed, as I age, that my hair grows less agressively. Yay! There needs to be some advantages to aging!

Annie

I'm just the opposite! As I age my hair colonizes parts of my body where it DOESN'T BELONG!!! And it gets thicker and longer and curlier! Yet, the hair on my head is still baby fine and limp as a wet noodle.

Now, is that fair?

[kelownagirl]

I am so lucky. I have never had to pluck my eyebrows. I shave my pits about every 3-4 weeks (5-10 hairs each?). I shave my legs once a week in the summer and no more than once a month ni the winter. I am so not a hairy girl.

[RedCanny]

I can't have my eyebrows waxed. I have a nasty, nasty reaction and am red for hours, after which I get a ton of white bumps everywhere....

Just for "hours"? Lucky you. I get nasty red bumps for 5-6 days, after I get my brows waxed. I can't believe I went back not once, not twice, but three times (different salons) because they each said, "oh, we use a different wax, you'll be fine," or "just make sure to use this creme for several days afterwards." After each time my DH dropped his jaw in disbelief, his smart wife being so silly as to undergo this treatment multiple times in the name of a nice clean browline-which lasts about four weeks, before the blonde fuzzies blur it.

Someone recently gave me the number of a woman who does the "threading" method of cleaning up brows, but I haven't brought myself to do it; I can mostly manage with some tweezers. I may just try what my mom still does- she uses a small razor!

[Jenn]

Speaking of the razor, when we were stationed in Arkansas a girl I worked with showed me one. So, I wen't to walmart and bought one and tried to use it Besides my eyebrows looking like something a clown would wear, I ended up with all these cuts on my eyebrows that would sting like the ****ens when I washed my face. It looked my cat had gotten ahold of me. Needless to say, I never used it again.

[run it, ride it]

oh, the horror stories! I too have the long curly brand of eyebrow, so I backcomb them and trim the excess with scissors. I pluck real careful to turn naturally lopsided catapillar-esque eyebrows into symmetrical archy ones.

I wax on occasion (upper lip as well), but I can get reaaaaally red and blotchy for a few days afterward, so it's kind of like russian roulette.

everything else I shave. usually leave a landing strip at the airport though just 'cause the regrowth tends to prick. Bikini Zone does wonders eliminating irritation--just wish it didn't have such a strong smell/taste to it! otherwise I'd use it on newly plucked eyebrows as well.

I'll probably head out for an eyebrow wax and a brazillian soon now that I can't use my dominant hand to shave/pluck (broken clavicle). I don't want a) bald spots on my brows or b) a razor massacre at my airport!

and I don't remove hair for anyone but me. I was shaving years before I ever had an intimate encounter. Sure, DSOs have appreciated it in the past, but I just like having nicely manicured grounds for me to enjoy! Like wearing nice underwear or getting tattoos or piercings where no one can normally see them --YOU know they're there and that's all that matters.

[BellaBeauty]

I use to get my fax waxed! Now I just stick to trimming and plucking! I have pretty good eyebrows, so I guess I lucked out! I do shave the rest of my body head to toe....feet...arms...fingers everything! I have blonde peach fuzz every where I hate it! If I could afford too, I might get my body waxed! Im obsessed!

[teigyr]

Bella, do it sometime! Oh my gosh, it is amazing. Even though shaving works, waxing makes things (like arms) SO smooth! It's a vice with me and quite often I can't afford it but it is wonderful when I can.

[BellaBeauty]

Bella, do it sometime! Oh my gosh, it is amazing. Even though shaving works, waxing makes things (like arms) SO smooth! It's a vice with me and quite often I can't afford it but it is wonderful when I can.

hmm now that you mention it...Mothers Day is approaching...hmm? Do I hear a wax and spa visit from my fiance? Hehehe!