Do you routinely shave your legs in the winter?

[Lucky, Fabulous]

I shave my legs every day. Feeling the stubble on my legs rub together while I am in bed keeps me awake!

[Aquila]

I got a bad ingrown hair a couple years ago and decided not to shave near there, and then couldn't decide where to make the line, so I just didn't shave. It took most of a summer to get used to the wind through the hair when I ride, but now it's just normal for me, and I rather like being a mammal again.

And most important: no more ingrown hair making a painful saddle area!

[kelownagirl]

I'm not very hairy. Haven't shaved my legs since fall I think. Maybe Christmas? I dunno. Pits, not since summer. But I have like 5 hairs in each pit. Summer - I do shave weekly.

[bikerchic]

No shaving for me in the winter. I only bother when I have to show my legs in the spring and summer.

I do have a hard time getting past the prickly, stubby feeling until it finally gets long enough to lay down, ugg!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Stubble is nasty. I found when I stopped shaving altogether the hairs grow back with wispy soft ends so that they are not nasty and stiff like shaved stubble. Unshaved body hair feels softer!

[indysteel]

I shave daily, year round. I hate stubble.

Me, too. I hate even just putting lotion on my legs if there's stubble.

[Pax]

After umpteen years working as a lifeguard and shaving daily, I just can't stand hair on my legs. I shave about once a week, year round. Now that I'm post menopausal, seems the hair grows much slower these days.

[indigoiis]

Nope.

[andtckrtoo]

I shave daily, year round. I hate stubble.

I'm with Red - I HATE stubble. So, I shave daily.

[Biciclista]

hubby can't find any hair on my legs so i don't shave them.

[Tokie]

If I weren't on the bike and at the gym, I would stop shaving my armpits. No, it doesn't smell worse, and long smooth armpit hair feels so much better (glidey and comfy) than naked sweaty pit skin sticking to pit skin. DH never minded hairy armpits, but I prefer to fit in I guess. Legs, about once a week. Menopause does lessen the hairy-ness! DH started shaving his legs last fall when I pointed out that his heavy coating of sunscreen on his hairy legs looked kind of gross (well, it did to me). and I think he likes it better too. Tokie

[kfergos]

First of all, you ladies who wax are WAY tougher than I am. I'm a pain weenie, I guess, because even the thought of waxing makes me shudder.

Second of all, wow, I'm impressed with all you daily shavers! Here I thought it'd all be "Nah, I don't bother most of the winter," and actually most of you not only bother but bother quite often! Go figure...

[ASammy1]

I had to vote no, but that's because I wax year round (full leg and bikini). I usually get it done once a month and I have to admit that my hair grows back super fine now especially in the bikini area. It's very strange, but the backs of my legs are way harrier than the fronts of my legs, so I really can't go without doing something. I detest shaving, so waxing it is until I can afford laser!

[Crankin]

Oakleaf, your post made me laugh.
I went to college in the hairy period, too, but since I lived in FL and AZ during those years, I never stopped shaving. It would have been socially unacceptable to those "Midwest Girls" at ASU. You know, the ones who thought Tempe was the big city...

[msincredible]

First of all, you ladies who wax are WAY tougher than I am. I'm a pain weenie, I guess, because even the thought of waxing makes me shudder.

Ahhh, but the momentary pain of waxing is nothing to the ongoing skin irritation I suffer from with shaving. Plus it gets easier the more you do it (the hair does not grow back in as fully and you also get more used to it).