Hairy issues
August 22nd, 2005 by jadeite
Women have to spend so much time and money on our hair. It’s ridiculous. Our whole lives seem to be devoted to removing and grooming all the hair on our bodies, from head to toes.
Plucking eyebrows - $10 to $15
Gillette Venus shaver - $15
Brazilian Waxing - $40 to $50
Laser Hair Removal
- Underarm @ $100 per session
- Lower Leg, Forearm @ $400 per session
- Bikini Line @ $300 to $400 per session
- Upper Lips @ $60 to $80 per session
Epilator - $70 to $100
Depilatory Creams - $5 to $20
Haircuts - $20 t0 $100
Hair dyeing - $50 to $300
Treatments, Rebonding, etc - $50 to $400
Constantly worrying about regrowth - Priceless
Doesn’t it really annoy you when your Brazilian grows out? It’s like an army of red ants crawling around your groin, and you just keep crossing and uncrossing your legs and hope to God that you don’t give in to the urge to reach into your undies and scratch. Or when your leg or arm hair starts growing out and you try desperately not to accidentally brush up against someone and poke them half to death.
Or when those tiny hairs from your eyebrows grow out of shape (or stop growing altogether) because you’ve been overenthusiastic with tweezers and eyebrow razors and your eyebrows take on a life of their own (grrroowr, oh my God, what’s that on your face).
And men just grow hair all over their freaking bodies and declare that it makes them manly. I swear it’s just another way to subjugate women and put us through unnecessary hell making us spend time money and effort looking good for them.
I’ll admit. Body hair on women is totally unsightly. But is it a social construct? Maybe Neanderthals thought female armpit hair is totally sexy.
What role does armpit hair play anyway? It’s like the most pointless hair on the body. Eyebrows too. And moustaches. What does all this hair DO??
oh hairy gorilla woman, you are SO SEXY! ;)
Ahaha!! Oh that brings up SUCH disgusting imagery. :/
hirsute fetishist wouldn’t mind i guess, heh
I think it is a social construct. Don’t think such pursuit of hair removal existed (or at least not so widespread) before second half of last century; possibly because the clothing does not allow much hair to show hair anyway. I think not all ladies from developing/underdeveloped countries depilate either.