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Ahhhh I shaved my legs and they’re already just so prickly! And my hamstrings look like big terrible strawberries because I sat not on the edge of my seat. >:(
I shaved my hamstrings 3 or 4 weeks ago, and I’m still trying to loose all the in-grown hairs. So I made some sugar wax, and I’m going to try that. Also fyi: baby oil is not the same as pre-shave oil, speaking from ouchie first hand experience.
Related: are there any resources linked that have anything to do with body hair removal? Its very hard to find good information. Though I kind of feel that way about everything now…
I don’t have any links for you, but good luck with your hamstrings and also with the sugar wax!
omg i swear leg hair is a conspiracy by big razor
I don’t like leg hair. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere.
There’s just too much of it. Call for backup!!
It just keeps getting worse. This is very not cute. I might just have to be a hairy, un-smooth-legged person.
Eventually most peoples’ skin adapts to getting shaved. Also, I know trans women are especially bad for this because we want SMOOTH, but shave with the grain. Also, use as few blades as you can get. And there’s after shave stuff for your legs you can get. You can do rubs or a rougher cloth whatever and exfoliate and that’ll help too.
I didn’t even get all the way smooth because I’m prone to ingrown hairs, so no worries on that front haha, with the grain all the way. I might have to try DE next time, since that’s about the fewest blades possible. I moisturized afterwards as well, but it was just regular lotion and not aftershave of any sort.
Glad to hear things might adapt eventually! I have a super rough cloth somewhere that I should find and use. Thank you for the tips :)
My leg skin is looking and feeling a lot less angry today, so that’s good news. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to sit comfortably for weeks with how much ingrown hair felt like was about to be happening yesterday!
Any leg ensmoothening tips would be greatly appreciated.
My friend who happens to be a girl (expectations of always being shaved and everything) and has sensitive skin, told me those hair removal creams are good, I’m going to try those. Razors are terrible for me, electric razors too, waxing is a little better, but I still get red and itchy, and that stuff hurts like hell. Eventually I’ll do laser hair removal stuff, but I can’t afford it just yet
I tried one of those creams once and got more ingrown hairs than I was happy with. Maybe I need to do better about exfoliating.
Razors and electric razors are also not great for me so far, but maybe my skin will adapt to the blades eventually. I’ve had good luck with a DE razor for my face, so maybe I just need to give that a chance further down as well.
I haven’t tried waxing yet, or sugaring. We have an IPL lying around, though. It’s not laser but maybe I’ll give it a shot. Cost aside, I don’t think I want to try laser until I’m sure that I like myself better smooth; I’m kind of in a figuring-out stage right now.
Thank you for the input :)
For my face I never had any problems with anything, but then tried the body and it sucked, idk why
My face is mostly good, but my neck is awful. I’d like to try waxing it but I’m afraid of how painful it might be, specifically with the coarse neck hair. I got my brows waxed and that was perfectly fine, but the hair is much different…
Waxing sucks lol
It’s definitely worse body-wise for me as well. I just seem to be pretty prone to shaving problems for some reason. I’ve had some issues with regular razors on my face that were fixable by switching to a DE and shaving every other day, but nothing as bad as electric. I will have bad problems immediately with an electric razor on my face and neck, so I’m not even about to try that elsewhere lol.
Oh yeah, also yse some lotion after, and just in general use lotion to get a prettier skin kinda forgot about that
I have to put lotion on anyway just to keep from drying out… it’s way nicer without all of the hair!!
Hm I found one of those hair erasers that I bought a while back. Seems to work pretty well. Kinda worried about ingrown hairs. I think I’ll give my legs a day or two to think about life and then hit them with the eraser and see if I regret it.
Luckily I missed some patches with the razor so I could test the other thing.
Whats a hair eraser?
Holy fuck DO NOT USE THIS IN THE SHOWER! IT IS NOT BETTER!! IT IS SO MUCH WORSE!!!
One of these buzzword-filled thingamabobs (I have a cheap knockoff). It seems to smoothen things up really nicely, but you gotta not press too hard or you’re gonna sand yourself down more than you might like. It is not what you want for your more sensitive zones, but seems pretty good for most spots so far.
Seems to work better on hair that’s pre-trimmed.
you could try waxing or using an epilator, they pull the hair out of the body and it takes longer for it to regrow. If that’s too painful, hair removal cream also lasts longer than shaving.
I haven’t tried waxing or epilating, definitely worth a shot! I tried a cream once, but still had more issues than I was happy about. I might need to just do it more, and also I think I could do better about exfoliating, which might help. Thanks!