all about ARMPIT HAIRS


NrrdGrrl! Discussion Forum: Just Plain Talk: all about ARMPIT HAIRS
By Anonymous on Wednesday, July 15, 1998 - 06:10 am:

I am 14 and i still do not have any armpit hairs.Can everyone tell me when your armpit hairs start growing.And tell me are you embarassed by them especially with guys around?


By Anonymous on Wednesday, July 15, 1998 - 01:15 pm:

All I know is that everyone develops at different rates - so I wouldnt worry about your armpit hairs. Once you start growing hair, you will wish you never had it as it is such a bother shaving it!!


By Galaxy Caramel on Wednesday, July 15, 1998 - 02:53 pm:

You are so lucky! I wish I didn`t have any armpit hair, its annoying having to use shavers or smelly hair removing cream.
Puberty starts from around the age of 12 and finishes at about the age of 17, so you will experience a lot of changes between these ages. Anon (wed 15 july) is right, everybody developes at different rates so you don`t have to worry about it. I`m sure they will pop up soon!
Embarassed? Of course not, why should we be? J J J J J J J


By Anon Hair Warrior on Thursday, July 16, 1998 - 10:08 am:

I know this is totally going against what you said Galaxy Car. but I hate yup, HATE it when people see mine, especially boys. But it's ok, cuz I just wear T-Shirts instead of a vest or whatever. Anyway, Anon 14, you should jsut be glad that they've not invaded yet cuz when they do, it's like a war keeping them away! JJJ


By Anonymous on Sunday, July 19, 1998 - 03:51 am:

guys,do u want us to shave our armpit hairs?


By Craig on Sunday, July 19, 1998 - 12:02 pm:

It doesn't make any different to me. I'd never tell someone I didn't want her to shave her armpits or legs, since that's pretty negative, and it's her body, but I would not think someone was less attractive or less of a person if she didn't.

So do it or don't do it for yourself.


By Webmistress on Monday, July 27, 1998 - 02:46 pm:

Craig,

You rule. I just wanted you to know that.

Personally, I shave because I'm Italian and it can get to be a smelly forest in my underarms. Nothing holds odor like thick armpit hair.

Original poster anonymous -

My guess is that when you do grow armpit hair it's going to be baby fine. DO NOT SHAVE IT!!! Once you start shaving it, it becomes thicker and courser, and you'll have to keep shaving. If it stays really fine, do not shave it. I had a friend that never shaved her underarms and she never had to. She had only one or two blond hairs.

Just a little advice. :-)


By Shampoo on Tuesday, July 28, 1998 - 01:20 am:

Oh, God, Anon... you are SO lucky!! I hate my armpit hair! Shave shave shave all the time, and then deodorant hurts afterwards, and then it gets really hot and just shaved underarms start to sting and itch...! owch! I've got huge problems with hair!! I'm just waiting in the future for a fast, painless, cheap procedure that will get rid of all unwanted body hair forever! What the heck, maybe I'll invent it myself!!

Oh, and Craig, you *do* rule. I wish more guys were like you. But I shave first of all cuz it looks better to both guys and girls, feels cleaner, and webmistress was right, armpit hair can get pretty darn smelly! In Germany they don't shave! I wanna move to Germany.


By Webmistress on Tuesday, July 28, 1998 - 10:36 am:

Shampoo:

Try Ban clear and unscented deoderant. It doesn't gunk you up with a smell that's not your own, and it doesn't burn after you shave. I've been using it for a while now, and it takes care of odor without making you smell worse than you would without the stuff.


By Anonymous on Tuesday, August 4, 1998 - 04:13 pm:

I read that 96 per cent of women over 13 use some form of hair removeal product.


By Shampoo on Wednesday, August 5, 1998 - 01:29 am:

webmistress: thankz! hey, anyone out there: what's better? deodorant or antiperspirant?

anonymous: i think i've used every kind out there.


By Jeremy on Wednesday, August 5, 1998 - 02:17 am:

how do women like a mans armpit hair to look?


By Webmistress on Friday, August 7, 1998 - 01:00 pm:

Jeremy:

*ROTFLMAO* I've never given it any thought. If you think a woman you're dating is repulsed by your armpit hair, and it's getting in the way of intimacy, etc - run quickly! Run away! Basing attraction on armpit hair is the bottom of the barrel of shallowness. If you're a good person, it shouldn't matter even if it looks like you have Don King in a headlock.


By Gilmoure on Monday, August 24, 1998 - 05:37 pm:

As a guy here in the states (land of hairless women, it seems), I actually find it a bit of a turn on to find a woman who doesn't shave. Of course, there's hair and then there's hair! I find anyone who is gorilla like kinda' scary. Knew a guy in the military who was required to shave a strip on his neck to seperate the back hair from his head. You couldn't tell the difference. Weird.

G


By Gilmoure on Monday, August 24, 1998 - 05:38 pm:

As a guy here in the states (land of hairless women, it seems), I actually find it a bit of a turn on to find a woman who doesn't shave. Of course, there's hair and then there's hair! I find anyone who is gorilla like kinda' scary. Knew a guy in the military who was required to shave a strip on his neck to seperate the back hair from his head. You couldn't tell the difference. Weird.

G


By Anonymous on Thursday, August 27, 1998 - 08:02 pm:

Well girls, I guess This site has attracted yet another guy. I am 20, and I just think this discussion group is fantastic. I actually find it very attractive to see a woman/girl/lady that knows whats good, and does not shave her underarms.

A quick physiology tutorial, if you will, The armpit produces an odour that is unique to every woman. This aroma, produced by apocrine sweat glands, is actually a sexual transmitter. The armpit hair acts as antennas.

When a woman is under stress or under sexual tension, the smell (odour) increases and sends a stronger message to the mate, and lures him/her in. Also note that females have 75% more of these apocrine sweat glands and the hair helps create a stronger smell. So use them to your advantage.

I can tell you that in many cases it is not the guys that have a problem with women and their underarm hair, but rather a whole society that was told by the giant razor and beautycare industries that women should feel yuckie if they do not shave.

Webmistress, you are definitely on the right track. The hair is suppose to increase the aroma, and now you know nature's reason for this. It may sound a bit disgusting and gross at first, but thats how it was ment to be.

Don't take my word for it. Try it. Discuss it. And let me know what you think.


By Kate on Friday, August 28, 1998 - 06:36 am:

Like the post webmistress!

My partner's last girlfriend wanted him to wax his chest and back (he's VERY hairy). I think thats AWFUL. Its part of his appeal to me.
Becasue of this experience he dosn't care that I dont bother to shave my armpits very often!! I only do it when it just gets TOO much and I start feeling smelly!


By Gilmoure on Friday, August 28, 1998 - 02:10 pm:

re: deodorant vs anti-persperant. As someone (a guy) who gets rash like burns from anti-persperant, I've found that baby powder (or various body powders) works pretty good. I live in Florida and work outdoors frequently (in shirt and tie-have to be 'professional') and it works pretty well.

G


By Ranma on Sunday, September 6, 1998 - 11:58 pm:

what part of florida gil?


By Gilmoure on Monday, September 7, 1998 - 12:49 am:

The Tampa Bay area. It's on the west coast.

G


By Anonymous on Wednesday, October 7, 1998 - 03:29 pm:

I think women should have the choice to shave their armpits or not to. Just like some guys shave their face, part of their face, or none of their face. I think armpit hair is sexy -- look at Paula Cole. It takes great strength for her not to bow down to the fashion police.
-- John


By Locomotive on Tuesday, November 3, 1998 - 04:13 pm:

Hello,
I'm 14 years old and I've had armpithair for the last couple of years.I don't know whether to shave it or not.I would rather not,but I get embarrassed in P.E. when none of the other girls have hair.Most of the time it doesn't bother me because I don't have any vest tops anyway. Sometimes I wear sleaveless dresses though and I get really self-concsious.Also at the moment my hair is not very thick if I shave once-will it get a lot worse?
Are hair removing creams better than razors?
Help me!


By Eloise on Friday, November 6, 1998 - 05:54 am:

locomotive
i think you should just leave it. if you start at a young age, it's much easier to stay that way. i have two older sisters who shaved & all that, so when i got hair, i just did the same. but i wish i hadn't. i wax occassionally and it hurts so very much, i actually bleed from it. not blood gushing out, but little spots of it. it does last much longer when you wax. but i would still not touch it unless you find it's trapping a bad odour. my boyfriend doesn't seem to mind if my underarms/legs etc are hairy. or maybe he's just too scared to say anything to me about it.


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