OK; you've been warned. This is about dealing with hairy legs. For a woman it can be a trial keeping such growths under control. For many years shaving was the only choice. Men might complain about having to shave their faces every day, but the face is a lot handier to reach and is a comparatively smaller area to maintain. Negotiating all the curves while bending over and trying to get at all those hard to reach nooks and crannies seems a bit more irksome than looking in the mirror and taking a few swipes across your face. The frequency with which one undertakes this chore varies; if you have to do it more than once a week you have my sympathy.
Then there's the question of how far afield one needs to go. Unless you are prone to mini length skirts, is it necessary to tackle the area above the knees? That is definitely a choice that each individual must decide for herself.
What about modern alternatives? Depilatories, like Nair? Smearing stinky smelling stuff on your legs and letting it seep in for at least fifteen minutes before wiping it (and presumably, the hair) off? What do you do all that time? You can't sit down and risk getting that stuff on the furniture. No; you have to STAND around and wait for it to work. Unless you're one of those with such a thick, deep-rooted, luxuriant coat that IT DOESN'T WORK. Some of the hair is loosened, but a hardy band of survivors cling to their homes.
Waxing? Pouring hot, melted wax on your skin, letting it cool and yanking it off? Sounds like fun, but I'll pass.
About ten years ago there was an interesting little device called the Epilady. Rotating coils pulled the hairs out by roots and weeks of smooth, hairless skin was promised. Two problems with this product: first, it hurt like hell. And if you could put up with the pain, there was a tendency for some of the hairs to become ingrown. Instead of being completely uprooted, they would be shoved underground and keep growing. I've dug out hairs that had grown over an inch long. Surprisingly, this product seems to have disappeared.
The latest thing turning up on the infomercials is sort of like sandpaper; you rub it along the area to be treated and the hair rubs away magically. That is if you have a very fine, downy thatch. If not, you can just keep rubbing until the sand (or whatever that stuff is) wears away. This thing isn't new at all; I remember getting it at a Woolworth's almost twenty years ago.
So what's a girl to do?
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