Lasers!!!

[andrewducker]

I was looking into laser hair removal and wondering how much other people would be willing to pay to never have to shave again...

[Poll #174693]

Comments

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Uh. I just want facial hair (or lack thereof) everyday that suits my mood, all without having to shave, trim, grow, glue, or magic marker myself.

Re: shaving

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

I'd spend that much but unfortunately, there are many other priorities first. I find whiskers very annoying.

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

Mind you, I'd pay a thousand quid to do my legs and crotch and around the nipples, but nowhere else. I like my armpit hair.

My leg hair's too wonky and patchy to look good. Same with the nipple hair.

A.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Interesting.

Among the women who read your journal, there is (pretty close to) a 50/50 split between the women who clearly hate shaving but regard it as a necessary chore, and the women who never shave. Okay, maybe 60/40. But still close: the scattered few in between presumably don't hate shaving quite as much but still assume it's necessary.

Wonder what this poll would turn out like with a larger population?

[andrewducker]

I think that in the general population that more people would be in the "must shave" section, but that I tend to attract a more intelligent, fringe element who don't just go along with culutural trends.

Personally, I prefer hairy women. Hairless women look fake to me.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Bill Bryson made a comment that annoyed me in Neither Here Nor There, about European women not shaving. He goes on for a paragraph about how it's just wrong, because body hair is gross and ugly.

And I've wanted for years to be able to ask him "So, Bill, what hair care removal products do you use?"

I've never seen Bryson, except in cover photos, so I have no idea if he is "an hairy man", but he's straight, so I'm prepared to bet he doesn't shave his armpit hair - or his chest hair, if he has any.

Anyway. It would be interesting to link to your poll from feminist. But not if you object, obviously.

[andrewducker]

Go for it.

And the thing for lack of hair is an obsession with pubescnence, virginity and youth.

It's fucking scary that the 'perfect body' looks like a 13 year old.

[altoidsaddict.livejournal.com]

Followed this over from feminist.

I think I love you.

[andrewducker]

I feel the vague urge to warn you that I've been known to have the odd opinion that's offensive as well.

And then I scrolled through your journal and noticed I'm not the only one.

So I added you...

[wordofblake.livejournal.com]

well, I dont know about you, but my self image was formed by 13, and one day I looked down in shock and thought "bloody hell I look like a chimp". I'd keep head hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, and nothing else.

I've shaved everyday since I was 13, rain or shine, and you know I often cut my face removing the last vestiges of hair. But in my self image it does not belong there.

[andrewducker]

I don't know about you, but my self image isn't static. It changes on a regular basis...

[wordofblake.livejournal.com]

Nah, I know how I should look and time is mocking me for it

[andrewducker]

Should?

You know better than that.

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

But, but -- not shaving doesn't cost anything: no razors, no shaving gel, no wax, no depilary lotion, no band-aids in case of cuts... no electrolysis, no pain...

It's all money saved, man!