Make my decisions for me!

[sasha_feather]

I am going to be in a wedding on September 3rd for my lovely friends antarcticlust and jackshoegazer. I'll be wearing a tea-length bridesmaid dress, which means it ends at the knees, and open-toed black sandals. I haven't shaved my legs in YEARS, yes I mean years, and am trying to decide whether to do so.


I think my issues with shaving are not moral: they have to do with feeling like I suck at it, I was never taught how, and that it's a waste of time and I hate being made to feel like I am expected to do it. I am not actually opposed to having smooth legs however.

Poll #7930 Make my decisions for me!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 29

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To shave or not to shave that is the question

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Shave your legs
5 (17.2%)

Wear skin-tone hose
1 (3.4%)

Wear colored tights
4 (13.8%)

Just go hairy legged
9 (31.0%)

Something else I'll say in comments
5 (17.2%)

I like ticking boxes
5 (17.2%)

Comments

[jumpuphigh]

Eyebrows are way, way, way worse than legs. I get 4 areas waxed and eyebrows are worse than both underarms and my bikini area. Legs are pretty low-key. I get totally blissed out when my legs are being waxed - like with a good massage.

[megwrites]

I'm glad that your waxing experiences are good, but pain thresholds vary as do sensitivities. Plus, most anything is way worse if you're dreading the heck out of it, and if I were any where near hot wax? I'd be freaking out and crying within five minutes.

I'm sure if I hadn't been basically forced into a chair in a salon where burning hot wax was spread on my face and then ripped off in strips until my eyebrows were acceptable I might be more amenable to the suggestion. But undergoing the process unwillingly and while staring at a lady who herself has had to pencil her eyebrows on because she has nearly none left? Pretty much has set me against waxing.

Suffice to say, there's more than a little emotional trauma and memories of how painful beauty rituals were for me as a child (and how they made me feel hideous and self destructive) where waxing is involved. So, it's a no go for me.

But I'm glad to know it isn't that way for everyone.