#tweezing

[hairybaldie]

Tweezing the dome to a full NW6

[asmrsparrow]

Listen to the comfortable tweezers today

By Hongdan ASMR

Hongdan knew better than me what I needed to hear! 

[anti-capitalistlesbianwitch]

What It's Like To Be A Hairy Feminist — In The Summer

Showing your body hair in summer clothes can make you vulnerable to humiliation and abuse. But the stigma can be deadly for trans and non-binary people.

As female body hair slowly gets more screen time and it becomes easier for a white, cisgender, able-bodied person like me to show it in real life, among my comparably open-minded friends, and in my job at a feminist publisher. That is a privilege. For transgender women, visible body hair can lead to threats from bigots. As Juno Roche says, "Trans women with hair are not marked out as 'hairy' — we become real targets, often for abuse and violence, because people read us as 'men pretending to be women.'"

As a person who is read by others as a hairy cis-woman, I am far less likely to face this kind of violence and abuse. It is a privileged position to be in, but that doesn’t make it a walk in the park. I will never forget the time, years ago, when a close friend visibly recoiled at the sight of my armpit hair, and asked me, only half joking, "Why can’t you just be normal?" For most of the winter, I do appear "normal" — the hair is covered by clothes, so no one can tell. But come summer, and the lure of cool skirts and light dresses, suddenly I wonder whether it would just be easier to shave it all off. To just look "normal." There’s no magic solution for how you push through that fear and uncertainty. Yes, it would be more pleasant to take the train and not be stared at by grown adults, whispered about by straight couples, or sneakily have pictures taken of you by people who haven’t worked out that their phone screens are reflected in the glass behind them.

But keeping my body hair is a philosophical and feminist choice, not an aesthetic one. I don’t have hairy armpits and legs in order to look edgy or cool. I leave the natural hair where it is because I want to accept myself and my body exactly how it is. I would rather spend time working on my mind, rooting out, challenging, and unlearning the oppressive assumption that women must pluck and shave and wax themselves bald in order to be acceptable, fuckable, and deserving of love. It’s an oppression that’s probably impossible for me to completely eradicate, because it has been socially enforced and culturally reinforced every day of my life, for over three decades.

[tear-soaked-pages-and-coffee]

Anyone else love it when you pluck one eyebrow hair and it looks fine and then you pluck another one and it looks like you’re missing a good chunk of your eyebrow. Or better yet the shape gets all messed up and then when you try to fix it you make it worse...

[killar-kuhween-blog]

I love my lips when they’re tweezed.

[buzzfeeduk]

[hairybaldie]

bald reflections in the bathroom

[hairybaldie]

Thinning out the crown ...it almost doesnt hurt at all.