Agnes by Tony Cochran for September 29, 2024

you just dip in Nair or something, girls

Another of the Minor Inconveniences of growing older. Best to avoid it if at all possible.

Ah, freshly shaved legs. Smooth, nicely tanned, and with no ugly veins. The good old days, when I’d wear micro-mini skirts. Can’t do that now, folks. Gross everyone out!

One benefit of getting even older, my pits and legs don’t have any hair any more. ;-)

Ah, American culture is where we change the characteristics of puberty back to prepubescence. Buy shaving cream and razors.

When you’re old life is a hairy ‘beach’! Off the head and spread over the rest of the body.

Or pretend you’re European and don’t shave anything

I am a strawberry-blonde and the hairs on my legs are so fair (and soft) that nobody can see them. If only other areas were the same. When I was a kid and I got hair in my pits the first time I was embarrassed to raise my hand in class because of it. I decided to shave them. No one had explained how to do this. I took one of my father’s razors (the old-school type with the screw at the bottom to change blades) and just did it…dry. When Mom came home she explained using shaving cream. My pits were raw and red for a week. Thankfully I hadn’t cut them like I did my legs, which as I said didn’t need to be shave, but in for a penny, in for a pound. I taught my girls how to shave so they wouldn’t go through the same pain.

I was the maid-of-honor for a friend (she was a teen-bride) and we had a sleep-over on the night before her wedding. She used her dad’s electric razor for her legs. Unfortunately she was unaware that one did NOT use lotion BEFORE shaving, and she wound up ruining his razor. Thankfully, he was always a mellow dude and just laughed about it.

When you get to retirement age or a little after, the hair doesn’t grow any longer on legs or underarms. At least for me it didn’t and I’m happy about it.

“Old women like my mom” Trouts mom is probably 30!

A curse of old age for both sexes girls…..

Ladies: The Lovely & Charming Mrs. Cowboy, in Her 30s, got an Epilady. Used regularly it for about 9 months. Hasn’t shaved Her legs once since (She’ll be 70 in Feb).

You don’t HAVE to shave, remove the hair. We can get used to it, don’t have to embrace the obsession with pre-pubescent look. Maybe start a new trend. Guys are next on the hairless push. Yeah that will work. Though maybe change some male attitudes towards women who refuse the stupid must shave directives.

Are girls told that if they do THAT their hands will get hairy?

Now if only guys would shave their faces, armpits, chests, hands, and legs!

well, at least agnes doesn’t have to worry about hairy palms…

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You can burn it off. A quick pass with a lighter removes most. I haven’t done it lately but it was fun (stinky but fun).

Just DON’T delay.

A bil had told me I should never shave my legs. Hair would grow back course and black. I never shaved ’em, never had to.