Hair Removal Options for Summer Time
It’s summer time, and we all know what that means as women. We can’t get away with not shaving our legs for days on end if we want to like we can in the winter months when our legs go unexposed for days and the only person that knows we don’t shave is our poor partners. I personally hate to shave my legs every day, and so I basically don’t. I’ve resigned myself to shaving more often of course, to avoid embarrassment, but I’ve come to sort of an agreement with myself that once every three days is just fine, and I can still have presentable legs with shaving this much.
But what if you really don’t want to shave? What are your options? Well, there are some depillatories out on the market like Veet and Nair, but honestly they smell so terrible that I’m not even sure it’s worth not having to shaving a few more days by using these. I also have to admit, I’m afraid I’m exposing myself to some pretty horrendous chemicals by doing this, because should a hair remover really just “melt” your hair right out of it’s follicle? Makes me a little uneasy, don’t know about you!
There is of course another option to hair removal that is supposedly permanent in the summer time and for that matter, all year round, and that is laser hair removal. Laser hair removal is pretty expensive though, and you basically pay by how large of an area you wish to be treated, and therefore “hair free” forever, or with very little follow up for the next few years.
Laser hair removal works by actually destroying the hair follicles so that the hairs that are individually targeted by the laser never come back. The trick is to get them all though, and so this many times requires several follow up visits to make sure the hair really is all gone. I’ve heard some horror stories about laser hair removal too, but if you go to a reputable place, you should be fine. Just be prepared to pay! How nice it would be to never shave again though….
There are always waxing sessions as well, which some women like and some women hate. Basically wax is applied to the areas you don’t want hair, and voila, it’s ripped right out, and doesn’t grow back for several weeks. A lot of women who have waxing done regularly to remove hair claim that their hair grows back much finer and also is not as hard to shave off, so this may be a good option as well. There are hair removal creams also, some of them natural, like Nad’s and other herbal and natural hair removal creams that claim to make it much harder for your pesky hairs to grow back.
