To shave or to wax: what's the best method of hair removal?
Former Member
So what is the best method of hair removal? Waxing, shaving or one of those depilatory creams? What are the pros and cons? Which method is the longest lasting and which is the easiest?
Syd
I bought an epilator a while back, and LOVED it at first, it seemed great, but found that if I don't exfoliate regularly, that ingrown hairs can be a problem with this method as well.
Shaving (at least for a girl), is a total pain to have to do on a regular basis, but I imagine as some others have mentioned that it might be fine for a one day meet or so.
As far as the shaving myth of regrowing thicker hair, I read somewhere that it is in fact a myth, but that it sometimes seems thicker to people because when you shave you're cutting the hair at it's base where it's the thickest, therefore appearing to grow back thicker. As opposed to waxing, epillating, or using creams, where the hair starts anew with a finer tip initially breaking through the surface of the skin.
Anyway I just thought that was interesting and made sense. ;)
I bought an epilator a while back, and LOVED it at first, it seemed great, but found that if I don't exfoliate regularly, that ingrown hairs can be a problem with this method as well.
Shaving (at least for a girl), is a total pain to have to do on a regular basis, but I imagine as some others have mentioned that it might be fine for a one day meet or so.
As far as the shaving myth of regrowing thicker hair, I read somewhere that it is in fact a myth, but that it sometimes seems thicker to people because when you shave you're cutting the hair at it's base where it's the thickest, therefore appearing to grow back thicker. As opposed to waxing, epillating, or using creams, where the hair starts anew with a finer tip initially breaking through the surface of the skin.
Anyway I just thought that was interesting and made sense. ;)
