To shave or to wax: what's the best method of hair removal?

depends what hair you want to remove and why Don't use an Epilady they hurt If you want to remove hair so you'll swim faster, shave Allow your hair to grow back faster and create drag in the next season. Wax if you feel you need to trim the hedges. If your partner doesn't like the new prickly you when your recently shaved regions are growing back. Apply NAIR to those areas, let it linger for a while, and it will round off the sharp edges of the hair fibers making them softer sooner. I tend to shave what isn't covered by my hineck fastskin hope this helps, ande 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

True - but there are plenty of men who do wax - I know them. For best results you need to keep regular with your appoinments so you can keep your "woolly" self at bay.

I've tried: Laser, wax, shaving & "nair". Laser = most effective, most expensive, longest lasting, & not as painful as you expect. Wax = effective, cost (varies), lasts almost 7 weeks & not so painful. Shaving = effective for a meet / event that day, in-expensive, doesn't last & is painful even when you nick yourself. Did I metion the ingrowns??!! "Nair" = somewhat effective (depends if you leave it on long enough but not too long), cost (depends on product), lasts (varies on product), pain - if your allergic . . . & there is still the issue of in-growns . . . Yes, ingrown hairs are worrisome as are the possibility of nicks and cuts. I should imagine waxing for a man, given that mens' bodily hair is, generally coarser, longer and more abundant, is more painful than for a woman. Also men have the additional areas of chest and abdomen to wax and the abdomen in particular is a very sensitive. Any men who have waxed care to share experiences on this? Syd

I was told that when you shave with a razor you remove the hair and a little layer of skin. This is what some say makes you more sensitive to feel.

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've tried: Laser, wax, shaving & "nair". Laser = most effective, most expensive, longest lasting, & not as painful as you expect. I thought laser was permanent.? Does hair grow back after a laser treatment?