Tweezing Pubic Hair
 

I was wondering, i've seen it mentioned in a few places this potentially eye-watering activity, have tried it a couple of times and it wasn't so bad.

I'm wondering this, though, will tweezing end up permanently removing the pubic hair, a la eyebrows, or are pubes somehow immune to that effect?

I don't think there is a way to permanently remove hair by tweezing. It may make the hair become thinner than it was previously.

Isn't it the same with waxing?

If you get the whole hair folical/folicle/whatever then the hair cannot grow back?

That sounds so incredibly painful. I would never even try it.

It still grows back. Eyebrows still grow back when you tweeze.

My X used to tweeze all of it. It keeps getting thinner and thinner, and once its been done once, you only need do like 2 minutes of maintenance a day and it stays nice and bald.

i've actually thought about doing it...

kind of a slow tedious version of waxing i guess...

*shrug* thats what i did... didnt feel like having the itchy of shaving... and didnt want to go to the store and get wax... but i had tweezers...

it wasnt painful... as long as i kept it to only one hair at a time... and since i got home i havnt had any maintanence time.. and its started growing back... the balls which i plucked multiple times the hair is very thin and easy to pull... and the areas which i had only done once still have relatively thick hairs but its a little thinner...

and oh yah... i would kinda do it in sessions... just do a little area at a time...

There is no way to remove hair permanently with just tweezers. The hair *will* grow back.

For women, it's really painful when you get to the labia. I used to pluck the mons and shave the lips. It feels 100x smoother because unlike shaving, the hair is not cut and left with a rough edge which is what causes the red itchies. Instead, the hair grows back as a small tapered normal hair. It's very tedious, though.

wow, i can't imagine trying to 'tweez' anything on my body

It's really not as horrendous as it sounds...

So long as you tug swift and clean. With the grain, if that makes sense.

This time last year I made a little "Pathway to heaven" for my lady, she was complaining that my pubes were like razorwire (she's just oversensitive, the most oversenstivie person i've ever met. Ever. The big Jessy that she is.).

So, speaking from experience, it's not too bad at all. A lot less painfull than the itching that can follow shaving.

Though, as I remember, the balls were quite awkward, as it's less easy to get the hair out in one clean motion...

Hmm..

I had a little shave a while before posting this up, so maybe I'll go back to the tweezing afterwards.

Oh, and on the dreary/boredom front, I don't think it was that much of a chore actually... With the time it took being quite well spent in my view.

But then, I like that kind of thing, small repetitive task that can become all consuming...

hay ho.

A therapist who does electrical therapy (can't remember the technical term) explained to me that tweezing (and waxing) results in coarser hair since the hair attempts to come back stronger than when it was taken out and the follicles were damaged. So these comments that it comes back thinner are surprising to me. She claimed that electric treatments or shaving were best in terms of health and longevity yet she may have just been trying to sell her services.

In my experience the hairs grow back smoother and easier if you pluck because they begin growth brand new which means the tips are tapered naturally so they can penetrate through the skin. When you shave, you give the hairs a blunt end which often has difficulty piercing back through the skin. This is what causes the coarser, rough feeling and the red bumps. I think all of this gives the *illusion* that the hairs growing back are thinner. Once the hairs have fully grown after a plucking, they are about the same as the hairs before you plucked.

I guess I'm just a puss, but it hurts me when I have to tweeze my little unibrow area. I think that I think about it too much. But theres no way I could ever tweeze my pubes. No way.

that just sounds painful!!

I have thought about this. I would like to wax too, but I guess im just chicken lol

For anyone who does decide to shave instead of pluck, or gets red bumps anyway:

My understanding is that the redness comes from irritation due to a mild infection. Swabbing with isopropyl alcohol afterwards prevents the redness.

isopropyl alcohol? OUCH!
you know the slightly warm/burning feeling you get when you put after-shave product on your face (for the guys) or legs (for the girls)? multiply that times, oh, a hundred, and imagine it on your naughty bits. it does cut down on redness and irritation, but *be careful*...i'd suggest only on the pubic bone/mons. skin is less irritable there. (god, it hurts just to think about.)

oh, and i'm going to try plucking. yep.

The question I have (for guys) is, if you get rid of your pubic hair in whatever fashion, do you do your legs too? It seems like it would look really odd to leave the hair on the legs, and I wouldn't want to have to shave everything below the waist, it would take forever, haha.

Oh yeah, of course! My wife only does it where the bikini isn't (but thre shouldn't be a burn unless there's open skin--at least that's how my face is). I think she got it from Cosmo.


@teelos, I don't do my legs. Sometimes I work around in a pattern to minimize the difference between my hairy legs and hairless others parts. I guess you could visualize a layering effect rather than complete baldness.

Smooth to trimmed to regular hair.

and in case you start wondering--that's not the basis for my nick!

I see what you mean. I guess that would require it to be done with tweezing to achieve the 'blending' effect.

my fiance tweezes her eyebrows!! that's bad enough

I think im gonna try tweezing N'stead of shaving next time.
About leghair: Im not really that hairy but I was thinkingaobut it the last time I shaved. I allready do my chest nips etc & pubes too. Maybe legs are next to go!

I just started plucking tonight. I have been shaving for about 3 weeks and decided that I didn't like the red bumps and the course hair. I'm going to be doing it in sessions here at first. It didn't hurt nearly as much as I had imagined. I'd suggest giving it a go if you like smoothness

best way is to just shave but even better if your partner does it for you heheheheh

Ugh, guys, DONT SHAVE YOUR LEGS!! Gross...

I myself have never tweezed in that area.... But I did have a bikini wax once and the woman tweezed a bit to get some stragglers. But I'm intreagued.....

Do you use anything to numb up the area first? Like some ice or something? Take a shower first? What's the deal yall!

I am inspired to pluck just the shaft region. I hate the shaft hair.

Myself, I like to have the shaft well clear of hair also.

I must also recommend a hairless taint.

licking there when it's bald is... is...

*sigh*

I can tell you 110% eyebrows grow back. I mean, its a monobrow speaker here. I pluck it once a week. And theres always some there.

I second this one, expecially on the balls.. Ouch!

Though I have heard of people tweezing other parts of their body and they say it's not that bad.. But still.. keep those tweezers away :o

No, its not really that painful. Well, then again i didnt reach my balls. But the hair does grow back. I was just bored one day, (about a week or so after I shaved it the first time) saw some tweezers, then just decided to go at it, and made like a heart shape out of it, it was kind of fun and time consuming, one activity to do for fun in college.

Tweezing does work, but you have to keep up to it.
The hair gets weaker and thins out.

Owie, owie, owie. I'll take the bumps.

Or more accurately, I'll use the epilator and bypass all of this.

Only thing that goes near my hairs is one of those buzzer things. Ya know... for my skull... and any other parts that may get unruly.

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Hmm... I think the tweezing of pubic hair is the punishment for shoplifting in some third world countries.

*thinks of those silly religious white people who pluck their beards until they get married, shivers*

My question is WHY? Hair is good. leave it alone.

It's really not that bad. I get brazilian waxed, and then tweeze the little ones that grow out randomly before my next waxing. As long as I pull following the direction the hair grows, it's just like tiny pin pricks. It zones me out while I do that too.. heh.

As for hair growing back or not, I have been tweezing my underarms, and over the years, the hair has definitely thinned out in width and grow less, very sparse.

Oddly enough, it was this thread that got me into plucking my pubes out one at a time with tweezers. In the past two years I've noticed significant changes and have registered here in order to share some tips and tricks.

When you tweeze a hair you will see a little pube in the tweezer. However, that doesn't mean you were successful.

On a successful yank you will get the hair, and at the end of the hair you will have thick bulbous root. In my case, it's literally a ball of liquidy brown pigment at the base of the hair. If you get a big one of those, it's likely the hair ain't growing back.

For best results, take a hot shower before tweezing! it opens the pores giving you a better chance of yanking the root and causing less discomfort.

If you pull once and don't get the hair, give up until another day. Even if you pull the hair, it is unlikely that the root is coming with it.

Shave a week before hand, it makes plucking a lot easier. because the pubes are a lot shorter. This way I can tweeze a large area in just a few minutes.

Try to pull the hair out at the angle that the follicle rests. This is also another benefit of shaving a few days before hand, so you can actually see what direction the follicle goes. If you pull with the direction of the follicle you are more likely to get the root. Fortunately for me I've got dark hair and light skin and I can see the hair under the skin pretty well and know what direction to pull.

Every time I ever pulled a hair off of my sac, it almost always had the root on it. I'm at the point now where, even after 2 months, I have very few hairs on my boys. The few hairs that are there are pure white and are either very very thin or are thick (but still pure white) and a bit course to be honest.

Later I started on my bikini line and a good majority of the hairs came out with the root. However, there are a lot of thinner hairs(especially leading up to the happy trail) that, for me, are less likely to come out with the whole root - looks like I may need laser after all.

Now to figure out how to pull out my ass hairs. :thumbsup:

Disagree. If I could take a magic pill that left me hairless from the neck down, I'd do it.

Anyone tried the electric tweezing method that permanently removes hair? I've seen kits at the store I've always wanted to try but I never have.

As I do (disagree that is). I like hair. Especially on vaginas.

Sign me up for a pill that removes everything except scalp & eyebrows

Geez! I just tried pulling a couple out of curiosity and got tears in my eyes. A pill would be nice though that could target the hair removal you'd like.

Fuck yeah. God I hate shaving.

Funny that this thread comes up. I didn't read all the posts, but I seem to be the only one that doesn't mess with tweezers. I take a warm shower, soap up and wash off any oils, then wrap small bundles of pubes around my finger as best I can, then do a quick snap of the wrist and arm outwards, yanking the bundle out. If I had to guess, I'd say 20-30 pubes at a time. I leave the shorter ones so it's not bald (hairy legs with bald crotch might look weird) but the bush is significantly diminished. I do this once every few days or so and keep a semi-constant appearance of less-than-usual hair.

Sure it hurts, if you're not expecting it. I know what's coming so I prepare and block it, then YANK! and there's a bundle of hair in my hand. I got this idea when I was watching discovery or nat'l geo and saw that culture in india that yanks every single hair out of their body. I figured if they can do it, so can I. The ones that hurt the worst are probably shaft-hairs because you have to do a couple at most at a time, with fingernails when they are shorter. Taint hairs aren't too bad, and sack hair....well it's second on the list of pain. Grab a bundle of sack hair and try to yank it out, bet you either jump back or yelp LOL. Grab a few at a time and it's not as bad though.

Doesn't this take forever?

And every hair that I have ever pulled out with tweezers has come back. In my teens, it was a few random hairs on my face/beard. I've also taken out a few eyebrow hairs and stomach.

I would think waxing would do the same thing, but faster. And laser or electrolysis would be how to get it done permanently.

Yeah even if you pull a root, it'll come back. If not from the same spot, then a hair nearby might split and take its place. It makes sense to me that over time your body might stop growing so much hair in spots where it's ripped out every week or so, but I don't know enough on that to make a statement I think might be correct.

The only way I can see it working is the same way electrolysis works, by scarring the inside of the follicle, it prevents new hair from forming. But, I'm not sure pulling it out will do that.

As you age, your body hair diminishes and, according to my mom, that includes the pubes. I'm not that old, but the hair on my arms is almost all gone and what's on my legs has thinned out a lot.
I'm looking forward to not having to shave, but not what goes along with that. Plucking? Makes my eyes water just thinking about it.

I have actually read a number of product reviews and it seems as though the One Touch Hair Removal Home Electrolysis System is about the only one on the market that will actually work. I have also read that it is a bit tricky to use. I have considered it but have not picked one up.

Tweezing is fine between my eyebrows, but for pubes it would take forever. I'm content with trimming everything between my waist and my knees (the Schick Quattro with trimmer is awesome,) shaving if there's any chance my pants might come off, and waxing if it looks like I'd have to shave more than every week or two.

I tweezed the hair off one side of my diick last year and it did seem to grow back courser, but I understand that is an initial reaction of the body to protect itself, and that with repeated tweezing it gives up growing hair there.

I also learned that if you tweeze with hydrogen peroxide over the follicle as you tweeze it gets into the follicle and kills the root faster. So I started again, using a puff soaking with HP over the hair as I pull it, then keep rubbing the finished area with more as I keep working.

Too soon to tell yet, as i just started 9 days ago with a test area, but so far so good. I love the smooth skin. There are little bumps where the follicle remains. I never got any ingrown hairs or infections. Some people worry too much.

As far as the pain goes, some will be more sensitive, some will be "tougher" and able to endure it, and some will not mind it at all. I find if you yank fast it hurts less!

I'm going to take the fur "collar" off my peter and front of the sack but may leave the hair on the side of the sack to reduce clingy skin issues. Goodbye monkeydik!

Personally, I tweeze down below because I hate HATE the bumps.. and I dont tweeze everything, just around the lil triangle I like to keep tidy and smooth. (but I'll shave my labium majora, as those hairs are very fine and dont bump up when I shave at all).

It doesnt take long, I just tack it onto my body maintenance and its smoother than any razor would get me.

I also have a high tolerance for pain and it doesnt hurt much.. I might venture to say that my eyebrows hurt more to pluck! :p

This seems like it might work. Though most places I have found on-line say that the hydrogen peroxide will just disinfect the area, it won't kill the root. I am interested in knowing if you have found some source that says that it kills the root or if your own experience is that the hair doesn't come back.

There should be a study done comparing that to witch hazel, bleach, Veet, or kerosene :eek: to chemically 'burn' the hair follicle after tweezing. There doesn't seem to be much research done on the natural home remedies because there is no money to be made and will negatively effect the hair removal businesses.


And I found this article that backs up the original premise that tweezing will reduce hairs. I'll have to try it to believe it, but I have noticed that the hair in between my eyebrows has reduced by a lot just by tweezing.

(It is a nudist website, but there aren't any pictures on this page)
Tweezers! Tweezing the pubic hair

My BFF tweezed for many years until she finally got tired of it and got laser epilation to remove the hair permanently. Prior to my acquaintance with her, she'd been an exotic dancer for a while, and during that period had gotten into the habit of waxing her pubic area. This eventually resulted in her pubic hair coming in much more sparsely, to the point where she figured she'd save the trouble and money of waxing and just tweeze. She said by the time she got to that point, it really didn't hurt much....

The whole concept of tweezing...just sounds...perfectly awful...sometimes its just easier to let the garden grow wild and hope for the best.

My crotch hair can sand wood. No, no garden growing for me.

eh...can't say the idea of tweezing down there sounds like fun, i, personally, rarely have any problems with shaving, i just do it in the shower with hot water and a fresh three bladed razor, no shaving cream same as i do on my face...works for me, no bumps, itching or razor burn so long as i keep up on it

The synonym just makes it that much more horrifying.

Personally? Universal beard-trimmer manscaping. Too much mediterranean blood, having a bare patch in the middle of a forest would look ridiculous.

I dont think its always a matter of what other people want. I think hair down there is really uncomfortable and itchy. Didnt like it ever since puberty:no:

Have a hairless dog. When the hair is stripped it often grows back bent over, and will cause a spot - sometimes quite large puss filled ones. I dont strip my dog, he is as he is - but it took a lot of time for his skin to reach the good condition it is in now. Took a lot of time. Have heard of people waxing their dogs too. Poor dogs.

A pensioner I rehomed a dog to gleefully told me that as you get older, you stop growing the hairs you eagerly waited for in puberty, arm up, checking in the bathroom mirror. She said you end up with no leg hair either.
Expect some of you are as thrilled with that bit of info as I was at the time. When you rip the hair out you might want to save them up in case you ever change your mind and want a merkin

It evens out Crested, the hair on your head doesn't fall out it just goes in and comes out lower.

That explains my legs. I suppose its living too long with gravity as we get shorter too.