How do you maintain your body hair?

I cut my hair up to about ear length approx. once a year. Once it hits my shoulders, I know it's time.

I shave my legs and underarms...somewhat regularly. Although, you know, I'm single so I'm not militant about it.

I'll shave the bushline so that it stays in the panties about once every 2-3 months or so. That hair grows pretty slow and, you know, really not militant about that one.

That's about it.

 

I get a haircut every 3-4 months and shave every other day. I shaved off the head hair, chest hair, part of the calf (for the tattoo), and half an eyebrow to determine how many months before it grew back to normal length. 6 months for the head hair and calf, 2 months for the chest, 1 month for the eyebrow.

 

Speaking of white hair, that is coming in nicely in the beard now for my relatively young age. Mixes with the reddish brown and battling that grey hair.

 

I have my hair trimmed every six to eight weeks, I wear it long at the moment. I shave my armpits every morning in the shower, I shave my legs every few days, daily if it's warm and I'm wearing shorts/skirt. I usually shave down below but had a Hollywood last week and might keep that up as it feels really nice .

 

On the top, I get 'er cut roughly 3-4 months. When I have to control it with a brush, it's time to mow. On the sides and back, I tell the barber to use the #3 attachment on the clippers, #4 on the top. I would just shear it all off during the summer; it's wildly comfortable, I enjoy feeling the breeze on my scalp, and my mother-in-law freaking HATES it; but the wife doesn't care for it. I can live without it easily enough. The face gets shaved something like twice a week (or whenerver I know I'll be going down on the wife--she doesn't care for friction burn). I have shaved the nether region before--a few times for recreation, once for the vasectomy. I do enjoy it; just get tired of the upkeep after a little while so--like the big musical number at the end of The Lorax--I let ir grow.
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Good lord, yes! Even at 34, I get inch-plus grandpa hairs in my ears every other damn week!
And ingrown hairs just suck donkey balls.

 

Oh my Zen, that is pretty funny.

I know a few that get the brazilian wax, ooch.

I like my legs to feel silky, so I shave everyday, and definitely like to keep a nicely close shaven bush, with a little design.

 

for the faceshavers among us... anybody shaves himself the fashioned way?

I just use gilette, but somehow i'd like to learn it the old fashioned way... doesn't seem easy to do properly though!

 

Not a hairy person. No hair grows in my armpits and I can count on each hand the number of hairs that grow on each leg. None on my arms.

I have a healthy amount of hair on my head which gets a trim every 6 - 8 weeks and I'm right there with Avestruz as far as the ladyparts. As sex can be anytime, I try to keep it trimmed and neat at all times.

Eyebrows and eyelashes are a bit sparser than they used to be but I still find myself needing to pluck stray eyebrow hairs once a week.

 

I get my hair buzzed every month or so when it gets to a length that starts to annoy me. Only have to shave every 2-3 days.
Chest/back/pubes...not going to waste my time. TBH, I find the idea shaving/waxing/trimming my entire body to be just plain silly, but to each their own...

 

I need my head buzzed every 3-4 weeks or I start to look like shrubbery.
Thankfully my wife does it for me with clippers.
Everything else is live and let live.
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I need my head buzzed every 3-4 weeks or I start to look like shrubbery.
Thankfully my wife does it for me with clippers.
Everything else is live and let live.
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I need my head buzzed every 3-4 weeks or I start to look like shrubbery.
Thankfully my wife does it for me with clippers.
Everything else is live and let live.
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I need my head buzzed every 3-4 weeks or I start to look like shrubbery.
Thankfully my wife does it for me with clippers.
Everything else is live and let live.

 

I get my head hair cut every 2-3 months depending on the goal - if it's short, I get it cut more often. If it's long, less often. If it's growing out, I try to leave it alone as long as I can stand it until I need help to get the scruffiness under control.

As for body hair.. I shave my legs every 2-3 days, and my axillas every day or two (every time I shower). My bikini line gets shaved every 2-3 days, and I usually shave the rest down to a landing strip approximately once a week, but more often if I'm dating someone. I don't like shaving it more often than every 3 days, though, otherwise it gets irritated. I started plucking just my bikini line over the summer (every 2-3 days), and I like the results far more than shaving, so I try to keep up with it but unfortunately don't always have the time or patience for it. I would wax, but I'm a poor grad student and absolutely cannot justify the expense. I need a sugar daddy.

I very rarely will shave my arm hair - I trimmed it a couple months ago, and it is still in the process of growing back in. I like that it looks a little lighter and more sparse, since it has been growing in during the summer and getting somewhat bleached by the sun.

I pluck my own eyebrows, although I tend to get them shaped by a professional (usually threading, but sometimes waxing) about once a year. I prefer to do the maintenance myself, though.

 

I cut my own hair (using a couple of different sized guards on an electric trimmer). I have a beard, but shave my neck up to the jawline. I keep the beard pretty short.

I'm fairly hairy, so no chest/back/belly shaving/waxing for me. I'll trim my pubes short now and then and like clean balls, but that's become less important since my sex life has died down.

 

I'm a guy, so I can use a Flowbee to cut my head hair. I haven't paid for a haircut in 20 years. ;-) The eyebrow, nose and ear hair (I'm close to 40) gets tweezed. I noticed some long, thin, white hair growing out of my forehead - disturbing! So that gets yanked as it gets noticed.

The pubic area is interesting. I've been tweezing the bikini area, shaft and balls for about 5 months. I've read up on it (including on this forum) and thought I'd give a bit of advice...

Originally, starting about 4 years ago, I trimmed the pubic area with an electric trimmer, but once you start doing it, you have to keep at it, and I was always afraid I'd cut myself, so about 5 months ago I just went to town on it with tweezers. Tweezing produzes no stubble, just smooth skin, like waxing, but cheaper and you don't need anyone to do it for you.

It hurt quite a bit the first time around - the thicker/coarser the hair, the more it hurts, and sometimes there was a bit of blood. You'd think that when you pull a hair out by the root that it won't grow back. Unfortunately, that is not true. It still grows back, but a lot thinner the fourth and fifth time around. You also get ingrown hair which needs to be taken care of with sharp tweezer tips to break the skin a bit, or a loufa to free the ingrown hair. The good thing is that tweezing is not really painful at this point. I've also been noticing that sometimes two hairs grow out of the same location. The thinner the hair, the likelier it is to break when you yank on it (maybe 20% breaks at this point and leads to ingrown hair) so sometimes it is better to pull on it slowly - it's less likely to break, even though it hurts a bit more. Also, make sure you have tweezers that come together over a longer piece of the metal, not in just one point, since the single point tweezers will cut the hair off rather than grasp it.

So now I am in maintenance mode. I like to think there's a bit less hair each day, but that's probably wishful thinking. For the bikini area (I do a landing strip), shaft, and balls (as far down as I can reach), I'd say I yank 50 - 70 hairs per day (it goes quickly), and it takes 30 - 40 minutes each day (I do it on the john at work). Doing it after a shower works best - all the hair is standing out. However, the better the lighting, the better. There is no substitute for natural light, preferably sunlight, to find all the hair, especially the lighter colored ones, which are invisible in artificial light. I'm always surprised at what I missed on a weekday on the john when I look at the area in sunlight on the weekend.

So that's it - for a bit of pain, you get a nice clean area, and if you stop doing it, the hair grows back but thinner, so there was some benefit at least. If you keep doing it, other than a bit of redness in the ingrown areas, you get a really smooth result.

 

My mom is a licensed cosmetologist, so for my first 18 years of life she would cut my hair whenever she decided I needed a hair cut. Now, in my college years, I've gone from not having a hair cut at all my first year, to shaving my head every other day (using a HeadBlade), to taking my mom's Wahl trimmer to my head about once every month. The last time I cut my hair was the week before my birthday in 2011 (July), as I'm trying to grow it out again long enough to donate somewhere.

Facial hair gets cut whenever I'm not lazy. I used to keep a VanDyke style but I've since just started maintaining the goatee and shaved the mustache. I alternate between the two, letting the top grow whenever I feel like it and shaving it at my fancy.

I trim my nether regions whenever I feel like I want to. I shave them whenever I get sick of the hair being there.

I don't do much other hair-related maintenance.

I'm not much into my appearance, can't you tell?

 

Shave the face about every other day. I could probably shave twice a day...

Buzz the nose at least once a week. Those white hairs certainly aren't to be ignored. Occasionally pull a stray white one from my mostly dark eyebrows. Don't do much body trimming, though if the woman were more into oral stuff I would gladly do it.

Now, if anyone knows a way to get rid of ear hair, I'm listening... (I mean permanent)

 

Depends on degrees of lazy and time of year...

I'm in science research, so I have to wear long pants daily, which means if I'm not having sex I get lazy on the leg shaving during the winter. If it's been too long, I Nair everything below the hips and try and upkeep that for as long as I feel like it. Bikini line gets shaved, other lady-regions get shaved, then maintained shorter than half an inch if I'm not feeling shaving. About once or twice a year, depending on pain tolerance and wallet thickness, waxing happens, which is great.

Got laser hair removal on my armpits a few years ago, which has been great. I have a few stragglers, but those get plucked when I notice them.

Get my eyebrows waxed when I have time every few months, get plucked daily to maintain in between.

Hair on my head gets cut every three months, because I get split ends pretty often.

I have a mole on my neck that grows one long dark hair about once a month that I pluck out in disgust. It's not cute.

 

Honestly the hair on my arms and legs is getting so bushy that I'm considering trimming it... This aging thing sometimes gets on my nerves. I've never been this image conscious.