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I am fairly certain most of us have used a razor to shave their legs...

How many have tried alternative methods, wax, Epilady, etc... How did it go?
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Tammy
Stanley and Pookey

I think my Mom would have survived the Spanish Inquisition. She's tried everything thru the years and says, "It wasn't too bad..."

Me, I've stuck to razors. She'll mail me one of the alternative methods thru the years... Once she sent an electrolosys wand that has a long needle you run along side the shaft of the hair and mildly shock it (9V battery in the wand). I tried it on a stray hair on my face and thought I was going to die... Threw it away after one use, thanked her profusely for it...

Another time, when I was in Germany (Air Force), she sent an "Epilady". If you vaguely recall, those had rolling coils on the top of them that virtually ripped your leg hair out by the roots as you rolled it over your leg... You had to let the leg hair grow out something like 1/4 an inch for it to work, then you start ripping it out with the interwoven revolving coil head...

Well, I had a couple girlfriends in my dorm room hovered around when she sent it, curious. I took it out of the box and tapped my friend on the leg with it and she screamed, causing all three of us screamed in chain reaction and fly off the couch, knocking the couch over backwards. I hadn't even turned it on yet, just pulled it from the box and tapped her knee as a joke. Well, after that, we threw it away, knowing none of us would even try it, and tanks my Mom profusely for it...

Anyone out there gone thru any of the torture methods successfully? I'd think waxing your legs would be as bad as any above, if not worse. Large patch of wax ripped off...

Mom has tried all of the above and has had no complaints. This means, they are probably all horrible...
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Tammy
Stanley and Pookey

My MIL tried to talk me into "tweezing" my legs. She said that is what she used to do and then the hair finally stopped growing. Sheer torture! I finally went to a man's electric razor for the legs and I like that much better than anything else I have tried.
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Boris's Human, Pam

she sent an "Epilady"
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Oh dang! I remember those! Horrible, horrible thing! And letting your hair grow out?!? At that age I had blonde hair until just above the ankle where it suddenly turned one shade lighter than black. I remember being made fun of while I let the hair grow to try the epilady.

I love the results when I get my eyebrows waxed, but my skin sometimes reacts with a nasty rash the first day so I've been too afraid to have my legs professionally done. Home wax kits were a joke - wouldn't take loose hair off a cat.

My brother, a hairy man living in southern heat, recently tried sugaring at home with mixed results. One test batch worked wonders, the next batch, not-so-much. He went to work for a week with patches of hair missing from his arms - just looked moth eaten he said. He finally shaved away his test patches. (which still looked a little strange) He is dying for laser treatments "just to thin the forest..."

He is dying for laser treatments "just to thin the forest..."

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A friend at work tried that on her face. She had dark hair on her upper lip and a little on her chin she just hated keeping up with. It took about 4-5 treatments over the period of 3 or 4 months. Seemed to work, but painful -- she said especially when they got around the nostril area... It has been several months, almost a year and she has some coming back, not much. Will go back for another treatment... I have considered it as I don't have a lip problem, but have an area on my chin I'd like to never deal with again...

I tried Neet/Nair more than once and got bad, bad rashes. Several years later, I tried it again ("new", "gentle formula", etc...) Bad reaction on the area I tried it on on my legs...
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Tammy
Stanley and Pookey

Never tried anything but shaving here.
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You know, some of these threads' answers have just totally brought me to hysterics with you all describing stuff. Today's another example!!!! You're great!
Blessed with not too much body hair so have always just shaved in the shower. Seems like in the dark ages, I tried Nair when it first came out but didn't use it again for whatever reason. Probably no reason to spend the money on it.
The story about the guy reminded me of a man I once knew who used a beard trimmer to keep his chest hair neat. (?) I honestly don't know how a man would stand having his body waxed; sounds masochistic to me. Yikes!

I honestly don't know how a man would stand having his body waxed; sounds masochistic to me. Yikes
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I agree, that's a large area to wax, especially if they do their back and chest too. Just waxing the bits of stray hair off of my face is enough for me.

And now that I'm older, I've found that I no longer have to shave my legs or armpits because the hair no longer grows there. Thank God I still have all of the hair on my head. It might be thinning a little tho, I think.

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Ruby and the Kitties
Simba, Samantha, Katrina & KatyKatt
Meow!! Meow!! Meow!! Meow!!

How wonderful to do nothing and then rest afterwards. Meow!

You know, some of these threads' answers have just totally brought me to hysterics with you all describing stuff.
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So glad we could be your cheap entertainment!

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PHTessie