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Positive Post: From anecdotes here about shaving legs, I thought I'd shave mine again.
First time I've shaved my legs going on 8 months I think
Notice that most of my leg hair has turned blonde and the only dark hairs left on my body are the little bits on my shins, with a lot thinner sparser hair on my calves. It's weird seeing how much of my body hair just plain stopped once I started HRT like flat out doesn't grow and also how much sparser the thicker hair ended up to now where It's the bit on my shins that remains.
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Holy shit is shaving such a pain (I have given up, multiple times, but also currently, despite the fact that it is one of the few things that I can clearly feel gives me dysphoria)Possibly unwanted advice, sorry if so.
I can recommend IPL at home, if it works for your skin tone and hair color, it makes the hair grow back thinner, though I started out with extremely thick and dark hair, so my results are probably better than most people would get
But at home IPL machines aren't that expensive and are relatively safe, and are far less painful compared to epilating, epilating does work, but it was simply too painful for me to do anything other than arms, probably due to how numerous my body hair was
It does take a few hours every two weeks or so, but that's not too much time, and you can continue shaving normally (as opposed to epilating where you need to let the hair grow out)
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it is a pain, hence taking so long to do it again.I weigh up~ It's handy for wearing tights and such and to not have to worry about the hair, but I don't really get much out of it other than enjoying being hairless
I’ve noticed that like…not epilating for a few days my legs still feel pretty smooth and I can’t really see any hair, but then when I go to epilate the light on the epilator makes me notice a lot of small hairs.
People have tiny hairs along with the thicker ones, but those aren't generally visible unless really looking, the light will pick up tiny hair but it's almost invisible to the human eye