beauty Tabu #1: excess hair growth on the body and face

Excess hair and facial hair is something, I really want to help break the taboo around. First of all, it's something, I by virtue of my job, every single day meetings embarrassment and shame around. Next, it's something, I myself struggle with.

I meet it in women and girls of all ages, and it cuts me honest in heart. Mostly because, the hair on the upper lip is perfectly normal (also the dark!). But also because, that there are so many misconceptions associated with removing hairs.

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I was about 7 or 8 year when it became clear, I had much stronger hair growth on the body and face than most of my family and entourage. I started to get dark hair on the legs and my eyebrows began to grow on the nose. It bothered me much, so when I was about 10 year, I started to shave my legs the day before I was due to have gymnastic or swimming at school.

Back then I felt a shame about my strong, dark hair on the upper lip, eyebrows, legs, the toes, arms and many other places. I felt decidedly masculine, and very different. I would desire, it was something, I was able to talk more openly with others. I felt, I was the only one in the world with the problem, and in the mid nineties in central Jutland rural idyll was in reality I probably.

Luckily for me, my mother was good at helping me. By virtue of her training as a cosmetologist, she was able to teach me everything she knew about hair removal. But not everyone is so lucky, Having a mother that can help. Many young girls are even ashamed, asking their mother, girlfriends or close family for advice.

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Openness rather than body shaming

In my daily work when I have clients in the chair for eyebrows treatments, so I offer always as an additional service also grow over the lip (adult is the hot 🙂 ). But many women are looking confused (read: offended) at me and snorts “it so”. But I would never ask, to offend – I offer to do so, it is a service I provide. But if people can not even talk to me, as a professional, if it, how should they be able to talk to others about it?

Whether it is pornoficeringen of our society and it is a narrow-minded Scandinavian beauty ideal, is causing the, that body hair has become a plausible subject of shaming, I do not know. But I think it's really boring, that we can not talk about anything, that is as natural.

I will not make me judge, whether to “let the beard stand” or you have to remove it all. I think like with anything beauty related, that you should do what you want. As long as you do it for themselves. Not because others dictate.

On behalf of our next generation of women will I be sad about, that body hair is still seen as a taboo. It amazes me at a time, where we have developed so many hair removal methods, that is still something we hesitate to talk about. Like our young girls should know that body hair is normal, it is equally important, that boys see and learn about common female bodies.

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For both men and women's fault is it so important, that we are not ashamed and embarrassed, When it comes to talking about body. Otherwise, we are co-responsible for feeding the shame and awkwardness, many of us even feel or have felt over our bodies.

I see it as all women sister solidarity obligation, to inform other girls and women on, that hair growth is normal. Then we let them know, that there are methods to help them, who wants to do something about it.

In recent years it has come back, to use body hair as a statement. Where women leave the hairs on the body grow to signal their attitude to beauty ideals and rebel against them. I understand the need to move away from a polished body image. But I think that the basic idea frustrates itself, when to use what, that is natural to signal an attitude. In the end, it might just as designed and artificially, as the hairless bodies in porn films.

For me to start the movement towards a more natural and real body image by, that we let it be what it is: normally and naturally. I would like to invite to, that we create a forum and a beauty ideal, where we and the next generation may be open, and not feel ashamed, to talk about the body as it is.

Methods of hair removal of the face and the body

It is very general, but huge misunderstanding, that hair growth is exacerbated by removing the. I hear very often, it is feared that the hair on the body and face are both thicker and darker by removing them. I can not stress enough, that it in no way reflects reality! There is absolutely no scientific evidence, that hair growth will be stronger, if you remove them. On the contrary, it actually after time weaken.

In the next post, coming sometime in the next week, I tell a lot more about the different hair removal methods, you can avail of. About what you can get done professionally, and what you can do at home and of course the advantages and disadvantages of the different methods.