Another milestone - Tactical Ninja
May. 1st, 2014
09:23 am - Another milestone
Today is my birthday. I am 44. I am not geeky enough to have worked out how many kilometres this means I have travelled while clinging to a chunk of rock that's floating on a ball of molten lava hurtling through space at thousands of miles an hour, but it's probably quite a lot. Feels like an achievement.
Speaking of achievements, early in the new year I was observing my friend's legs. They're nice legs, you'd totally observe them too! Anyway, she has lovely leg hair - it's dark and lays flat against her skin, and its growth curves in such a way as to enhance the shape of her muscles. I was admiring this and decided I'd have a go at growing some myself. I've no idea what my leg hair looks like because I've been a shaver since I was 12*.
When I made this decision, I figured I'd give it 4 months, leg hair being somewhat slow-growing, and take a photo on my birthday of what I'd achieved.

*ahem*
So there you go - turns out the powers of hair growth are not strong with this one. I was envisioning something like my friend's, instead I get bum fluff in the same colour as my pubes. I guess that's to be expected when you think about it... but there's nothing shapely about this hair - it sticks out randomly rather than laying flat, is in patches instead of a flattering pattern, and while it does keep my legs a bit warmer, it's not enough to not need stockings under a skirt by May 1st.
Now I'm trying to decide whether to keep it or not. Honestly, I can't see much reason to. I guess I'd be standing in solidarity with the hairy-legged variety of feminism*, and it makes my showers about 30 seconds quicker.. but that's about it. On the other hand, the only reason I can think of for shaving is how nice it feels to rub freshly-shaved legs on, well, anything. But IMO that's a pretty good reason.
So off it comes! Yep.
For my birthday, one of my presents was The Ultimate Kayak Fishing Guide. In it there is a section called Think Like A Fish.
Dr Wheel *thinking like a fish*: "Where'd the water go? Can't.Breathe...."
Me: *flaps flippers alluringly*
Dr Wheel: *blows load on pile of eggs and swims away*
Both of us: Yeah nah, thinking like a fish, not that much fun, eh?
*ahem*
* It wasn't any kind of a thing about being more feminine or anything, it was just what 12 year old girls did to feel more grown up. And it's so quick and easy that I never found it to be a hassle to keep doing, so I did it. Personally, I think choosing whether or not you want to have leg hair is more of a feminist act than shaving or not shaving, and anyone who judges other women's level of feminism based on whether or not they have leg hair is probably missing something important.
*dances about*
Anyway, may your days continue to ones of wonder and joy with a leavening sprinkling of other sorts for good measure...
says he with 25,562 days experience
I do work out those km things. So, if you want to know, let me know...
It's always interesting to see what your body can do :-)
Tried other methods a few times here and there. Nair was just gross. Waxing too messy and painful at home, or too expensive at a beauty salon. I was too scared to try one of those plucking machines after horror stories from friends.
Then I had one relatively earlyish boyfriend express with surprise and delight, running his hands up my legs for the first time, how amazingly smooth they were (when they hadn't been depilated by any means in well over a year). Seems he'd never touched legs which hadn't been regularly shaved before, and always had too much stubble present on them to really enjoy the experience.
That pretty much clinched it. Haven't attempted any depilatory behaviour on my legs since.
Ftr, I do shave my underarms. I didn't when I was a hippie, but I think it's difficult wearing some gothier outfits with armpit hair. I feel cleaner with pruned pits =)
ps. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Now I'm picturing ways to grow lush, silky leg hair.
I've shaved my legs since my teens and have no plans to stop. I hate the feel of things rubbing against leg hair and I wear sheer stockings at work so those don't look, or feel, nice with hairy legs!
(And yes, you are both silly and it is entirely adorkable!)
My leg hair growth is a lot like yours (probably because I went straight to sugaring before shaving as a teen). Very patchy and thin. I do appreciate that though, it means I only have to shave a couple times a year despite my hair being so dark :)
Also, Dr Wheel is clearly not a stickleback.
thinking like a fish sounds silly... not enough sex in fishville, really.