With the recent Veet commercial sparking many comments about body hair lately, I thought I'd weigh in my two cents worth.
Body hair has been something of a controversial topic of conversation for quite some time now, with many people thinking their opinions on someone else's body truly matters. Please understand that's not what I am doing. I am writing this post purely with the intentions of telling people that whatever you do with your body, it's no one else's business but your own.
If you want to shave all your body hair off, fine. If you don't want to shave anything, fine. If you want to show yourself off, fine. And if you want to keep your body private, guess what, also fine. The only person that should dictate the rules for you, is you. And the whole idea that having body hair isn't womanly is absolutely ludicrous. Women naturally grow body hair. Sorry to tell you, but it's the truth.
Many peoples first reaction to seeing body hair (mainly armpit hair on women if we're all honest with ourselves) is "eww!" And it really irks me. Body hair, or the lack thereof, does not determine anyone's personal hygiene.
When I was about fourteen someone made a comment about the hair on my arms being dark. All of my body hair is dark. My hair is naturally brown so it would be. The words this person used, were to compare my arm hair to a mans. Which, if I think about it now, is completely ridiculous. But fourteen year old Amanda felt very insecure and I've shaved my arm hair most weeks since then. Granted now I do it because I'm getting tattoo work done, but still.
Feeling the need to comment on anyone else's body is madness.
Similarly, after a conversation with my friends at the age we were becoming women, I removed my pubic hair in the fear that someone wouldn't like me if i had it. It was something I kept up with, removing most of my body hair daily for nearly ten years before I realised, I didn't actually want to.
Again I want to stress that I'm not telling you that you're wrong if you want to remove your body hair, but purely that you should do it for you and not because someone wants you to or you feel you must.
It's your body and you need to be happy with it.
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