At what age did your daughter start shaving her legs?

[minkydog]

I don't agree with that. My three year old has noticeable leg hair. I'm not about to talk to her about shaving. My six year old has it too. She is also too young. How about we stop making girls grow up faster than they have to. It is perfectly fine to wait to shave until middle school when they have to start showering after gym class anyway.

Sent from my iPhone using DISBoards

Oh, be serious~! Have you seen ANYONE on this thread recommending waxing and shaving their 3 & 6 year olds? If you came here and announced proudly that you just shaved your preschoolers legs I'd think you had a screw loose. I see nothing wrong with girls shaving their legs at 8-9-10 *IF* the hair is noticeable and bothersome TO THE GIRL. If it's not bothering her, then who cares?

I agree with a PP who said it's just grooming. My daughter started wearing eyeliner at age 12--it looked beautiful with her olive skin and it helped her feel better about herself. Isn't that the reason we women color our hair, thread our eyebrows, shave our legs, and get Brazilian waxes?

 

[lovesmurfs]

My mother never talked about it with me. I had to use her razor and never knew what to do -- snuck around doing it.

So when I noticed DD getting hair, I told her way before she would need to shave to let me know when she wanted to start. She started when she was 11.

 

[WDW in Pearls]

For those of you who have tackled hair on your DD's upper lip, what method of hair removal do you use? I am not going to use a razor but would the hair removal creme work? A few of the girls have made fun of DD9 about her supposed moustache. Sadly she takes after me with dark hair.

My sister gets hers threaded. She says it still hurts but a LOT less than waxing. Shaving is a bad idea for so many reasons.

 

[WDW in Pearls]

I don't agree with that. My three year old has noticeable leg hair. I'm not about to talk to her about shaving. My six year old has it too. She is also too young. How about we stop making girls grow up faster than they have to. It is perfectly fine to wait to shave until middle school when they have to start showering after gym class anyway.

Sent from my iPhone using DISBoards

I disagree. Being a teen/tween is hard enough. Why make them go through hell over something that's easily fixed?

 

[HelenePA]

My 12 yr old doesn't shave and has NO underarm hair at all.. is that normal? she has gone thru puberty already. My 10 (11 in august) has no interest in shaving.. heck most of the time she wants nothing to do with being a girl she's a little tomboyish and I'm okay with that!

 

[chobie]

I say let them shave when they want to. FWIW , my son started getting teased about his unibrow starting in 3rd grade. He didn't care about it too much until middle school, then we got it waxed. We tried threading but he said it hurt and it seemed to grow back faster.

 

[jennyjinx3]

My 12 yr old doesn't shave and has NO underarm hair at all.. is that normal? she has gone thru puberty already. My 10 (11 in august) has no interest in shaving.. heck most of the time she wants nothing to do with being a girl she's a little tomboyish and I'm okay with that!

I don't think it is abnormal. My Mom is 73 and has never had any noticable underarm hair her whole life! She is just not a very hairy person.

 

[Janepod]

I don't think it is abnormal. My Mom is 73 and has never had any noticable underarm hair her whole life! She is just not a very hairy person.

Same, though unfortunately I am very pale and the sparse hair I do have is very dark. Beats the alternative though!

 

[NotUrsula]

Those of you who think it's great not to have enough hair on your extremities to have to shave might want to think again -- most of the time, if your legs don't have much hair at all (not hair that is so fine it doesn't show, but hair that is not THERE), then neither will your head, and THAT isn't so great!

I have to wear a head covering now when I swim outdoors -- it isn't there for modesty or to protect my hair, it is there to protect my scalp, which will otherwise burn to a crisp in nothing flat, b/c my hair is now so thin that the sun gets to it everywhere. I still shave my legs on occasion, but only a couple of times per season, and I never have to go above the knee any longer.

However, to lighten the thread, I'll tell you a funny story. My DS is fair like me, and went through puberty early. His legs have a fair amount of blond hair, but there isn't a hair to be seen on his chest. DH was troubled by this, and asked me if I thought that there was a problem that DS didn't have any chest hair yet? I nearly fell over laughing, but was able to gasp out the info that DS had started shaving his chest when he started shaving his face -- three years ago! DH was appalled -- had had no idea that for most young men today, chest hair is now something that one shaves off, especially if you swim on a team. (DS doesn't shave his legs for swim; around here most school team swimmers are not on a level that makes it worth the bother for the guys.)

 

[mickeyboat]

DD12 and DD13 started shaving their underarms and legs this Spring. I always told them that they could start whenever they wanted to, and I bought them razors and shaving cream to have for whenever they were ready. I gave them a few tips on how to hold the razor and how not to cut themselves, and they have done just fine.

 

[scbelleatheart]

Those of you who think it's great not to have enough hair on your extremities to have to shave might want to think again -- most of the time, if your legs don't have much hair at all (not hair that is so fine it doesn't show, but hair that is not THERE), then neither will your head, and THAT isn't so great!

I have to wear a head covering now when I swim outdoors -- it isn't there for modesty or to protect my hair, it is there to protect my scalp, which will otherwise burn to a crisp in nothing flat, b/c my hair is now so thin that the sun gets to it everywhere. I still shave my legs on occasion, but only a couple of times per season, and I never have to go above the knee any longer.

However, to lighten the thread, I'll tell you a funny story. My DS is fair like me, and went through puberty early. His legs have a fair amount of blond hair, but there isn't a hair to be seen on his chest. DH was troubled by this, and asked me if I thought that there was a problem that DS didn't have any chest hair yet? I nearly fell over laughing, but was able to gasp out the info that DS had started shaving his chest when he started shaving his face -- three years ago! DH was appalled -- had had no idea that for most young men today, chest hair is now something that one shaves off, especially if you swim on a team. (DS doesn't shave his legs for swim; around here most school team swimmers are not on a level that makes it worth the bother for the guys.)

Not so. My mother has never shaved her legs and has all her hair at 82. The women in our family with dark hair have no hair on their arms or legs. Those with red hair do have to shave their legs.

 

[NotUrsula]

Not so. My mother has never shaved her legs and has all her hair at 82. The women in our family with dark hair have no hair on their arms or legs. Those with red hair do have to shave their legs.

If you noticed, I *did* say *most of the time*, and I stand by that: MOST of the time a woman who does not grow any hair on her legs or underarms will also have very thin hair on her head.

Your family benefits from some kind of genetic exception, apparently. Good on you all; I'm happy for you, but that situation isn't the norm.

 

[anniemck]

My kids started with Nair, they were competition baton twirlers and had to wear tights for competitions and the hair would poke through, 10 was about when they started.

 

[aprilgail2]

I don't agree with that. My three year old has noticeable leg hair. I'm not about to talk to her about shaving. My six year old has it too. She is also too young. How about we stop making girls grow up faster than they have to. It is perfectly fine to wait to shave until middle school when they have to start showering after gym class anyway.

Showering at school? Do places still do that? I don't remember the last time I heard of anyone showering at school here.

Just curious what you mean by this?

It's the same hair regardless of how often (if ever) you shave it.
I know several adult women who chose to stop shaving their legs.

Some people are under the illusion that hair grows back in "thicker and darker" but in reality that is not true.

 

[Colleen27]

This is my DD also. She starting shaving her invisible hair around 11 too. She still shaves her invisible hair when she feels like she needs to. I am a little jealous of her as she did not inherit that from me. LOL

Same here! She certainly did not inherit the super-blonde from me... I started shaving my legs behind my mom's back at 9 because I have very fair skin and almost-black leg hair. She wanted me to wait until middle school; I wanted to wear shorts without feeling like Bigfoot.

Ironically, I color the hair on my head in part because that does sun-bleach to such a degree that it looks unnatural on me... while my eyebrows, like my leg hair, remain dark no matter how much time I spend outdoors.