Re: very up setting

I think the very fact you know lots of women who shave will tell you a lot.

By and large, the women who shave are those who have adjusted to the fact that there isn't a simple answer to the problem of facial hair.

Unless you change your hormone balance so that it doesn't stimulate the growth of new hair, your facial hair is going to grow, no matter how you remove it -- whether by pulling it out by the roots (pluckng, threading, waxing, epilating etc., or by burning it off with chemical depilatories, or by laser where the colors of your hair and skin are suitable or by electrolysis. And at some point in life you've got to come off the drugs to keep your hormones in the normal female range anyway.

Yes, I shave. I'm one of those women who are quite happy with my hormone balance which is heavily testosterone-dominated. The only negative thing about it is the facial and body hair. However I can easily keep the facial hair under control by shaving. I've been shaving since I was fourteen and I'm now over fifty. I was shaving my moustache every day by the time I was fifteen -- I'd far heavier moustache growth than most of the boys my age. Nowadays I've got coarse male-type growth on my chin as well.

It takes only a few seconds a day using a men's-type Norelco electric razor and is really no hassle. Far less time than most women spend on makeup.

The only difficult thing about shaving is doing it for the first few times. It feels a very "masculine" thing to do at first, but that soon passes. Tweet