Menopause and running

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Fragile Xmas Ornament Dec 2024 11:14pm, 9 Dec 2024 12,210 posts	0 Fragile Xmas Ornament At least if you wait long enough the hairs go grey and are less noticeable.
mulbs Dec 2024 7:26am, 10 Dec 2024 14,469 posts	0 mulbs Excellent first post on the previous page! Welcome Piglet. I've an unresolved relationship with body hair. I asked myself why I was getting rid of armpit hair and couldn't find an answer outside of because that's what women do, so I stopped and I'm fine with it although not fine with it enough to flash it around, if you see what I mean? I'm not a very hairy person anyway. If I was going for a mammogram or something I'd probably shave first for fear of an eeew reaction, although that's a crazy reaction as we don't eeeew that men have armpit hair.
Meglet Dec 2024 7:37am, 10 Dec 2024 25,383 posts	0 Meglet It’s IS bonkers that we feel we have to remove it isn’t it? I feel self conscious if I go to the gym when I haven’t taken care of it. I know some men do various amounts of manscaping but it’s certainly not the norm and definitely not expected.
Corrah Dec 2024 7:39am, 10 Dec 2024 8,741 posts	0 Corrah I still shave my armpits but don’t bother shaving my legs and take the tweezers to those stray facial hairs. I’m not that hairy in any case and if I do notice any darker leg hairs, they also get the tweezers treatment.
LindsD Dec 2024 7:42am, 10 Dec 2024 71,480 posts	0 LindsD Only do legs in summer. It bugs the shit out of me that I feel I have to do grooming. Especially the face stuff
Piglet Dec 2024 9:10am, 10 Dec 2024 2 posts	0 Piglet As we get older we become less visible any way, so, I now don't do arm pits unless Im going somewhere with daughter...as she gets all embarrassed, though I think she's beginning to appreciate my one person rage against societal expectations. The only bits I do are swimsuit leg lines...I mean you just can't tuck them away and expect them to stay there can you?! And to be honest, I can't see to be very accurate these days. There's only so many years left and there's to many more important things to be done. I can't imagine my final words will be, I wish I'd shaved my armpits more frequently.
Raptors claws are coming to town Dec 2024 9:19am, 10 Dec 2024 72,510 posts	0 Raptors claws are coming to town One of my daughters decided in her teens that she would stop removing hair on principle. She has not, as far as I know, experienced any adverse social consequences.
Fragile Xmas Ornament Dec 2024 9:19am, 10 Dec 2024 12,211 posts	0 Fragile Xmas Ornament I really only remove hair because I’m worried about being judged - I know a lot of that is in my head and it annoys me too. So my hair removal is going to depend on what bits are going to be on show at any particular time. I lost the genetic lottery when it comes to leg hair, with obvious dark hair the whole length of my legs. Decades of epilating has killed off some of the hair below my knees but there still loads of the stubborn buggers hanging on.
Raptors claws are coming to town Dec 2024 9:28am, 10 Dec 2024 72,512 posts	0 Raptors claws are coming to town I was really hairy as a child (thick dark leg and arm hair, a definite 'tache, and a strong set of eyebrows) and it got remarked upon from time to time. But I was brought up to be so not appearance-conscious, beyond knowing as a neutral fact that I wasn't pretty, that it didn't really matter. At some point in early adult life the worst of it went away.
Ness Dec 2024 9:33am, 10 Dec 2024 46,735 posts	0 Ness I recall, in my early teens being advised by mum not to shave my legs because the hair was very fine and blonde. Unfortunately when I was 14 I broke my hip and got put in traction for 6 weeks. The sticking plaster they used to attach it pulled the hair off the sides of my right leg. The hairs grew back much darker. I've shaved my legs since then.