I was still a child at the time ...
but I must have been in the early teenage years. Having become aware that hairy legs aren't the greatest look on girls, I asked my Mum for some help.

She handed me a disposable razor.

Now, given my accident-prone history, this maybe wasn't the most sensible thing to do. Nonetheless, I was going to give it a go! I duly soaped my leg, and applied the razor. Peered at it, saw a few hairs, and decided that I hadn't used enough pressure.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeoooooooooooooooooow

I gouged out several layers of skin for about 2 inches down my shinbone. Which the soap promptly ran into ......

Having heard a noise which made her think someone was attempting to garotte me with a skipping rope, Mum belatedly decided to see if I needed some help. Gee, thanks. Better late than never, eh?

To this day, I still have the scar left by that first, disposable razor (among other scars) and when my own daughter expressed concern at the hairyness (is that a word?) of her wee skinny legs, I bought her an electric razor. Then made sure she read, and followed, the instructions. It took some time before I trusted her to use a real blade, and I stood outside the bathroom waiting for the yell. She must take after her (more sensible than I) father, as she's never cut herself.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Tue 22 Apr 2008, 16:11, 23 replies)

my sister
did the same gouging trick.

My mother insisted we shouldn't shave our legs because it was a form of subjugation and also once you've started you have to keep at it every couple of days 'til you die or lose the will. Naturally, I don't listen to my mother so I bought into the whole smooth-leg thang. Works for me.

I was shocked, in later years, to find out that some women shave their thighs. That seems so... hardcore...
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 16:15, closed)

OUCH!
I've done this and it REALLY hurts!
( DUMBLONDE is a rubber lover girl, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 16:15, closed)

@CHCB
call me hardcore then. I've always shaved my thighs (and I'm not even all that hairy) but to me, real hardcore is a lassie at my work, who shaves her arms. Yes, her arms. Now that's just weird.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Tue 22 Apr 2008, 16:18, closed)

Arms? ARMS!!!
suddenly my 3 minutes with razor blade seems so utterly easy.

Summer soon - waxing time.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 16:20, closed)

A gilr I went to college with
shaved her arms.

She was weird.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 16:21, closed)

I've done this
I was about 8, having a bath and saw my sister's/mother's/whoever's blade, wanted to feel grown up and so I gave my leg a quick swipe...

Went to the top of the stairs, called my mum and went "MUM!!! MY LEG'S BLEEDING!" she went "Have you tried to shave them?" I denied it and so she went into the bathroom and found a nice big flab of skin in the blade.












I'm male by the way :(
(Belgaer is, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 16:22, closed)

CHCB
you must outlaw the shaving of arms with immediate effect. These people must be stopped!
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Tue 22 Apr 2008, 16:24, closed)

I'll pass a religious decree
and PJM can work on getting a version through Parliament.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 16:25, closed)

The blessings of St Enzyme
be upon you, Messiah, I can rest easy in my bed tonight.

Oh, wait, no I can't. It's Tuesday. I'll rest easy tied to my bed.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Tue 22 Apr 2008, 16:30, closed)

Hmmm...
I hate Tuesdays, I can't do S&M to myself, it doesn't float my boat.
( Cawl, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 16:44, closed)

@Kaol
Hhhmm, well I'm meeting my F.B tonight and she's up for most things.

*Schemes*
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 16:48, closed)

^^ *Is jealous*
Well, give her one from me.

*wishes that didn't sound quite so odd*
( Cawl, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 16:51, closed)

@Kaol
I've got a spare half hour around 5pm if you can make it.

*Furls whip*

*warms almond oil*
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Tue 22 Apr 2008, 16:53, closed)

^^
I'll aks her to yell "Kaol!!" at least once.
Believe me, she won't find it odd.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 16:53, closed)

*gets a warm, happy feeling*
You're both wonderful B3ta-folk.

I'll be taking up Herr Keltoid on his offer, but I'll have to turn down the more tempting one from Madame Witch.

*curses having to go from work at 5*
( Cawl, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 16:57, closed)

@Kaol
But she's married, it could be your chance for a bit of almond scented swinger S&M action.

*is pleased with how open the B3ta community is*
(Bazongaloid, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 17:03, closed)

Ha! you think shaving arms is hardcore....
My sister shaved off her eyebrows once.


Stupid cow!
( girlinthehole, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 17:04, closed)

hey! i shave my arms!
i enjoy the feeling of smooth.
also, has anyone else been shaving their legs and had the soaped-up blade go sideways across your shinbone? it hurts like fuck and bleeds like you've amputated the fucking leg.
i'm also on my
*thinks*
third pair of eyebrows.
i think.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 22 Apr 2008, 17:14, closed)

AAAAAIIIEEEEEEE!!!
I couldn't even read all of that because my skin was crawling so badly. Razor wounds like that completely and utterly skeeve me out!

Jesus, now I need to go do some work to get it out of my head...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 22 Apr 2008, 17:20, closed)

@Father al
sorry, but that half hour was to squeeze him in (ooo-er) before MrWitch moseys on back to the ranch.

TRL: I am sorry!
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Tue 22 Apr 2008, 17:24, closed)

I started shaving my legs when I was 12
My mother was a little...strict, so she didn't actually find out I was shaving my legs, until I broke my ankle and had to wear a cast on one leg for 6 weeks. When it got taken off, one leg was as smooth and hair free as a 5 year olds, and the other looked like my hairy uncle's leg, not to mention being covered in the brown dead skin crust that occurs when a limb has been wrapped up in a cast for so long. It was gross as..

She looked at the contrast and gave me hawk eye, and immediately knew.. thank god the nurse was there to prevent a hiding.
(Sammyj, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 1:07, closed)

Ow
I took a slice off just above my ankle the first time I did my legs!

I did get asked a few weeks back, by the odd german colleague, if British women really shaved their armpits. She thinks this is really funny...but then she apparently hasn't heard of deodorant either!

I'm so looking forward to summer sat next to her.
(cmouse is pondering about life in other jobs, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 8:35, closed)

i did it on the back, just on my achillies tendon,
but then again im a boy so i never do things properly
(pogo_it, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 11:53, closed)