Hairy question

If you're up to try anything once I always suggests waxing. You're results will last longer, your hair will grow back thinner, and thus make subsequent removal easier and slightly less painful. I'd go the professional route first and see if your hair is the right type for hard wax or sugaring, both are less painful than a hot wax and strip as seen in 40 Year-Old Virgin. Depending on the gal waxing you ask if you should trim first.

Trimming is the more comfortable route versus shaving. Less chance for ingrowns and less prickly growth that could be uncomfortable if you decide to get snuggly with someone.

Bandaids help with chaffing if it's on your nips. Other areas, perhaps deodorant or bodyglide.

Yeah, the old lazy hair syndrome- it does not want to make the effort to climb above your ears anymore, so settles in your back, chest etc!

More seriously, I have had 8 pilonidal cyst operations so have to keep my coccyx area hair free now. Veet works really easily. You could probably just veet a small area around the nipples and put on a plaster or any one of the many anti chafe creams available.

Helpfully, I have included the Amazon link for Veet for Men. Please read the customer reviews but make sure you are not in public when reading, they are some of the best reviews ever!

https://www.amazon.com/Veet-Hair-Re...iewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

It isn't as bad as the reviews if you stick the "normal" parts!

The wax wasn't too bad right? And seriously, if you keep up with it your hair will get thinner and next time won't be as bad.

I've heard laser removal works well. You could always just man up and own it too.

skedaddle said:

Thanks Makamaespm, got waxed today because most folks said don't! I wasn't aware of how much all the grey hair was playing with my psyche. Feel much better in myself for doing it, now all I need is some go fast stripes painted on my sleek new chest.

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What? No before-and-after pictures? Don't we at least deserve that much? Maybe after the stripes are added...

Can't believe I missed out on this thread earlier. Well sounds like you've already decided on a course of action so hope the results are good. I've found just letting things be is best for me, but I don't have the grey messing with my psyche (yet).

Visually, especially when running with sleeveless shirt, I've got quite a bit of armpit hair. I didn't like how this showed in race photos! I tried trimming just the pits before but it increased my chaffing considerably, and I hate having to lather up with products to mitigate chaffing (and even then still get a little). Seems like the hairs serve as lots of little needle bearings between the two opposing skins. So I stopped the shaving, but sometimes just trim back the outermost offenders that come out the front of the pits. Then in photos if the pits are still a bit to prominent I simply do some 'photoshop' magic and edit it back down to pg-13. Yep I actually edit out armpit hair in my own photos lol (TJ does have a habit of putting them all on the front page news for me! so got to try and represent well)

Barefoot Ken Bob said:

I wish more people (especially men) would be less afraid to talk about such things. Ignoring or making people (especially men) feel such issues should be taboo, only makes our society more ugly (and now I'm not talking about skin and hair - there are far less superficial ugliness out there).

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Yes this forum in particular has shown this to me. When I read the one ultra race report where one guys friend is wiping his poopy and bleeding butt in his tent mid race, well, I guess there isn't anything that will bother me much after reading that one lol.

Barefoot Ken Bob said:

Or just go shirtless, most people will probably just think you're wearing an old sweater.

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That was about as close as I had come to spitting out my coffee in a long time, thanks!