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Girl shaving arms?

Should a girl shave her arms.mine are getting hairy but I do not know if we are suppose to shave them..once I shaved them and a friend asked because she was saying they were smooth so I said no just in case you should not be doing it

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Answer #1

The idea that hair will grow back thicker and darker if you shave it is absolutely, 100% false. The strange thing about this myth is that 90% of people believe it, and it shows no signs of going away.

The hair that you see is composed of dead cells. The section that grows is under the skin, well out of reach of your razor. Shaving or cutting the dead section is not going to have any effect on the section that is alive. Your fingernails are the same and are composed of the same material, and the section we trim is long dead. Does trimming your fingernails cause the nail to grow back faster, thicker, a different color? No, of course not.

The myth gets perpetuated by the fact that when men start shaving their faces and girls their legs as teenagers, very soon after, the fine hair they started with begins to grow in thicker and darker. This has to do with hormonal changes in your body, NOT with the fact that you started shaving. If you had not started shaving, rest assured the hair would have started growing in thicker anyway. It is a correlation, not a causation.

Answer #2

the only thing about shaving your arms is you have to keep up on it or else you will have prickley arms and thats not attractive

Answer #3

wax them, I use “no-no” on mine..

if you shave it will grow back thicker and darker and yes it is normal, some people even shave their asss crack - come on now, if thats acceptable then arms are too

Answer #4

It’s not bad to shave them, but once you shave, the hairs grow back thicker so make sure you want to before you do it.

Answer #5

I dont shave my arms. Any guy that cares whether a girls arms are shaved is probably gay anyway.

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