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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSerious question: Do any men here ever shave the top side of their forearms?
And if you do, how quickly does it grow back?
Thanks.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)If you are being funny,
LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)I'm no Adonis, but my forearms are ripped. I read on some website somewhere that if you want your arms to look ultra ripped, and you have a lot of hair, you should shave your arms because the hair tends to hide muscularity.
When I read it, I thought "That's a bunch of shit".
But I was so bored while watching Pence that I was itching my forearm and thinking hmmmm....
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)I'm thinking of shaving just one arm and walking around like that for awhile to see if I like it...
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)When I was a little girl my mother told me that if I never shave above my knees I will never need to, so I didn't and I've never had hair on my thighs. I've only ever shaved knee-down and under arms. Oh, and now that I'm older, I wax above my lip every once in a while. If you do shave your forearms it will grow back like a gorilla and you'll end up having to do it constantly--like every 15 minutes, LOL. I bid you good luck.
LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)I'm Italian American (both mom and dad). Both sets of Grandparents came over on the boat.
I tended to my mom for several years before she died while she was in the nursing home. She used to get hair on her chin, so I would shave it for her once a month or so.
She was in her mid-nineties when she passed, and I could always get her to laugh because she would forget the jokes I told her. So I could tell her a joke one day, and then tell her the same joke a few weeks later and she would laugh as if is was the first time she heard it.
So whenever I was shaving her, I would ask her....Mom, do you know why a lot of Italian men grow beards?
No, why do they?...she would ask.
My reply...as a tribute to their mothers.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)I probably told this story here before...
She called me up from the nursing home one night. She said "Do you want a roast beef sandwich? They served it for lunch today and I didn't want it.
No thanks mom, it's kinda late, and I'm not hungry.
Oh c'mon over here and eat it. It's a nice sandwich.
No thanks, really...
I DON'T WANT TO THROW OUT FOOD. COME OVER HERE AND EAT THIS SANDWICH.
So I drive over there and she hands me a sandwich that is wrapped up in an unused Depends.
I ate it.
3catwoman3
(24,035 posts)That advice went out the window when mini-skirts came into fashion.
My mom was born in 1922. How about yours?
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)I never had anything to shave above the knees and I'm a brunette. Now that I'm older I wish it was my face that was spared. I'm getting tired of waxing. I'm starting to ponder electrolysis, except it's so damn expensive and extravagant right now.
3catwoman3
(24,035 posts)...the same era. One of her sisters did not follow that "never above the knees" dictum, and my mom used to say, "Aunt Mary shaves hers up to her tonsils."
Correction - one of my mother's sisters. I don't have any sisters.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)unblock
(52,311 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)And I never pull the wax off. I just let it accumulate.
Yes, I know I said wax off.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)The secret to balance is wax on wax off. Otherwise you chakras are unbalanced and you may fall prey to cobra kai.
LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)if you had 50 pounds of wax on only one side of your body.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)safeinOhio
(32,714 posts)Im old old and now find that I have shave my ears and nose once a week. Sucks.
LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)There was this barber (I think he was in the country of Turkey) who befriended a homeless man who was in dire need of a haircut.
He gave the man a beautiful haircut and beard trim, and he took care of his ear hair by quickly touching a lit bic lighter to the hair. Very quickly...just enough to singe the hair off.
I have the same problem with my ears and nose...I use one of those battery powered micro trimmers.
RockRaven
(14,990 posts)Just hypothetically, I mean.
LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)(not the side your palm is on)
SaveOurDemocracy
(4,400 posts)Maybe hair isn't your biggest problem...
LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)Niagara
(7,650 posts)As a lady, it's embarrassing having a few dark manly hairs on my forearm. I pour a little peroxide on a cotton ball and dab it on my forearm. It dries and I leave it on for about 20 minutes and then rinse it off. So far, I've never had a bad reaction from doing this.
Sally Hansen makes a creme that bleaches facial hair that you could use. Lemon juice or Sun In hair lightener would bleach your forearm hair too.
It's hell being a woman and having single strands of sasquatch hair at random places. I suppose I should be thankful that I don't have hairy palms.
LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)You mean some people don't have hair on their palms?
Some of us got lucky.
LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)Niagara
(7,650 posts)I suppose it could have been genetic.
LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)when I'm done combing my palms.
Niagara
(7,650 posts)My Benadryl is kicking in and this hairy and sleepy self is heading to dreamland.
Sweet dreams to you, LC!
LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)I enjoyed the banter.
Harker
(14,033 posts)Harry Palmer did not.
Wicked Blue
(5,850 posts)Both male and female swimmers will shave off hair on their arms and legs in order to reduce resistance in the water.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)TristanIsolde
(272 posts)If I don't I feel like a gorilla (damn those Greek genes).
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Competitive bodybuilders all shave their whole bodies.