The Beauty of Being Hairless “Down There” | Bikini Hair Removal
Hi Y’all,
It seems I’ve ignited a little controversy with my post on completely bare bikini lines. People have emailed me saying it’s weird, awesome, gross, sexy, etc. . . .
This reminded me of an article I read about this topic in the New York Times a couple years ago. It was called “The Revised Birthday Suit”. The article was written at the beginning of the bald bikini trend, so the tone was a little ‘oh-my-god-I-can’t-believe-people-actually-do-this!’
But that was then and this is now, people have come around to the hair-free bikini. Today, the Brazilian bikini, that leaves a tiny triangle or strip of hair seems old-fashioned. Why hold on to those few straggly dark curly hairs? Why? Why? Why?
The source in the article is a 24 year-old grad student who had spent $2,500 on five laser hair removal sessions only on her bikini. Wow! It’s amazing how much the price has come down since then, (at least at Assara! Some place continue to overcharge clients like it’s 1995!)
The NYT article posits that many attributed the bald bikini trend to the fact that pornography has become so mainstream and all porn-starts seems to have bare bikinis. Personally, I don’t think it has to do with the ‘mainstreamificaiton’ of porn. I mean porn stars also wear 6-inch Lucite platform heels and we don’t see people latching on to that trend, do we?
But, I think one can more reasonably attribute this to fashion trends promoting skimpy undies and bathing suits, and low-rise jeans (imagine having hair sticking out over your waist line? OMG…).
Below, Adrien Grenier, of Entourage notoriety, has seen better days at the beach:
The bare bikini is the most practical, the most aesthetically pleasing and the most pleasurable. As the NY Times article says “There’s an erotic, sexual component to hairlessness because your skin is more sensitive when it’s more exposed.” Nuff said.
Now that the price of laser hair removal has come down from those astronomical prices, there’s no reason not to do it! I don’t need to tell you that laser hair removal is a growing trend. In 1994 about 1.4 million Americans had it done, a 53 percent increase over 2003 (source: American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery).
Obviously, I don’t tell everyone I have a bare bikini, so when I went to the gynecologist last week I was a little nervous. When I spread my legs for the exam, I braced myself for a gasp or at least a little throat clearing. Would this old lady doctor think I was promiscuous? Weird? Part of some sex cult that enforces hair free vaginas… Of course, she told me that many of her patients have no hair down-there and that it actually made her job easier. Ahhh relief! So the only woman other than my boyfriend who sees my bare bikini give it the seal of approval!
That’s all for now,
C’est le weekend!
Au revoir!|
xxx Laser Gal
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