“I’m still not over how much pain women go through for beauty”
When I talked to millennials about what their moms had to say about body hair removal methods, a few things quickly became clear. First, a shocking number of us shaved our eyebrows at some point. And it seems like most, if not all, of our mothers told us shaving would make our body hair thicker when it grew back… which is definitely not true, btw. Here, nine millennial women reflect on the lessons their moms taught them about hair removal—and how those lessons shape their current approach.
The one thing my mom condoned was removing underarm hair. She uses Nair lotion, which I started using—with her supervision—in high school. I had seen my mom rubbing it onto her armpits and asked about it, and she said, ‘Oh yeah, use this, it will also whiten your armpits.’ At the time my underarms were a little darker than my normal skin tone and I was self-conscious about that, so when my mom shared that information, I was in.
“My mom taught me that ladies shave their body hair, but my aunt always said that body hair was natural. I remember telling my aunt she had to shave her armpits and she would respond by raising her arms over her head to embarrass me. My mom also thinks that ladies should shave some, but not all, of their bikini hair, which I don’t agree with.
The first thing my mom helped me wax was my armpits, and all I remember was standing in the washroom screaming, and then we’d both giggle after the wax strip was removed. It was extremely painful. But I didn’t wax for long. I started doing laser treatments on my armpits, legs and bikini line without my mother knowing when I was 15, and now I’m practically hairless” — Shaden Ayoub, 24
I lived with my mom and my sister, who’s nine years older than I am. Growing up, we talked to each other a lot about our difference—our black hair was so bold and different from my white classmates, whose blonde leg hair looked invisible until you got up close. It never really struck any of us to do anything other than remove our body hair. The idea of leaving our hair alone truly didn’t occur to us, so mostly we talked about methods: bleach vs. wax, shave vs. epilator.
My first thought was that everyone was going to notice immediately that I had my eyebrows waxed, but in reality, I don’t think anyone said anything. It definitely hurt and I was embarrassed to walk out with red skin where I had been waxed, but the woman who did it was extremely kind and continued to wax my eyebrows for the next couple of years.
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