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Old June 10th 06, 03:14 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 2006-06-10, badwilson penned:
This exact scenario has happened between me and Dennis on several
occasions. Usually in 3 year intervals. I think I've finally
gotten to the point where I'm not willing to try again. If only my
hair wasn't strawberry blond, I would have just had it permanently
lasered off in Thailand. But alas, I am destined to shave
forever...


Why does the color of the hair affect getting it lasered?

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

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Old June 10th 06, 03:16 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 2006-06-09, jmcquown penned:
CatNipped wrote:
Does anyone do it themselves???

I usually just shave, but my daughter said waxing is *much* better


TMI! Wax is a pain (literally) Try Nair or something similar but
keep the stuff away from the cats!


As a teenager, I tried Nair once on my legs and remember

1) My legs turned red and hurt
2) No sign of it actually making any attempt at removing hair from my
legs

Given #1, I wouldn't dare to put it near anything as sensitive as ...
eek! (Granted, it was about 15 years ago and the formula may have
improved since.)

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Old June 10th 06, 03:17 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 2006-06-09, CatNipped penned:

No, I won't dye my hair either - it's too expense to keep up with if
you go to a beauty salon, and too easily messed up if you try to do
it yourself (at least for me it is).


I've lived mostly dye-free, but for a time I had chin-length hair in
which the front inch or so was bleached an almost-white blonde, and
the rest was dyed a deep and distinctive (not entirely natural) red.
Loved it. Also had a time with much shorter hair in which I had red
with blonde highlights.

So expensive, though, and absolutely not something I'd want to try at
home.

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Old June 10th 06, 03:27 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
CatNipped wrote:

"Victor Martinez" wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:

Does anyone do it themselves???

Not only no, but heck no!



OK, but you get to wear boxer trunks at the beach if you want to - I don't
think they make those for women (but they should - not every women looks
like Cindy Crawforn in a swimsuit!!!). ;


But not every swimsuit requires a "bikini" wax, either!
Certainly every one I've ever had covered that area more
than adequately. (Even my "midriff" hasn't seen the sun
for a lot of years.)


Absolutely. I have *never* bought a swimsuit that required special
"grooming". Ugh.

Sherry

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Old June 10th 06, 04:01 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 2006-06-10, Marina penned:

Heh. Hygiene, indeed. This is third-hand information, but a
translator colleague told me about this medical study she had
translated, where they'd discovered that women who shaved their
armpits were more susceptible to breast cancer. This was because the
aluminium that is present in most deodorants travels unobstructed
into the bloodstream through the open follicles, while if you have
armpit hair, they protect you against this.


One reason I stopped shaving is that my armpit skin is extremely
sensitive. Shaving + deoderant = owwwwwww.

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Old June 10th 06, 04:44 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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Christina Websell wrote:

Don't be so daft. People with firm skin and peach fuzz don't need a beauty
therapist.
I'm sure that you would not need to be embarrassed, they've seen all sorts
after all.
Myself, I've decided to age gracefully. I have some grey hairs now. I will
not dye my hair for vanity. I like to think of my grey hairs being a sign
of wisdom through experience.


LOL, I got my first grey hairs when I was 13, what does that make me?
Wise beyond my years? P By 25, I had completely silver hair, and by 35
it had turned completely white. I don't dye it, and never did, except
when I was around 17-22 or so, when I had all the colours of the rainbow
in my hair, but that wasn't to hide the greys. That was to be 'cool.'

--
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Old June 10th 06, 04:56 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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"Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in message
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On 2006-06-10, Marina penned:

Heh. Hygiene, indeed. This is third-hand information, but a
translator colleague told me about this medical study she had
translated, where they'd discovered that women who shaved their
armpits were more susceptible to breast cancer. This was because the
aluminium that is present in most deodorants travels unobstructed
into the bloodstream through the open follicles, while if you have
armpit hair, they protect you against this.


One reason I stopped shaving is that my armpit skin is extremely
sensitive. Shaving + deoderant = owwwwwww.



I agree. And given a choice between shaving and deodorant, I'm gotta go
with the deodorant. Of course it was easier to make that decision when I
got to the point where I really shouldn't be out in public in anything
totally sleeveless.

(But when the heat tops 100F around here all bets are off for just about
everyone. If you absolutely have to go out)

Jo



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Old June 10th 06, 05:12 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 2006-06-09, penned:
Monique Y. Mudama wrote:

That's because that's what our culture tells everyone, of course.
Men wear tank tops all the time and don't worry about their body
hair sticking out (plus clumps of deoderant! ewwww!).


What kills me is when people talk about shaving legs, etc, as an
important part of a woman's hygiene. If that's true, then men must
not be very hygienic! (Which may be true of some guys, but isn't
true of men as a group.)


It's all cultural. I guess I should be happy that our culture merely
requires the cutting of body hair, rather than the removal of rather
important bundles of nerves that some cultures require.

Ha - lots of guys like women with leg and armpit hair. In many parts
of the world, that is the norm, and I don't just mean in countries
where most people are too poor to worry about such things.


I don't think anyone I've dated has explicitly *liked* it, but it
certainly didn't stop them from finding me attractive. I just don't
see any point in doing something like that exclusively for someone
else's benefit.

I'll admit, though, I'm "lucky" in that I can "pass" -- especially my
legs. I wear shorts or skirts all the time, and most people assume I
shave until told otherwise. I think it's a combination of naturally
sparse and light hair, softness because they haven't had to grow back
in 15ish years, and the "sand paper" effect of pants that rub against
my legs.

I think a lot of it comes down to expectations -- if someone expects
that every woman shaves her armpits, and then they see something dark,
their brain interprets it as a shadow, or stubble. (By the way,
stubble -- ewww! To me that is so much yuckier than just having the
hair there in the first place. When I shaved as a teenager, I did it
*every day* because stubble bothered me so much.)

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monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

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Old June 10th 06, 05:16 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 2006-06-09, CatNipped penned:
"Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in message
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Well, obviously you should do whatever makes you feel comfortable.
My mom tried to shame me into shaving, and even told me, "If you
weren't dating [ex-bf], you would have to shave to get a
boyfriend." Hrmph! Hasn't been true thus far in my life, and
obviously that kind of BS is what I'm still reacting to
(sub)consciously today.


Yeah, I can see where you'd rebel - that was an awful thing to say
(but then reading about your mom, that one doesn't surprise me).


*sigh* sadly true. Therapy is helping immensely. I'm really starting
to understand myself, for example why my anger (even rage) flares up
so easily. No wonder, when I had to deal with these kinds of
comments! It's hard to be mad at your mom, so I found ways to
redirect.

I love my mother. Please don't take anything I say as meaning
anything other than that. I also know that she loves me and never
meant to hurt me. I can only assume she has her own emotional
baggage. As they say, children don't come with a manual.

I think some of my feelings about this issue come from having grown
up in a different era. I certainly don't think I should tell
someone else what's right for them, I'm a *FIRM* believer in
"different strokes for different folks".


I think the vast, vast majority of people in my generation expect
women to shave all sorts of places, and consider it gross if they
don't. *shrug* I agree with "different strokes," for sure.

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Old June 10th 06, 06:35 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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"CatNipped" wrote in message
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"Victor Martinez" wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:
Does anyone do it themselves???


Not only no, but heck no!


OK, but you get to wear boxer trunks at the beach if you want to - I don't
think they make those for women (but they should - not every women looks
like Cindy Crawforn in a swimsuit!!!). ;


Bah. If I *have* to submerge my body in water in a public place, I go in in
bike shorts and a crop top. Then I only have to worry about my pits and
legs. Mind you, if I am actually willing to submerge my body in water, it
probably means that the area is so secluded, there's no-one around to worry
about whether my pits or legs are hairy, so the crop top and bike shorts
become optional anyway.

~~

I WANNA BE A BEAR

In my next life I wanna be a female bear.

If you're a bear, you get to hibernate. You do nothing but sleep for six
months. I could deal with that.

Before you hibernate you're supposed to eat yourself stupid. I could do
that.
If you're a bear, you birth your children (who are the size of walnuts)
while you're sleeping and wake to partially grown, cut cuddly cubs. I could
definitely deal with that.

If you're a mama bear, everyone knows you mean business. You swat anyone
who bothers your cubs. If your cubs get out of line, you swat them, too. I
could deal with that.

If you're a bear, your mate "expects" you to wake up growling. He "expects"
that you will have hairy legs and excess body fat. Yup! I wanna be a bear."

~~

I'm already half way there :-)

Yowie


 




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