How do you get rid of unwanted hair?

most of my unwanted hair is facial, so shaving works good....other areas i usually just put a #3 gaurd and trim trim trim

I tried an Epilady on my legs once. OUCH! The little vibrating wires yank the hairs out. I can't imagine anyone using one after the first five seconds!

I shave portions of my face, use a trimmer on others, and occasionally pluck hair from my nostrils or trim it with scissors if it gets too long. I get my head hair cut to the desired length.

My ex-husband shaved the hair off his fingers and toes.

Pluck, pluck, pluck.

I pay someone to put hot wax on me and pull the hairs out by the roots. For a femme, I'm pretty butch

I dread someday having tufts of hair sticking out my ears

Donate it to the hair club for men?

Shave, pluck, wax.... repeat.

romkey- why do you dread that? It looks so cute on Rebo and Zooty!

Imagine, tiny ceramic disks rotating at high velocity, grabbing and yanking each and every single hair and pulling it out by the root! Satinelle (much like an Epilady) - not for the faint of heart.

Jody - You're one tough cookie! OUCH!

I shave my legs. I tried having a bikini wax (I saw stars). I just decided to let my armpit hair grow. I was so excited because I saw 3 other woman at the beach this weekend with little fuzzies under their arm too!!

I tried waxing once - OWWWWW!!!!

@ 3x the speed of sound

The new Mach III razor totally rocks. Yay jen!

I tell it to go away

shaving, waxing, plucking--it depends...

Phi: what, did she invent it? Where do I send the flowers? I just converted to Mach3 from an electric.

sorta?

Are they still doing that inhumane animal testing?

mandy: I used to work for a pharmaceutical company. It kind of put animal testing in perspective for me.

I don't consider myself a bleeding heart anything. But animal testing is inhumane.

exactly! BUT there is one difference, in a slaughterhouse the animals are not subjected to long periods of pain and discomfort, alive yet injured and forced to continue suffering until an experiment is over. They are killed outright.

mandy... they do experience relatively long periods of pain and discomfort... Their necks are slashed and they stand there until they bleed to death. I think that is prolonged enough to be considered torture.

Where did I get the idea they were killed outright? *shrugs*
Humans suck.
Aren't there any good alternatives to animal testing in the cosmetic industry?
I own a pet rabbit and the thought that rabbits are used this way pains me. She is so sweet and joyful and funny and she has such personality.
Why does the slaughter of animals for food products have to be painful?
Can't they end it quickly?
How can people who love their pets(whatever they may be)support animal testing in any form?
Are some animals more important or valuable and others disposable?
This is such a muddled issue for me.
I've been a vegetarian for extended periods of time and I am back eating meat again. Does that mean I can't feel concern for the suffering of lab animals?
What about PETA members who wear leather shoes?
Are we just all a bunch of hypocrites?
Talk to me folks!

Jen, I was going to mention that also... Last year in the middle of winter, right before Thanksgiving I saw something that broke my heart. It was a flatbed truck with cages stacked skyhigh filled with live turkeys. It was freezing cold outside and these animals were on the highway, in the open, being subjected to at least 65 mph gusts of wind. It was then that I decided never to eat turkey again. I know my not eating it won't help... but it seems that there is nothing I can do.

jen....Thanx to you too...for explaining where you are coming from. I waffle so much on the subject myself that I would be the last to flame anyone. I suppose that's why I posed my comment as a question sort of...to get everyone's feelings about this confusing and emotional issue. PETA has done a very good job of making Gillette seem absolutely heartless and maniacal. I honestly have not heard another side of the animal testing for cosmetics issue until now. Just PETA's very convincing and heart wrenching stories accompanied by pictures of animals subjected to painful experiments that burned their skin and eyes. I hate that animals should be subjected to experiments that cause them to suffer.

But I still ate meat today.

Eating meat seems natural, the way of nature.

Rubbing cosmetics into bunny's eyes is anything but.

anon....I think eating meat would seem more natural if I actually had to go out and hunt, kill,skin,butcher and cook it. Factory farming seems unnatural. I struggle with this so much. I should just bite the bullet and follow my convictions and stay a vegetarian. That seems the most natural way of eating to me, since I am not skilled in catching my own food and probably couldn't bring myself to kill for sustenance. I really "FELT" better when I was eating a plant based diet. I was thinner.I had more energy.My blood sugar was on target. Since I started eating meat again. I just feel icky...I have gained a few pounds and I am sluggish.
I also had a clearer conscience when I was eating tofu and soy beans. I really feel guilty that animals must die so I can have a taco.

On the subject of animal testing etc: someone actually wrote a letter to The Body Shop complaining along the lines of "I used your otherwise fine shampoo to wash my rabbit and now it has swollen eyes. Had you tested your shampoo like everyone else, this wouldn't happen." Just so you know...

Apropos of animal testing, I was reading recently that new tests for irritancy are being developed that will drastically reduce (though not eliminate) the need for animal testing, and help ensure that the only substances that will have to be tested on animals will be ones that have much lower chances of being really nasty (those having been weeded out in the in vitro tests beforehand). I think we're making at least a little progress.

I shave. I tried waxing. It's the most painful thing I've ever been through, and trust me, I've been through a lot of painful things. Including my eye brow pierced and tattoos. Waxing was worse than both, put *together*!

Duct tape would probably work well if sticky enough, anyone know where to find some that sticky? Years ago I made an electrolysis machine out of an automotive spark coil (Pretend you never heard that. wow, ow, ow). The home electrolysis kit ($30, cute) scarred and would have taken years. You can make your own wax with kitchen stuff. Second best was the Braun weed-puller, yeah the first 5 seconds(mins)are h*ll but you quickly desensitize to a point that manual facial plucking is a breeze. Nothing was less tolerable than chemical; I applied it heavily, waited twice as long, was nearly in tears, but no hair budged. !!! Nothing beats the time/cost ratio of laser. If you hypnotize yourself, each square inch does feel like a rubberband snapping, otherwise it's more like someone putting matches out on you. If you could quantify long term pain, it's still the lessor evil. Does this constitute animal testing?

I daydream of having alopecia universalis...

shaving only...I did get my eyebrows waxed once...it didn't hurt that bad, i just don't want to pay money for something I can do myself easily...maybe when I'm a millionaire...