The white mug on top: my upper lip if left to its own devices
The other day on a Facebook group I belong to, someone asked for recommendations for beauty salon waxing for her school-age daughter. She said that her daughter was being teased and bullied at school for having body hair.
From the sound of it, I gathered that her daughter was still a child, somewhere between 10-12.
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GRRR! ? It just made me so angry. Why ought to a young girl’s state of hairiness be a issue among her peers? I guess I’ve forgotten how petty and imply kids can be.
It’s strange for me to think that elementary school girls would even be concerned about this, but my childhood was a long time ago. maybe I’m remembering the world the way I want it to be much more than the way it was, but I seem to recall being much more interested in viewing cartoons and reading the sweet Valley High books at that age than I was with body hair.
I don’t remember being concerned about body hair removal whatsoever until I was at least 13… That’s when I started shaving my legs, which only happened then because someone in my class pointed it out one day when I was wearing shorts (“Did you forget to shave?”).
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I was mortified.
I didn’t start waxing my upper lip hair or plucking my brows, though, until college… maybe I should’ve started earlier, LOL. Seriously, though, if you look closely at the pics of the girls in my high school class yearbook, half of us had a fine layer of fuzz on our upper lip, and many (if not all) of the girls I knew had natural brows.
It’s a different world now…
Back to that Facebook group — in reaction to that mom’s plea, numerous people gave recommendations, and quite a few mothers said that once they started taking their kids to beauty salons for waxing, threading, plucking and getting fuzz-free, their kids were much happier and much more confident, and I can certainly see that. speaking for myself, I feel a lot better after my body hair situation gets sorted out.
The world is a different place than it was thirty years ago. Or is it? It seems like it in some ways.
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What do you think? Is there such a thing as being too young to wax, thread or pluck?
Your friendly neighborhood charm addict,
Karen