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First World beauty problems.

(33 Posts)
kircubbin2000 Thu 11-Jun-26 10:27:14

I often buy The Mail as I enjoy their puzzles and crosswords. However lately I have to skip most of the paper because of the ridiculous health and beauty sections. Today it gives the best way to defuzz forearms. What? Do people do this?
They seem to hate every part of the body focusing on many parts I've never even thought about.

MissAdventure Sun 14-Jun-26 17:49:20

I've noticed I've got quite floppy earlobes these days, too!

Grammaretto Sun 14-Jun-26 17:45:47

My hair has migrated since getting older. Is it hormones or rather lack of them?
Men and women seem to become more alike with age. 😅

Legs and arms have very little hair but I'm sure my eyebrows have grown and chin whiskers annoy me.

butterandjam Sun 14-Jun-26 17:29:23

Someone with expensive and extensive tattoos presumable wants their body decor to be clearly visible, not obscured by their body hair?

M0nica Sun 14-Jun-26 17:15:31

That is a silly thing to say. You may not like the politics of the Daily Mail but many of its supplements - financial and medical for two = are excellent.

Nor can you have a respect and understanding of people who do not share your political opinions. We read the mail and i on weekdays and the mail on Sunday and The Observer on Sundays. This gives us a cross the board view of national and international affairs

Estrellita Sun 14-Jun-26 17:00:21

The Daily Mail?! Enough said.

Basgetti Sun 14-Jun-26 06:46:54

MissAdventure

Hair on anywhere but your head seems to be a big "no-no" these days.
Its a shame, I think, but then I look like guy the gorilla in a dress.

My grandson plucks his eyebrows, shapes them.

He informs me that long hair for men is becoming popular, though.
Perhaps the tide is turning...

What goes around, comes around.
Look at Georgian men 😁
(The period, not the country.)

WithNobsOnIt Sun 14-Jun-26 02:18:55

Fred.Flintstone sends his love

🦖🦕🦬🦍

Yabba Danba Doo!

MissAdventure Sat 13-Jun-26 21:54:40

No point suffering with hairy arms, when its so easily remedied.

MT62 Sat 13-Jun-26 21:26:28

Some woman have poly cystic ovaries & being hairy can be a side effect so any ideas of getting rid of the hair is probably welcome.
TheMail health pages are where I learnt all about Botox for the bladder, which changed my life.
You can skip the politics!

MissAdventure Sat 13-Jun-26 21:19:42

Young men!

MissAdventure Sat 13-Jun-26 21:19:17

grin

Seriously, though, there is much more pressure on youngen now to look a certain way than there ever has been, i think.

Padstow13 Sat 13-Jun-26 19:15:58

Ilovecheese

Women's bodies I bet!

Too right.

Men, however, can slop around the house and turn up at ANY occasion be it a wedding, funeral, retirement party etc, looking like Fred Flintstone and just gets away with it, every time.

shoppinggirl Sat 13-Jun-26 15:31:13

I had very blonde hairs on my forearms but since having radiotherapy they are no more. Bonus!

kircubbin2000 Sat 13-Jun-26 15:17:13

CaroleLM16

I would skip most of that particular paper due to the nasty racist content.

Really? It's mostly gossip about reality stars and fashion.

Alison333 Sat 13-Jun-26 14:34:35

HelterSkelter1

I rather over plucked my eyebrows a few years back and they have ever grown back I think they diverted to my chin.

grin grin
That happened to me too!

Rocketstop2 Sat 13-Jun-26 14:23:29

DianneAngel

2 thoughts, 1st: I used to have a dark haired friend who insisted on shaving her dark haired daughter 's toes once the daughters hit puberty. As a natural blonde I found this most bizarre.
2nd: Sophie Loren, now aged 91 years has never shaved her armpits. Still 1 of the most beautiful women in the world.
hugs

2nd : She has, however, broken her leg twice after falling over the hair grin

CaroleLM16 Sat 13-Jun-26 14:15:38

I would skip most of that particular paper due to the nasty racist content.

Julieh473 Sat 13-Jun-26 13:41:28

Sorry me laughing emoji is in the wrong place no offence and couldn't delete

Julieh473 Sat 13-Jun-26 13:39:08

😂😂

DianneAngel Fri 12-Jun-26 18:27:26

2 thoughts, 1st: I used to have a dark haired friend who insisted on shaving her dark haired daughter 's toes once the daughters hit puberty. As a natural blonde I found this most bizarre.
2nd: Sophie Loren, now aged 91 years has never shaved her armpits. Still 1 of the most beautiful women in the world.
hugs

Casdon Fri 12-Jun-26 09:28:13

Defuzzing your forearms has always been a thing for ladies with very dark hair. I had an Indian friend at school who did it, back in the seventies, she used a sort of pumice stone, which she swore didn’t hurt.

HelterSkelter1 Fri 12-Jun-26 09:19:28

I rather over plucked my eyebrows a few years back and they have ever grown back I think they diverted to my chin.

M0nica Thu 11-Jun-26 20:05:24

I had very thick hair (its thinned a lot) and were I not to have regular electrolysis I would have a beard to challenge DH's.

From the age of 14 I shaved my legs because the hair on them grew so thick and dark. Thankfully my arms were relatively hairless.

dogsmother Thu 11-Jun-26 16:36:03

If you are younger and have very hairy arms why wouldn’t you de fuzz them. I’m quite sure I would have done as my hair is very dark, thankfully I wasn’t overly hairy, some aren’t so fortunate.

MissAdventure Thu 11-Jun-26 16:22:41

Hair on anywhere but your head seems to be a big "no-no" these days.
Its a shame, I think, but then I look like guy the gorilla in a dress.

My grandson plucks his eyebrows, shapes them.

He informs me that long hair for men is becoming popular, though.
Perhaps the tide is turning...