Spin off from the beauty tips thread.

So, how often do you shave your legs?




Myself, once a week. Every Friday night I run a bath and have a soak and then shave my legs. I can't be bothered shaving them more often than that. I also have very sensitive legs and if I shave them too often they get really itchy and rashy.

Once a week for me also. I have blonde hairs so they don't worry me enough to shave more than once a week.

Every 2 days at least. I have dark hair and very pale skin and I hate stubble!!!

I struggled to respond to this one honestly. I'd like to think I shave weekly, but honestly? It's more every 2 or so weeks. I have pale blonde hair and wear a lot of pants and jeans, so it's often not until a particularly warm Sunday I drag out my dresses and am ashamed enough about my legs to shave.

I hate it, but usually only once a week here.

When I was working it was every day, or at least every second day as I wore skirts usually.

I have quite dark regrowth and it looks awful, but if I'm just at home with the kids, who cares!

I am a loyal wax-er. Get my legs and eyebrows waxed fortnightly and my eyelashes tinted. I'm very blonde, my hair is almost transparent so I only really wax when my leg hairs are starting to feel a bit feral

Armpits and girly-bits are shaved every second day

I'm a waxer, so they get done roughly monthly.
Back when I was shaving, they got done about once a week in Summer, less in Winter.
Although the hair on my head is mid-brown these days, I am lucky that my body hair is quite blonde, so I can get away with it!

In summer every 2-3 days, as I wear shorts/skirts for work. In winter I wear pants so probably once a week.

Usually once a week, sometimes twice if I have done them early in the week and then decide to wear a dress or something on the weekend I will do them again.

A lot less often than I should! I'm in a real CBF world at the moment so should stop that. We're also living in a rental with a bath big enough for a child and I always miss bits when I do it in the shower.

Same , I can't remember the last time I shaved my legs but the hair on them is so fine, thin and blonde you can hardly tell.

Every second day in summer. In winter, ummm, once a week, maybe even once a fortnight!

I'm blonde but years of shaving my legs means the regrowth is quite dark, so I can't let it go more than two days.

In summer I probably shave between once or twice a week depending on how often Im going out. In winter it's more like once a week to a fortnight.

You don't want to know how often
During summer..maybe every couple of weeks - monthly
during winter.....ummm when I decide I want to be sexy

My armpits when I take notice....usually 1-2 times a week.
I might go hide in a corner now!

When i was in high school - daily without fail pretty much.

When i left school every day to second day.

The last few years? Weekly if im lucky In winter? Every three weeks or more......

probably once or twice a week - if i get the time. usually its a toss up between washing my hair and shaving my legs, and since my legs are easier to hide they usually miss out!

Usually once a week in summer, I am loving the last couple of years of maxi dresses and long skirts! And linen pants

Winter... when the hairs are sticking out through my opaque tights...


And I am so insanely jealous of all the people who are too fair haired to need to bother often!

I replied once a week... however it can go along longer.

My hair is blonde too... so i really dont need to shave more then once a week.

However in winter (and we have long winters in tasmania) it can get to the pointwhere my husband asks me to shave my legs
And thats pretty bad!!

luckily he loves me

As the i-do resident dreadlocked, vegan, hippie, homebirther it's probably no surprise that I picked the 'never' option

Summer, daily or every two days...but I do such a crappy, bang up job of it in the shower with a two year old in the way that I am not sure why I bother

I have very dark hair on my legs and shocking stubble...they literally stay smooth for 24 hours if that.

In winter I let them go for weeks at a time...only shaving for 'sexy time' or when the hairs rub on the sheets and irritate me. Both times I've been pregnant it's been winter and, well, let's just say that shaving went by the wayside, big time

I am amazed that some people can shave their armpits and 'girly bits' every two days....ye-ouch My skin is so sensitive, if I go near my bikini line more than once a week I come out in welt. Yuck!!

I am having a leg and bikini wax for the first time this Thurs. I wonder what I am in for???

^^^This is me . Especially now with Kiara. I just don't get the time during the day and couldn't be bothered once she's down for the night.




I have pretty sensitive under arms so I just use the single blade yellow razors and I shave every 2nd day. Anything with more than one blade hurts too much.

Also, leg and bikini waxing isn't too bad. Little bit of ouch but not much. Well I don't think so anyway .

Don't be embarrassed - I'm worse than you

I do it for special occasions when my legs will be bare, and other than that, virtually never

My hair is fine and blond and you have to be pretty darn close to see it. I have to shave sitting on the edge of the bath with a bowl of water and peering closely at my legs and feeling them with my hands, because as soon as water gets on them I can't see the hair anymore

Often I will go a good 6 months or so over winter - the only time my legs see the outside world is 6am bike rides and believe me no one looks nor cares

I shave my armpits when I feel like it or am wearing tops that show it. This means that in winter again I can get suitably neanderthal. It doesn't bother me or hubby and I personally find the idea that you have to get rid of something natural because it's just what everyone does quite odd

My bikini-line is a disaster - I can't shave or Nair because I get rashes/ingrown hairs, and I've had mixed experiences with waxing (i.e. bad skin reaction or infection), so I just wear swimmers that cover it all up and remain in my hairy glory I was going to get a wax before E was born but ran out of steam/time and in the end managed to get through my entire pregnancy/birth with only one person ever looking at my hoohaa (apart from hubby, that is )

I have barely any hair on my legs. Honestly I could sit and count the hairs I have. They are also very fine and very blonde, so I rarely shave them. Couldn't even tell you the last time I did! Reckon I'd do it once, maybe twice a year?

I would say I shave my legs around once a fortnight... or less. My armpits maybe 1-2 times a week in the shower. Bikini line, maybe once a month.

Im a wax fan - I get my underarms legs and bikini waxed once a month

Once a week or every two weeks. I have such sparse hair on my legs I don't really need to shave that often.

^^ Ditto. It's annoying. Even now, I shaved them yesterday afternoon and there are still stubbly bits - and my razor isn't that old!


I tend to shave my legs 2-3 times a week. Even in winter I shave fairly regularly, but not quite as often. Even though I wear pants/tights, I hate the feeling of leg hair underneath them. Admittedly, I find shaving a PITA, but I wouldn't be able to handle letting my hair grow long enough for a wax

Underarms get shaved every second day, unless I forget. I went down to the shops in a tank top the other day and it'd been a few days - oops! Oh well, if you're checking out my armpits and see hair - that's your problem

Yeah, that was because there was always some stupid girl who would say 'Wow, look how smooth my legs are' and then everyone would start comparing legs....while I'd try to hide my own hairy ones under my skirt even further

That forced me to shave my legs daily, just to avoid being 'the girl who never shaves'. Maybe the reason I don't shave much now is in retaliation to that?

I shave on a friday morning before swimming lessons so once a week. Occasionally I might shave midweek aswell. Depending what I am up to socially.

I shave my legs once or twice a week. My under arms two to three times a week.

Once a week here although I could leave it longer as I am not a really hairy person. Actually, I'm so not hairy that I barely even get underam hair. Seriously. I can't remember the last time I shaved my underarms so I thought I would just take a look and I have one hair that I can see. Yes, one.

Lol. I think mine might still be worse though. My legs need it you can see them (they are't black though, blondish/brown but lots of it) and I get a nice woolly coat. They are quite soft and silky really. Maybe coz I let them grow too long.

I voted 2-3 times a week, but sometimes it can go longer. I used to wax, but now I only do for special occasions - wedding, holidays, etc.


You lucky thing!

Haha i dont really remember that at my school, i think it was more a random obsession - along with painting my toenails at least once a week, and nairing my tummy once a week in summer

Im jealous of all those girls that dont need to. Im with Gemma and Porthos is the hairy stubble group

Goodness gracious - you didn't have a poll option "nearly not enough" so I went with longer than weekly.

I like to surprise Hubby every now and again Keeps the romance alive

In all seriousness, I should do it more often - I'm pretty clumsy and there's been a couple of times where I've stacked it into work and the boss' has asked how bad the graze is (ie, expecting me to show him/her) so that I can lodge a WH&S report. Talk about cringe-worthy

Gosh I think I probably let it go for 2 or 3 weeks sometimes in summer. I have very fair hair on my legs and they are pretty sparse and soft too. In winter I leave them for months and they get so long sometimes that I can feel them in the breeze!!! How feral is that?!! My husband doesn't care at all and I doubt he even notices.

Once a week, on Friday. I don't mind a bit of stubble, as my hair is kind of fine and sparse-ish anyway.

During winter usually once a week, but sometimes longer. Then when I walk I can feel the breeze ruffle the hairs on my legs!

couldn't answer the poll as there wasn't an option that suited me... ummmm I can't remember the last time I shaved my legs!! Thinking maybe October when we went to a wedding?? I'm in jeans, cargos or maxis nearly all the time and no one sees my legs apart from DH who laughs at me and my leg hair! In my defense though it grows very sparsely and whilst I am dark, there is hardly any leg hair at all. As for girly bits?!?! Well that gets waxed but its been at least 5mths! LOL

and yet I shave my underarms every single day in an anally obsessed way! I can't stand not shaving my pits!

Ditto.

Not that often at all. I wear jeans both winter and summer, and work pants to work

He he, I am abit like that as well.

I wear pants nearly every day so shaved legs isn't needed unless I am going to the gym and need to wear shorter trackies or something where people will see my legs. So I would say depending on need or season, usually about once a month.

Armpits is fairly regularly though as I wear alot of shirts that are short sleeve so probably weekly.

Usually every second day, so I voted 2-3 times a week. In winter it's more like once a week.