HAIR REMOVAL

TYPES

• Shaving is the most common method to remove body hair. If you desire to remove hair from your head, you may use clippers, but if you want to remove body hair from the armpits, legs, arms, genitalia, and eyebrows, you must use a shave or a razor.
• Waxing. This procedure of body hair removal can be done at a salon or by yourself. It uses wax strips or cold and hot wax. They put this on the body part with hair and pull. Some may say that this is the most painful way to remove hair from your body, but most effective. You can wax your arms, legs, eyebrows, genitalia, and armpits. 
• Threading can be done if you want to remove hair from your eyebrows and armpits perfectly. Through this method, you can learn it anywhere as long as you have a thread. It uses a thread to remove hair, and it can be a thorough process, but it looks flawless right after. This method is most commonly used to shape a person’s eyebrows.
• The use of Tweezers might be the easiest method to do after shaving. You pluck the hair with a tweezer, and it’s removed! It is preferably used for eyebrows and armpits. Like threading, you can shape your eyebrows to make it look pretty.

TREATMENT

Why Do People Remove Body Hair?

• Cultural & Social Reasons

Due to the modernity and advancement of our evolving world, views about life may have changed drastically. Some may think that having body hair is being unhygienic; therefore, people need to remove their body hair to keep up with social norms. Some part of the society may think that it is completely normal and tend to not result in removing their body hair. Some employers require their employees to shave their beards. 

• Fashion 

Fashion always shows the best side of a person. This reason always peaks in teenage and adolescent times. Knowing social norms and fitting in standards, teens tend to remove body hair. Seeing cosmetic practices and fashion advertisements, models are stereotypically seen without any body hair to portray social standards, which may have influenced the teens to remove their body hair as well.

• Religious Reasons

Shaving of the head is culture for certain religions like Buddhism, Christianity, Muslim, Jain, and Hinduism. Monks in Buddhism and Christianity are required to shave their heads. Thailand monks shave their heads and eyebrows as well. Unlike in Judaism, women aren’t required to remove their hair unless they desire to for one of their rituals. 

• Medical Reasons

Some operations require a patient’s hair to be removed before the doctors can proceed with the surgery. Chemotherapy is one of the examples wherein hair loss is evident after the process. People also remove body hair to remove hair lice and to avoid bad odor from armpits. 

• Profession

Some careers require an employee to remove their hair. In the military, men shave their heads. In some workplaces, men are required to shave their beards to look professional in front of their clients. However, this practice is starting to disseminate due to changes in society.