My attention was recently drawn to a trend that seems to be gathering pace among women across Europe. It started when my wife was telling me about one of her colleagues who, tired of shaving her arms, decided to try a permanent hair removal treatment.
My wife has a fair skin and her body hair is blond and thin. To give an idea, she can get away without shaving her legs for a couple of weeks and you would only notice her hair against direct light. So as she was telling me about her colleague she asked me what I thought of the hair on her arms. My answer was that they look like her legs and that you can barely notice how much hair there is on them but that it would be interesting to see how they look without hair.
Prompted by this, I started noticing around that so many women shave their arms nowadays and that the effect is actually quite good and attractive, not the looks itself in my opinion, but the fact that women take care of grooming them. The topic came out again with my wife and after a few days she decided to give it a try to see how it feels. From my perspective, they feel great, really smooth. They also look great. Especially under direct light, her arms now look almost shiny and polished. Also, arms hair seems to be growing more slowly than legs hair, so it seems to require less maintenance.
It’s now a few months since she started shaving her arms regularly and she never stopped. The interesting thing is that this is not, as commonly thought, because of regrowth or stubble, of which she has little or none, but because of the feeling of having smooth and shiny arms. In her own words: she is now addicted to this feeling… and I feel addicted too!
