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Many women today are preoccupied with growing long and shiny underarm hair.
Increasingly, photographs of women showing off their underarm hair began to appear on social networks in Europe, Asia and America. The reasons why women choose to follow this controversial trend are extremely diverse. For some it is a fight for rights, for others it is a desire for nature, someone likes the sensations, and someone is just happy that they no longer need to waste time on shaving and waxing.
In June, Chinese feminist Xiao Meili launched an online competition for the most beautiful armpit hair, in which dozens of women posted their photos. “Every woman is the mistress of her body. And only she has the right to decide how to treat him. This even applies to details such as underarm hair, says Meili. – Any of us may prefer shaving or epilation, but not under the pressure of public opinion, but based on our own considerations. There is nothing dirty and unaesthetic about hairy armpits – that’s what I would like to convey.
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However, what is happening today is nothing new. For more than a century, the fashion for naturalness in everything has been replaced by the fashion for skin without a single hair, and this applies to both men and women. In particular, the beauties of the Silver Age, as well as girls of the 70s, flaunted hairy armpits.
The need to feel free from the prescriptions of society has not bypassed Hollywood stars. In March 2014, Madonna showed off her unshaven yet well-groomed armpits on Instagram, captioning the photo “Long hair… I don’t care!!!” Julia Roberts, Naomi Campbell, Drew Barrymore, Sharon Stone and even Sophia Loren did not consider it necessary to remove their underarm hair while wearing designer evening dresses.
“Public discussion of unshaven armpits of famous women is very revealing. As if women should be ashamed of the fact that they naturally grow hair. While famous men openly show their armpit hair, and this does not bother anyone, ”commented Xiao Meiyi.
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While in our country, hair removal is considered the norm, Internet forums show that not everyone likes this state of affairs. “I support unshaven stars – thanks to them for the extra reminder that we are all just people, human creatures with all natural attributes, and not sleek plastic dolls with smooth shiny hair, perfect skin, pink nails!” writes a reader of the popular beauty blog BeautyInsider.ru. “It’s amazingly sexy. Armpit hair indicates that in front of you is a pubescent woman, and not a Barbie doll. This is the same secondary sexual characteristic as, for example, breasts, ”this is a male opinion. And one of the contestants announced by Xiao Meili wrote, “I like my armpit hair. It is part of me, my body. Hopefully soon women will be able to show them without fear.”