Yang Mi, who exploded for "Palace" and "Three Lives and Three Lives and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", appeared on the cover of Hong Kong gossip magazines because of a set of photos without shaving armpits before becoming a first-line star, and was once ridiculed by the public.
With the change of public aesthetics, more and more women have "armpit hair anxiety". The temperature is gradually rising, the season for women to wear slip dresses is approaching, and many women are secretly busy taking off their armpit hair.
How fast does armpit hair grow in women?
Compared with hair, armpit hair growth rate is slightly slower, armpit hair growth is about 0.21 ~ 0.38 mm per day, usually about two weeks after hair removal will grow new armpit hair. People of different ages, armpit hair growth rate is different, 15~30 years old women axillary hair growth rate is faster, elderly women axillary hair growth rate is slow.
Why do most women choose to remove armpit hair?
1. Influenced by the culture of "armpit hair disgust"
When the culture of "armpit disgust" first developed, women's blades were introduced on the market, similar to the razors used by modern men. In 1915, Gillette introduced the world's first razor designed specifically for women, and in order to attract consumers, advertisers printed a girl in a low-cut evening dress without armpit hair in newspapers.
Creating such an image and instilling the concept of "no armpit hair is a fashion and sophistication" has led to the anxiety of armpit hair and buying razors to shave off armpit hair, which continues to this day.
2. Affected by sexual characteristics
In ancient times, hair was synonymous with men, thick hair can show masculinity, men with thick armpit hair represents charm, women without armpit hair represents delicate. In ancient Greek statues, women's bodies were smooth and hairless, representing perfect posture. Over time, armpit hair has transformed into a major feature that distinguishes sexual characteristics,
Once done a questionnaire survey on the Internet, a considerable number of men mind that women do not shave armpit hair or women armpit hair is too thick, it is precisely because of other people's views, thus changing some of women's cognition and concepts.
3. Think that removing armpit wool is good for health
Most women believe that after removing armpit hair, the underarms become refreshed, beautiful, and good for health. For female professional swimmers, armpit hair removal can reduce resistance to water, increase lactic acid levels in the blood, reduce oxygen consumption, and may help improve performance.
For fox odorers, the sweat discharged has fox odor, sweat is easy to attach to the hair, the peculiar smell emitted has not been able to be removed, and at the same time provides a breeding ground for bacteria, aggravates the odor, and the purpose of removing armpit hair is to reduce fox odor and avoid social embarrassment.
Is armpit hair removal painful?
The skin under the armpits is quite delicate, but thick and thick body hair grows. The diameter of armpit hair is about 70~80 microns, which is far more than leg hair and is equivalent to twice that of leg hair. In addition, the skin under the armpits is not even and has multiple folds, and the slightest carelessness when shaving may scratch the skin. And the armpit hair is like a small grass, can not be completely shaved, just a few weeks later will grow again, the newly grown armpit hair is thick, arm movement when the armpit hair will rub against the skin, so that the local pinprick-like pain.
Most hair removal creams on the market emit a foul smell that can irritate the skin and cause local burning. Beeswax hair removal is equivalent to directly pulling out armpit hair, which not only causes pain, but also damages the skin.
Laser hair removal requires the use of burning armpit hair at high temperatures, the pain cannot be described in words, and it needs to be done many times to achieve permanent hair removal. In addition, the more vigorous the armpit hair, the greater the pain during laser hair removal.
Does armpit hair removal affect perspiration?
The answer is no. The key to perspiration in the body depends on the small sweat glands, no matter which armpit hair removal method is adopted, even if it is a permanent laser hair removal method, it only acts on the hair follicles and does not affect the sweat glands. Sweat glands and hair follicles are completely different tissues, armpit hair grows in hair follicles, sweat glands are neighbors of hair follicles, the two cannot be equated. It can be seen that armpit hair removal will not affect the sweat glands, and perspiration will not be affected, so there is no need to worry.
Finally, it needs to be reminded that armpit hair is not useless, it can play a shielding role, can protect the skin under the armpit hair, and keep out external bacteria and dust; It also reduces or cushions pain when the skin is rubbed and protects the skin under the armpits.
Of course, whether women should take off their armpit hair depends on personal preferences, take it off if you want to, keep it if you don't want to take it off, and don't care too much about other people's opinions.
Stars of the 80s and 90s almost do not shed their hair, such as first-line stars Wang Zuxian, Gong Li and Lin Qingxia, etc., can boldly and bravely show their armpit hair when taking photos, thinking that this is a kind of sexiness.