What age did you start shaving your legs?

[cajunmom]

Brought to you by a realllly quiet Saturday evening with H out of town and one sick DD and another DD that's almost 11 and asking about shaving.

[allibally]

6th grade. My mom started me out with a mid-priced electric shaver first.

[lola]

Our 6th grade to a "Graduation Trip" to a water park. We all learned to shave just before that trip. I have no idea how many years old that would have made me though.

[Stingyshark]

I think I was in 6th grade

[HoneySpider]

I *think* 11, not 100% positive but that's what I went with

[readyin07]

Mine was 6th grade so I was 12.

[bostonmichelle]

It was 6th grade, I think I was 11/12.

[Deleted]

I think 6th grade. I was 11.

My mom wanted me to wait til 13!!!! I would have been going into 8th grade. Um, no.

[greencrayon]

12, but it should have been a lot sooner.

[h]

5th grade, which made me 10. I had relatively little hair, and it was very blonde, but everyone else was doing it.

[mccallister84]

6th grade but I only shaved like the strip right in the front in the middle (like only did one swipe down the front of each leg with the razor)

I looked ridiculous.

[explorer2001]

I first shaved in 4th grade. When my mom found out she went ballistic. She tried to tell me I was allowed to shave until I was 13. I was and am very furry with dark brown hair and pasty white skin. I was getting made fun of so much as school. I eventually talked her into a compromise.

I started shaving my arms in HS. I spent nearly an hour getting my face threaded today (brows, lip, sideburns,etc.) I am seriously considering laser hair removal at some point.

[KaraOrNot]

11. I still have a scar on my shin from my first time shaving.

[whitepicketfence]

I was in 5th grade so 11, maybe? I remember getting made fun of pretty badly because all of the other girls had started shaving long before I did.

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[cjeanette]

I was 4th grade and did without my mom's permission. She was pissed. Seems like in my circle is was 4th or 5th grade with one or two girls waiting until 6th. I remember because one has thick thick dark hair and it drove me nuts since she wore shorts or a skirt year round.

[Deleted]

7th grade I think. Maybe 8th. I was only allowed to shave to the knee. Lol. I think I started doing my whole leg in high school.

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[sillygoosegirl]

I don't recall exactly. I remember many of the other girls made fun of me in gym class in 10th grade for not shaving, but I don't recall being particularly phased by it. But I know I was regularly shaving by the time I started college.

My parents didn't care, but I'm blonde, so it doesn't show that much either way.  I was homeschooled until 9th grade, and prior to high school most of my best friends were guys, so there wasn't much pressure.  

[mainelyfoolish]

I was in fifth grade, so ten years old. I asked my mom one day if I could start shaving my legs, so she taught me how to do it. I wasn't allowed to get my ears pierced until age 13, but shaving my legs wasn't a big deal.

[tripleshot]

I think I was in 5th grade. I have very dark, thick brown hair.

[mccallister84]

Sept 7, 2013 19:03:43 GMT -5 jenny1980 said:

Sept 7, 2013 18:24:43 GMT -5 mccallister84 said:

6th grade but I only shaved like the strip right in the front in the middle (like only did one swipe down the front of each leg with the razor)

I looked ridiculous.

Ahahahahaha. I actually loled at this while getting my pedicure.

I think I was 9-ish? I have super dark hair and was mega furry. And did swim team lol.

Poor Lu is already super hairy. I'll let her shave whenever she wants to. Or do lazer or something.

Yea, my mom took pity on me after that.  Oh and I was pretty hairy so it was really obvious.

[agnes]

6th grade

I should have done it sooner. It was blonde hair and a lot of it. My mom didn't want me to. But I was being made fun of and did it anyways.

[statlerwaldorf]

I would let her start shaving if that is what she wants. I was either 9 or 10. I took one of my mom's razors and did it myself. I shaved for a while before she noticed and she wasn't happy about it. I had really dark hair and really pale skin.

My poor 4 year old has inherited my hairy genes. She noticed the hair on her legs recently and thinks it means winter is coming since she's growing her winter fur.

[badtzmaru22]

7th grade, but I was soooo embarrassed to bring it up to my mom, and kids were making fun of me. Only one of my friends in 6th grade did, and then we moved and everyone in the new school (7th grade) already did. It was so awful. I plan on asking DD early, and letting her decide. I would much rather embarass her on accident at home by bringing it up too early, than have her be afraid to ask me about it and be embarrassed at school.

[Nonny]

I think I was around 11 and it was around 6th grade. I don't think I actually *needed* to yet, but I wanted to that I'd fit in with the other girls. My mom didn't care, but until I was a more assertive older teenager I had to just the kind of menthol smelling men's shaving cream because it was cheap. I finally got her to buy me the fancy fruity scented kind in high school. Ironically, I now use the solid men's shaving disks voluntarily because I get a way closer shave with them (and the TSA doesn't bitch about solids when I fly!).

[BeagleMama]

Sept 7, 2013 17:32:01 GMT -5 allibally said:

6th grade. My mom started me out with a mid-priced electric shaver first.

Yup, same. For some reason she was horrified when I later shaved my thighs... uh, even 20 years later it is necessary!

[MrsE]

5th grade

[BeagleMama]

Sept 7, 2013 21:30:15 GMT -5 @songforyou said:

Sept 7, 2013 21:25:37 GMT -5 BeagleMama said:

Yup, same. For some reason she was horrified when I later shaved my thighs... uh, even 20 years later it is necessary!

Lol.  On one episode of Golden Girls, the ladies had a conversation about shaving above the knee.  The majority concluded that only harlots shaved their thighs.  Rose, of course, was confused why anyone ever would do that.  The lone dissenter goes without saying.

All in my world is explained... I didn't know that?!

I know that at the time, she was an "older" mom, it was super fine on her thighs so she didn't understand why I shaved there. But still, as a thirty-something I still definitely need to shave my thighs. Gross.

[Deleted]

10 years old, 5th grade. I was actually teased by some other girls because I was not yet shaving at that time.

Man. I had not thought about this particular milestone in regard to my two daughters. 

[Deleted]

9ish, I'm very pale and have dark hair. I asked my mom and she showed me how. I would have been pretty upset if she said no, she's the type of person who picks her battles.

[azurely]

5th grade, I was 10.

My cousin just started shaving, she is in 4th grade and just turned 10.