I've spent the last couple of months trying different hair-removal methods, and I was hoping I might be able to press all of you for your personal stories of the fight against hair.  Since I'm asking everyone to show theirs, I'll show mine first:

I have really thick (super masculine) hair basically all over my body.  I haven't attempted my legs, yet, nor anything other than shaving on my face.

Method: Shaving
Body part(s): Chest, "Bikini area"
Story: This is what I tried first, but I have super sensitive skin so I completely broke-out everywhere on the front of my body.  It gets very close, but I ended up with tons of ingrown hairs and pimples everywhere.  Parts of my body, especially my butt stung a bit, but didn't have the breakout the rest of my body did.

Method: Chemical Depilatory (Nair)
Body part(s): "Bikini area", midriff
Story: It didn't hurt at all, but on the other hand it wasn't very effective.  I have thick hair and the Nair didn't cut it (literally.)  I made the mistake of using it two days in a row, and on the second day the slight itch that I felt the first day turned into a real pain, and when I removed it I was bleeding on part of pubic area.  The upside?  It did a really clean job of my butt and scrotum.  I guess my butt just has thin/easy hair or something.  I broke out, again, but not nearly as bad.  Unfortunately, keep that up would have been expensive.  Also, it didn't quit get all of the hair.

Method: Wax Strips
Body part(s): upper chest
Story: It hurt.  A lot.
I found that it was very useful where the direction of the hair was uniform.  For instance, just above my nipples I was able to pull off sheets of my hair, no problem (ok, yeah, it burned like fire, but, hey, who ever said beauty was painless?) but the areas where the hair was more scatter-shot, like near my clavicle, the strips just couldn't grab any hair.  I ended up getting frustrated and shaving off the 20% of hair remaining.  The good news: it got very close, and from what I'm told, it lasts a long time.  The bad news: IT... FREAKIN... HURTS.

I hope this works as a good template so everyone else will leave their stories.  As I try other things I'll post them here, too.

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