Shaving? What's that?

I am a girl's worst nightmare... I do NOT shave. It's not that I'm opposed to doing so, per se, but after being hassled by my ex-wife, when she was my wife, for two years about any little hair anywhere on my body, I got fed up with it. I trim my facial hair, but have been sporting the House look for a few weeks now (nice layer of untamed stubble), and quite enjoy it. Shaving my face, regardless of whether I use a manual or electric razor, just stings, and I only end up with stubble three hours later, anyway. I've accepted the fact that I'm an excessively hairy boy, and shaving my back, stomach, chest, legs, arms, and whatever else I left out, just doesn't appeal to me. Now, if only some of that hair would migrate to my head... but I am, slowly but surely, losing my hair. All of it, it seems. Time for Rogaine to the rescue! (I hope, anyway). Too each his own, though. I see nothing wrong with dudes shaving their pits... it just isn't for me. I did it through high school, but never again.

SD

I came out as trans around 15, in high school, and by that time I was shaving... Well, everything. Face, underarms, legs, pubes, eyebrows. I went through a phase where I did elaborate theatrical makeup(people couldn't make up their minds on whether I was a 'boy or a girl', anyway...) pretty often and was hairless. And then when I hit 16-17, I stopped shaving my legs but continued to shave my underarms, as all of my ladyfriends insisted I do. (Urr, they didn't know I was female. And they were obsessed with twinks. They wanted a 'cute, hairless guy' around and they'd hassle me endlessly if I didn't just comply and 'be hygienic' for them. XP) 

Over the last six months or so, my legs just got so incredibly hairy, and I'm pretty happy with it, shaving them always sucked. Itching, razor burn, ingrown hairs... No more! I still shaved my pits, until I forgot for a while... And when my boyfriend noticed it, he mentioned I shouldn't bother shaving it. 'I mean, if you really want to. I just want you to know it really doesn't bother me, it's not like you expect me to shave mine'. So I figured... 'Huh. I'll leave it.' And now my armpits are hairy as HELL. I shave my peachfuzz off when I remember. I shave a patch out of my pubes pretty regularly because I need to, to glue on my prosthetic. There is also a patch of wiry black terminal hairs below my navel(angry wannabe happytrail) that I get rid of when I remember.

I haven't shaved in like 2yrs except for 'that' area. I do prefer being shaved there, but legs and pits? nah.  I'm pre-T but even so have some heavy whiskers on my chin.  I don't shave my face as of yet.

I'll shave my face occasionally just because it makes me feel better, but I shaved yesterday to shave alot of long neck hair I didn't notice. Yay!

I don't understand why people think armpit hair is unsanitary. I see no problem with it.

So, everyone seems intent on shaving away that peach fuzz. I can see how it might make you look female, but I think it works for me. Besides, I have terrible fears about shaving my face.  I considered doing it, but after seeing my friend Jorge with his peach fuzz and light mexican-mustache I decided against it. He is indeed gay, but he does look enough like a man. I pass anyway!

I stopped shaving my legs in middle school and did several times throughout the rest of high school. I don't remember the last time they were smooth, but I am quite content with their furriness. My sisters and mother bitch about it all the time though. I am nothing more than a 'lesbian' to them too.

My pits have been the most recent area I've stopped shaving. It's a bother to shave them and my girlfriend actually encouraged me to not shave them. 

On a side note, I find it extremely odd that I pass. I mean, I'm not complaining. I rather enjoy being referred to as sir and seen as male when I am both binding/packing and not. I guess it's just the way I present myself?  I've got medium length hair and I'm a bit hefty. Maybe it's because I'm hispanic... 

Shaving my face is oddly fun considering its shaving...though I assume its part of the "rite of passage" thing and less the actual shaving part. Haven't shaved anything else lately though, maybe a bit of southern area landscaping is all.

As I said in another thread, Nair for Men comes in a spray-can and works in less than five minutes.  Granted, it can get expensive so i only Nair, at most, twice a month, but it grows back in soft enough that's all it really needs.  And everything but pits and pubes/trail goes -- arms, legs, upper abdomen, ass (it was hairy long pre-HRT).  I have my room-mate pluck the few long, thick jet black Jeff Goldblum as The Fly-hairs that crop up on my back and shoulders every week, and since I get some of those on my reasonable facsimile of nipples (long story short -- don't go to Dr. Wilson; he thinks that, after forty years of doing these surgeries, that "shower normally" is good advice for people with skin grafts), I pluck those myself.  Even the Hobbit toes get plucked.

facial hair on the chin, cheeks, and neck is shaved every other day, Schick Quattro Platinum with the fifth "detail" blade, and I'm cultivating Brian Jones sideburns, which get shaped.  Eyebrows are occasionally trimmed with cuticle scissors just to maintain an even shape -- nothing thin, just, well, shaped.  Nose hair has its own trimmer, and that can also be used on the ears -- or, more accurately, it would be if I didn't somehow get psoriasis in my ears, which seems to retard hair growth there.

(sneeks into boysroom) i hate shaving my face but the rest of me laser to the rescue and when i m done with electro good bye razors god i hate body hair ....bleh
jessica

Hi girl. lol

I only ever shave if someone points out the fact that I've got the body hair of a half ape (Says something considering I"m not on any hormones.)

Yeah...
I hate those things.

I think I've shaved my legs a handful of times in my life (only when I had to wear a skirt for part of my uniform in band)... and I absolutely refuse to shave my face. The little hair I've got on my face has been growing for almost a year now and I've become very attached to it!

I tell ya, the first time I shaved my face, I got teary after.

Me too, and a little woozy from loss of blood.  First time I tried was with an old style Schick safety razor, basically the 1904 razor that King Camp Gillette invented.  Whatever they were, they were not 'safety' anything. I must have looked like I had gone hunting with Dick Cheney.

>> tried everything, Gillette Mach 3 still works the best for me.