How Young Is Too Young to Wax, Thread or Pluck?

The other day on a Facebook group I belong to, someone asked for recommendations for salon waxing for her school-age daughter. She said that her daughter was being teased and bullied at school for having body hair.

From the sound of it, I gathered that her daughter was still a child, somewhere between 10-12.

GRRR! 😠 It just made me so angry. Why should a young girl’s state of hairiness be a concern among her peers? I guess I’ve forgotten how petty and mean kids can be.

It’s weird for me to think that elementary school girls would even be concerned about this, but my childhood was a long time ago. Maybe I’m remembering the world the way I want it to be more than the way it was, but I seem to recall being more interested in watching cartoons and reading the Sweet Valley High books at that age than I was with body hair.

I don’t remember being concerned about body hair removal at all until I was at least 13… That’s when I started shaving my legs, which only happened then because someone in my class pointed it out one day when I was wearing shorts (“Did you forget to shave?”).

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