children and threading

[Sara516]

Re: children and threading

@Sasha21

PReading all the comments here tells me I’m going to get bashed but here goes. I have two friends who swear by giving their infant babies a wax (the equivalent of donig weeks of the “loee” aata thing that ppl do on babies faces in Pakistan to get rid of hair on the forehead cheeks upper lip etc.). Two of them r relatives on my husbands side of the family.
One relative had a hairy baby girl, she waxed her as an infant, everywhere, the hair is so delicate that the roots die out pretty quick. So she wasn’t hairy any more and even after puberty remained pretty much hairless.
Another relatives bhabi did this to two of her daughters because her own mom had done it to her and she was pretty much hairless as an adult because of it. This relative told me that the trick was to wax once or twice as an infant and then a couple of times BEFORE u hit puberty , so around 9-10. (This includes a bikini wax as well). This kills the hair follicles before they get all those puberty hormones and really become a b!tch! So basically her mom did it to her and that’s why she’s done to her daughters for the same result. (They’re young (toddlers), not at the 9-10 age yet).
A friend of mine had a niece who had body hair issues when she was born. Friends bhabi did the full body wax thing, baby regrows no body hair, now is practically hairless at 7 years of age.

Hearing from all these ppl firsthand I felt that I would do it too to my daughter. I sort of chickened out and didn’t do the full body wax (though I feel I might at some point, she’s two right now). But she did have this dark patch of hair just above her butt on her lower back, I gave that a quick wax (from the waxing lady who comes to my house). Hair didn’t grow back I was glad I did it. My daughter has hair on hr upper lip too, noticeable, at this age, I want to do something to it but don’t want to hurt her. I’m thinking I might do something though so she doesn’t have to go through this at 10. My way of rationalizing is that our mothers or grandmothers have done it to babies for years, the loee thing is pretty common in Pakistan, but pretty time consuming. Waxing is less painful (with such minimal and delicate hair) and a one time thing. The aata thing u have to do everyday for weeks and ofcourse the baby is in discomfort for like 15 min everyday. And with waxing it’s just one day.
Anyway plz don’t kill me.

Lol, did she cry when it was waxed?

honestly, the more I think about it the less I find it weird. I feel like the only way to not be offensive somehow is to not broadcast it or brag about it, “like OMG moms you should totally wax your daughters! it’s gross if you don’t!!!” know what I mean?

A while back, I read an article about an 8 year old girl whose mother gave her brazilian waxes…not sure if it turned out to be a hoax or not but I’m not sure if thats too extreme either.

yeayeayea I know, love yourself, blah blah blah but lets face it, I don’t think ther’es a single woman who doesn’t do some kind of hair removal, be it face or body, on a regular basis or less regularly…

Like someone else posted, NO ONE has disputed that women should or shouldn’t remove hair, but the debate will always be on WHEN. Just imagine as an adult, you’d NEVER have to worry about doing that? No waxes, no shaving, no creams, no laser, saving so much time and $$ and pain. (although if someone doesn’t want to wax their little kid, that’s perfectly alright too).