Too young to shave legs?

[newlywed]

My sister has just asked me if I think her 10 year old daughter is too young to shave her legs? her legs are noticably hairy and comments have been made at school. any thoughts?

[Aly98]

I had this trouble with daughter when she was still at primary and i didn't want her to shave them, so i know it sounds silly but we went over them with my husbands hair clippers so they were shorter!! Then finally in the summer hols before she went to BIG school i bought her a lady shave. This solved the problem in our house. Bless her!!

[newlywed]

Thanks for that Aly, what a brilliant idea.

[mrs_overall]

My daughter was exactly the same - at around 9 or 10 she suddenly began to resemble a human gorilla. I took the same route as ALY. A year or so later she asked if she could have a go with my home waxing kit and took to it like a duck to water. By the age of 12 she was proficient at waxing her own legs, underarms & bikini line. By the time she was 14 she had her own little business waxing her friends legs!

[spudqueen]

Surely if she's got hairy legs she's not too young to shave?!! I don't mean with a razor - goodness knows I've cut myself badly with one in the past but with a lady shaver or even a hair removing cream.

[jno]

spudqueen's right - you start shaving when you're hairy. In my day 12-year-olds didn't have bikini lines, but people mature a lot younger now (girls, anyway, boys aren't quite so quick). But maybe it'd be kinder to start with cream?

[Black Noir]

I also said to my self when my daughter was bothered by her hairy legs then I would get her something. (she will be 10 soon)

I bought her some Veet cream that you rub on and scrape off with a plastic razor thing, it doesnt have any blades to cut herself on, adn for the last 2 weeks of term she actually wore her summer dress rather than trousers! it didnt occur to me before that this was why she always wore trousers to school!

[newlywed]

Thank you all for the great advice which I have passed on to my sister.

[somebyrd]

When I first became "aware" of the hairs on my legs my mum first bought bleach so they were less noticeable until I was a little older.

IMO 10 is far too young to be concerned with shaving any part of your body (or using creams etc etc).

Kids aren't kids for long enough these days, theres plenty of years ahead of them when they will curse for having to keep preening.

Just MHO

SB
x x x

[Whickerman]

That Veet cream is fantastic and gentle enough.

My daughter was 12 when this started, it was a life saver.