Welcome to Glamour UK. This site uses cookies to improve your experience and deliver personalised advertising. You can opt out at any time or find out more by reading our cookie policy. Personally, I've been grooming my downstairs department since the age of Over that time, I've tried many different hairstyles.
The Egyptians may have been the forerunners of many beauty rituals, but they invested the most time into hair removal. Women of ancient Egypt removed all of their body hair, including that on their heads, with tweezers made from seashells , pumice stones, or early beeswax and sugar based waxes. During the Roman Empire, the lack of body hair was considered a sign of the classes. Wealthy women and men used razors made from flints, tweezers, creams, and stones to remove excess hair. In fact, even pubic hair was considered uncivilized which is why many famous statues and paintings of Grecian women are depicted hairless. Just like Cleopatra was a trendsetter in her time, so too was Queen Elizabeth 1 during the Middle Ages. She set the precedence for hair removal amongst women, who followed her lead by removing it from their faces, but not their bodies.
A whole generation of men will never see hair ‘down there’
May 17, am Updated May 17, pm. I remember the very day I started to feel ashamed of my pubic hair. And as a late bloomer, I was eager to find my seat at the lady table, and pubic hair was my ticket in.
Now, you think you might be ready to advance your sense of pubic style. Doing so as often as we do, you come to recognize a difference in temporary trends and eternal classics. These are the five classics that will always be part of the manscaping discussion. First up is the natural.