What fashion epilation says about the status of women?
Masha Vorslav
evolution intimate haircuts and "showdown" with body hair vividly illustrates the situation in society and the attitude of women and men to their bodies. “Fifty shades of gray” still bombing in Russia surprised the audience to many, including the intact hair of the leading female Dakota Johnson. As it turned out, the fluffy pubis of the heroine was the work of the make-up artists, who made a special overlay (!). Meanwhile, for the mass glossy cinema, this is, no matter how ridiculous, a bold step, almost imperceptibly articulating the innocence of the heroine and at the same time her almost pro-feminist spirit, which the film director Sam Taylor-Johnson wanted to draw into the world. We decided to find out how things are going with fashion for intimate haircuts in Russia and asked the epilation specialist about why girls remove hair, how their boyfriends relate to this and whether men themselves make epilation.
Zhanna Kutovaya master salon "Ademi"
Now it is considered very fashionable, noble not to have any vegetation on yourself - I’m not only talking about intimate places (this is generally necessary), but also about the whole body. I know one couple whose little divorce did not come to: the husband agreed to everything, even to sit with the child, only so that the wife would make a bikini epilation for himself, and said that if he had to remind about it again, he would file for divorce. Another long-time visitor said that she had introduced her very beautiful friend (the girl was literally on the cover) to an acquaintance of a young man, but for some reason he spent a day with her, and then stopped communicating. When asked why, he replied: “You don’t give her, but, you know, her hairy arms”. Even here such meets.
I believe that men have learned everything from glossy magazines. For twenty years, they have influenced the public, leading an active lifestyle, and convinced that it is ugly, and a successful person is neat and tidy and generally must be “sold”, and therefore have a presentation. Plus, people began to play sports, often go to the pools, where in the common locker rooms and showers are considered offensive if a person walks with untreated parts of the body. They also began to worry very much if they go to the doctor for a checkup or to a massage therapist: a girl may even cancel the visit if she did not manage to care for herself. And their men are very scrupulous and demanding.
In pairs, they see each other not only as a partner, but also as an accessory: both should decorate each other
Naturally, now girls are beginning to make counterclaims: since they care for themselves, why should they endure their companions in their natural form. Now the strong half gradually begins to take care of itself, some girls in a mild form, they bow down and lead to the salon. The guys have the opinion that this is something terrible and painful, and as soon as they come to the salon, they understand that this is a completely portable procedure, and they go regularly. I do not understand why, but this year a surge of male hair removal, before a couple of guys came in a year and that's it. On the eve of February 14 and 23, it was men, and not women, who used to go to our site for the request of "male epilation". So now they take care of everything from young to old. And yes, sometimes men make gifts for girls on the same Valentine's Day or birthday - they meet them in a well-groomed form. More business people are carefully followed. I had one client who, before an important trip to the States, came to hair removal of the entire face - because I was worried that the deal might be broken because the partner would not like his single-man-hair or the hair from his ears.
For some events, they gladly make haircuts, they can make a henna pattern, although it is still rare. The settled need is a completely clean zone, nothing should interfere and everything should be smooth. Again, the manufacturers of underwear began to make more overt linen, so you need even deeper and cleaner to clean everything. There are many reasons, for some people it is generally painful and psychologically uncomfortable to have hair on you.
Girls, even if they have no partners, still come and do hair removal. They are always active, go to the same pools, often go to the sea, often on corporate events - there are possible acquaintances. The current generation has such a position that a girl should always be on standby - the same Christian Gray can overtake her at any moment, and she may not have time to think. Everyone in himself already sees the goods and gives himself this presentation already on the machine, not always noticing it. Girls do it regularly, once a month, especially since it takes about 15 minutes in our salon, so you can even call in after office.
If we talk about this film, "Fifty shades of gray," we also noticed that the heroine has hair not only on her body, but also on her face. We paid attention to the face of the actress from "Snow White: Revenge of the Dwarfs": she has very bushy eyebrows, fluffy cheeks - the camera captures all this. People who are concerned about this issue (which, in my estimation, 80% of cinema visitors), laughed, saying that she had not removed her hair. Nowadays, young people even perceive the fluffy facial hair painfully: God forbid, there are some hairs over the lips or something is wrong in the whiskers - everything should be completely cleaned.
On the question that the guy refused to communicate with the girl because of the hair on her hands, - I think that this is not good. Behind all this entourage, we cease to see a person, to evaluate his spiritual qualities. It is clear that now it is not fashionable to be stupid, but appearance is evaluated too much. Again, they see each other in pairs not only as a partner, but also as an accessory: they both have to decorate each other, like, say, a good bag or an expensive watch. The girl next to should look impeccable if traveling with her partner to warm countries. I want to note, by the way, that this is typical for our country and some other nearby ones; in Europe, on the contrary, everything is towards naturalness.
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