Let it grow, baby!
in 2018, Januhairy aims to promote body positivity and acceptance of body hair on women, while raising money for charity.Some of the people taking part have spoken to Metro.co.uk to explain why the are bearing all on social media.‘I love Januhairy – what better way to start the year than with an initiative to normalise female body hair.
‘Growing out my body hair has been a truly empowering experience – an external sign to the world that my body is for me.‘Women’s body hair is continuously policed, and choosing to embrace our natural body hair is often met with criticism. At the end of the day, women should choose what makes them individually happy.
‘We are all individual owners of our bodies and have a right to feel at home in them, whether that pleases others or not.’‘I started shaving my armpits and legs when I was 14 when I moved schools and was immediately picked on for having hair – it wasn’t something I’d ever really thought about before.
‘If I didn’t keep up with the shaving/hair removal, I felt a deep sense of shame, added to by the male partners who would comment in horror if my leg hair or pubic hair started to grow in.Chloe doesn’t put down the razor just for January ‘In 2018, I decided to grow out my armpit hair to see how I felt about it and to challenge my own perceptions. It was strange. And then it wasn’t, it just felt completely normal.
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