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One of the most important things about being a femboy is showing off smooth, soft, hairless skin.
In this guide, we’ll cover everything from at-home hair removal techniques to salon options, and how to avoid marks and blemishes along the way.
Table of Contents
Hair Removal Techniques
To get started, I want to discuss the different options for hair removal, because it’s always good to know what tools are at your disposal when moving forward.
For each of the below, I’ll highlight a short list of pros and cons, what to expect, followed by some useful links and resources if you wish to explore anything new.
Shaving
First up, let’s get into shaving.
Razors can be a really great time-tested way to achieve hairless skin, but it’s certainly not for everyone; and may not fit your needs as well as some of the other methods would.
If you’re like me, you taught yourself to shave, and certainly didn’t have anybody that was able to teach you how to shave parts of your body other than your face.
You may also not know there are different techniques to shaving, concerns regarding what kind of razors you’re using and how many blades are contained therein, and so on.
Pros:
- Shaving is time tested, and the most popular way to remove hair on your skin
- Shaving is relatively cheap, and there are a lot of different options for different skin types
- Shaving regularly can actually help improve the structure of hair regrowth, and work to soften your skin
Cons:
- The average person may expect to see ingrown hairs occasionally after shaving, especially in areas you don’t often shave
- Not having proper technique, or for those with sensitive skin: shaving can lead to razor bumps, razor burn, cuts, and other blemishes
- Purchasing razors often can be expensive
- It can be time intensive and troublesome to have to buy razors regularly
- Depending on how you do it, you might not be able to get close enough to the skin while shaving to accomplish perfectly smooth skin
- Given one’s rate of hair regrowth, shaving often has to be done regularly and somewhat often
Thoughts and Tips
I personally believe there are usually better hair removal options for your thighs, butt, chest, armpits, and wherever else.
I’ve found these other options below to last longer and work more effectively for me, but that might not be true in your case.
When I do have to shave, using a nice women’s razor with fewer blades that’s designed to get close to the skin in the bikini region has been a must.
Some of them even have special pads on the top that put aloe on your skin as you shave, which is wild.
A trick I’ve been told is that you can use moisturizer instead of shaving gel to get a smoother, closer shave. However, I’ve also learned this is a trick that comes with downsides. Using an oily moisturizer can work to clog your pours and dull razors faster, so beware.
Following this, some people will wash the area they shave beforehand using body washes that take from the natural oil of their skin, and as such, leads to a rougher shave.
The reality is that because shaving is the most popular and widely-used hair removal technique, there are very few boundaries on how you can mix and match different razors, shaving creams/gels/lotions, and so on.
Oh, and if you’re struggling with razor bumps, ingrown hairs, or other blemishes when shaving, check out our guide to avoiding ingrown hairs.
Trimming
It’s crazy to me how many people I’ve seen talk about the time it takes them to shave their thighs and butt, that have never opted to try out trimming instead of shaving.
Using a body trimmer that’s especially designed to get close to the skin, you can quickly and regularly churn through a lot of the work required to stay hair-free.
And if you find these routines to be taking you a ton of time out of your day, we wrote a guide on minimizing the time you take to get and stay hairless here.
Pros:
- Heavily minimize the time it takes you to get hairless and stay hairless
- These electric razors usually last a long time, and come with reusable heads
- The trimmers designed to get close to the skin give you a shave that mimics a mechanical razor
- Several of these work in the shower, and are water resistant
- You can seamlessly and discreetly go from shaving your face to shaving your body
- You can get rid of a lot of hair in bulk very quickly with these
Cons:
- The batteries in these are usually not amazing, and eventually require you to charge them before every shave
- When you start going fast, you can end up with bad cuts if you’re not careful
- Trimmers are less suitable for work close to the genitals or around the anus
- Hair still grows back at the rate it would with a traditional razor
Waxing
Our next stop for hair removal is waxing.
I think the main allure of waxing is that you’re going to end up with a much more thorough hair removal job, where the hair is truly gone, and stays gone.
This can definitely be true of the results, though there are some drawbacks with waxing, and as we get into what you can expect to see from great at-home waxing kits, know the reality is a little different.
First, if you don’t have experience waxing, odds are you’re going to mess it up a couple times before you get it right. And when you do mess it up, it’s going to hurt.
And I mean hurt.
Waxing it not a pain-free process. It’s very much the opposite of that, and if you have thick, coarse pubic hair you’re looking to get rid of via waxing, it’s going to hurt a lot.
I heard this when I first bought the waxing kit above, and thought “whatever, I can handle it”, and I did definitely tough it out. Though in the process of toughing it out, I bled, I cried cold tears involuntarily, and spent DAYS afterwards getting the irritation down.
But you know, what I was left with in the end was a completely hairless pubic region that stayed that way for about a month afterwards.
I will never do it again–not without painkillers–but it was very thorough and lasted, as advertised.
Pros:
- Long lasting hair removal
- Truly hairless skin left behind
- Waxing weakens your hair follicles, and results in thinner hair that grows back slower
- After buying a nice starter waxing kit, wax is usually pretty cheap
- Waxing hair that is not thick, dark, or coarse is usually highly effective
- Once you start getting the technique right, waxing becomes a lot faster
Cons:
- Pain can be incredible and debilitating
- The pain is worse if you’re not good at waxing
- Waxing can leave you with a lot of skin irritation
- There are different kinds of wax you have to buy for different kinds of hair
- There’s a learning curve with finding the right wax, temperature, and add-on products
- Buying wax, sticks, and waxing paper regularly can be expensive
- If you’re not careful, you can make a big mess that’s not as easy as it seems to clean up
- You often have to wait for the hair to grow to the right length in order to wax again
Epilating
Epilating is an interesting combination of the trimmer and waxing techniques above, and a good epilator can really give you your money’s worth.
You can think of it as a waxing machine, or maybe more like an automated hair-tweezing machine.
An epilator is an automated, mechanical hair-removal device that rapidly plucks the hairs out of your skin in order to leave it hair-free.
Like waxing, however, epilating can be very painful. I think the upside to epilating is that you can stop whenever you’d like without having to get on cleanup duty the same way you would with waxing.
If the pain becomes too much, just give it a rest. Simple as that.
You can also usually draw out the process quite a bit if you don’t like going very fast, which is something that can definitely be a challenge with waxing.
Pros:
- Short of the initial purchase, you don’t need to buy any other add-ons to epilate effectively
- Several of these epilators work in the shower, or plug directly in to the wall so they don’t need to be charged
- You can go as slow as you’d like to
- Epilating, when done correctly, completely removes the hair where you use the device
- The results are long lasting, just like with waxing
- The cleanup is usually really easy
- The process can go pretty fast once you get the hang of it
- It’s a lot harder to epilate wrong than it is to wax wrong, in my opinion
Cons:
- Like waxing, the pain can be pretty bad
- Some epilators don’t allow you to adjust the speed at which they remove hair
- Epilating at a bad angle with fragile hair can result in damaged hairs
- It’s normal to bleed some while epilating
- Cheap or worn-down epilators can occasionally cut or get tangled up with the skin
- Epilating is NOT suitable for loose skin around the genital areas
Nair and Depilatory Creams
If you’re interested in using Nair, or other depilatory creams, in order to get a hairless butt or thighs, know we already wrote a more in-depth article on that here.
I think the allure behind wanting to use these creams has a lot to do with the idea of a convenient, low-effort solution to getting rid of all of your hair.
The reality is a little bit different than I think most people imagine, so let’s get into it.
First, know these creams are designed to break down and dissolve hair on the surface of your skin, but don’t penetrate your skin to kill hair follicles at the root.
This is going to lead to results that are, best case scenario, close to what you’d get shaving against the grain.
If you’re going to use Nair on your thighs or butt, there’s a certain kind of the cream that comes with oils to soothe your skin while the hair dissolves, so definitely get that one.
The process basically goes like this:
- You put the cream on your skin, covering the hair, but don’t rub it in
- You wait some amount of time less, usually less than 10-minutes, for the hair to dissolve
- You pop in the shower and rinse off the liquid hair/cream mess on your skin
It seems simple, and usually it is, but you can run into issues with skin irritation, knowing what to look for and when to remove the cream, and so on.
Definitely check out the article we wrote on Nair’ing your thighs and butt here if you’re interested. I tried my best to load that one up with all of the advice I could muster.
Pros:
- Usually a low-effort way to remove hair close to the skin
- Often this doesn’t take very long at all
- There are many creams you can choose from, some of which work better at one thing than another (such as Nair, Veet, or Nads)
- Cleanup is easy, and usually occurs in the shower the exact same way rinsing off body wash would
- Some creams allow you to shower with them on
- It’s easy to remove a lot of hair quickly using creams like these
Cons:
- You’re basically putting an acid cream on the top of your skin, so irritation to the skin is not unlikely
- The smell of your hair melting, especially when you rinse off the cream in the shower, is insanely disgusting
- If you accidentally get these creams on sensitive areas of your skin (such as your genitals), this can be very painful
- You oftentimes can’t use these creams on your genitals or around your anus
- It’s easy to accidentally get these creams on other parts of your skin, such as on your face or in your eyes
- It’s very possible these creams may not work on thick, coarse hair, as would be found around the pubic region
- These creams can temporarily make your skin much more sensitive
