"I love your armpit hair! I’ve been trying to grow my own!" shouts a very enthusiastic and probably quite drunk girl just as I get down from my

The media would have you believe that social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat are destroying teenage girls' self-worth, ramming unrealistic

Our bodies have their own unique ways of telling us when something isn’t right, and hair is one of their many methods of communication. While split

Hair covers almost all of the human body, except for palms of hands, soles of feet, lips, backs of ears, that sort of thing. In that sense, none of these

As a hairy, chubby, 15-year-old girl, there was one thing I knew about desire: that what distinguishes teenage girls from teenage boys is hair, and that

I refuse to do a Daily Mail-style “my body hair hell” photoshoot for this piece so instead let’s try a visualisation. Let's imagine we're going to

Why are we so afraid to talk about body hair? Why is it shocking that women actually grow body hair? Who decided that hair is a 'manly' thing to keep?

Remember when Julia Roberts flashed a hairy armpit at the Notting Hill premiere in 1999 and the tabloid press collectively lost its mind? This was in

Whether you find foaming your legs a complete faff, constantly groan about your post-wax ingrowns or are simply tired of tweezing your 'tache and

Growing up as a Greek Cypriot girl in a small Essex town, my schooldays were a blur of pretty girls with fair hair pointing out my sideburns, telling me

With just 4% of women under 35 in the UK leaving their pubic hair untended [at the time of writing], intimate hair removal is still an extremely

From Rome to Peaky Blinders, the 21st century has blessed our Netflix accounts with a smorgasboard of period dramas praised for their attention to

A conversation with my mum (Jamaican and Indian), when I was 11: Mum: You’re coming with me to my electrolysis appointment. Me: What’s that? Mum:

I can't find an exact or even a semi-accurate estimate of the number of hairs a human being has on their body. Taking an average from endless online

The majority of us, at some point in our lives, have spent time and money removing hair from our bodies. From the moment you reached for your mum's razor

When God was handing out hair, I was at the very front of the queue. I'm not talking thick, luscious, glossy hair on my head. Although that would be

There are women who giggle or feel offended when their eyebrow threader asks if they’d like their upper lip done. And there are women who lean back,