Sep 28

Hair Removal

Category: hair removal

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Hair removal is defined as the process of removing the hair temporary or permanently from the human body by some means. Basically, there are two processes of hair removal, depilation and epilation. In depilation, hair are removed from above the surface of the skin as in shaving while in epilation, hair are removed below the skin as in waxing, threading, lasers, sugaring and through many other processes. Some people also remove the hairs with the help of the pluckers. Hair removal is a process that is adopted by the people from many years. There are many  medical, social, cultural and sexual reasons for the removal of hairs as some people remove hairs from their body to prevent the body from lice, fleas etc. some people remove hairs for hygiene, many types of treatment or surgeries also requires hair free body. In North America and Western Europe, hair removal process is compulsory for women so as to give a complete feminine look and for good hygiene.  In many art paintings of women, women are portrayed with no public hair. In many cultures hair removal is a mandatory process for both males and females. In western culture, almost men have a clean shave face. Only a few men have a beard. Some men shave their beard their beard color is different from the hair color, hairs of beard of some men grow in different directions, hairs of some men are very coarse so that they cause irritation and itchiness and many more reasons. Few men go for half beard in order to offer a different form. Some men also like to shave their heads as a mark of fashion. There are few women who also want to shave their head. In India, there was a tradition that a widow has to shave his head.  

                       As about religious reasons, in many traditions as Hindu, Christian, Buddhist, Jain and in Muslim head shaving is a common practice. Thailand monks shave their eyebrows and Brahmin children shave their heads. In Muslim culture, hair is divided in three categories. One is public and armpit which has to be removed for hygiene purpose, second one is beard hair that are recommended to keep and the third one are the hairs of hand, foot, back and chest, these hairs are recommended to remove for women while men have allowed to only trim the hairs.

                      There are mainly two types of hair removing methods are used by the people. One is temporary method includes shaving, depilatories, plucking, waxing, epilators, sugaring and threading and the second method is permanent hair removal that includes electrolysis, laser, flashlamp and epilight.

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