Ever imagine a life without the pain of waxing, regular shaving or laser removal? That’s exactly how Yasmin Gasimova rolls!
Making the confession on a blog post where she stated she had no plans to start shaving her body, the universtity student is surprised that her revelation had gone viral.
First came the armpit hair rebellion, followed by the anti-bikini waxing and now she is bringing all tree together by joining the hairy legs club movement to the mix.
Baring all her hair in a blog post – even showing off downy belly hair in a series of pictures – the Liverpool University student said she doesn’t get the big deal.
She wrote this tweet:
seriously why is this such a big deal I don’t understand. “A woman makes choice about own body” WOW VIRAL NEWS
— yasmin g (@yasim0) May 28, 2015
Writing how she stopped shaving aged 11, Yasmin, who has Turkic origin, said she has no plans to become hair-free any time soon – but she does maintain her eyebrows.
During her school years, the Computer Science and Philosophy student said she felt pressured into remving her body hair after being teased by boys.
But now embracing her body and the dark body hair that came with it, she proudly posted a snap of her legs in their natural glory.
Yasmin is part of a movement where women from all over the world are saying “no” to waxing and shaving and are proudly posting images of their hairy legs online.
Among the more prominent such online communities is the Hairy Legs Club on Tumblr, which invites women to share their unshaven photos as a way of making a statement about social expectations of beauty.
The Hairy Legs Club is a site with hundreds of hairy images posted, and Yasmin even shows how long her body hair reaches below.
Insisting that her negative attitude toward the razor is seen as ‘unwomanly’ by society, the teenager wrote: ‘We often associate hairy women with being lazy, unclean or an extreme feminist-cat-loving-lesbian.
‘Body hair is seen as a typically masculine feature, and we often, wrongly, measure a man’s “manliness” by his ability to grow chest and facial hair.
‘Although women have just as much body hair, albeit generally thinner and lighter, as a society we have decided they have to be completely hairless in order to be seen as truly feminine.’
The first year student has spent the last eight years not caring about her body hair – and only shaving her legs when she wants a one night stand.
Writing for student newspaper The Tab, Yasmin said: ‘Being hairy isn’t scary. In a society where women are expected to shave, I’m not ashamed to admit I don’t.
‘I might trim my pubes if I’m going on holiday, but catch me on a normal day when my armpits are bushy and my legs furry, and you might be surprised.’
Recalling how she was bullied at school when moustache hairs started to sprout on her upper lip when she was just 10-years-old, she also said that she has grown to embrace it.
‘I stopped caring when I was 11, as having naturally thick, fast-growing hair meant I’d need to waste an hour just to get prickly dots on my legs, which would grow back in a week.
‘It’s a huge inconvenience for me, as it never made me feel comfortable, gave me loads of ingrown hairs, and my hairless legs wouldn’t match the rest of my hairy body.’
To read the story in Yasmin’s own words, READ HERE
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