If you're planning a family trip to the shore or a resort this winter, there's a good chance your tween or teen daughter may be working up the nerve to ask if she can get a Brazilian wax.
More tweens and teen girls seem to be getting these barely-there removals lately -- this I know from my own real-life circle of moms with older girls.
Boy, oh, boy I can't even imagine how my mother would have reacted if I had requested one when I was a tween!
She and my father nearly had a heart attack when I came downstairs one morning and announced that I had gotten a tattoo, displaying the string-bean size green and brown snake on my bicep. OMG, It was fake! It took another 10 minutes to convince them I was only joking!
And I was 22!
Are Brazilian waxes inappropriate for young girls? Do you have one?
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I host a mom blog in Atlanta (blogs.ajc.com/momania) where they say some wild stuff but I would never have thought of this -- Really teenagers want this? -- I am surprised! I would think they would be too shy to let a technician poke around down there to actually get it done. Wow that is shocking.
Things have changed a lot since I was young....The older moms know what I mean....shaving that area was for porn stars and now it does seem to be main stream. I would make sure my daughter wasn't going around looking unkempt in a bathing suit, but beyond that I would NOT discuss pubic hair styling! That is beyond my definition of what a mother should discuss with her daughter! I wouldn't take my daughter for a wax at any age....but I wouldn't forbid it if she was old enough to pay for it and get it on her own. In my mind, that is her "business"!
These subjects make me so glad I don't have a daughter @_@ If I did have a daughter I would never allow her to do this until she was 18 and an adult. Most salons around here don't do Brazilian Wax on anyone under 18 anyway. All they need is for some underage girl to act like she was molested or something...I don't blame them, it shouldn't be allowed.
If she has to get that area waxed for a bathing suit, then obviously that suit is WAY to revealing and skimpy!!
Bethsunshine May. 16, 2009 at 8:47 AM
I agree.
some ppl see grooming as sexy or a coming of age thing. i personally think that shaving is barbaric, with the unsightly bumps and skin irritation. i would much rather have my daughter ask and lean about her options then to experiment with a razor and go around scratching at her crotch all day. any ways it is her body and the more she understand and identify with how her body grows changes and works the better she will feel making decision no matter what she is faced with. I want my daughter to know i value her ideas and opinions. i may not agree with all of them, or allow her to do all of them but the lines of communication are open and no matter how crazy of an idea she may have she can feel free to at lest discuss it with me.
I am the mom of 2 teen and one tween daughter and I can tell you that partial or total removal of pubic hair is very common these days. Not sure how or where this got started but I have my suspicions. I know that many grown women do it and I think it is totally acceptable. But I think it is wrong at such a young age. I think they do it for sexual reasons and it also think it keeps them looking pre pubescent, which is not right. I know this for a fact because when I talked to my tween (she's 11) about when it is proper to shave her legs, she brought it up very innocently. I guess she heard it from her older sisters. Just something else we've got to deal with these days, as if we don't already have enough on our plate.
I guess it depends on how old the teen is. If she is 17 or 18 then maybe. Before then I would say no :)
Now, I don't think anyone under 18 should be getting a Brazilian. That's a bit more adult. But I do think that a bikini wax is just fine, as long as they're around 16-17 and are willing to pay for it and drive themselves to the appointment.
However, before waxing even enters their mind, I think you should tell your daughter how to trim/shave down there on their own first. Yes, it might cause bumps, but I feel it's a little more appropriate for a younger girl to keep her bikini area looking neat. Nobody wants hair sticking out of their swimsuit, no matter what age you are.
For the women who say get her another bathing suit....women for the most part don't wear swim trunks. All women's bathing suits will show that even if they cover well. If you don't think so, trust me, at the pool and the beach I see your pubes lady.