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It's Personal! Every woman has different hair removal issues

Every woman is a lone soldier battling an army of follicles when it comes to hair removal. There are many things we like to do in a group; shop, eat lunch, go to the bathroom at parties, but one thing we all have to do on our own is hair removal

That's because we're all different - we all grow hair in our own singular and exciting way - and, much as we would love to share the process with our sisters, no one else can ever really understand what we, uniquely, are up against.

What we will tolerate in terms of regrowth are as different as our growth patterns. Some women would rather run naked for the bus that tolerate more than a micro-millimetre of regrowth, while others are positively laid-back about spending the days before they wax wafting about bare-legged.

And, to further complicate an already lavishly complex matter, we have different regrowth tolerances depending on body part.

I am quite chilled about a certain amount of regrowth on my legs (in case you think I'm channeling my inner Neanderthal, I mean fantastically short - really only visible if we're physically touching) but even so much as a whisper of underarm hair makes me feel grubby.

How weird is it that thick, vigorous hair is the Holy Grail when it's growing out of our heads, and yet, less that three short inches away, the mere suspicion of a lone moustache hair is enough to make us scurry sheepishly and urgently to the bathroom to deal with it?

And so, in regard to location we also vary wildly in what we will tolerate. I'm happy to have gently hairy (I really mean downy) arms, whereas one of my closest friends has been waxing hers since the advent of puberty.

Then again, she has one or two very light hairs on her big toes (I spotted them while sunbathing) whereas should hair so much as consider growing in the neighbourhood of my feet I will take the most nuclear option available.

And talking of options, there are a baffling number out there. In search of advice from the people who spend more time than a beach volleyball team thinking about hair removal, I went to the Nair Leg Technician's online consultation page. As they point out, if you seek help with your nails you'll talk to a manicurist, so Nair has gathered together a gaggle of hair removal experts to give us advice on those insanely annoying depilatory issues.

And yes, we know that in the broader scheme of things they're trivial, but wow they take up an inordinate and ludicrous amount of time.

I sped through the questions such as hair colour, skin sensitivity and how long you hope to remain hair free. The whole thing takes less than three minutes and at the end they give you great advice about which products are best suited to you.

As I bitterly resent spending a minute of my life longer than is absolutely necessary and I have weirdly sensitive skin, my results suggested that I use the Nair Soothing Wax Kit, which sounds like a cunning plan.

And here's the very best, absolutely brilliant bit - you can even email the Leg Technicians with specific questions. That's what I like, a whole team of experts carefully pondering my hair removal issues - at last someone else is taking them seriously!

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