Everything you ever wanted to know about furry parts and teeny bikinis but were too afraid to ask… What’s a bikini wax? Some ladeez don’t like their pubes poking out the side of their swimsuits. A bikini wax involves putting hot wax onto the offending bikini line, smoothing over strips of material and ripping them off, thus pulling the hair out from the root. Nice. Sorry, what’s a bikini line? Think about where the seam of a normal pair of pants falls. That’s your bikini line. In a standard bikini wax any hair outside that line would get the heave-ho. Okay, so what’s a Brazilian? In Brazil they have really, really tiny bikinis so a Brazilian wax involves whipping everything off, (even from your.. ahem… ‘undercarriage’), except for an ickle strip of hair where your triangle used to be. And a Hollywood? God only knows what kind of bikinis they wear in Hollywood because a Hollywood wax doesn’t even leave you with this strip. These procedures are like a lot of things; loads of people talk about them, very few actually do them. Isn’t painful, time-consuming pube removal a symbol of patriarchal oppression? Lots of very smart feminists reckon so. But it’s up to you to decide what you think. Try reading Naomi Woolf’s The Beauty Myth to find out more. Patriarchal oppression or no, isn’t waxing a bit of a hassle? Homewaxing is fiddly. Salon waxing is expensive and can be embarrassing. Both are painful. It lasts a month. What else is there? Shaving, v-e-r-y carefully and with lots of shaving gel, or using smelly depilatory creams to dissolve the hair. Both only last a few days. Shaving is only suitable for removing a few wisps because shaved hairs itch when they grow back and they grow back looking thicker and darker. Surely there’s a better way? The simplest solution to unwanted hair around your bikini line is a bigger bikini. Try one comes with shorts for bottoms and you needn’t give bikini waxes another thought. How about an interesting pube facts to conclude? A person’s pubes are always the same colour and texture as their eyebrows. FACT!