Hi Akram:

I think if you shaved them every day you might not need as long, but I personally don't shave my legs every day.

I find if you don't then 15-20 minutes seems like a reasonable time if you are doing a thorough job.

Probably the best thing to use would be a womens razor such as Venus Divine or Quatro for women simply because they are designed for women to shave their legs and will minimize cuts.

I also find it helpful to use a good gel such as Gillette Satin Care, and to shave while soaking in the bathtub. Wash the skin to be shaved first to soften the hair, then lather and shave.

With practice you can probably reduce the time it takes to shave.

Alicia

If you can afford waxing, it's the best way, because they grow back slower.

If that's not an option, you may want to try something like Nair for Men.

Well to be honest with y'all...I've graduated to using an epilator. Why? Spending way too much time and money shaving and buying razors.

But to get to why I started shaving to begin with. Well, I'm an 8-year spinal injury patient, and if you don't know anything about spinal injuries, there's one thing that is a bitch. You don't sweat below the level of your injury. Therefore you skin below that area is very dry and for some reason breaks out easily with achne. Must be something to do with the skin not being able to wash away the lingering dirt and grime with normal prespiration.

Anyway, my spinal injury is C6-C7. That's right above the shoulder. By comparison, Christopher Reeve's injury was like C2-C3. That's high up, right below the brain stem. But mine, being lower, I was fortunate to only get what they call an 'incomplete' break. Meaning that the cord isn't severed...just traumatized and bruised quite a bit. So once the swelling went down, I started regaining usage below that. But there was enough damage that I didn't recover fully. Yeah, even now, my life's pretty much fucked up.

Well, to get back to the shaving thing, I was breaking out in whiteheads constantly and of course I'd pop them and then the resulting wound would fester and widen as it'd try to scab over and such. With a full body of hair, I couldn't do anything about these things. No matter how much ointment, achne cream, I'd put on them, nothing worked. Ironically, I cut the shit out of my left elbow in my accident and it wouldn't heal up for the same reason. So one day, I decided to shave the hair off of my elbow, and wouldn't you know, my elbow healed up within about a weel. So I thought...Hmmm....maybe if I shave the hair of all these zits, they may heal up too. So that's about when I started basically shaving my entire body. Why my entire body? Well, as has been discussed here, is if you shave one body part, but still have your normal hair growth on another, it doesn't look right. So I just shaved my entire body...including arms, legs, stomach, chest, ass, and pubic area (just for fun, if you know what I mean).

Well, after about a year and a half of shaving, buying dozens of Mach 3 varients, I decided I had had enough and started looking for alternatives. I found that the new generation of epilators seem to do the job and well. So I bought one back in early November and I'm real happy with it. My skin is pretty much hair free for weeks. I touch up nearly dairly as the sparse cyclic regrowth comes back, but for the most part, it beats the hell out of shaving every day.

well, i wish i could tell you i got the groin area worked on for aesthetic and other reasons, but ...

Hi Lincoln6Echo

I finally made it to full medical doctor 5 weeks before Christmas. It took 10.5 years of study and practice to get here, but it's done now. I deal on 24 hour call with 4 hospitals in my area. I understand spinal injury well. What you describe is normal in such cases. Removal of hair can only help you. The skin must exfolite and if circulation is inhibited or stopped in certain areas the hair will cause problems.

Regards
Dr. Stuart Turner
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Hi Akram

Removal of leg and body hair both hygienic and convienient. It saves time in the shower or bath that more than make up for the shaving time. Try starting with a simple Mach3 blade and then mayby upgrage to an electric. Fill your bath to 3 inches of luke warm water and then use shaving cream first on 1 leg then the other. Use the rasor gentily at first. Try to get some sun on your legs after shaving to boost your Vitiman D levels and add a good cosmetic look. Tanned shaved legs look much better than hairy white legs.

Best Regards

I think tanned shaved legs stick out less than white shaved ones. Almost like the eye expects to see some darkness on legs from the hair, but if it's tanned, they draw less attention. Not sure though, never run any studies on it or anything! Might be the opposite. But I think generally having a slight tan looks better anyway.