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It is unlikely that anyone would dare to call hairy armpits an attractive highlight of a person’s image, however, contrary to all aesthetic perceptions, this phenomenon threatens to turn into part of popular culture.

The volume and intensity of the debate surrounding armpit hair is rapidly gaining momentum. Of course, first of all, we are simply talking about the fact that women should not shave their armpits.

Regardless of whether you associate the presence of body hair with feminism or not, supporters of this phenomenon consider refusing to shave hair as, first of all, a powerful weapon against the patriarchal view of female beauty.

However, a woman should remain a woman, so if you don’t shave, then paint what grows!

Hairy armpits

It all started with a stylist practicing in Seattle, Roxie Hunt. She became an internet star after I dyed my client's armpit hair in Blue colour so that they match the color of the hair on your head.

After completing this action, she wrote on her blog that it was nothing more than direct action feminism. Her post was reposted more than 30,000 times, even a special hashtag appeared - #dyedpit, which means "dyed armpits".

The stylist herself willingly shares her thoughts on this matter: “Everything was conceived as an experiment. We took photos of the process, and they turned out to be so interesting that it was decided to put them online. People understood us.”

After this, many photographs of girls appeared on the network who decided to follow the example of Roxy and her model. A second hashtag has appeared - “free your armpits” (#freeyourpits).

So it became a movement of sorts: grow and dye armpit hair.

As Hunt says, this is not just an aesthetic experiment, but also a way to express yourself. "It is our right to decide what to do with body hair. Let's hope that soon it will become a completely ordinary thing, and hair on female body will not call discomfort because the lady does not fit into beauty standards."

Image from a video posted by YouTube video blogger Destiny M about what motivated her to dye her armpit hair blue.

Julia Roberts sparked a media frenzy by appearing at the premiere of her film Notting Hill with unshaven armpits. She proudly waved to her fans with her raised hand, unbothered by the wisps of hair beneath her arms catching the glare of dozens of photo flashes.

Imagine for a moment the madness that would ensue if her armpits were painted blue.

Armpit hair and the question of whether to shave it or not, have been the subject of controversy for many years. And now some women are experimenting with dyeing armpit hair . Yes, you read that right. They dye their armpit hair blue, green, red and any other color according to their fancy.

Roxy Hunt, a stylist at Vain in Seattle, has always wanted to experiment with coloring her clients' armpit hair. Recently she decided to try it and dyed the armpits of a young woman blue to match her blue hair. Hunt wrote on her blog:

“We laughed and admired her beauty blue hair in the armpits. It was too good to be true. The color of her armpits matched the color of her head perfectly. I felt like an important victory for body hair."

If this hasn't convinced you yet, post Hunt shared more than 36,000 times. A quick search on Instagram shows that there is a hashtag on the topic #dyedpits with 373 posts and a hashtag on the topic #armpithair with more than 12,000 posts (Russian-speaking Instagram users have not yet reached this point and are behaving decently. Who would risk being the first?).

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Dyeing your armpits in bright colors is a phenomenon of our time.

Coming soon for everyone music festivals: bright, catchy armpits!

If you're too scared to try out the rainbow hair color trend, then you're in luck. You can try it on...your armpits! Yes, tinting your armpits is the latest “trend” in the beauty world. Forget about turning your scalp into a Pantone masterpiece—it turns out... Armpit dyeing is at the peak of popularity.

If you Google “armpit dyeing,” you’ll be surprised to see a ton of articles and video blogs about the phenomenon, plus a ton of instructions on how to do it at home, dating back to 2007. (Many of these involve using Manic Panic inks.) It may not be ultra new trend but she starts in large quantities appear on Instagram and YouTube.

To shave or not to shave? That is the question.

It is not clear whether the hair itself is needed for this procedure. (Given that Manic Panic can stain your arms and forehead, I'm guessing not, although it certainly won't last that long). However, many of the tutorials were the result of real women celebrating their armpit hair in vibrant color - an attempt to stop the taboo around women's armpit hair. Conversely, some men glorify their shaved, bald armpits (almost as taboo for men as hairy armpits for women) with the same colorful armpits.

We stand for freedom of creative expression, so although no one on our team has tried it for themselves yet, we support this risky image. Armpits aren't the sexiest part of the body, so to speak, so if you want to do them justice, go for it.

Now who will be the first to invent an eco-friendly, Department of Health-approved deodorant with an armpit-coloring effect?

What do you think about these “intricate” examples of coloring? Are you going to try this out in the near future?

Some say that these are the machinations of feminists, others look at photographs of hairy girls with disgust, and some support new trend and sincerely believes that the future lies with him. The fashion for hairy armpits continues unabated, as celebrities have taken up the cause!

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Recently, all attention was again focused on the 22-year-old, who received the Inspiration Award for her contribution to the fight against AIDS at the amfAR gala in New York. The singer showed off a delightful look in glam rock style: a red Moschino dress, decorated with sequin hearts, and black Martins boots with rough soles, which came into the modern wardrobe from the subculture and punk of the late 70s. But most importantly: Miley did not hesitate to show unshaven armpits.

Miley Cyrus at amFar in New York. PHOTO: Voge.ru

Last year we were hit by a real tsunami of unshaven armpits: the same Miley Cyrus, and a number of other major stars have posted photos on the Internet showing their unshaven and brightly colored armpits. The public was divided into two camps: some condemned the new trend with disgust, others embraced with admiration the next wave of liberation from fashion and beauty standards.

In 2014, Madonna posted a photo on her Instagram with the words: “ Long hair- I don’t care"

Back in 2007, photographer Ben Hopper began creating a series of photographs, “Natural Beauty,” dedicated to the fight against meaningless beauty standards in modern society. In 2014, he published this series on the Huffington Post website, where he talked about his idea. According to him, one of his models has her own hair in armpit caused such disgust that she refused to film.

“The whole purpose of the photo shoot is to show the contrast between current beauty standards and the unaesthetic appearance of unshaven armpits. I wanted to surprise people and at the same time question modern canons of attractiveness,” says Hopper.

Unshaven armpits as a trend began thanks to Roxy Hunt, a stylist from Seattle. She was the first to dye her armpit hair blue - the same color as her hair at that time. She then wrote about it on her blog, calling it "direct action feminism." The post instantly went viral social networks, causing a huge resonance: even the hashtag #dyedpit appeared, which translated means “dyed armpits.”

After the pioneer Hunt, many followers of dyedpit appeared on the network. Girls began to massively dye their armpit hair in different colors and show photos on the Internet, after which another hashtag appeared - #freeyurpits (“free your armpits”), which more accurately expressed the essence of the phenomenon. The idea of ​​not only not shaving your hair, but also showing it off, thus declaring new views on the beauty of the body and the right to dispose of it as you want, has turned into a real movement.

“This is a celebration of our right to make conscious choices about what to do with our bodies. Hopefully this concept will remain the order of the day for years to come. And female body hair will change the debate about what is considered "natural beauty" today, says Roxy Hunt.

Roxy Hunt

Indeed, in last years The so-called “natural beauty” has come into fashion: natural hair shades achieved through complex manipulations in a beauty salon; natural makeup, on which you can spend almost twice as much time as usual, natural carelessness in clothes (as if you were getting ready in a hurry and put on these perfectly combined things completely by accident; and as if you even picked them up right from the floor!) and etc.

Dandy

All this well-thought-out, planned and not at all natural “naturalness” began to resemble the rules of the 19th century, which, wanting to avoid triviality, drove themselves into the trap of vulgarity. In order to look fashionable, a dandy had to spend hours putting together a supposedly careless outfit, “wearing out” a new tailcoat at home (and sometimes the tailcoat was even given to the valet for a couple of weeks).

Julia Robert at the Notting Hill premiere, 1999

In general, as soon as the development of civilization drives us into too tight a framework, there is always someone who backs out. Madonna and Miley Cyrus are not the only celebrities who support the changes taking place in society. So, she appeared with unshaven armpits in 1999 at the premiere of “Notting Hill” (which, by the way, caused a hail of ridicule), and she admitted more than once that she did not like to shave her pubic hair. It seems that the topic of female body hair is no longer a cultural taboo.

Miley Cyrus

More and more often there are women who are not afraid to seem “different” and break the standards of perception of the beauty of the female body that have developed over many decades and even centuries. Girls with youth With the help of advertising, they are convinced that the only possible option for a woman is a smooth, ideally hairless body. Within the framework of this worldview, it is believed that only a hairless female body can be sexually attractive (let’s remember: have you also at least once in your life refused sex because you didn’t have time to shave your legs?) and, moreover, that the absence of hair on the body is this is the norm for a woman.

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It seems that not only women, but also men believed in this. Many of them sincerely believe that there cannot be hair on a woman’s body (at most a light fluff) - simply because they have never seen it. Millions of women every day make a lot of effort and spend huge amounts of money to get rid of hair on their legs, arms, face, armpits and bikini area. If hair on a woman's body exists, then why do we deny it?

Ben Hopper "Natural Beauty"

An ordinary student at the University of Liverpool, Yasmin Gasimova, who had to shave her legs since she was 10 years old, asked the same question and posted a photo of her hairy legs on Facebook. “It’s really unfair that society makes women feel self-conscious about their body hair. The truth is that hair is normal,” says Yasmin.

If a woman does not want to shave her hair, then she has the right to do so. The problem is that not all women who would gladly give up tedious procedures or can boast the same courage as Yasmin. Immediately after the publication of the pictures, Yasmin was hit with a barrage of criticism. Just because she doesn't shave her body hair, the girl received a lot of insults.