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Fresh off the return of the full bush , there is yet another triumph for team no-nicks-and-cuts: Grown-out underarm hair. According to a recent study , nearly one in four women under the age of 25 have stopped shaving their underarms. And after lockdown, it's likely that this number has only gone up, with many embracing a more lived-in look. But this long overdue shift in society's standards of female beauty wouldn't have been possible without the women who bucked convention in the first place. Equally radical were two of the latter decade's biggest rule breakers, Madonna and Lisa Bonet , who each tossed the razor with bad girl aplomb. Or Lola Kirke , who took the Golden Globes red carpet with visible, sweetheart-neckline-adjacent body hair.

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Female body hair is becoming more visible in popular culture and, while the issue has been around for decades, the new enthusiasm for hirsuteness has a 21st-century twist. I am usually late to catch on to shifts in the zeitgeist; this one came to my attention just recently. For the past couple of decades, I have seldom shaved my armpits.

And so, do I grow out my armpit hair? This might sound like a trivial question, but there are a lot of societal messages tied up into if I have hair on my armpits or not. As a cis-identifying woman, I experience daily expectations and pressures to be a certain way, and that way is groomed from head to toe. Having cleanly shaven armpits tells the world I care about how others see me.