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shaving
Okay I'll get straight to the point. I want to shave my pubic hair but I am a complete beginner and I have no idea what to do.
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If your a complete beginning, then you should start out by preparing a few days ahead of time. Say, for the next 3-5 days, before you let a razor come anywhere near your pubic hair, you use conditioner on it once a day. Do it the same way you would condition the hair on your head. Use just conditioner, not shampoo/conditioner in one, and leave it on for a minute or two. After a couple of days the hair will start to soften up and won't be as hard and course.
Now that your hair is prepared, start with some scissors and clip the hair as short as possible. Make sure you don't accidently cut yourself though. Trust me, that really hurts. :)
Now get a NEW razor. Don't use the same one that you've been shaving your legs with. Just get a fresh razor, preferebly one with three blades.
now it's come down to the day your going to shave. While in the shower, you should use conditioner, and after rinsing that off, use some moisturizing shaving cream, instead of just soap. Lather up, and with a fresh, un-used before razorblade, shave with the grain of the hair (this means shaving down most of the time). Only shave each spot once, maybe twice, to cut back on any chance of razor burn.
After you've shaved everything off, if you still feels that it's too stubbly, and if your feeling brave, you can try to shave against the grain, but only once. Shaving against the grain makes it much more likely to become irritated and your much more likely to get razor burn and those icky bikini bumps. But it will also leave it much smoother, since your more likely to get closer to the skin.
After you shave, you might want to try putting some conditioner on, and keep using conditioner each day. Even if you feel that you don't have any hair, it will make your skin feel better, and the new hair that eventually grows will also feel better and smoother.
Now, after it starts to grow back, you might want to wear the most comfortable undies possibly, and avoid friction in the area as much as possible. Wait until it feels better to attempt to shave a second time. I don't know exactly how long that should take, but you'll probably know if it's too soon by how it feels. And, if your thinking that you would never ever put yourself through this a second time, trust me... it does start to get better as time goes on. Eventually your skin will sort of get used to it and will be able to handle you shaving without burning up.
If not, then you could always just trim the top part (which I found is the only spot that gives me any kind of razor burn feeling) and shave the rest. If you buy a bikini area trimmer (only about $10 most stores) you could use that. It doesn't come out completely smooth, but it's pretty darned close, and there's no chance you can get any razor burn.
good luck, and sorry if this is a bit confusing. :)
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