😳 at what age do young ladies now days start shaving?

My one DD started when she was about 10 or so. She's my hairy kid so it didn't bother me too much. The other one was probably 11 or so.

They both just asked one day if they could start shaving and that was that. I showed them once or twice and since then I haven't had to intervene. Of course, they need the foo-foo shaving cream which just makes me roll my eyes. Barbasol is good enough for me!

I think kids start puberty younger than they did when we were young. I think I started in middle school 11/12ish? I can't remember!

Mine started around 10 or so. My oldest has black hair and wanted to start because of wearing shorts in school. She felt awkward and wanted the black hairs gone. I bought her the Schick Intuition razor that has the built in soap looking thing surrounding the razor. They learn very quickly not to cut themselves! If they're able and it helps their self-confidence I don't see anything wrong with it.

I guess both of my girls were in middle school when they started shaving their legs? They are both blonde, so it wasn’t something they had to address before that.

IMO, there shouldn’t be a magic age. I have three girls. I let them start shaving when their hair started to bother them. My youngest was nine. She is fair skinned and has darker body hair.

As soon as the condition of their underarms and legs bothers them. An arbitrary age should not be forced on them.

I don’t remember their ages, but it was when they asked. Like pp’s, there isn’t a set age. Everyone develops differently and has different tolerances of how they feel about their body.

i started then with a good quality razor, I feel like they reduce the chance of nicking. 

I agree with letting them shave if and when they want to (and also not pushing if they're not comfortable doing it). To another poster's point, there's very little "letting" about it these days. Any girl with enough allowance to buy a drugstore razor and access to YouTube can figure it out.

I think my girls were both about 10 when they wanted to. Their hair is pretty blond, but it was seen as a kind of right of passage thing around 5th grade. Then my oldest went through a no shaving/no bra phase - she is very small-chested - because that was the thing to do at her arts high school, and I had to bite my tongue so hard, because while I agree in theory that being hairless and wearing a bra are cultural norms that women often participate in just to please others, those particular norms are ones that die very hard with me.

Anyway, I digress. I've seen girls at school as young as 2nd or 3rd grade from certain cultural backgrounds who were made miserable by their peers because they naturally had more body hair at a young age than the white/blond American standard. I always felt terrible for them and wished their mothers would let them shave if they wanted to.

The newer razors are a lot friendlier than what I had when I was young! I shudder to think of those long ribbons of skin removed from shaving too fast!

I love the Venus razors now (not disposable).. You can still cut yourself, but it very seldom happens with these.

Hair conditioner is an AWESOME alternative

Whenever she wants to.

When I started shaving I just did it. I didn’t ask or discuss it with my mom. It’s my body. Why would I ask permission?


I started when I was 10.

Young ladies grow up at such different ages. Lots of young ladies are way more physically mature than their moms were at their age. So in my head, anyone younger than 10 might be young, but if there is a need, I would be fine with it.

My DD is ten, very fair and the blonde hair on her legs isn’t at all noticeable IMO. She has no armpit hair at all. We have talked about it a little bit but so far she hasn’t expressed an interest in starting shaving. I’m sure once she transitions to middle school next year that will likely change. I’m fine with showing her whenever she feels she needs to do it but I’m not going to tell her she should or shouldn’t. It’s one of those things that to me is a PITA.

One of her friends is also blonde but is CRAZY hairy. Like, thick blonde 3/4” long hair on her legs AND arms.   You can definitely see it and if it was me I would absolutely be self conscious about it. Poor kid.

I think it should be their decision, whenever they want to. Same with boys and shaving.