Removing our body hair… where did it start?
Did you know that shaving is a fairly recent thing for us?
Removing our natural body hair started just over 100 years ago in 1915.
King Camp Gillette created the disposable razor targeted to men in 1901. As the power of greed took over it didn’t take him long to want to make more money. So what was he to do?
The only way was if more people needed razors. That’s when his marketing cap got larger and he decided to target the next half of the population…women.
How did he do this?
He created fake ads with silky smooth women saying that being hairless was all the rage in Europe and we bought into this marketing gimmick. Which eventually spread all over.
It created a new standard for women and he got what he wanted, more money!
“Over the next 100 years women’s spending power increased, skirts were shorter and shaved legs on women became more and more popular.”
He succeeded by profiting off our insecurities towards wanting to be accepted and fit in.
Fast forward to today and many in our society view women with natural body hair as unattractive or even dirty, when that’s just not the case.
It’s still fairly new to us and yet so ingrained in the way we live that we just follow along with it.
People do a lot of things because of marketing and being aware of it is the first step to breaking that standard for yourself.
The ideal image out there is pretty much smooth, soft skin, no hair, thin but curvy in all the right places etc.
For the majority of the world it’s a completely unrealistic beauty standard to hold oneself to, but it’s great for capitalism and consumerism so don’t expect it to stop anytime soon…
unless we decide to change that ourselves!
The interesting thing is I thought I was accepted or taken more seriously when I went along with these standards, focusing so much time, energy and money on my looks.
But what I noticed when I stopped putting my money into the beauty industry was it really had more to do with the confidence I gained in those moments from years of thinking I needed it.
When I realized that I am enough just as I am, when I started really respecting myself, I got to the point where I didn’t want to support these industries made to make us feel that we need to change our natural selves in order to be accepted. Where I started really questioning why I was doing things in my life and did I want to attract people who only approve of me if I look a certain way?
No Thank you!
My force field is for love and acceptance and nothing will break that. We all deserve to know were enough, just as we are, just because we are here, and to not only know it but truly feel it!
You are so deeply loved.
(continued to part 2)