just because you don't shave to the skin doesn't mean you can't trim the bush :p:

No sh*t, that looks like some jungle vines. Beware when operating the blender or other machinery. ;)

So...Muslims have strict traditions. Therefore, you're not shaving your arm pits.

You know folks, and I say this to everyone, its ok to be reasonable sometimes. It was hard for me when I left college too.

Well I think this is a fabulous picture. You're very striking Erica...beautiful!

Haha..well that (your comparison) would make sense then..

In all fairness though, I am enlisted.

wait... a rare find. a photo of me that hasn't been photoshopped to death

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._6292238_n.jpg

Altering your picture would be blasphemy. Straight up shots is the way you should continue to roll.

I don't do it. I don't like posting pics of my family or friends on here so the ones I'm stuck with are the portrait style ones that my mum edits to death :D

Holy fuck and the archbishop of canterbury, I've never seen such a thing before in my life.

Now, I don't want my initial surprise to make me look like an utter arse, so I'll very honestly say that even though you could braid that and I can't, that's a quite lovely picture.

Edit: and let's not forget that I don't want to hurt your feelings.

I had to point out my underarm hair! I didn't want my photo to deprive you entirely of your cherished image of me as a "buck-toothed, hairy feminist lesbian in an oversized--striped, wasn't it?--jumper." ;) That would just be cruel!

Completely ridiculous, Vanilla! I dated a Turkish man (though not Muslim), and all was great for the first year. Then I started to feel more and more as if he disapproved of me. He'd say (knowing I walked places at night), "If a woman walks at night and gets raped, then it's her fault," for example. Your ex sounds extremely overbearing. And I agree make-up can accentuate features, not really hide them. Except for zits. It hides those! :D

My cheekbones are definitely getting more pronounced with age. When I'm 80, I'll probably look like Edvard Munch's "The Scream."

But...I *had* trimmed! :(

Ha ha...just kidding. I simply prefer my bushes to be wild rather than sport the suburban manicured look:

http://chattamom.chattablogs.com/arc...b%20behind.jpg

I know, I know! Sometimes I warn people sitting next to me, if they notice something crawling around their neck, just to hold still while I unwrap my hair from its stranglehold on their jugulars.

But now I'm curious: I remember those chops you sported as a youngun. You strike me as someone who might have a heavy dose of good Italian-hair-growing genes in him. So how long is *your* underarm hair? I don't know why people get so weirded out by underarm hair. It's kind of like having two kittens living in your armpits! :laughing: What could be weird about that?

Reasonable? Reasonable as in drag a sharp blade over your delicate underarms every day, occasionally causing bleeding nicks, just because...other people do it?

HA HA HA HA!

Thank you, Sarah! :)