A new stupid beauty craze is now encouraging women to grow out their underarm hair and dye it a bright, bold color. Hair stylist Roxie Hunt, who works at popular Seattle salon Vain, is one of the people leading the armpit hair revolution and insists that women should embrace their underarm hair – rather than feeling forced to shave it off or hide it. ‘It’s no secret that some of us choose not to shave or wax our pits,’ she wrote in a blog post for Off Beat Home. ‘More and more often, I am meeting women who un-apologetically choose not to succumb to the societal pressure of scraping a razor against the soft skin of their bodies. If you recall, I want to celebrate pit hair.’ Roxie asked one of her colleagues at the salon to help her test out the best armpit dying technique and offers a wealth of tips and advice to any women wanting to try out the trend for themselves. ‘I have always wanted to color someone’s pit hair… I asked my co-worker Rain if she would be down to let me dye her pit hair blue to match her hair color and she agreed, heartily,’ she wrote. ‘More and more often, I am meeting women who un-apologetically choose not to succumb to the societal pressure of scraping a razor against the soft skin of their bodies. If you recall, I want to celebrate pit hair.’ Roxie asked one of her colleagues at the salon to help her test out the best armpit dying technique and offers a wealth of tips and advice to any women wanting to try out the trend for themselves. ‘I have always wanted to color someone’s pit hair… I asked my co-worker Rain if she would be down to let me dye her pit hair blue to match her hair color and she agreed, heartily,’ she wrote. And Roxie is not the only one embracing this new trend. Dozens of women on Instagram have been sharing images of their own brightly-colored armpits using the hashtag #dyedpits, while on YouTube, hundreds of users have posted videos about dying your armpit hair, including a number of in-depth tutorials. Destiny M, a Latina blogger, explained her video that she made the decision to dye her armpit hair a bright blue shade after spending years trying to hide her body hair. ‘My hair is very dark naturally,’ she explained. ‘Dark, coarse and thick – and it grows really fast…
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