Her Niece Was Getting Bullied For Having Facial Hair, So She Took Her Niece To Get Waxed Behind Her Sister’s Back
In this woman’s family, all of the women have fair skin and incredibly thick, dark hair. Throughout the years, her family has often talked about hair removal, and tons of her aunts, siblings, and cousins have spent a lot of money on laser hair removal.
The women in her family have body hair on their faces, backs, and stomachs, which you usually see on most men.
“My youngest sister is your crunchy granola, all-natural type. She doesn’t shave, thinks it’s a double standard and hypocritical, all bodies are beautiful, all that stuff, and I support her in that. Be happy in your own skin,” she said.
She also isn’t much of a fan of shaving, but she does shave occasionally for special events. At the same time, she knows that children can be incredibly mean to one another.
As a child, she was constantly bullied, and the negative experiences led to deep insecurities about her body hair that she only learned to accept several years into adulthood.
“My sister’s daughter has the hairy gene, and I suspect possibly some kind of hormonal issue. At 14, she has extensive facial hair, including from her chin to her neck, that in some spots is thicker than your average arm hair. My sister allows her to shave only from the knee down, and she will also shave her face, but she tends to get razor burn and a 5 o’clock shadow,” she explained.
According to her sister, it would be wrong for her daughter to spend money attempting to adhere to the beauty standards that society expects women to comply with.
Eventually, her niece confided in her and sobbed as she told her that she had been bullied because of her facial hair. She said that she was incredibly insecure about it, and she asked if she could take her to get a wax.
“She even once got chemical burns on her face after sneaking Nair out of her friend’s mom’s bathroom in the middle of the night and trying to use it,” she shared.
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After her niece pleaded with her to go get her facial hair waxed, she broached the topic with her sister, who rejected the idea outright. Her sister scolded her for supposedly attempting to “force” standards of beauty onto her daughter, even though her niece was the one who came to her to make the request.
She didn’t have an opinion either way about what her niece decided to do about her facial hair, but it was evident that her niece was upset and insecure about it.
There was an upcoming dance at her niece’s high school, and her niece asked her again if she could take her to get a wax before the dance.
When her niece told her that she “wanted to look ‘normal’ (her words),” she made the decision to go forward with taking her niece for a wax behind her sister’s back.
Once her sister found out about this, she was obviously furious, claiming that she meddled in something that wasn’t any of her business. Her sister added that it wasn’t up to her to make decisions for her niece. Since her sister was the mother, she was the one who should have the final say in the matter.
In response, she told her sister that allowing her niece to be depressed and insecure in order to supposedly fight back against society’s standards of beauty made her a terrible mother.
Do you think she was wrong to take her niece to get her facial hair waxed behind her sister’s back?
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