Body Hair Can Even Be A Trend
Do you remember that era, when these ageless hunks once used to have hairy chest? If not, then let’s begin. . . We all grooved to the beats of “Salman Khan” dancing in ripped jeans with just a guitar in hand. Although, if you recall he wasn’t always immaculate, as he had an unshaven chest in “Maine pyar kiya”. And how can we forget about our action superhero, “Akshay kumar” always having the physique and agility to be a khiladi, but the star didn’t always have the same slick chest as before. Keeping up with the trend in the film industry, we now see a waxed version of an another hairy Akshay kumar.
Although, his excessive chest hair never came in the way of him flaunting his body on the big screen. In his film “BLUE”, Akshay flaunted his waxed chest and a clean back complete with a tattoo of his son’s name Aarav. If we move over the Munnabhai image of “Sanjay Dutt”, from Yalgaar to Agneepath, he initially sported a new look with visible chest hair that later transformed into a more bulky frame and a clean chest. As he eventually had to bow down to the industry rules of a waxed chest. Well, we all know about Ram Lakhan’s rockstar “Anil Kapoor” whose body hair made him famous but he was no longer considered attractive. Last year, Mr. India had unsuccessfully tried to remove his chest hair using a Land Mower and hurt himself in the process. I mean there is a fine line between Manscaping and Masochism, Right?
According, to a research, millennial men have started investing a lot into how they look, the global grooming market rose to Rs. 1, 434. 5 in 2015. In Canada, male grooming will be worth $1 billion by 2020. Moreover the most popular service by far for men is back waxing, (about 60% or 70% of male clientele), followed by brows and chest. Unfortunately, Men are paying attention to ‘how they look’ and they want to feel good, just like females do, but by focusing on the parts that needs to be shown-off as only certain men can grow body hair, whether it be because they are transgender, their race or individual physiology.
Moreover, it is important to acknowledge the extent to which straight cultures are often influenced by gay culture. The influence became particularly evident when we witnessed the emergence of “Metro sexual” and we suspect that some of the shift back towards chest hair is a result of heterosexual culture following or being influenced by current trends.
Ladies, “the metrosexual has left the room” A few years ago it was common to see clients with shaved or waxed chests, but it seems that men no longer think that removing hair from their chest is a masculine thing to do. Beards are hip-manliness is in vogue and clean-shaven pretty boy have fallen out of fashion for new.
