Free-flowing armpit hair and female posers who resemble fashion models make for extraordinary—and extraordinarily arousing—bedfellows in the ongoing "Natural Beauty" project mounted by British photographer Ben Hopper. This is a trend we need to get going and, literally, keep growing.
IMAGE: Alessandra Kurr, Designer
Commenced in 2007, Hopper released a series of snaps to the Huffington Post of women who cultivated their fuzzy underarm adornments and flaunted the resulting fluff for the camera.
IMAGE: Ruby Bird, producer, costumier
"As I matured as a person and an artist, I realized I liked [armpit hair]," Hopper says. "I think it can be a beautiful look. The whole point [of the series] is contrast between fashionable female beauty and the raw unconventional look of female armpit hair. I expect [the photos] will surprise a lot of people and I guess, in a way, that is one of my intentions."
While Hopper is to be commended for encouraging the advancement of unshaven lady aesthetics, I, McBeardo—the non-humbly hair-hunting Fleshbot Contributing Editor whose work you're reading now—has always been sexually mesemerized by she-beards of the lower extremities. And I want more female fur all over, rousingly raised by women of every size, shape, and razor-eschewing possibility.
IMAGE: Cassia Tsura, performer
"I don't want to say that I want women to start growing their armpit hair," Hopper continues. "I just think that it's a possibility and people shouldn't dismiss it. I'd like people to just question [beauty standards], the whole thing."
IMAGE: Olivia Murphy, fashion student, model
IMAGE: Rakel Lindgren, actress, model
And your muff maven McBeardo pal says: "Hairy pits, hairier slits!"
In the meantime, don't you wish these pics were scratch-n-sniff?
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