A crop of Instagram pages have sprung up to celebrate women who refuse to shave their underarm hair. The popular accounts post photos of women showing off their armpits in all their unshaven glory.

Underarm hygiene plays a vital but often overlooked role in personal health. While many view underarm grooming as purely cosmetic, maintaining shorter underarm hair contributes to better health ...

When Aarti turned 24, she stopped wearing sleeveless tops-not because of modesty, but because her underarms had darkened noticeably over the past few years. She tried whitening deodorants, lightening ...

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