To shave or not to shave: What do you do with your armpit hair?
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Xiao Meili is a well known women's rights activist in China.
She launched an "Armpit Hair Competition" on China's popular micro-blog service Weibo to get women to take ownership of their bodies.
The competition attracted thousands of comments from Chinese women.
You have been sharing your thoughts via @BBC_HaveYourSay, external on Twitter. Here is a selection of your tweets:
@jen_vorhaut, external in Washington DC, US, chooses not to shave her armpits.
@MARKDIDDY, external from Nigeria shared reasons for preferring armpits to remain hairless.
But not all readers agree that shaving armpits is the best way forward. @bijubelinky, external in London, UK, thinks it is down to the individual to choose.
@YHHSulami, external from Manhattan, Kansas, US, thinks that shaving armpits is a way to keep clean.
@ennisorca, external is from Australia and says that shaving, or choosing not to shave, is a seasonal choice.
And finally, @WomenAlso_, external from the UK raises the point that shaving armpit hair has nothing to do with hygiene.
Update 23 November 2017: This page has been amended to remove a tweet that, although innocuous, subsequently turned out to have been generated by a Russian "troll" account, external.
Produced by Alison Daye
- Published8 June 2015
