Editing Bikini (section)

== Bikini waxing ==
{{Main|Bikini waxing}}

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| header    = Bikini waxing styles{{efn|''Sources:''<ref name=milady/><ref name=essort/><ref name=BrBi/><ref name=landingstrip>{{cite web|last1=Grey|first1=Maggie|title=Basic Pubic Hairstyles|url=http://www.landingstrip.org/basic-pubic-hairstyles/|website=The Landing Strip|access-date=June 13, 2014|date=2012-06-30}}</ref><ref name=SalE>{{cite book | author = Salinger, Eve | year = 2005 | title = The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pleasing Your Woman | publisher = Alpha Books/Penguin Group | location = New York | page = 196 | isbn = 978-1-59257-464-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9YISte-SRZEC&pg=PA196}}</ref><ref name=Boston>{{cite book | author = Boston Women's Health Book Collective, The | year = 2005 |title = Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era | publisher = Touchstone/Simon & Schuster | location = New York | page= [https://archive.org/details/ourbodiesoursel00bost/page/4 4] | isbn = 978-0-7432-5611-7 | edition = 35th anniversary | title-link = Our Bodies, Ourselves}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hiscock |first=Jane |author2=Frances Lovett |title=Beauty Therapy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CLHeHGFlQiYC&pg=PA325 |access-date=May 9, 2013 |year=2004 |edition=2nd |publisher=Heinemann Educational Publishers |location=Oxford, UK |isbn=978-0-435-45102-8 |page=325}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Latour|first=Stephanie |title=Erotic Review's Bedside Companion: An ABC of Delightful Depravity |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CLHeHGFlQiYC&pg=PA325 |access-date=May 9, 2013 |year=2002 |publisher=Anova Books|isbn=978-1-84411-002-5|page=25|quote=Salons offer a choice of waxing styles for women, including the widely renowned Brazilian or Mohican for those concerned not to reveal a single stray pube in the inciest, winciest beachwear, while The Hollywood denotes the full monty.}}</ref>}}
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| caption1  = American waxing (also: triangle, regular)
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| caption2  = French waxing (also: Mohican, landing strip)
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Bikini waxing is the [[hair removal|epilation]] of [[pubic hair]] beyond the bikini line by use of [[waxing]]. The bikini line delineates the part of a woman's pubic area to be covered by the bottom part of a bikini, which means any pubic hair visible beyond the boundaries of a swimsuit.<ref name=Embod1>Heinz Tschachler, Maureen Devine, Michael Draxlbauer; ''The EmBodyment of American Culture''; pp 61–62; LIT Verlag, Berlin-Hamburg-Münster; 2003; {{ISBN|3-8258-6762-5}}.</ref> Visible pubic hair is widely culturally disapproved, considered to be [[Embarrassment|embarrassing]], and often removed.<ref name=Embod1/>

As popularity of bikinis grew, the acceptability of pubic hair diminished.<ref name=Han>David L. Hanlon, Geoffrey Miles White, ''Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific'', page 99, Rowman & Littlefield, 2000, {{ISBN|0742500454}}</ref> But, with certain styles of women's swimwear, pubic hair may become visible around the [[crotch]] area of a [[swimsuit]].<ref name=Embod1/> With the reduction in the size of swimsuits, especially since the advent of the bikini after 1945, the practice of bikini waxing has also become popular.<ref name=Embod1/> The Brazilian style which became popular with the rise of thong bottoms.<ref name=heinz/>

Depending on the style of bikini-bottom and the amount of skin visible outside the bikini,<ref name=heinz>Heinz Tschachler, Maureen Devine and Michael Draxlbauer (ed.), ''The EmBodyment of American Culture'', page 62, LIT Verlag Münster, 2003, {{ISBN|978-3-8258-6762-1}}</ref> pubic hair may be styled into several styles:<ref name=milady>Helen Bickmore; ''Milady's Hair Removal Techniques: A Comprehensive Manual''; Thomson Delmar Learning; 2003; {{ISBN|1-4018-1555-3}}</ref><ref name=essort>{{cite web |url=http://www.essortment.com/different-types-bikini-wax-application-techniques-59434.html |title=Different Types of Bikini Wax and Application Techniques |publisher=Essortment |access-date=May 9, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131225003346/http://www.essortment.com/different-types-bikini-wax-application-techniques-59434.html |archive-date=December 25, 2013 |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name=BrBi>{{cite web |url=http://www.brazilian-bikinis.org/brazilianbikiniwax.html |title=Brazilian bikini wax |publisher=Brazilian Bikinis |access-date=May 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121117052055/http://www.brazilian-bikinis.org/brazilianbikiniwax.html |archive-date=November 17, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> American waxing (removal of pubic hair from the sides, top of the thighs, and under the navel), French waxing (leaving only a vertical strip in front), or Brazilian waxing (removal of all hair in the pelvic area, particularly suitable for [[thong]] bottoms).<ref>Milady, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=_DKKtUx5uo4C&q=%22bikini+waxing%22+evolution&pg=PA688 Milady Standard Cosmetology 2012]'', page 22, Cengage Learning, 2011, {{ISBN|1439059306}}</ref>