Vaj Hairstylez

There’s been this generational debate about how to groom yourself down there. Totally bare or totally wild, carefully maintained or just letting it grow, on display or completely hidden—everyone settles somewhere different. For a while the trend was total hairlessness, but now you’re seeing this swing back toward the natural thing. Feminist reclamation of the bush, basically.

An artist named Lessa Millet made this illustration called Vaj Hairstylez that treats pubic hair like an actual hairstyle. The Punk, The Bed-Head, The Professional, The Vintage, The Fascist. She named them all. What works about it is that it takes something people usually don’t discuss except in embarrassed whispers and just decides it’s worth illustrating, worth thinking about as an aesthetic choice.

Some of them actually appeal to me. The Bed-Head, The Punk—there’s something there. The Toothpick looks like a mistake waiting to happen. The Razor Burn is its own horror story. The Cactus is pure self-punishment. Everything else is just taste, and taste varies.

What got me about the illustration was its refusal to judge. It’s just here are the options, here’s what they look like, choose whatever feels right. That’s more honest than most conversations about bodies manage to be.