She’s trading her razor for riches.
A social media siren who posts under the name Calita Fire claims to be earning five figures a month after bidding farewell to her shaving routine and putting her body hair on full display.
“Don’t follow the fashion,” Calita, who makes x-rated content, captioned her most recent video. “You don’t need to shave.”
Calita, who hasn’t shaved in three years, boasts nearly 12,000 followers on TikTok and over 31,000 on Instagram. She regularly posts steamy snaps in lingerie or swimwear, flaunting her unshaved pits – critics be damned.
“My bf [boyfriend] loves it,” she assured her “worried” viewers in one clip with over 43,000 views. Her remarks come as aghast users question her fuzzy underarms, while many of her fans buzz over her “natural” looks, praising the adult content creator for looking like a “real woman.”
But Calita isn’t the only – nor the first – woman to reject the razor.
Actress Rachel McAdams’ most recent photoshoot garnered mixed reactions last week after posing au natural for Bustle. “The Notebook” star, 44, rocked hairy under her arms in multiple images, prompting some haters to call it “nasty,” while others championed her for “embracing her natural beauty.”
McAdams joined a growing posse of A-listers who are owning their natural looks – body hair and all. Miley Cyrus, Janelle Monet, Bella Thorne and more have been flaunting their fuzz for some time, as other women have begun to follow suit.
Brooklyn-based mom-of-two Maria Margolies told The Post this month that she stopped shaving ten years ago after a decade of smooth legs and hairless underarms.
“Women are taught that it’s not OK to have body hair,” the 42-year-old said. “But I’m confident in my choice not to shave if I don’t want to. It’s empowering to stand my ground.”
Margolies is part of an ever-growing movement of women who are letting their hair down – or grow – with Gen Z leading the pack.
Models, sex workers and content creators alike have been attempting to “normalize” body hair in recent years, following a pandemic and a shift in cultural norms. In fact, the TikTok tag #bodyhairisnormal has amassed nearly 200 million views on the platform, where women are showcasing their prickly legs in all their feminine glory.
“I feel a lot of women are tired of changing themselves in order to fit in society’s definition of beautiful,” Virali Patel, 28, previously told The Post. “We’ve been conditioned to believe smooth skin is sexy, and having hair makes us look ‘manly’ and unworthy of love — which just isn’t true.”
Parting ways with your shaving or waxing routine not only prevents razor burn, ingrown hairs and the lumps or bumps that accompany it, but it also has some major health benefits.
Having a bit of excess hair won’t cause more sweat or smell, but it will reduce skin-on-skin friction and the possibility for infection via the accidental nicks everyone suffers. In fact, according to Healthline, you’ll sweat and smell less due to the hairs soaking up the excess moisture and traps the odor.