10 Absurd Things Women's Magazines Claim Are Going To Kill You

Shaving

reader had her shaving horror story published in the magazine: three days after shaving, she noticed a small red bump on her bikini line. A day later it was as big as a golf ball, and she claimed to "look three months pregnant." Her doctor told her that it was a staph infection, and if the abscess was not drained within days, it could spread internally and cause sepsis, a deadly blood infection. This can not only happen from shaving but also waxing or picking an ingrown hair with unclean tools. The solution is either not to care or let the hair grow wild.