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Shaving legs is women's least favourite beauty chore - shame they spend TWO MONTHS of their lives doing it

• Women spend four minutes, six times a week shaving legs
• Hair styling and removing make-up also hated beauty chores

By BIANCA LONDON

PUBLISHED: 15:44 GMT, 5 April 2013 | UPDATED: 15:56 GMT, 5 April 2013

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This chilly spring weather may be too cold to let us bare our legs for now. But it is only a matter of time before the summer days tempts us out of our tights - and force us to start defuzzing regularly once again. 

And it is not a prospect many of us relish, by all accounts. According to a new beauty poll, leg shaving comes top of a long list of most hated beauty chores, as 35 per cent of women say they despise depilation more than anything else in their beauty routine. 

But for something we loathe, we sure spend a lot of time doing it. The stuy revealed that during a lifetime British women spend 59 days - almost two months - carrying out this most hated task.

Close shave: Shaving is the chore women detest most and they spend four minutes, six times a week shaving their legs

The vast majority of women surveyed felt it was necessary to take off their leg hairs and on average women would spend four minutes, six times a week on the ritual - adding up to 21 hours every year.

The second most detested beauty chore is hairstyling, the study found. Seventeen per cent said they hated having to do it but admitted spending 16 minutes every day teasing their locks into place which amounts to almost a year during their lifetime (294 days). 

 

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The third most hated beauty chore was plucking eyebrows, which took 11 hours a year. 

Next was taking off make-up, which is hated so much by six per cent of British women, that they simply refuse to do it.

Tedious tasks: Detangling hair and removing make-up are the second and third most tedious tasks 

The majority of women (68 per cent) begrudgingly remove their make-up daily but two fifths remove their make-up twice a week at most.

Escentual.com Beauty Editor Emma Leslie, who carried out the research, said: 'Leg shaving was by far the most hated beauty chore for British women, but sadly most women felt they could not go without doing it.

'There are ways to make it a little more bearable – if you exfoliate first then you will shave closer so you won't have to do it so often. That will cut down on the two months of women’s lives spent doing this unpopular beauty chore.'

WOMEN'S MOST HATED BEAUTY CHORES...AND HOW LONG THEY SPEND DOING IT

Shaving legs- 72 days a lifetime
Styling hair- 294 days a lifetime
Plucking eyebrows - 30 days a lifetime
Taking off your make-up- 52 days a lifetime
Applying fake tan- 12 days a lifetime
Dying your hair- 23 days a lifetime
Body moisturizing- 44 days a lifetime
Painting nails- 20 days a lifetime
Exfoliation- 20 days a lifetime
Pedicures-11 days a lifetime

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