Bikini variants
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Many stylistic variations of the bikini have been created. A regular bikini is a two-piece swimsuit that together covers the wearer's crotch, buttocks, and breasts. Some bikini designs cover larger po
Micheline Bernardini, a nude dancer from the Casino de Paris, wearing the first bikini at the Piscine Molitor (Miller Swimming Pool) in Paris in 1946. Since the bikini was introduced by the fashion designer Louis Réard it has generated a number of variations, often smaller and more revealing than the original.
Woman wearing a string bikini in Sunrise, Florida in 2006
Rudi Gernreich's original 1964 monokini
A yellow microkini in Sunrise, Florida in 2006
Bikini waxing
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Bikini waxing is the removal of pubic hair using a special wax, which can be hot or cold, that adheres to hairs and pulls them out when the wax is removed quickly from the skin, usually with a cloth s
Bikini variants
…first appeared in the 1970s. During the 1980s the popularity of highly revealing thongs such as those found in the microkini led to a rise in the use of Brazilian waxing to remove most of the hair from the pubic area. The term "microkini" was first used in 1995 to describe the increasingly small bikini designs that were…
A woman's pubic area after a partial bikini wax
Wax being applied to female pubic hair
French waxing: Hair is removed entirely except a rectangular "landing strip".
Brazilian waxing: All hair is removed. In some places the technique is called Hollywood waxing.