Growing up in a predominately white community, Ayqa Khan felt the classic teen pressure to fit in. "All my friends had blonde hair and just looked really good all the time without trying," the Pakistani-American artist tells Allure. Khan, on the other hand, was "somebody who had to prepare two hours to wake up early to make sure I had no hair on my face," she explains. "I wanted to be like these girls. It was like survival tactics."

To be like the other girls, Khan started to shave everything including her arms, legs, stomach, and back. "Oh yeah, that was so hard," she adds. "Shaving your back is really difficult." Her technique involved doing it in the sink so she could look in the mirror and make sure she didn't leave behind any patches. "If I had patches that mean people would know I was shaving," she explains. "I needed to show people that I was born without body hair."

Khan kept up shaving and waxing until college. She began to stop caring so much about removing her body hair and learned to let go of social constructs and societal standards about it. To this day, she doesn't remove her body hair.

In the latest video in our Dispelling Beauty Myths series with StyleLikeU, Khan shares how she really feels about shaving her body hair now and how it factors into her relationships. You can check out the quick clip above.

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