Depilatory experts Nair lift the lid on this prickly issue with a new survey, which shows how different nations measure up when it comes to attitudes to hair removal and bodily fuzz.

Here are what the survey found out:

The myths about global body hair trends:

• According to the Nair survey, the British consider their fellow Europeans to be less particular about hair removal compared to the Brits.

  Just over half (52%) of those surveyed associate Germans with having hairy armpits.

  Next in line were the French with four in ten (40%) respondents thinking they were likely to wear their pit hair long and bushy.

• Clean cut Americans were considered more civilized in their grooming habits, with only one per cent of respondents linking them with hairy armpits (with the exception of Julia Roberts!).
• When it comes to topiary down under new international trends definitely prevail, with over a quarter of British women in the survey admitting to wanting to try a drastic restyle of their bikini line.

  Topping the trim trends was the "Hollywood" (going totally bare) with 14 per cent of the vote followed by the "Brazilian" with one in 10 women opting for the landing strip approach.

  While 3 per cent of British women would consider a down under dye job - red, white and blue! Only 7% of women admitted to leaving it au naturel à la Française.

And the facts about British fuzz:

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