Offbeat Unicorn

What does rainbow armpit hair have to do with unicorns? If unicorns are associated with truth and purity and fun, then cultivating and highlighting your armpit hair is the essence of unicorn-ness. Whereas the unicorn frappucino was a rainbow covering empty calories and consumerism, unicorn armpit hair is a DIY statement about the integrity of the human body and redefining femininity…plus rainbows.

People have been posting pictures of their unicorn armpits, but I also like the idea of people secretly having colourful armpits. A secret joy. (Unicorns, like armpits, are seldom on display.)

Personally, I don’t have the patience or the presence of mind to dye any of my hair anywhere (it sounds kind of messy). But if you do, it sounds like a fun thing to do on a cold or rainy winter day.

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Offbeat Unicorn is for people who like unicorns…and like thinking about them.

Is a unicorn like a horse? A goat? A whale? A dragon? A rhino? Is it friendly or is it antisocial? Is it wise, proud, fierce, gentle, vain? Are unicorns “childish” or “girly” or “feminine” or “masculine” or “queer”? Do unicorns now act or look similar to unicorns in the past? Are they a way for companies to make a lot of money, spiritual icons, or symbols of unbridled imagination?

Read on and find out!

“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn