Shaving down there

So my boyfriend prefers when a girl is shaved down there but he says I don’t have to, he will love my vagina no matter what, but I wanna shave a little just for my personal liking and to make him smile too. I have tired in the past but i get so many ingrown hairs and such, I tried to shave with the direction of the hairs but that barely shaved anything and feels like a waste. What should I do?