Women Only: Lets talk about shaving!

[Queen]

Too true, Marilyn!

 

[kayell]

LOL!  No kidding!

How much coconut oil to baking soda do you use?  I'm assuming you mane sort of a pastewith the 2?  Essential oils is a nice touch!

I don't actually measure. @ half and half, but it depends on the season. I make it to a reasonable paste texture, so more coconut oil in the winter, more baking soda in the summer when the coconut oil is liquid and I need more odor control.

 

[TrainChaser]

My personal criteria for shaving is my answer when I ask myself this question: How likely is it that anyone is going to see me naked today?

 

[Kirby]

^
I started following this principal as a precursor to moving into the van. and I prefer it to having to stay silky smooth all the time haha.

BTW *waves* Hi ladies, I'm Kendra. nice to meet you all

 

[Queen]

Hiya Kendra!

Wish I could grow my leg hair out, but it just bugs the crap out of me.  I guess if I were trying to stand on my head in some tiny campground shower stall I might get over that.  

 

[TrainChaser]

That's okay, Queen -- I'm sure you're on the Learn-As-You-Go program, just like the rest of us. Someday.......

 

[michele0203]

Stopped shaving my pits for about a month now....I feel like such a badass warrior woman...granted the hair isn't really.growing very fast but it feels like a significant step in my big F U to life as I once knew it!!!! ?

 

[DrJean]

Hmmm  Some of you might be part French! hahaha

Yes just another good thing about growing older (the body anyway, that is)... thinner hair and less of it....except in the places you don't want it!

I think I'm moving to waxing.... the upper lip for the time being... not too many yet...
as for the legs and pits? ahhhh a safety razor is fine a little basic soap and voila gone in 60 seconds...and the razor lasts a year (but I begin a new one after 6 months anyway.)

I don't like sprays... anything.  Got out of that in the 70s with tent camping (it ruins the natural rain barrier of the tent roof).

I like my hair short but unless it's permed, my neck hair bothers me and needs to be shaved.  So? I'm getting a perm next week (was on the original van schedule. For those who don't know, I ordered a van in July which came in in September but it wasn't built with my options so now I'm waiting for another.)  I had plans to be in the mountains right now, watching the leaves change colors.  

 

[TrainChaser]

DrJean: Don't you hate it when things go south like that, and ruin all your plans? It makes you want to get snotty and ask nasty questions. If you and I did crummy work like that, WE would get fired. Instead, they just say, "Well, why not just take it like it is?" grrrrrrrr

 

[DrJean]

Exactly.  There might be a mole in the KS Ford plant who is switching up orders/combining them...  a few have come out bassackwards... at the same time mine did.  What's really bad is after 5 hours of harrassment, I paid cash for the thing! Oh my!  The only thing that saved me from owning the vehicle is I left it there (LONG story) because I couldn't drive it without WINDOWS hello?   God was good to me.  He is.    So it's more than I can hope right now, that I will get what I want this time...and already I'm trying to decide what I can and cannot compromise upon.

But that's OT.

Do we dare discuss men and their shaving?    I don't care for beards any more but then I'm not kissing anymore either.  Mustaches with food in them...makes me want to hand them a razor (they can do what they want with it). hahaha  oh I think I shouldn't be posting tonight.

 

[TrainChaser]

Yeah, the food is a turnoff. And I'm don't encourage beards that are long enough to braid, either. But if they want 'em, they can have 'em.

 

[DrJean]

Yep. I can see where having to shave every day just to please others can be a bother hahahah

 

[Cammalu]

I really like a well manicured beard on a man but the sloppy ones, ick...


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[TrainChaser]

Around here (W. WA), there are a lot of beards. Some of them are tucked into their belts. Use of a pair of decent scissors on a beard can't be as time-consuming as shaving a pair of legs...

 

[DrJean]

A well trimmed face makes a man look great imo.. distinguished!

Here's a story for the men reading who have beards... don't shave them off unexpectedly if you are in a relationship! The USCG allowed beards until the war scares with the Middle East gas... so they were ordered to clean shave so the masks fit properly. There were countless divorces! You look totally different... women who had never seen their spouses except with a beard felt they had a stranger in their houses! Of course, some of the relationships were already on the rocks, this just made it easier to not like the guy! hahah

Yea... men can use their knives so handily otherwise, try cutting the frayed ends off the beards eh?

 

[Ms Linda]

My personal criteria for shaving is my answer when I ask myself this question:  How likely is it that anyone is going to see me naked today?

TrainChaser, yep, that's how I go about it. I'm single and not dating. It's not uncommon for me to not shave for 6 months. When I shave, I'm always startled by the newly found varicose veins. Might as well not shave at all...the ugliness level is the same.

 

[gypsyvioleta]

The only thing I shave anymore is my head! I had cancer & had it shaved off 7 yrs. ago & liked it so well that I went & got me an elec. razor from WM, put a #3 guard on it & zip away. I have bursitis in both arms & it hurts to much to do my hair every morning (it was long & very thick) so now I only have to raise the arms once every 4-6 weeks to buzz it off. I'm a little lazy (ok, a lot lazy)! The armpit hair quit growing years ago (I'm 70) and the leg hair grows very slowly but I don't worry about hairy legs anyway as if they don't like to see them, look somewhere else! I am an old, fat lady with a triple chin so hairy legs won't hurt more one way or another! If God wanted me hairless he would have made me that way! lol

 

[Cammalu]

If I don't shave the stickers will drive me nuts. I just don't feel clean.


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[michele0203]

If God wanted me hairless he would have made me that way!  lol

LOL!  I couldn't agree more!!!  Free the hair!!!

 

[bigsallysmom]

I don't shave my legs in the winter. It's the oddest feeling the first time I walk outside in warm weather in short pants. The hairs wiggle.