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June 8, 2008
shaving fetish
it's weird, i guess. i have a shaving fetish. sadly, it's not even the kind that involves women. fortunately, it's also not the kind that involves other men.
i look at a place like this and end up carried away.
now, in my defense, there's a whole movement of internet dweebs with wet-shaving on their minds, and i was there before it was cool, before there were shirtless internet dweebs on youtube with instructional shaving videos.
i've got a pile of straight razors that i no longer use because, though devotees will say otherwise, the safety razor was actually a progressive improvement on the old throat cutter. unless you're in a knife fight, of course.
as if my mondo order of pith-helmet smelling shaving creams of old london wasn't enough, i saw some mango shaving cream at the grocery (motto: too tired to go anywhere else? try the grocery!) and got that, too. mango! shaving cream! i am pretty sure it's for faces and not legs, but if i turn out to be wrong, hey, i'm a roadie after all.
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in defense of my shaving obsessions, i'm done buying straight razors, which were expensive, and i'm mostly done buying safety razors (i did buy one that was really expensive but it turns out i much prefer the $20 one!) and on average i spend pennies a day on shaving creams and sich.
sadly, the only way to really know if you like a shaving product is to try it. i am pretty much sworn off of shaving soaps, even though they come in some really great scents, because they simply don't work as well as musgo real in a tube, my gold standard for close, low-irritation shaves. unfortunately, it cost me a pretty penny to arrive at this realization. fortunately, a realization i arrived at two days ago was this: i can use all my unloved shaving soaps in the shower! and they smell great (not that i don't already have lots of great smelling shower soap, but using the shave soap sure beats feeling like a sucker for wasting it).
and finally, i have introduced both my bro and my main sack to shaving with a safety razor, and they're both converts. so it isn't just me and the internet dweebs.
tho bro and sack are kinda dweebish.
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