It’s time to step aside gentlemen, and allow some well deserved time to go out to the ladies for this post.
With the ever encroaching warm weather peeking up over the horizon, many a question comes in to Shavers.com about the removal of hair not isolated to the face, but from the bikini line and legs, from the gentler sex. It’s all too important to remember that I said “gentler”. You’ll see why.
Well, Women, what’ve we got for you? Some of you shave, most of you trim, a few of you epilate.
Shaving is often misunderstood with regard to women. Although most of you out there probably think that using your man’s shaver on your legs/bikini/underarms is perfectly fine–you would be wrong. A man’s facial shaver is designed exclusively for use on facial hair. Now there are various types of facial hair out there, almost as varied as the men that grow it, but that hair is nowhere near as punishing as the pelt that you (and we–meaning men in general) grow upon the body. In other words, don’t use a man’s facial shaver on your body. It will take too long with too poor a result to waste your time with.
Trimming is trimming is trimming. All it comes down to is which trimmer is most comfortable for you to hold.
“But wait!” you scream. “Your last post talked all about the differences between trimmers–some good, some bad. Are you going back on what you said? Don’t you remember your own posts? I hate you!”
Easy now. Trimmers for men’s faces are once again vastly different than for body trimming. You are body trimming. Thicker hairs=less finesse. If the trimmer cuts cleanly without slipping from your hand and eviscerating the cat, it’s fine. Don’t spend a lot of money on a trimmer for the body.
Epilators…. (chill runs down the spine). This is where the term “gentler sex” comes into question. I tell you, I’ve been in this business for a lot of years, but I never understood the use of epilators. Don’t get me wrong, they do a fine job. Clean, smooth, silky, milky have all been used to describe epilation. What is never written on the box though, is painful, irritating, ripping, screaming, etc… The mere thought of having a machine spin a few dozen little tweezers at 10,346 mph as they rip hairs out of my legs or (gulp) crotch, is beyond sanity for most men looking to simply remove hair. The European femms seem to really like epilators, and it is catching on in the USA, but whoa-nelly, keep that away from me. How you women deal with that…I actually think that childbirth might look more attractive to men that those electric torture devices.
But, (there’s always a but) epilation lasts a LOT longer than shaving does. How long? Try about a month for some. Hmmm? Got you thinking? So what’s a little pain, you ask? That being said, you can buy epilators at Shavers.com too.
Women, I’ve got to hand it to you. Although men really have no excuse to avoid trimming themselves here and there, how you maintain this on a regular basis is a practice that we really must thank you for more often. We hate shaving out faces. It’s boring, tedious, and repetitive, but the act of shaving our bodies on a regular basis, for most of us, is beyond consideration.
So what advice can I (we) lend? Shave if you can’t take the pain of epilation, trim simply, epilate if you have weak nerve endings.
And if the man in your life has the nerve to comment about your shaving habits, throw the back of your hand up and give them a good old, New York, “Shave this!”
…but don’t use his shaver.