Years ago, when I first started shaving my legs, it was with one of those one-bladed disposable pink razors. That was fine, especially since it was built to cut your legs. I shouldn't have been shaving at such a young age. Shaving was too far ahead of me. The one-bladed razor won and I didn't wear shorts for 3 years. Nor did I wear tank tops, because know it or not, when you shave your pits w/ a newly purchased pre-dulled blade, your pits will break out with acne-type BOILS and no one likes a boil-y arm pit. I couldn't figure out how the ladies on TV didn't have zits in their pits?
Anyhow - Just before I got married, I discovered a NEW kind of a razor. This one had TWIN blades AND a "moisture strip" ahhhhh - I will have zitless pits for my wedding! I couldn't have been more thrilled! I had a great relationship with this "personal touch" razor for 15 years. I bought a pack of 10 refill blades when I needed them, and they would last me quite a while. Well, this last purchase of refill blades were on sale, I could buy 10 and get a 5 pack for $1. I was in hairless heaven!! The 10 packs lasted me almost 3 years, I only shave my legs once a week (emotional scars from childhood skin-peeling sessions) and my pits would get the hack twice a week. I would change my blades out every 3-4 months - and that was okay - since previously I was used to shaving with a dull blade fresh out of the pack, and THIS blade was a TWIN blade, that means there were TWO, so even if one was dull right out of the pack, I had a spare blade right behind it cleaning up what the first one missed! It was wonderful. My razor and I had a great relationship.
UNTIL (insert tense monster movie theme song here) I ran out of razor refils for my personal touch razor. Now, that's not normally a problem, but I went from 3 to 5 kids somewhere between my last razor refill purchase and at this juncture twin blade razors are a thing of the past. Not only could I chose from a collection of MACH 3 razors - - which not only had 3 blades to them, but they had speed stripes down the razor handle, itself, but I also had my choice of different angled FOUR razor blades as well as a plethora of different size, shape & thicknesses of handles! I saw one that had little wires running perpendicular across the blades and advertises that it will keep you from nicking your legs w/ their many & extra sharp blades. Yep, you heard me right, you don't actually need the razor to TOUCH your leg to get a close shave!
There was another one (shhh - move closer....) that came with a battery that made the razor shake gently...so you could vibrate the hairs to stand up on end to get even a CLOSER shave. Because - yah - that's what the "inventors" of the vibrating razor were thinking...never mind that you have FOUR RAZOR BLADES connected to a newly engineered AERO DYNAMIC razor handle with a speed stripe in your hand.
From the looks of it, I could well have been in this isle (yep, isle, they have an entire ISLE dedicated to the slicking up of one's legs, as before, it was just in the checkout isle and sold as an impulse item?!!) Well, I got a razor with 3 blades, I only had the eggs to upgrade ONE razor. This one pivots. It works okay, but the next time I go to the store, they'll have invented one that shaves for you, I won't even have to touch a razor again. Of course, at that time in my life, I will have missed the news announcement that we no longer shave our legs because it causes cancer.
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