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So, founded on a passing comment from Ryan that shaving cream is actually bad for you, turning the top layer of skin into mush that is scraped away with the hair and consequently making you weaker, I've been going foamless since last Tuesday (the 9th, over a week) when I lost the beard.
Those of you who know me know the patterns of my facial follicles and though I may be heir to a manly froth my skin is childish and delicate and has never been a friend of the razor.
Until now.
One week of no cream, gel or foam and my face not only takes a shaving like the masculine jaws of my military forefathers but has begun to adopt the tanned-hide ruddiness that has been my aspiration as a shaver since first a blade lopped the unsightly dark peachfuzz that haunted my adolescence.
All I need now is to replace hot water with an icy mountain stream and my safety razor with a skinning knife and I believe my transformation complete.
posted by Overture at
8:53 AM
29 Comments:
Wow... so its true?
Great to hear!
yup. kind of sensitive at first, but you can tell specifically when you are shaving hair and when you are catching skin. I've never had a better shave, really.
But you're using soap, right? I would think that would be alright as well.
Now I use some fancy pantsy prissy sissy tube of old timey cream that I whip into a lather with a fucking badger hair brush.
But, these days all I do is use a beard trimmer to keep it continuously at the one day stubble point. What my Mom would call the Don Johnson.
sexy, sexy stuff.
I would love to don the DJohnson but I figure my face needs some toughening up first.
Plus I have no idea what kind of work I will end up with in the States so I figure it's best to stay fresh.
Well christ, you've got time. Besides, we all know you're gonna end up stripping. Sorry, "dancing."
Hey FOOLIOS IN TOKIO...
We've all got little to look forward to.
i keep mine at a constant 2-day stubble point, which from a casual distance looks like the 5 o'clock shadow on most people who aren't scandinavian man-boys...
...(like me)
no f-ing way.
Like jason, I'm a hairy mo, but shaving cream being bad for you? c'mon.
I'm not buying it.
Remember when putting honey on open sores was good for you?
honey on sores IS good for you. It attracts bugs, that in eating the honey apply their saliva directly to the source, here being the sore, consequently forming a natural band-aid over the booboo.
What could be more simple than God's plan?
ya'll nutz Ryan why give up on the custom shaving mask that takes care of all in one stroke. As for me I employ a robot that disperses all hair that is not on my upper lip. But to each his own, I once knew a man who shaved with a froth of cat hair and used a whittled toothbrush as his blade. His name was Orany McKacust and he was a great man.
OK, so honey on wounds was--I'm man enough to admit--the one time I've ever been kinda wrong about something in my entire life.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker65.html
I shaved last night, and used my fancy set-up. Not yet ready for HARDCORERAW, but I will examine Jason's results up close and personal, with sexxy results, tomorrow.
pressure.
good thing I can grow a beard over the course of a few hours (something to do on the plane tomorrow...BESIDES taking care of the snakes)
ha!
And Matt, the full-face-one-pass-29-blade-RAZOR-MASK dream will become reality.
http://www.emblibrary.com/EL/product_images/e1491.jpg
And yes, it will be a mask that covers your entire face, shaving your eyebrows and forehead with that one convenient stroke.
Unfortunately the testing phases have left most subjects looking like this:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Camera/2524/misc/leatherface.gif
Keith in the house tomorrow.
Jason & Aya in the house tomorrow.
Mattstralia in the house as well.
I'm DJing at OMNI tomorrow night, then YouSuck's having a party at his place which is near my place.
DJ Michael J. Fox tonight at OTO with Cubismo Grafico & Kubota Takeshi. Otherwise Aki-chan will teach people how to play Mahjong at my house...Gucci will join. Maybe stop by Chubby. Chris, what're you upto?
mash-potatoes in the house.
tuna-salad in the house.
mash potatoes?!?!?!?
MJ (Michael J. AND MahJong)?!?!?!
I got some Beppu Beer and we sold our first large illustration to an awesome coffee house for $500.00.
These next two weeks are going to ring in the summer right.
Congrats Jason! way to be on your grind. Now you need to rent one of those huge grills, and get summer started right.
Thanks. I'm hoping this turns into a trend and not a special moment in my life.
Also double thanks for the advice. I'm looking forward to getting back to the states where I can char some flesh properly: on the upturned half of an oil drum.
I shaved this morning without any shamming cream and it worked great. The only irritation that I experienced was in knowing that I've been wasting money for years on creams.
cash rules everything around me.
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I've probably been wasting money on a lot of other superfluous products... the next thing to go will be toilet paper. Did you know that if you just use your hand that your asshole will look all sexy and rugged?
I'm gonna get some baby oil.
Ned stopped using toilet paper years ago. But that was his contribution to saving the rain forests.
i am not convinced. I saw Rambo 1, where they shave him with a knife and some water, and while lethal, Rambo's skin did not glow. Shaving cream actually bad for your skin? That would mean marketing lied to me, and then the floodgates would open.
And it's funny, cause Derek and I were talking about this issue last night when I made the comment, "Yeah, and they were also putting honey on cuts...". Which, I want to reiterate, gives you motherfucking botchulism. Botchulism.
And as far as bugs and cuts go, here's a short list of what bugs give you: Malaria, West Nile, Yellow Fever, Lime Disease, Chagas Disease, Elephantitis, Dengue, Ebola, Lhassa, Marbug, and that's all I can come up with off the top of my head, but I thnk that's enough.
Oooo! Dengue and Lhassa are delicious!
Anyway, I guess this is what I meant:
Propolis, or "Bee Glue," is shit bees make in their goddamn hives.
" Propolis is another medicinal marvel from the beehive. Research shows it offers antiseptic, antibiotic, antibacterial, antifungal, and even antiviral properties. Propolis is Nature's premiere preventive. It is so powerful in action, it is often called Russian penicillin in acknowledgement of the extensive research the Russians have mounted on this wonder worker from the bees. Propolis demonstrates strong antimicrobial properties against various bacterial and fungal infestations. Even streptococcus bacteria have been shown sensitive to propolis."
only 4-5 cases of Botulism in the US each year are wound-botulism, the kind you think would happen if you rubbed tons of honey on a big open soar. The rest are all from canned food and dirty babies and stuff.
Bee's don't know shit about Botulism, and you can't spell Botulism.
Here's what internet told me:
"Botulism (from Latin botulus, "sausage") is a rare but serious paralytic illness caused by a nerve toxin, botulin, that is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. "
Sausageism!
So, where do we find this bacteria?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium_botulinum
Hahahahaha...okay...shit, here's another rumour the internet told me:
"Because honey can contain spores of Clostridium botulinum and this has been a source of infection for infants, children less than 12 months old should not be fed honey. Honey is safe for persons 1 year of age and older. Wound botulism can be prevented by promptly seeking medical care for infected wounds and by not using injectable street drugs."
Well, what if I start mainlining honey?
Ok, let's say that not using shamming cream may "save face", but I believe I would spend more money on replacement Mach3 razor heads if not for the lubricating powers of shamming cream.
A can of shamming cream can cost up to $3-$4, if I buy the good shit, and that will last me 2 1/2 - 3 months, but a pack of 4 mach3 razor heads are $12 - $14.
I'm sticking with the shamming cream.
true. I apparently can't spell botulism. don't think that doesn't irk me.
but, if you think that only 4-5 people contract wound botulism per year, think about how much higher that number would have been had you nuggets continued slathering your cuts with that little bear. It would have upped it by... let's say, 3. And, I'm gonna venture to say that most people don't immedialtely think "Ahhh...paper cut. I better sweetin' that shit up with some honey." Hence, 4-5 people per year. And most of those come from people in the south that still put maneur on cuts (no shit, people still do this, in fact, in India, the use it to cleanse the umbilical stumps after birth). G--RODY!!!!
Uffdah! Shit on cuts? I know that's not good for you. I was buying the honey thing for a moment, because I figure, well...you can eat honey, and it doesn't hurt you, why not put it on cuts? but shit? I can't eat that, so I'm definatly not putting it on my cuts.
Kyle, I don't know all who you were refering to about putting honey on wounds, but let it be known that I never did that..but may someday.
heeeyyyy...I like the sound of this shit idea...
Jared, maybe instead of shamming cream you could just smear shit on your face and let that lube the blades up.
or baby-oil.
or baby oil
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