The Day I Got Shaved
Well, the votes are in. The verdict? Shave!
Thanks 17 to 5 vote win to the ’shavers’ (read: sadists), the terrible job has been done. The shower is over, 3 razors are dulled, and my legs are now sleeker than a spaceship. Or a spaceship covered in stubble and the occasional hair.
The result? (See bottom of post for picture)
I must say, it does feel sort of cool. Slippery. It looks a bit gross though. I’m only bleeding in 2 places, which is nice.
I feel both less masculine and more masculine – less because now I have chick’s legs… and more because I have managed to achieve that. It takes balls to shave your legs.
I keep finding random patches of hair… apparently I missed some spots.
The real test will come tomorrow night when I hit the water. I’m told it feels great!
Lessons?
I definitely have a new-found respect for chicks who shave (or at least another reason to question their intelligence. Not that I’m complaining…) It’s hard! You need to be a freakin yoga instructor to get to all your legs! It’s good exercise too.
It takes aaages. It was officially the longest shower of my life! Who knew legs had so much skin?
Turns out, despite never using sunscreen on my legs and always wearing shorts… they’re pretty pale. And I only have freckles on my right calf. Weird.
Final Thoughts?
I’m not looking forward to it growing back. Check back for updates.
Girls, we love you for it!
Guys, don’t do it. Just don’t.
Thanks to every who voted! (I think…) Hope you stick around for updates ect.
To finish, let’s have some highlights:
Most persuasive argument so far: Bec said ‘its remotely attractive’
Scariest argument so far: Bec said ‘its remotely attractive’ (It isn’t.)
Funniest story: jpj’s smurfy friend.
Best goss: Smeiks has done it… and enjoyed it! (At first…)
And, best of all, the funniest moment: my girlfriend threatening to grow her leg hair “like a boy’s”. EW!
Do you feel sufficiently violated yet?
What do you think? Leave a comment.
April 9th, 2008 at 9:27 am
April 9th, 2008 at 9:28 am
April 9th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Comments
April 9th, 2008 at 9:18 am
LOL. that is all.
April 9th, 2008 at 9:26 am
thats it?
Come on… you must have more to say than that!
April 9th, 2008 at 9:27 am
The glisten of your legs in the book light brings me laughter
April 9th, 2008 at 9:31 am
so how long were you in the shower for?
April 9th, 2008 at 9:50 am
jpj, so poetic, so poetic…
Well I started at about 10:30pm…and finished about 12:00am… (the water wasn’t running the whole time though!)
It was really scary, we have unisex bathrooms and the whole time I was worried someone would walk in on me….
It took aaaages because after every 3cm I had to get a clump of hair out of the razor.
(Is that too much information yet?)
It’s pretty prickly.
April 9th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
yuck! defiantly feeling sufficiently violated.
April 12th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Man.. whack.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:58 am
You’ll be amazed at how much deodorant you can save by shaving your pits, too.
April 13th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
“You’ll be amazed at how much deodorant you can save by shaving your pits, too.”
Good to see you, TWM. Thanks for the comment.
Sooooo not worth it!
Byron…. you can have a look tonight…
April 30th, 2008 at 4:42 am
Your legs look so much better shaved. WOW!!!!
April 30th, 2008 at 4:45 am
Now that you have done your legs, try shaving the REST of our body hair.
April 30th, 2008 at 6:36 am
hahahaha wow, I think this bit earns the award of ‘Creepiest TCA Comment of 2008′:
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“try shaving the REST of our body hair”
hahaha
(Not likely, by the way
They aren’t as itchy as I thought they’d be. Pretty prickly though.
Who are you, smoothy, by the way?