I was watching tv today and saw that stoooopid commercial for the razor with the soap block attached to it.
In the commercial, the women are having one hell of a time grasping their soap, and shaving their legs. One lets it just jump right out of the bubble bath, another sprays shaving gel right into her own face, and in other commercials the women are walking around with band aids all over their legs as if the razor just went out of control!!
I don’t know about y’all, but I find that a little soap (either bar or liquid) and a halfway decent razor do just fine. I’ve never had these problems they show. Heck, even if you break out all you have to do is use some shaving gel.
Anyway, I had to post about this silly commercial. I’m sure you guys have ones you hate as well. Please share commercials you hate or your personal difficulties shaving. Hee hee.
This all depends on my state of wakefulness or dexterity on any given morning. Some days - slick as a whistle with no nicks. Other days- small nicks due to complete inattention or rush.
However, at no time have I ever accidentally squirted my shower gel in my face or had some sort of razor runaway. Not even when drunk. Sheesh! Who are those women in the commercials, and more importantly, can we get them some occupational therapy for gross and fine motor control?
Oh, lord, those commercials are everywhere! Not just clueless shavers, but people who can’t handle plastic wrap, aluminum foil, twist ties, gift wrap, or hard-boiled eggs. There’s apparently a vast population of incredibly clumsy people out there – or, more likely, a vast population of people who will believe any damn thing they see on the TV, and will suddenly decide that they can’t peel an egg unassisted.
I mean, I am a klutz. Yet even I am able to tear plastic wrap on the serrated edge of the box, and have been since I was pretty small.
Aside from the occasional nick I don’t have problems shaving. It’s just not that difficult.
Those commercials annoy me, too. How stupid are you to spray shaving cream in your face? If you’re that dumb, you really shouldn’t be picking up anything sharp! LOL!
I really had the commercial for whatever wrap it is that has the annoying woman and the chef Mario (don’t know his last name. I think his show is Molto Mario!) And Mario is being really clutzy and spilling stuff (which I’ve never seen him do on his show) and she goes, “yoohoo, Mariooo” I cringe every time.
I hate the one with the women who need the hairdryer holder. Looks like they’ve never held a dryer in one hand and a brush in the other. This is not the 70s, ladies - Farrah Fawcett sweeps and curls went out long ago.
I don’t have a problem shaving. Mebbe a couple of Manson Family-inspired accidental slashes once in awhile, but pretty much, I’m okay at it.
I find shaving annoying and mildly time-consuming, but not difficult. I’ve nicked myself maybe a handful of times in the years I’ve been doing it, and my body wash is the best stuff to shave with I’ve ever run across. Far better than the overpriced women’s shaving stuff. (Look sometime – they charge more for the stuff specifically for women. Jerks.)
I assume these women are preparing to be in infomercials where they will demonstrate their complete inability to drain pasta, flip a pancake, peel a hardboiled egg, or do any number of elementary tasks for which there is now, luckily, a special device. Has SNL done a skit based on these ads yet? I’m picturing Cheri Oteri (or whoever is in the cast now) lopping a leg off with a razor.
I shave my legs in the shower. I don’t use soap, shaving cream/gel or any other such nonsense. The only place I nick myself is around the ankle area because they’re kind of bony.
I use a Gilette something or other. I can’t remember the name but they have twin blades, they’re teal and they have some sort of comfort strip above the blades.
The hairdryer holder I can see… especially if you only have one arm or arthritis that makes it difficult to hold things above your head. The perfectly healthy woman in the commercial just makes it seem like the thing is for idiots.
I don’t have any trouble shaving, except under my arms. I’m all scarred up from shingles when I was a kid, so getting everything is awful. I wish we had three hands, so I could pull the skin apart AND use the razor.
If I’m not paying attention (and I miss spots a lot because I can’t wear my glasses in the shower) I nick myself, usually on the knee.
The only difficulty I’ve had in shaving is that I can’t wear my glasses in the shower (I’m near-sighted), and I have to shave by touch to make sure I don’t miss any spots. I use my usual bodywash and a Mach 3 razor to do it–it’s not necessary for anything else.
I’ve never pulled a Three Stooges commercial-style bungle, but I do have a hard time getting a good shave. I miss places or don’t end up smooth, and don’t even get me started on the bikini line!
I recently found out that the men’s shaving products work a LOT better, though. Except you have to not mind smelling like a moose in heat. But I get better results with my Mach 3 and my manly Moose In Heat shaving gel. Although I think I just have problematic leg hair. It’s not dark or coarse, it just dosen’t shave well. And it grows back in a hurry.
I use those little blue disposables by Gilette (sp)? and warm water and soap. Leaves the legs smooth and soft, under arms and other “delicate” areas without razor burn.
And on re-reading my post, I know I thought about putting something about people needing it for medical necessity, but somehow, that didn’t make the trasfer between the brain and the fingers. Thanks for getting the gist - the women in the ads look like idiots.
I do agree that the commercials for the Schick Intuition razors are stupid, but the razors themselves? I’ll never shave with anything else! In fact, when shaving outside of the tub or shower (you know, the foot-on-the-toilet-seat quik-shav ™ that we women-folk do sometimes? It’s a lot less messy for that). At the risk of sounding like a commercial myself, when I first started using these things, I had to keep feeling my leg to make sure hair was really coming off. . .they’re that smooth.
I do this too, also due to extreme nearsightedness, except I don’t bother to soap up my legs in the process.
As for the hairdryer holder, I could use that. When trying to straighten my hair by brushing it out straight during drying, it’d be so much easier to clip the dryer into some bracket and have both hands free to gather hair, pull it straight, brush, etc.
When I actually do shave, I never have a problem. I use shaving cream just so I know which area I’ve gone over so I don’t miss anything. I haven’t cut myself in years. Of course that’s probably because I’ve only shaved a handful of times over those years. I just prefer waxing.
I ripped a huge slice out of my leg the first time I shaved - no idea what I was doing, and once, years later with the precursor to the razor mentioned in the commercial (it supposedly had “safety wires,” from my perspective, it was a surprise skin flayer)… outside of those two times, no problems. Good razor (Venus) and soap and I’m fine.