DeskMonkey - Rubbing alcohol?!? Oh good God. It is one of those habits that is hard to break. If you look at it, 90% of “after shave” products on the market are alcohol based. If that is what most the products are, it must be okay? Add to that, years and years of tradition - Old Spice, et. al. and it is hard to imagine it is not the way it is supposed to be. I used stuff like that, was constantly having neck irritation and bumps. Constantly getting in-grown hairs, etc.
For me, I’m the ultimate skeptic on some of this stuff. I tease my wife about some of the products she buys - Shishedo Pureness? It’s damn distilled water at 22.00 a bottle! :eek: I really was leary of trying more expensive products at first. The proof is in the application - pick him up a “starter kit” of the eShave stuff - that is what I did. They have one with the normal size shaving cream, a quality boar bristle brush, small alum block and small after-shave cream for around 40.00. It is enough for a good long trial and I guarantee you, he’ll never go back.
av8rmike - Flint stones and spit are probably “allowed”. I actually have never tried an electric razor so I really don’t have experience with one. I would think, IMHO, you would not be able to get the same close shave but they also are a little better at avoiding ingrown hairs and razor burn, right? One of the keys to shaving is the post-razor care. Again, soothe and tone the skin by rinsing with cold water, using a cold alum block and quality non-alcohol based after-shave cream. I cannot imagine that the same rules would not apply with an electric but I am not an expert - just a guy with an opinion.
Well the boar bristle brush does nothing for me (vegetarian here) but there is something about watching a man shave…I may have told this story before. An ex of mine I told about my shaving thing decided to make me a tape of him shaving and then, um, doing other things. Wicked sexy idea, except he cut himself really badly (think Tom the rocker guy, only about 15 times worse) and he kept taping. Ooh baby, nothing like blood streaming down your face to get a boy hot! Sampiro
What’s intriguing me (beyond the obvious) is that my sweet sweet Kyan and the straight victim were both stripped down. My mind is a-whirl with scenarios as to how that could have come about, and more importantly, how to make it happen again and often.
Last night was the first time I’ve seen the show. Was Kyan the guy who was his “manicure buddy”?
If so, as a nice healthy hetero male, let me just say that was the first guy I’ve ever thought “mmmmm… maybe.” If anything, I thought, that is a guy I’d like to hang-out with.
Otto - I never actually thought about the vegetarian thing, I can respect that although it is not an issue for me. I had tried synthetic brushes before and was not happy. Perhaps it was the quality but they constantly lost bristles, etc. After breaking down and spending the cash on a boar bristle brush, I can clearly see the difference between it and the ones I had tried in the past. I’d be curious if you have a recommendation for a non-boar brush.
However, it is a boar. Isn’t there some kind of vegetarian rule about ugly animals not counting?
Homebrew - Thanks for clarifying who Kyan is. That is also a good question, I have never really looked into it so I do not know. I’d hate to think of a farm of shorn hairless boars but I suppose that would be better than the alternative.
I’m a schmuck. It is not boar bristle, but badger hair in the brush.
I don’t know where I got boar bristle, perhaps I had dartboards on my mind somewhere.
I did find one site that manufactures badger bristle brushes. They state the badger’s in question are killed, however, they purchase from China where they must kill them to cull the herd so to speak.
Ted is awesome. Nobody on the show is ever going to be funnier than Carson (who could easily carry his own show, btw.) but Ted is close. I love his sense of humor.
Ted was my favorite from the get-go. Something about him just cracks my shit up. Carson is hilarious, and just getting funnier. I think as the season is going on, he’s holding back less and less. At first I found him a bit annoying, but not anymore.
I think the cast is really good overall. They did a great job of picking them. They each have such different personalities, but they mesh really well.
I think it’s become clear that a lot of the entertainment value comes from the straight guy, too. He has to be entertaining in some way or another, or the Fab 5 don’t have anything to play off of. Andrew was great in that respect.
Jumping on the Ted bandwagon. Although I adore Carson’s cattiness (“There’s a hooker in Trenton who wants her boots back!”), something about Ted just makes me laugh. I think it’s his utter deadpan tendencies, and what a contrast he sometimes shows to the rest of the boys (especially Carson, in fact).
And I thought Andrew was wonderful, and I agree with two points above–both that he was definitely going to get some that night, and that I don’t think his girl will stay with him much longer. She’s too easily embarrassed in a fancy restaurant to enjoy spending her time with someone that dopey. Adorable and sincere, but still dopey. Which happens to be one of my favorite qualities, at least!
Boar bristle is used for body brushes. Someone gave me one as a present a few years back and I had to exchange it. I made the store special order me a plant-fibre brush that was much more expensive than the boar bristle and give it to me for the same cost as the boar bristle. Not sure to this day why they let me get away with it.
Living in Madison, and given that it’s Student Moving Day tomorrow, I can’t say as I object at all to the idea of thinning the badger herd. As long as it’s the two-legged variety.
i don’t understand why guys seem to be in such a hurry to shave - they’ve only got their face (well…unless you’re Andrew, but that’s another story entirely)…i mean, it’s not like they have their legs to shave too, like us (it should be assumed that i am excluding professional cyclists and olympic swimmers from this bunch). What’s the rush? You guys need to learn some time management
personally, i think andrew is the first to show major indications of regression - he won’t keep it up.
Thom is somebody whose looks grow on you (or me, anyway). He’s certainly not in the “I’d give my left kidney for ten minutes in a nudist colony with him” like Otto’s Sweet Sweet Kyan™, but the longer the show goes on the cuter he gets (or perhaps it’s as Carson said about the Cleftones- he’s not getting better, “we’re just getting drunker”).
Kyan’s real name is Andrew Douglas Kyan, incidentally, or Andy to his friends. He flip-flopped the name for TV, quite effectively.
I am becoming a huge fan of the Queer Eye and have seen every episode. That said, here’s my problem with them. They detest body hair…why? I love it and can’t stand men that shave or sculpt (manscaping as the Fab 5 call it) their body hair. There is nothing sexier than a man with a soft tuft of hair peeking out of his button down or polo style shirt. While I can go along with getting rid of back hair and the unibrow, I detest shaved or trimmed arm, leg and chest hair. You would too if you’ve ever done the dirty deed and gotten hot and sweaty with a hairy man that has just manscaped himself…it leaves my hairless body all scratched up with a red heat rash of bumps all over me. A natural man, one with his pelt of hair left alone never does this to me.
So “yeah” to the Fab 5 and Queer Eye, but “boo” to manscaping! Leave it natural and besides I don’t need to manscape to make “it” look bigger, it’s big enough already!
Too skinny, plus what exactly does he do other than say “make eye contact”? A friend who saw him in RENT in Canada said he was fantastic as Angel, which I can totally see.
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Even though he has nice legs, I think Carson will stay available for a long long time. I’m guessing he would be Paul-Lynde-on-the-day-Hollywood-Squares-got-cancelled impossible to be around when he’s drunk.
I actually have never tried an electric razor so I really don’t have experience with one. I would think, IMHO, you would not be able to get the same close shave but they also are a little better at avoiding ingrown hairs and razor burn, right? One of the keys to shaving is the post-razor care. Again, soothe and tone the skin by rinsing with cold water, using a cold alum block and quality non-alcohol based after-shave cream. I cannot imagine that the same rules would not apply with an electric but I am not an expert - just a guy with an opinion.
If anything, I thought, that is a guy I’d like to hang-out with.
Although I adore Carson’s cattiness (“There’s a hooker in Trenton who wants her boots back!”), something about Ted just makes me laugh. I think it’s his utter deadpan tendencies, and what a contrast he sometimes shows to the rest of the boys (especially Carson, in fact).