Ah, you were just looking in the wrong place, that’s all. From the Classic Columns: "I gather, Phil, that you do not like [clean-shaven faces], probably because you are some kind of hippie beatnik who would rather live in the forest eating roots and berries than hold down a job like a man. But hey, no problem, I’m a liberal."
(Okay, I’m lying. It’s actually from “What Is, or Was, the Purpose of Men’s Neckties?” But the sentence just popped up in my head while I was reading your post, and I couldn’t resist.)
with my sensor excel for women:
armpits, almost daily, with neutrogena face wash;
legs, couple times a week, or occasionally less, with baby oil;
bikini line/whole crotch, when I feel like it, with baby oil.
Face: every other day in the shower with a Mach 3–damn I love that thing. I’d grow a full beard & not mess with it at all, but I’ve got too much Cherokee and have gaps here and there, so I stick with a goatee that I trim about once a week or so, same time I trim my nose hair.
Legs & pits: never–I’m a guy. (Bet you’re relieved after that goatee and nose hair thing, huh?)
Cordless beard trimmer gets used once every week or two, mutually, by Mrs. Stof & me (for each other) for making the nether regions a nice place to be.
Legs: Every 2-3 days in the shower or bath, using a Sensor Excel (a MAN’s one: I don’t hold with wimmin’s razors) and hair conditioner as lubricant. I use the little bottles of fancy conditioner that come with Loreal hair colour. After I’ve shaved, I slap baby oil onto my wet legs. It’s the best way of moisturising. I used to get a nasty itchy razor rash, but it’s stopped since I started using conditioner and baby oil.
Burma Shave soap and brush.
Every day.
Gilette razor with comfort strip.
Face, head, and neck.
If I want to feel extra clean, I do shoulders and halfway down upper arms.
I think I’m the first for this, but I shave with an electric in the car on the way to work. I get so excited when I can shave 5 minutes off maintenance crap; I only wish I could shower on the way to work too.
I shower in the gym most mornings, and we can’t shave there, so I do it on the rare occasions when I’m showering at home. One or two days a week. I don’t grow much leg or armpit hair, so it’s not a big deal.
I don’t shave the “bikini line” because I’m cursed with extraordinarily sensitive skin down there … and I reckon that my natural hair growth would be less repulsive than the sight of the dozens of bright red bumps I get every time I try it (guys, let me know if I’m wrong about this).
[sub]and besides, it’s not like anyone but the other girls at the gym ever see my bikini line anyway, these days…[/sub]
Actually, in my experience, when a professional does it it hurts more. (Pull your own hair (the stuff on your head). Then have somebody else pull it. Which hurts more?)
They do a better job than I can, though. It’s very awkward doing the backs of one’s legs, especially as you get further from the ankles.
Oh, and as for the OP, I wax my legs, knees down (for religious reasons, the area above my knees never gets seen by the public, and I’m not married, so I don’t bother). As infrequently as I can get away with it. Using “gel strips” rather than actual wax, which gets really messy.
Monday through Friday, I scrape the face with Edge gel and Mach III, before shower. I am a psycho who goes upward on the cheeks to the sideburns, then upwards on the neck to the jawbone, and sideways for the mustache and chin, with varying angles to catch the missed hairs. Corners of the mouth always need special care.
I let my face relax on weekends, generally. Nobody to nuzzle with, so what the hell?
As for the crural region, Edge gel, and a different Mach III from the facial thing, once every three or four days. Again, having no nuzzling partner, it is a personal comfort thing.
[sub]maybe a little at a time**.
I’m going to the grocery store today and am going to invest in a Mach3 and see how it works. Tired of knicks and cuts.