Straight Razor Love
November 23, 2009
I desperately want to shave with a straight razor, but I don’t know HOW. Is that weird? Is it crazy? Is it possible? Do women who shave use straight razors? I may need some help from my man friends on this one. Do any of you men use straight razors?
Straight Razor
It’s just that straight razors seem much less wasteful than disposable razors. It seems much more economical and ecological to reuse 1 razor for the rest of my life. They also look cool. Very Sweeney Todd or Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Well, I guess Seven Brides for Seven Brothers isn’t so much cool as it is nostalgic (And it was one of the only movies my mom let me watch over and over again when I was a little girl. Gawd, that actually explains a lot!).
I was also thinking that if I’m going to bother with shaving, I might as well make it worth while. I should enjoy that time instead of looking upon it as a hassle. Me and a bathtub and warm lather and TING! the steel straight razor. Then to sharpen it on an old-fashioned leather strop (yes, strop).
Leather Strop
I’m invigorated just fantasizing about it! As the writer of The Art of Manliness says: “putting razor sharp steel next to your throat every morning reminds you that you’re alive.” I agree! Except I would be running razor sharp steel up and down my sensitive legs and across my ticklish armpits. Sensual and bad-ass at the same time! And, ladies, have you ever thought about having a man shave your legs for you? Oh my!
Now if I could only afford the $200 that some of the really good ones cost…
Lovingly,
Spring
November 23, 2009 at 11:58 am
Sweetie, you are a “case”. I remember too well the Strop! When we kids had been particularly naughty, Nana (yes SWEET LITTLE OLD NANA) would send us into the house to select which strop we would get a spanking from. Of course, we all wanted to least one. (There was a set of about 4) and, I am positive, it stung worse than any of the larger ones.!!!! All because we didn’t have a peach tree from which to gather a switch! Wow,,such memories.
November 23, 2009 at 6:49 pm
uh, me and my dirty mind would like to point out that this post has a BDSM slant. just sayin’… hehehe…
i don’t shave my legs or pits regularly. but i’d love to give a straight razor a try at some point. why not?
November 24, 2009 at 9:39 am
Plus straight razors make really cool sounds, as demonstrated by Shemp Howard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ROXCgY5Ck0&feature=related#t=0m55s
November 27, 2009 at 7:17 pm
You’re right–if we ladies are going to bother with shaving stuff a lot, we might as well make it fun!