Yesterday I was perusing facebook and noticed this in one of the side bar ads…
http://store.rollingrazor.com/
Curious, as I tend to be, I clicked on the link and watched a demo video of this amazing new invention, that’s kind of crap if you ask me. It actually makes no sense. From what I could tell it’s supposed to save you time. And to me it only seems to save time b/c you can flip it over and use the other head when you would normally just rinse it. So this amazing ‘time saving’ new razor saves us what? 3 seconds? Are we really that lazy? And doesn’t having to rinse two razor heads kind of, I don’t know, double that time?
Also, the girl in the video is crap at shaving. She literally shaves in a squiggly like manner. 
My BFF Amelia happened to call as I was watching this tutorial and we got to talking (read: ranting) about Razor commercials. Have you ever noticed how in razor commercials the women always shave up the leg over the knee and up the thigh in one fail swoop? It makes me cringe every time. And sometimes I even yell out “oh no you’re going to cut yourself!” and then hide behind my hands.
Does anyone actually shave like that? It makes me wonder if they’re using dummy razors in those commercials. I, like a normal female human that shaves, shave in steps:
- Bend leg, apply shaving cream (or body wash which is what I do).
- Shave calf & shin.
- Shave under thigh.
- Shave knee. (Upways, sideways, downways…anyone with me on how much is sucks to shave your knee?)
- Straighten leg.
- Shave upper thigh.
- Shave behind knee.
- Rinse, repeat on opposite leg.
While I realize that not all of us shave in the same order, we still don’t shave directly up and over our knee to our thigh in one fail swoop. Since our hair grows in different directions all over our legs it makes shaving a complete bitch and impossible to do in one fail swoop.
Amelia’s Razor Commercial pet peeve? Women who shave in the tub with their leg sticking straight up. It’s kind of impossible, I’d know, I’ve tried.
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In other news, my mom and I are having a kick ass yard sale tomorrow. Wish us luck. I hope to make a killing so I can have tons of expendable money for the NYC trip next week! Woot!
*kisses*
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Shave with conditioner and you can skip the post shave moisturizer!
I do shave like that…and those woman hurt me also. I cringe every single time. Is how they hold their legs EVEN normal?! I mean really? Do we all just decide to sit outside, on the beach, on a boulder and the idea hits us to shave our legs? No, I don’t think so! Ok I’m done. Hehe.
Ps. Is it at your mom’s house?
So true, those shaving ads are SO bogus! No one shaves like that. And notice how they are all at the beach or some place fun afterwards? That doesn’t happen to me.
You said it. Everytime I see a commercial like that I think “they are not using a real razor because there is no blood.”
I totally shave in the exact same order!
That new razor kind of scares me. With my luck, I’d be shaving one leg and slicing my other leg. There’s no way I’d be graceful about it.
ugh i just got major skeeved out thinking about cutting my knees shaving ogobwaro’iwuhg’oubw ugh i can’t i have to stop thinking of this
p.s. i use the Intutition and it is won-der-ful!
I wondered the same thing. . . and then I tried it. Definitely not a pretty picture, and I never (used to) cut myself whilst shaving. It’s gotten to the point now that I’ll actually forget to shave my knee if I don’t do it in order from shin/calf, knee, thigh. . . so yeah. We can’t have no hairy thighs.
Um…
- I’ve thought about it, and realized it is mostly true for me. So - is it true for you (in the plural) too? Just a little something to think about…
1. That razor thing scares me!
2. (sheepish) I actually can and do (sometimes) shave like the women in the commercials - bend leg partway, shave from ankle past knee and up thigh - usually not over the top part of my knee, but on either side? Works fine for me (and if my leg is bent more than partway, I can and have done it over the top of the knee)… Yeah, I might be weird.
3. I was told once that everyone shaves in the exact same order every time (unique-ish to them, but if you start on the inside of your left leg at your ankle once, you probably do it every time… You might change which leg is first, but the place you start on each leg doesn’t vary…
Crap, ninth commenter! Gotta step up my game. Shaving in the tub? So not possible. That razor just looks weird. I don’t why people invent weird crap that I’m sure no one uses. Lol, I’m curious as to how that ad ended up on your Facebook sidebar; I’ve never seen it.
7 days till NYC!
I just got the chills reading about shaving over or around the knee. That is the worst part of shaving in my opinion.
Thank You! i don’t remember where but i read a post a while back where all these people said they don’t shave above the knee! it was driving me insane! that’s just crazy! why would you shave bikini and leave it fuzzy between there and the knee? maybe they didn’t shave bikini? i dunno. that’s even crazier!
I saw this out of the corner of my eye while navigating to a new page and didn’t know what it was and knew I wouldn’t be able to go back because the ads refresh. I thought: WTF is Facebook advertising cock-ring vibrators?!… Not sure the shaver is better or worse, just sayin’.
Haha, Amelia’s got it right! I always laugh at how women stick their legs out of the bath like that! Shaving is not nearly that sexy.
I am weird and shave my thighs first, for no apparent reason.
I shave like that too. Also, I totally thought that thing in the picture was some sort of bizarre hair curler. Whoops.
If I’m feeling lazy, I skip everything above the knee!
It is nearly IMPOSSIBLE for me to not cut myself when shaving my knees. If I forget about a place I cut myself a few days earlier, I ALWAYS go back over it and cut it again
Oh my gosh, that just looks like it’s going to end up in stitches and tears!! I’m like you–shin and calf first, then the knee, then the thigh. And I finish one leg before I start the other! But none of that zigzaggy whole leg at once nonsense. Ouch!!
I feel like if I used that razor, I would have a leg FULL of knicks… have fun at the yard sale!
Yup, totally agree. By the way, Happy Birthday!!!
I… have never shaved behind my thigh or behind my knee. I just checked– there actually isn’t any hair there at all! I shave my thigh once a never (like, twice in my whole life) and my knees very rarely. I basically get the lower half of my leg and my upper shin. I am hairy… and lazy.
Ever tried the electric shaver? I use a man’s 3 ring electric shaver and haven’t really cut myself once…It shaves pretty close, but it’s great for a quick shave that you don’t need to spend alot of time on and have pretty smooth legs.
Forget those women shavers…they stink too.
I was thinking about this in the shower the other day as I was shaving, so I tried to shave like the girls in the commercials. It totally worked, and I think that I’m going to keep shaving like that from now on.
I’m going to go ahead and admit that I thought that was some kind of crazy sex toy when I first looked at it and was really wondering why you put a picture of it on your blog.
Just so you know.
I shave in steps too but I have to admit that I don’t use shave cream or body wash!! I just use water.
haha wow this is sort of ridiculous looking.
That new razor kind of scares me. With my luck, I’d be shaving one leg and slicing my other leg. There’s no way I’d be graceful about it.