Comments on Cranky Fitness: Give-Aways and Gorilla Legs

TK: Force your boyfriend to shave your leg as puni...

2008-08-08T12:36:00.000-04:00

TK: Force your boyfriend to shave your leg as punishment;-). This said, shaving your thighs is all about normal when wearimg shorts. Anyway, they are right about shaving doesn't thicken hair. Now let's come at what happens on your cute thighs;-) when you shave them. Hair is dead!The layer of your thigh fuzz that has reached its maximum lenght, doesn't grow back until it get replaced by a brand new hair because hair is dead and doesn't know whether it's being cut. The next layer of hair, instead, is made of growing hair, less visible. Once shaved they still have time enough to grow up totheir size. The shorter they are before being shaved the longer they are going to grow after being shaved. Whatever you do you chop away the tiny tip hair had before being cut. That makes youe hair appear stubbly, thicker, darker, faster growing and effectively being stiffer(the latter just because shorter and not more tapered at the top). Darker because 1.the rough tip reflects less light. 2.If you expose yourself to the sun light, longer hair with thin tips are more likely to be bleached and distract the eye by the thicker and darker base of hair. Then after shaving, you just see the trunk of the hair growing out and not exposed to the sun.
Faster because our eyes are just more like to notice hair growing out of a blank freshly shaved skin. We just see hair getting longer and longer for the very period of regrowth after shaving, and just the ones which are still growing. Before shaving we are unable to tell which hair is growing and which one stopped and is about to fall off. The last odd is that we just start shaving our beard or leg when hair is starting to show off, the we grow up and we get hairier due to hormone action. But we would have got that hairy indipendently, having started shaving or having let the hair loose.
I heard you are in menopause, a period of hormonal change, are you sure it is because you shave? I don't think so. I think you already know how to soften your hairs and open your pores. I'm way too much younger, (even a male .lol) to have the conceit of giving you advice in this subject, but if you want some, I'm here. But as far as concerns the consequence of shaving, trust me. Bye
Anto

can you say 'never used a fancy pants razor in my ...

2008-08-02T12:07:00.000-04:00

can you say 'never used a fancy pants razor in my life'?

yeah
thats me
i would KILL (cough) at the chance for a non-cheapy-disposable-razor
:)

I agree with going to other blogs and seeing what ...

2008-06-30T05:39:00.000-04:00

I agree with going to other blogs and seeing what would be good for readers.

So is this supposedly the Cadillac of razors? I've...

2008-06-29T16:14:00.000-04:00

So is this supposedly the Cadillac of razors? I've been using cheapo Bic/drugstore brand razors for too long- time to switch!
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I feel lost in the crowd...SO many wanting free ra...

2008-06-29T15:20:00.000-04:00

I feel lost in the crowd...SO many wanting free razors! I don't even shave, unless you count the itty-bitty eyebrow razor I use for said eyebrows and a few stray upper lip hairs.

BUT! I have a teenage daughter, teenage son and hubby who use razors often and would probably appreciate freebies from Mom's random blog, making it worth Mom's time reading (for a change)!

If I shaved my legs I might want those razors.... ...

2008-06-29T15:14:00.000-04:00

If I shaved my legs I might want those razors.... but what I really want are companies to give ME stuff to give away. How'd ya get to be so damn cool!? ;-)

I guess I could use the razors for my pits (which probably really need it). Instead I just "borrow" my boyfriend's. Is that rude?

I go through razors fast in this house! I need my ...

2008-06-28T23:42:00.000-04:00

I go through razors fast in this house! I need my own razors to hide from the rest of the family!

Fair skin + dark hair = 5 'o clock shadow on my le...

2008-06-28T09:42:00.000-04:00

Fair skin + dark hair = 5 'o clock shadow on my legs!
I welcome free razors.

I could use this for my 25th birthday girl cruise!...

2008-06-28T02:24:00.000-04:00

I could use this for my 25th birthday girl cruise! I'm hairy like whoa... I need to break out the self-tanner too...

Me please!

Gosh, I wish I could get away with only shaving on...

2008-06-28T02:21:00.000-04:00

Gosh, I wish I could get away with only shaving once a month every summer!

My 1st hubby (who read way too much porn with all the photos of meticulously airbrushed and artfully shaved and plucked bodies) insisted I shave my thighs, and I don't care WHAT science has to say about hair not growing back coarser and darker! I lost all that blondish downy fuzz and now grow #01 steel wool there! :P I still kinda hate him a little for that. Now it grows sideways and upside down too and it will not stand up for the razor. I think I've done a good job, then once in awhile check in a mirror wearing glasses and I am so shocked I just want to cry, the backs of my thighs look like some enchanted (NOT in a nice way) old English cottage with ivy covering the walls and heading for the roof. It takes like 8-10 passes with a triple bladed razor, so yes, I'm rooting for them to come out with one with 7-8 blades minimum!

There's a reason our close up vision goes as we get older, it's a kindness God built in so that we would be blissfully oblivious of 1/2 inch long chin hairs and stuff the width of paperclips growing directly under noses, or my fave, that one that just started a few months ago right at the side of my upper lip, the sneaky thing, thick and black! I used to think how sad and pathetic it was about 20 years ago that my Mom and Aunt had given up waxing and just started shaving their upper lips. I knew that would never happen to me! I'm the age they were then, now. Can you say Menopause??! Holy crap!

AND I'm on thyroid for about 7 months now and I have lost about half the hair on my head, which is freaking me out, thank the lord it was so thick to start with but the Dr. says it will grow back (unless it's a female hormone thing and then maybe not so much..), but WTF?! just on my HEAD! What is up with that? If I have to have hair loss as a side effect, why the hell can't it be equal opportunity hair loss???!

My Mom just went in for the annual gyn stuff and told the Dr. all he'd find up there was cobwebs and rust, and that her only female complaint was that her pubic hair was all moving up to her upper lip and her chin, and he didn't bat an eye....

So actually, we could use TWO razors over here in SoCal! :D

PS: Hi Lynn, for the not so tight pits area, try doing curls and overhead presses with 3- 10 pound weights, it should help make muscle there to fill up the skin. I still have decent pits myself from all the years lifting weights, but it worked for a roomie.

Ooh! I'd like a new razor. Me, me, me!!! :)

2008-06-27T22:46:00.000-04:00

Ooh! I'd like a new razor. Me, me, me!!! :)

I'm like the only Asian women in the world that ha...

2008-06-27T19:50:00.000-04:00

I'm like the only Asian women in the world that has the Gorilla hair...ok, maybe there's 3 others. I like the razors because I have a serious issue with cutting myself all the time, and with the Quattro, it's really not necessary to need tiny pieces of toilet paper. Nice razor!

I’ve Salma-shade skin/some face hairs that are whi...

2008-06-27T18:24:00.000-04:00

I’ve Salma-shade skin/some face hairs that are white.
The laser girls scowled -- like I’d grown them for spite.

If I win the free draw I won’t go there no more.
I’ll just pluck the face hair, and shave pits with blades four.

i think my husband would appreciate some free razo...

2008-06-27T18:04:00.000-04:00

i think my husband would appreciate some free razors. for me, i mean.

I need the razors because the $850 I spent on lase...

2008-06-27T17:27:00.000-04:00

I need the razors because the $850 I spent on laser hair removal did not work 100%. After 5 excruciatingly painful visits to literally sear the hair off my lower legs, I am still left with some dark hair. I only suffered through all 5 treatments because I foolishly paid for a package deal up front. After the 5 treatments I do have much less hair, however I am not opting to go back for more suffering in the name of perfect hairlessness. Thus I need some razors to shave off those pesky little buggers.

Ditto what MizFit said. I think I may also be par...

2008-06-27T17:24:00.000-04:00

Ditto what MizFit said. I think I may also be part Hobbit, as my TOES get hairy!

That was one nice thing about chemo, I didn't have...

2008-06-27T16:03:00.000-04:00

That was one nice thing about chemo, I didn't have to shave (or wax or pluck) for a whole year! Of course, that is a memory now, so I am back to my lazy habit of shaving when I am going to the Dr for my physical, or if I'm going to actually bare my legs. Alas, I don't qualify for your contest being a Canadian! Good luck though to all the funny U.S. posters.

Hi! I just found your blog a few days ago I am en...

2008-06-27T15:16:00.000-04:00

Hi! I just found your blog a few days ago I am enjoying so far :) So yes I am also a hairy American who probably should shave more often than I do. I think its a pain but I don't enjoy being hairy so off it must go. I am also lazy but maybe a new razor would inspire me to shave more often ;)

Must shave in order to get on fancy running skirt....

2008-06-27T14:40:00.000-04:00

Must shave in order to get on fancy running skirt. stubble and tight shorts do not mix.

Oh my goodness, poetry! And it rhymes! (That's t...

2008-06-27T14:34:00.000-04:00

Oh my goodness, poetry! And it rhymes! (That's the kind I like best).

I hope the random number generator is paying close attention to how awesome these comments are, as it is the final arbiter.

A lady, yes; petite indeedBut even a lady has a sh...

2008-06-27T14:22:00.000-04:00

A lady, yes; petite indeed
But even a lady has a shaving need
Hair it grows in unsightly places
Legs and arms and even faces
Schick has long since found it's groove
In making women nice and smooth

But razor prices, they are steep!
Remaining hairless is not cheap!
This Petite Flower would so rejoice
If she became your winning choice
So think of me when you consider
I'd make a humble and gracious winner!

4 Blades? Quite impressive! Although when they e...

2008-06-27T13:27:00.000-04:00

4 Blades? Quite impressive! Although when they eventually get to a razor blade that has twice that many on it I might get kind of freaked out by it.

I like to think that I'm more of a badass runner a...

2008-06-27T13:09:00.000-04:00

I like to think that I'm more of a badass runner athlete because I often hit the gym without shaving my legs...and my legs look like a bristle brush...

Anyway maybe these razors will help me out with that problem!

Well, I say razors have to do with fitness because...

2008-06-27T12:54:00.000-04:00

Well, I say razors have to do with fitness because I get distracted when I notice I have too much stubble going on and I'll be like, jeeze, everyone must be able to see it in this crazy fluorescent lighting at the Y, because you know fluorescent lighting emphasizes any flaw. And then I won't be enthusiastic about doing exercises that might draw attention to my legs. I'll do 'em, but the whole time, any sort of grimace on someone's face isn't "Hmm, I should have gotten lighter weights" but "Dear god, that girl has a forest on her legs!"

I shave very occasionally at best (card carrying m...

2008-06-27T12:22:00.000-04:00

I shave very occasionally at best (card carrying member of the lazy bastard club), but the night before a big race or a tournament, I like to take a nice long shower and shave my legs. It's some good old-fashioned me-time that helps me forget about all the BS and lets me approach an event with a clear head! How's that for an inspiring, razor-worthy story???