I was about 30 minutes early for dinner with my parents at a restaurant tonight, so I looked for a diversion and the only thing around was a drug store. Every trip to a drug store until today has strictly been out of necessity and has therefore been quick and brainless. I don't enter a drug store with the intent to "shop." Instead, I go in to "buy things." There's a difference.
When you're at a drug store in the interest of passing time, you really start to reach for things to find fascinating or useful. What caught my eye was the Schick Intuition Plus, a women's razor. What makes the Intuition a unique product is that the blade cartridge is embedded in a bar of moisturizer and the idea is that you wet it and then as you shave, it lathers and moisturizes without any extra effort on your part--a perfect product for someone as outstandingly lazy as I am.
...Or it WOULD be perfect if I were a pretty lady. Of course I am neither pretty nor a lady, so I told myself that it wasn't for me. Something about it was too alluring for me to just walk away from it, though, so I stood there staring at it and trying to come up with a reason to buy it. Finally it occurred to me that this would probably be awesome for shaving my head with. It's meant for a pretty lady with delicate skin, and my scalp, I think, is about as sensitive as skin gets. This would get the job done without the normal irritation that I experience while simultaneously making my dome smell like delicious milk and honey. Plus it was on sale for $9.99 and came with a sample of some skin moisturizing product that claims to smooth and soften underarms in five days. I was sold.
The head-shaving experience wasn't as great as I'd hoped. The built-in bar of soap proved to be problematic in a couple of ways. It was too bulky, so it felt clumsy and kept me from being able to get to the spots behind my ears. It also ran down my head and into my eyes and I haven't been able to stop crying since. Besides that, it just didn't cut the hairs as close to the scalp as a razor should, so I ended up having to go over the whole thing again with my Gillette Fusion Power (a MAN'S razor).
So the Schick Intuition Plus is NOT awesome for shaving my head with...a $10 lesson that I sincerely hope this blog entry will be effective in passing on to someone else. If even one person is thinking about buying it to use on his or her scalp and ends up not doing it because of what they've read here, then my time, effort, money, and irritated eyes and skin will not have been in vain.
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i use some mach3 or mach4 thing. i rarely buy razors. i'm sure i've needed to replace the blades on my razor for months now, i'm just so lazy. i also need to get my oil changed in my car, but am lazy about making an appointment. and i realllly need to replace my tires on my car, especially since everyone is apparently calling my car a death trap now. just because my tires have no tread, doesn't mean that it's not safe. i hate you guys.
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