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Originally Posted by cincyster  I use a mens rotary shaver and just shave every morning. I do not even think about it anymore. Wake up, wash my face, brush my teeth and shave. |
I couldn't put that better. And when it's a routine part of life every day, you don't have to think about it.
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If you look for posts by joyblack, she has such a wonderful attitude about shaving, read her posts. She is my new "Hero"  |
That's tremendously flattering, but I'm not worth thinking of as a hero -- or even a heroine :-) .
I just wish I hadn't wasted my teenage years being miserable because I had male-type body hair and a moustache that I had to shave every day by the time I was 15.
What I realize now -- and I wish I'd realized then -- is that it wasn't really the body hair or even the moustache that was making my life miserable. And it wasn't even the fact that I had no breast development that was obvious to outsiders. What was making me miserable was that I reckoned that no guy would ever want a girl like me.
It all changed when I found out I was wrong. When DH met me for the first time I hadn't shaved for a whole day and I wasn't wearing padding. He saw my coarse moustache stubble but he still was interested in me. He could see that I had been shaving for years to have coarse stubble like that, but he simply didn't see my moustache as a negative thing at all. For him it was a positive thing because it showed I must have been a lot older than my flatness suggested. And he's been every bit as positive when my beard began to grow in after I passed 40.
I know very well that I can't compete in the "beauty" stakes. But that doesn't mean I can't compete in the attractiveness stakes. And what's more I reckon I can give DH a far better physical relationship than most women could.
Nowadays I'm actually
glad I have the sort of hormonal balance I have naturally. DH and I actually enjoy shaving together most mornings. And like you I use a men's-type rotary shaver.