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Posts Tagged ‘beauty’

A Slave to Fashion

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

Ever heard the term “a slave to fashion”? I assert that it doesn’t mean the same thing to all people. . .which isn’t hard to believe if you look around and see what people are wearing.

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Photo Finish

Friday, June 22nd, 2012

What’s the difference between a 23 year old woman and one of us over-40-going-on-retirement? I’ll tell you what. They don’t know what they’ve got; we think we still got it. (more…)

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Going Brazilian

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Ever since we noticed we had pubic hair, we had to worry about it showing, mostly in the summer at the beach (at least in our day). At first our only option was shaving – and shaving bumps. Then came Nair, with its toxic, perfume-y, disgusting smell. When we finally discovered the “Brazilian.” all we had to worry about then was the pain.

And, it is painful. At first. Scratch that: it’s always painful. It’s just a matter of mind over matter (and doing really small sections at a time) if we want to make it through a Brazilian without quitting halfway. Which leads me to the real point of this post: could men deal with this kind of pain? (more…)

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Posted in Grooming | 5 Comments »

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