Hey all
This week big topic for me is shaving.
All girls do it, and now it seems more men are taking to the razor, waxing etc to remove body hair. I will be writing this post from both my male and female sides. I was supposed to have wrote this during the week but due to the awkward hours my male side works it's to late to write a post, we can only plan on future topics. This is yet another topic that will be split into parts as it's a new ending story and changes will happen the more it goes on.
So here goes another personal topic and experience that I and many other people go through.
Before My Skin Went Under The Razor
As my male side from the first moment I found out that I was Bi-Gender I said when asked "would I ever shave?" At that time I strongly believed that it would be a step to far and would end up emasculating my masculinity. I would only go as far as trim over grown body hair, but from this summer I heard a few male lads that shave their bodies and when I went on my brothers stag do I got a massive impression that a couple of the lads shave. Can't say I'm sure on that one I didn't ask as really just think about it on a stag do, "hey man do you shave" like come on how camp and bad of a question would that be? Awkwarrrrrrddddd.
But still hearing that many males shave that live fairly normal lives kind of made me relax, and let my guard down.
As for my female side shaving was never important at the time, as I had many other things going on and I was still constructing a basic image with clothing and make-up etc, I suppose that is a never ending thing but I feel that everyone has that style they follow and use guidelines etc. A big thing that never made me think about shaving was I've seen many girls with hairy arms, not really hairy but visible to the naked eye and easily seen on photos so it never bothered me or even made me aware.
Hair on arm/hand
Shaving only hit me a few days after I was out in Blackpool within the public presented as female did my body hair become a problem. For some reason I was thinking about how awesome my time presented as the gender I felt with no one causing trouble etc.
I know I've used this image a few times but it just goes with so many posts at the moment.
The first time I shaved my body I didn't even think about it. I just went for a normal facial and didn't intend on presenting female but for some reason I accidentally just ended up shaving my hairs on my hand off... Then my arm hair soon went. (That's where my female side triggered) One hour later it came to me having a shower, just before that I ended up getting the clippers out and shaving the extreme amount of hair away from my legs. I then got in the shower and shaved my legs.
Hair on arm/hand
I didn't have the best razors and I think I went through 6 razors when I did my arms, legs and chest etc. I used Shaving creme and I had some skin conditioner by Nivea at the time of doing this.
The Aftermath Thoughts And Feelings From Then To Now
A I was shaving I had a thought "what should I wear?" It ended up being a black dress without any leggings or jeans, but then the temperature dropped (In my flat the temperature can change quickly without being in the shower or bath) As I was getting ready I ended up catching my skin on my leg and was hit with the feeling of total smooth skin. I couldn't believe how smooth my skin was, it was like the hair kept my skin free from spots or rashes, I now look back at some of my photos and think "why didn't I shave sooner?" It makes me feel so uneasy looking at the older photos where I see body hair. My hair was like a second skin. I never knew how smooth my skin was.
With my flat that I live in starting to get cold and with no body hair to help me keep that little bit warm I needed something to help but without having to wear leggings or jeans. (heating was turned on but would take an hour to start to heat up) I do look at fashion mags and in at the moment is my favorite footwear and really the only type of footwear I have which are boots. I only ever tell people about my ankle boots, and my knees, but the ones I wore on this occasion was something I would never go out the in and will just wear them when its cold and only with me in the house and that is my over-the-knee boots. I know the way I describe them might have some people thinking I keep them for some form of sexual activity but I don't. I rarely wear them it's just when it gets cold in the flat at night mainly. I hate UGG boots or any type that resemble them, so they're out of the question. These for me was the best option to try with my skin being now exposed without hair.
In my flat it doesn't matter what mode i'm in, if I know I have nothing planned I will wear shorts and a tee-shirt or a light material top. I don't really like the picture above main reason is due to my camera I used to use being broken and I had to use the surface for the pictures. I don't care how bad I looked or how slutty it seemed, I never went out and stayed in and those boots kept me warm. I think suede boots would of been better but I don't have any... Yet.
One thing I nearly forgot to mention is how good the boots felt whist wearing them. It made me think on how much feeling you lose when your body is covered in hairs. Another thing about shaving was it revealed how dark my hair was and made me see how much of a milk bottle my skin is. Maybe next year the sun beds might be on the cards, not like obsessive as you can get hold of skin hormones that will give you a tan. I only know this as I saw them in Holland and Barrett's whilst shopping for protein and muti-vitamins.
A few days after shaving mainly my legs it started to mess up my skin with rashes and spots, I have no idea why this was as I shaved with the grain on my skin and not against plus I did moisturize my skin daily. I can only think this was down to using clippers first on my skin as it did produce loads of scratches and would of damaged my skin before taking a razor and shaving which after reading many forums it drys your skin anyways. I think the razors was a factor also as they was cheap crappy ones that have no moisturizing applications on them. I think my skin needs to get used to shaving as well. Not sure it that true but my skin at the time looked a mess, now isn't to bad, as I use "Wilkinson Sword Xtreme 3 Beauty" which comes with 3 blades in stead of the 2 I've been using, they also come with some sort of moisturizing application on it, the blade is more flexible and pivots at a 30 degree angle... And it still cuts the shit out of my leg and I think even more than the crappy 2 blades with no moisturizing blades I used to use. Black Friday is around the corner which Cyber Monday will follow so I hope the price of the better Razors will drop massively and will also look into better skin care. I think that working in a dusty warehouse doesn't help for my arms no matter how often I wash my arms and shower.
Shaving isn't just about my legs. It opens more opportunities to show skin. Showing skin for me is legs and tops like in the photo above and more arms. No showing of the belly from me sorry to get many hopes up. Joking, even if I had a flat stomach I wouldn't show. (maybe next year I will work getting more in shape, but one step at a time)
Shaving for my male side has changed mainly the way of image. Only one person has asked about me shaving and that was by another male. I work with a few females that aren't afraid to voice their options and will ask questions so we done to them for noticing... Not. Even as male I have changed on how I see body hair and now really don't like it. I've looked a few times at my skin whether its my body or legs etc and thought how disgusting. I've seen on a few forums how people let shaving take up so much time and time is not what I have a lot of. I tend to spend around 30 minutes shaving from facial to the whole body, probably the reason why I end up with loads of cuts.
I highly doubt I will ever go back to being hairy ever again. In the past I've had my legs waxed for charity and I really don't know why most men cry like a bitch as I really don't think it hurts. I remember at one charity event there was these two lads one I knew and they was screaming like they was going to die it was so funny then I got roped into it and I have witnesses, people with their phone recording me thinking I would scream when I only turned round to watch the rugby league internationals on TV (think it was England vs Australia at Leigh Sports Village stadium where England thrashed them) until they was finished with my leg haha this is all true by the way.
Not thought of my next topic but I did get a text off a courier company called DPD. The only thing I'm expecting is my new hair, which I have had made custom that took 12 days to make and is real human hair, so I can dye it and do other things that with synthetic hair you couldn't. I can straighten my synthetic hair that I have now but up to 120 degrees Celsius.
