Posted on August 8th, 2013 at 11:41 pm under
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This pin touts that shaving your legs with baby oil gel (or I suppose even regular baby oil) will make shaving a religious experience that will make your legs so soft and smooth that baby angels will follow you around singing hymns for a week.
OMG, you guys. This was the worst idea EVER. EH. VERR.
How was it horrible? Let me count the ways:
1. Baby oil gel is a bitch and a half to remove. You thought regular baby oil was bad? Oh, ho ho, my friend… You oil up your leg, then you can’t hold on to any bathroom fixtures — or even your razor.
2. The act of shaving your legs with baby oil gel on them will seriously gum up your razor. I had to use the hottest water my plumbing could produce along with the pulse setting on the shower head to clean that sucker out every few strokes.
3. Once that crap is flushed out of your razor, it sticks tenaciously to everything else, especially the walls and floor of the tub, and therefore the bottoms of your feet.
4. During and after shaving, my bathtub could have hosted the fucking IceCapades, y’all. No lie. I almost died.
5. There aren’t that many cleaners that will cut through that shit on their own. Be prepared to break out the big guns and a ton of elbow grease. Or you can just burn your house down and be done with it.
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6. I didn’t notice a huge difference after the fact. My legs were oily for a while afterward, and I was concerned about accumulating blanket fuzz and dog hair until the oil was completely absorbed. My legs didn’t feel noticeably smoother, and any moisturizing boost I may have gotten by using this method was short-lived. The end did not justify the means, by far!
My two cents?
No. No, no no no, no no. No. Do not ever try this.
I bought a couple sets of these canisters from Target ages ago, and they’ve been awesome for storing my sugars, flour, tea bags, and loose coffee beans. I’ve been wanting to add labels to them for a while, but I couldn’t decide exactly how I wanted to do it, given the plethora of ideas out there (and by “out there,” I mean, “on Pinterest”).
