Ginger floats. Mostly.
It's the mostly that got me, as I considered why I ever grated it up and put it in my bath,
Surely we can all relate to seeing some interesting bathing ritual in Vogue and then, misguidedly, trying it out. Well, grating a quarter pound of ginger into your bath is both inadvisable and somewhat ineffective. The bath smelled nice, of course, but beyond making me feel like the prettiest princess, it did little else for me. I don't even currently smell like ginger, and I'm not sure my tub will ever drain properly again (though it now smells a little like Thai food).
Something that does work wonders, however, is the new salt scrub I picked up at Trader Joe's.
Yes, it does leave you a little oily, but that's sort of the point. Besides, the salt is an excellent exfoliator. And unlike the grated ginger, the scent (something like the effect of steeping Chamomile in a can of Fresca, but in the best possible way) lingers. And for five bucks, it's something of a bargain.
Of course, no bath is complete without the hearing, at least once, of Toto's "Africa." Something about the dirt not liking to hear "Serengeti" mispronounced, I think.
2 comments:
(I know what you are.)
You mentioned leg-shaving in the past tense, so I'm assume you don't do it any longer.
When you did, was it simply for aesthetic reasons?
Did you cut yourself at all when you first did it? I can tell you, for yours truly it was not pretty.
Finally, on razor choice -- I've never owned a Mach 3, and I rather suspect the Venus to be the same razor with a different handle design, head angle, and scent.
I don't do it anymore, for a number of reasons. For one, I don't like how fast it made my razors dull. Also, it pretty much destroyed my credibility as a bisexual, and I don't think there was significant enough extra attention from guys to merit it.
I would say it was an aesthetic choice, though I found that I kept doing it because I enjoyed being able to pull up my socks without that annoying pinching feeling on my ankle hair.
I'm sure I nicked myself a few times, but honestly I can't remember ever actually cutting myself in any visible way.
The Venus, as I understand it, is definitely the same razor as the Mach 3. You should try it out when shaving your face sometime. You'll never go back to those disposable butcher cleavers.
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