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Wetshaving rites of passage

silverlifter

silverlifter

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I was wondering what are the various activities and experiences that are common enough across places and culttures to qualify as general rites of passage? Things that we almost all have, or perhaps will have, encountered at some point...

Some starters:
  • Been shaved by a barber
  • Shaved with Arko
  • Shaved yourself raw in pursuit of a perfect BBS
  • Gone out in public wearing Lilac Vegetal
  • Suffered a conspicuous wound immediately before an important appearance
  • Found a cache of $product that had been completely forgotten
  • Dropped a near full bottle of aftershave on a tile floor
They don't all have to be unfortunuate, of course. What else counts? :)
 
Gone out in public wearing Lilac Vegetal, and received a warning reply from a lady in her 60’s, suddenly she tells me on the public transport that I smell like a cat piss.

It’s too late when you’re on a public transport filled with people, when you’re totally f 🤬 ked, scratching their heads looking at me smelling like a homeless bastard with a kind heart and smile.
 
wiiiildbill said:
I'd add finding out quickly the benefit of having an Alum stick around
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I can only relate to the first two. I went for a shave by a barber a week before going into the army (56 years ago) and I have a stick of Arko that was gifted to me. The barbershop SR shave left me with several nicks and weepers, but I can still remember that the the hot towels were nice. I now shave with a SR minus the nicks and weepers!
 
My only experience with a barber shave was in Nepal. I went trekking in the Himalayas to Annapurna base camp. You can't really shave or anything on the trek because of the lack of water and facilities etc etc The go is when you get back to Pokhara you get a shave from a local barber. This was my first time, and years before I knew anything about wet shaving and straight razors, so it was quite novel. A friend and I went together and it was actually quite a good shave. They used a shavette. After the usual lotions of potions the barber also did a back rub. The extra service was to get extra money out of us of course.

cheers

Andrew
 
I had a shavette shave at a barbers in a small village in India, Igatpuri in 2000. It was memorable, for all the wrong reasons...

I went in for a haircut and the barber, who looked about 17-if that, cut my hair and then proceeded to lather me up. I decided to just lie back in the seat and go with it. I had a full month's growth and he removed it in two passes with a shavette (DE blade), not the most comfortable shave I've ever had, with a couple of weepers, but it did the job.

Once he had finished wiping me down and slapping me about with some dank aftershave, he moved behind the chair and before I realised what he was doing he had his forearm around my forehead and wrenched my head violently clockwise, filling the small shop with the sound of my vertebrae cracking. I went in to shock as he repositioned himself for the other side, seeing a headline in the Times of India appear before my eyes, "Tourist breaks neck in tragic barbershop incident."

Better judgement took hold and I exhaled every bit of breath I could and slumped in the chair like a dead man. CRACK, the other side was done and, in a miracle, I could still move my toes. I paid him and walked out into the street, feeling light and so alive. Best haircut I have ever had, and no way in hell would I ever do it again!
 
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