The Wife Picks A Blade

[Topgumby]

My lady got a Blue Lady awhile back. She has been slowly warming up to it, and today she asked me for a new blade.

"I tried the ones in the red and yellow paper, but I like the ones in the slide-out thingy better."

I went to get her a new blade, and chuckled a little to myself, because she had just said she prefers Sharks to Sharks, since I was sure she had tried a blade out of the Personna dispenser I had loaded up with Sharks for traveling.

When I went to fish out my Shark loaded dispenser, I found that the dispenser wasn't in the drawer, it was still stowed away in my travel kit. She'd found a stray dispenser still full of ASR Personnas.

"Are you sure you don't want the red and yellow ones? I think they are much smoother." I wasn't buying her preference for the WalMart specials.

"Maybe for your barbed wire face, but I'm sure I want those blades from the slide-out thingy. Here's the old one, don't you have a can for them?"

I handed her the dispenser.

"See, there on the back is a slot for old blades. And when you open up the razor, you can hook the blade right on that middle bar if you get it half out of the disp...the slide-out thing. You never have to touch it!"

"Wow, some ancient shaving nerd thought of that? Very nice, I'm sure that appeals to your inner need for gadgets. You can leave them with me."

My shave den is in the hall bathroom, and she showers in the bathroom next to the master bedroom. Not only has she taken to the Blue Lady, she has just officially started, in a small way, her own shave cave.

She's using Yardley bar soap for her legs, no brush. Her post shave routine is pretty simple, she just uses some Burt's Bees body lotion to quell any razor burn.

I'm feeling kind of good about the conversion to DE, but slightly miffed that she has rejected my blade of choice. At least WalMart has the ASR stuff fairly cheap, and I'd noticed even the local grocery store had a BOGO offer that brought the price for their house branded ASR blades to four bucks for two ten packs.

Anybody else have a lady of the house pick a different blade than what you prefer?

 

[TheBigL]

Sounds very much like my wife. She uses one of my super speeds, usually with a red personna (they don't work for me) or a wal mart personna (because of the dispenser.)

My wife used to use a Bic Soliel until they "new and improved" it by adding a blade. Then she didn't like them anymore. She's also tried the Schick with the bar of soap around the blades. They're very expensive and the soap washes away in about a use and a half.

So finally I convinced her to try one of mine. The first couple shaves were iffy, with lots of nicks and cuts, but she agreed it was better and I agreed it was cheaper. Even though she is using a blade only once, I guess the larger surface area of legs compared to my face makes up for it. Still cheaper too.

 

[WhosYerBob]

My wife still likes disposable Bics - the DE's are "too scary".

 

[luvmysuper]

I keep saying that the walmart Personnas don't get the love they deserve because they are sold where they are sold, and not in a Boutique or online specialty environment.
There are certainly discernable differences, but to be quite frank, I think if you put a WP in a Shark or other wrapper, about half the guys who complain about them would be saying how great a shave they got.