dressing up, shaving set, etc toys for boys

[DickWhittingtonsCat]

My ds aged 4 went to play at a little girl's house and really enjoyed messing around with fake make up etc and I feel awful because I just won't buy him girly dressing up and make up toys. Instead, I would really like to get him some toys so he can play at being a man who is going out, eg a toy shaving set, pretend aftershave, comb his hair in front of nice mirror, etc. I did an internet search but any combination of "boy" and "toys" is just giving me obscene headings! Any ideas?

Great little trading company does a boys foam bath toy shaving set...

Tesco sell bath crayons by crayola. Then if he wants to make himself up, you can comfort yourself with the fact that it's only facepaint!

Or get proper face paints.

Thanks, teabelly, I had a look but I think that the foam one is really aimed at a much younger child. I can't believe that there is nothing like this for boys to play at being grown up, when there is you-name-it dressing table and make up for little girls to play at being grown up. Pretending to be a man, shaving, etc, represents something different from pretending to be an animal with face paints, I think. Surely there should be some space for little boys to play that when they grow up they can enjoy dressing up and looking good, but in a masculine way, not as a cross dresser!

I wonder whether you can make a home made one, by removing the blades from a real rasor?

The you can buy kids "fun foamy soap" (tescos do one), and he can "pratice" with that?!

(reminds me of the Simpsons episode where he teaches Bart how shaving is done "And then you tear off lots of little bits of paper and put one here, and here and any place you're bleeding...")

Why not forget the shaving but concentrate on hair gel, aftershave, hair brush? Would he notice? I tried to google for you, but boys toys is not a good phrase to enter into a search engine