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How mant razors do you need to do legs and pits?

89 replies

StarlightMcEggsie · 04/04/2012 18:55

Missing my super men's bic twin blade for which I only need 2.

Stupid pinkies with strip I blunted 5!

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StarlightMcEggsie · 04/04/2012 18:56

Should add, haven't shaved in 1.5 weeks due to weather and pg makes me a bit extra hairy anyway!

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Panzee · 04/04/2012 20:38

One. Just a green Wilkinson's one.

CointreauVersial · 04/04/2012 20:41

Sorry? You need FIVE razors to shave your legs and pits ONCE?

One razor lasts me for weeks.

MoaningMinnieRisesAgain · 04/04/2012 20:42

I use the same one until the green strip falls off Blush

StarlightMcEggsie · 04/04/2012 20:43

I hadn't done it for well over a week. They get blunt really quickly and the strip ones seem to get gunged up.

Usually I need just two bic twin blade though, no strip. I start on no. 2 when despite being unclogged it just slides over hairs rather than chopping them.

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SemperUbiSubUbi · 04/04/2012 20:44

5 razors? Shock

I use the same one to do legs and pits and that one will last until the strip disappears, so about a month or so.

FannyFifer · 04/04/2012 20:44

One disposable razor last me a very long time, prob months.

peeriebear · 04/04/2012 20:48

One here too! And I have quite tough dark hair on my legs.

TheDetective · 04/04/2012 20:49

One, and it lasts me months.

Bunbaker · 04/04/2012 20:51

You must be buying very cheap, inadequate razors. I use a Gillette Venus razor and change the blades over every few weeks. I find disposables nothing like as good quality.

Methe · 04/04/2012 20:54

I use a Tesco own brand men's 5 strip thing and I use one head untill I start getting a rash and then I change it.

Jackstini · 04/04/2012 20:54

Another one for Venus and lasts me about 4-6 weeks

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Methe · 04/04/2012 20:55

(which is usually about 8 or 10 weeks Blush)

gemma4d · 04/04/2012 20:57

Boots cheapies, last a month or 2 / till they rust. You must have hair-of-iron!

NagooBunnytail · 04/04/2012 20:58

I have the same blade in for weeks! Intuition, the one with the solid shaving gel stuff on it.

And I do my fanj around the edges.

I'm obviously not that hairy.

CointreauVersial · 04/04/2012 21:00

You do have to keep rinsing, though, or it gets clogged.

NagooBunnytail · 04/04/2012 21:01

:) I was thinking that, OP, you do rinse the blades out, right? Wink

ScarlettAlexandra · 04/04/2012 21:03

reading this as the quatro for women ad came on the telly, ooohhh spooky lmao.

me i use one cheepy tesco disposable each time i think it works out at 5p a razor. you wouldnt be able to use them again.

DawnOfTheDee · 04/04/2012 21:04

I find surreptitiously 'borrowing' my DH's razor works just fine for me anyway

SemperUbiSubUbi · 04/04/2012 21:06

By the way my month or so with the same blade is with DP using it to shave his face every few days too. He buys the good ones, I just dont tell him we share Grin

StarlightMcEggsie · 04/04/2012 21:06

Yes, course I rinse. I have to rinse after very couple of cm.

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JarethTheGoblinKing · 04/04/2012 21:10

None. I have an electric shaver.

NagooBunnytail · 04/04/2012 21:13

Have you tried an epilator or something? There'd be no way I would want to be shaving all of that every day :( could you epilate and give it a quick once over each day, keep on top of it?

ENormaSnob · 04/04/2012 21:14

You may find a strimmer more effective Wink

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