nicky @c4g@mastodon.cloud

i go to look up other people's shaving process and it's like exfoliate > lather > shave > rinse > shave again in the other direction > exfoliate > ice water > lotion or something like that.

that sounds impossible to me. i don't have the patience or the attention span or TIME to do all of that. i get bored after 5 minutes of anything. if you give me an 8 step process for something i will shut down. im genuinely too stupid for this i think

so now i still dont know what exfoliating is but whatever it is, im intimidated by it now. its probably the easiest thing in the world, i wouldn't know.

im hesitant to add anything to my "routine" considering I've only got like 4 hours of free time most days (except when I stay up an extra 3 hours being depressed after getting in bed like tonight). routine is in quotes because i don't have one aside from shower and now shave i guess, and that already takes like 30-40 minutes

so i go to look it up and the first article i see is "exfoliate for beginners" or something like that. and they list like 10 different things you can use and start listing recipes for their own scrubs made out of sugar and honey?

and this is useless to me. i have a tiny little brain with a tiny little attention span. if i don't get a clear answer within like 4 lines of text, im zoning out, honest. i just need them to tell me one thing to buy that has like three steps to use

short of plucking the whole thing by hand, which... no... it seems like the best option is just to bear with it and shave daily. i was hoping there was some shortcut but that's fine i guess. i just need to shave closer so it'll last a bit longer, right?

so i look up what everyone else does and it seems they all *exfoliate*. this is a word I've heard before, but don't fully know what it is. it's some kind of scrubbing and you have to do it before and after and daily.

ok, i say, surely there's a way around this. i go to a few different subreddits and make a few searches and sure enough there's plenty of options - but none of them seem like what i need.

-laser/IPL/electrolysis, too permanent and too expensive.

-wax/epilator, apparently stupid painful and possibly dangerous for facial use?

-hair removal cream/powder or something, seems like a marginal improvement on shaving if done right and absolute misery if done wrong.

so i shaved my face clean the other day. fully, for the first time in forever. it exposed how chubby my neck is but otherwise it was really nice. felt very cute. then less than 24 hours later it was visible again.