I'm a sucker for a girly-looking beauty product, which can be dangerous, especially when they're really sharp.Īfter I got out of the shower one night, I lathered my face thick in my favorite Drunk Elephant moisturizer (which is why I look like the Joker in all of the pictures), which the directions said would act like a sort of shaving cream. When I got home and took these superior-seeming razors out of the package, they kind of looked like the weapons gang members use to threaten each other in old-timey prison flicks, but the handles were made of cute pink plastic, which made them look a lot less threatening. The blade is sharp enough to tackle both soft and stubbly hairs, but allegedly isn't sharp enough to cut you. These razors, which have a single blade and a handle for easy maneuvering, are small enough that they can fit under your chin and around your ears. Shiseido Japanese Face Shaving Razors, $9, Amazon They were the real thing (after all, people had been using them for centuries!), and I couldn't resist testing them out. So was really excited when I recently stumbled upon actual Japanese facial razors at a beauty store in Malaysia. Given all the buzz on the internet, I'd tried the whole facial shaving thing a few times with regular old drugstore razors, with mixed results (usually it was when I was running out the door to an event and realized I'd forgotten to get my 'stache waxed). ( A lot of the Real Housewives ladies and Bachelor contestants do it too, but that's not nearly as important to my personal narrative.) As if those weren't reasons enough to try it out for myself, Kattan claims Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe were fans of face shaving, and if it was good enough for the two most glamorous women in history, it was definitely good enough for me.
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Beauty blogger Huda Kattan recently released a video touting the benefits of doing a once-over with a razor as part of her skin care routine, and listed its many benefits beyond peach-fuzz fighting, including scar rejuvenation, anti-aging precautions, and smoother makeup application. The trend hit the United States pretty hard a few years ago, both as a method of hair removal and skin exfoliation, and it's slowly becoming less taboo as more and more women test it out.
Upon further investigation, I learned that in Asian culture, women had in fact, been shaving their faces pretty much forever (I mean, obviously this woman wasn't lying to me). (I hopefully said it more eloquently than that, but you get the picture.) "It's so funny when I hear people say that," she deadpanned, "Because Asians have been doing that for centuries. " At-home dermaplaning, where you sort of shave your face with a razor," I told her, having prepared for this question for days.
I was once in a job interview with a Korean-American beauty director who asked me what I thought the next new "big" thing in beauty was going to be.