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Male grooming Vietnamese style
July 24 | Comments (1)
I went in yesterday to get a shave and a haircut at the local street barber, however the Vietnamese take shaving to a whole new level. After carefully shaving the top of my head, he proceeded to use a straight razor on the rest. This included my eyebrows, nose, forehead and even the tops of my ears. I was unaware that ears need shaving, but hey. I opted out of the ear cleaning, it looked too dangerous. The barber puts on a head lamp and proceeds to dig around in your ears with tools that look like medieval torture devices, apparently Vietnamese men go once every two weeks to get it done. They were giving me a hard time for having 29 years of built up grime to clean out....maybe i'll work up the courage to give it a try.
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eyebrows!? i'm assuming that they trimmed those, not shaved them off entirely?! as for the ear-cleaning, i think we westerners have been frightened by the boogie man ("don't put anything sharper than your elbow in there"). i once had a chiropractor adjust my ear - a quick pop and soooo much unnecessary gunk flowed out. gross and awesome all at once.
Posted by: matthew | August 8, 2007 4:57 PM