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05-22-2009, 08:14 AM #1
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05-22-2009, 08:28 AM #2
My mother, who is a 78 year old Japanese woman, used to use those razors all the time for her face. Apparently it is common place for Japanese women to shave the hair off of their face.
I asked her about it once. Her ryply was."We are not animals".
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05-22-2009, 10:30 AM #3
Ayuh. My wife has taken over my old electric...but she used to use the "safety" version of these (platic handled, wire wrapped blades).
I think it's because the hair is really dark...stands out a lot, especially against the pale skin that everyone strives for.
**edit** Oh, and the pictures were much better the second time! That Norpin is an anti-fever cold-type of medicine. The company is still in business. The big red thing says something about being a cleanser (It'll take ages for me to figure out the Kanji...I'm not that good yet.) and the Sinse mentum stuff looks like it's written in English. Interesting find...where'd you get it?Last edited by JimR; 05-22-2009 at 10:34 AM.
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05-22-2009, 02:16 PM #4
Store which selling some vintage military stuff. I bought it because of a razor. They claimed that this WWII Japanese China Front Comfort Bag Content, something like 1937-1945 (I think this is total BS) I would never believe that local forces would have something written on their stuff in enemy’s language... I might guess that this from mid 50'es or something. Honestly, I would rather send it to someone who appreciate this stuff more than I am.
Here some more pictures.
Cleanser medicine looks like Potassium permanganate I used to play with it when I was a kid.
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05-22-2009, 10:38 AM #5
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Thanked: 317That interesting actually. I was never aware that excess facial hair was common among Japanese women. I may just be demonstrating my ignorance, but whenever I think of women who have enough facial hair to consider shaving, I tend to think of greeks, eastern europeans, and maybe hispanic women.
Is noticeable facial hair actually common among Japanese women, or does it have more to do with Japanese culture and the desire to look as youthful/clean/idealized as possible?
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05-22-2009, 12:32 PM #6
VeeDub that's one loaded question! :-) In a nutshell, to my knowledge about the only women that don't have a bit of facial hair that I've noticed at some point in their lives are native American, very pale Scottish or from Norway/Sweden. Obviously there are exceptions but for the most part I believe the outside corners of the mouth as well as sometimes the tip of the chin and obviously between the eye brows can come up with a few hairs on most women as they age. The reason they remove it is probably the same as it is for us guys. So one may ask why you shave? Same rationale I suspect.
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05-24-2009, 01:19 AM #7
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Thanked: 317I was worried it might be when I asked it, but I asked with good intention.
As I said, I was probably just demonstrating my ignorance. My mother is half irish, my ex-wife was half Scott/half welsh, and my girlfriend these days is a mix of lot's of pale skinned western european bloodlines.
At my day job, I see a lot of women from that part of the world (although I see more Vietnamese than Japanese) and I can't think of a single time I've seen one with the slightest facial hair outside of eyebrows and eyelashes. It must be a very strong point of grooming in many east asian cultures. I just find that interesting, just as I find the French or Greek acceptance of body and facial hair to be interesting.
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05-25-2009, 11:51 AM #8
The Sinse Metum appears to be something similar to an old ointment called Zam Buk .. My gran always had it in here medicine cabinet and used it for everything . I was lucky enough to find it again in Bangkok so I bought a couple of jars .. smells very menthol like
Zam-Buk The Great Herbal Balm
cheers Garry
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06-14-2009, 04:38 PM #9
Some later edition of this razors I bought recently. They are new, old stock, most likely from 50'es