by BR Kellie
Picture this:
I’ve walked into BRHQ, made a cup of tea, sat down at my laptop and seen the ladies on the forum have once again started talking about an article I’m in the middle of writing, and find myself wondering if we beauty lovers truly do share some mystical mind connection – I mean really, how do they know? It’s wonderfully spooky. Then a certain member of staff (who would like to remain nameless in order to protect her beauty therapist) comes up to you and says:
“Have you heard of a Brozillian?”
“Um, what?” I ask, perplexed. It’s 9.32am and really all I can think about is how shiny the new highlighter challenge is and how much I really want the tea to cool down so I can get another injection of caffeine into me.
“A Brozillian. It’s when men get their…” BR Crew member looks down towards the nether regions. “… That area waxed.”
Well thank god I hadn’t taken a sip of said tea or it would’ve ended up all over my laptop screen, probably frying the computer and my article in the process.
So, yep. Brozillians are a thing, and it’s something the BR Crew member recently chatted about with her beauty therapist as she had some waxing done. (Eyebrows and other above board areas, people. Or at least, that’s the story and we’re sticking with it.)
So what was the deal with this manscaping? Well it’s been around for a while now, a good five years even since it went mainsteam, and I knew it as a B,S&C (Google it, or don’t, no, actually, don’t, it’s a bit crude.) It’s, as the BR Crew member said, when a man has hair from down there waxed off. But what had my colleague curious was who was getting it done? Which male members of our society were willing to put their sensitive bits into the hand of another human in order to have hair unceremoniously ripped out? Was it models? Athletes? Young dapper fellows?
image: Wikimedia - a man who does not wax*
Wait for it…
It turns out the average bloke who goes to get their manly area defuzzed (at the waxing salon my colleague goes to anyway) is over 50, and generally not in tiptop gym buffed condition. So you know, they could be your dad. Or my dad. Wait. What? No one wants to imagine their dad ripping hair out of the area that helped make you. Ew. Gross.
And more shockingly, or more hilariously, or more ‘meh, what do I care, shoulder shrug, pass me some Skittles’, is that it’s more prevalent amongst male society that we non-waxing-for-a-profession females realise.
The thing is, while I’m all for ‘you do you’, and ‘if it makes you feel good and doesn’t hurt anybody then go crazy with the cheese whizz’, this one just leaves me flummoxed. I mean… I can understand if you were a model or athlete that having extra hair removed could be beneficial, but a plumber? Builder? CEO? Or stay at home Dad having his hair down there removed? I just don’t get it. Does it really feel that much different? Is it nice to have that area smooth? Is there less chaffing? More sensation? Does it actually make things look more, er, um, prominent? FLUMMOXED I TELL YOU!
Anyway the conversation finished off with my lovely workmate asking me what I would do if The Husband came home with his bits waxed?
“I would tell him to get that plucked chicken away from me and don’t come back until he’s feathered up again.”
So do tell… have you ever met a gent with no hair around there? Did you ask why? Did he tell? And… was it nice or not? (OK, that could be too much information… but ….) Sharing is caring!
*You're welcome.
It's great blokes are wanting to take care of themselves. Although I don't want to think of family members doing this (Dad.... did you have to say it Kellie lol)!