Privacy issues abound in college dormitories. The only time you have to be alone, typically, is when your roommate has classes when you don’t, unless you specifically ask for time when bringing someone over for a date.
Daily grooming such as taking a shower, brushing your teeth, shaving and hair clipping can be performed without taking up too much time in the bathroom, which is a valued personal space in college. But grooming your private areas, manscaping, requires private space. Here is a guide to how to manscape in a college dorm.
Issues involved with personal grooming include discretion or being able to do it without necessarily needing to bring attention to it. Just like getting a haircut, there will be a lot of hair accumulating, but it’s pubic hair, not head hair. You don’t want to leave pubic hair behind because it makes you and your roommate feel uncomfortable. Besides, it’s not that sanitary, either.
Most colleges have bathrooms for a suite of dorms, usually 4 to 6 students sharing the same bathroom. Within the complex of dorms there may also be a public bathroom for a quad of buildings. Where should you manscape in a college dorm? Most likely in the bathroom dedicated for the suite of students.
Some of us are more private than others, but we’ve all heard guys announce out loud that he’s just trimmed his pubes making everyone feel awkward being around him. Most of us aren’t so public about pubes, so we all lean towards discretion. Plus, it’s more gentlemanly.
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What You’ll Need To Manscape In College
There are a few tools of the trade that you’re going to want to add to your college dorm shopping list if you’re going to want to do this right. It’s not rocket science, and it only takes a couple of crucial items.
1. Body Grooming Tool
You’ll absolutely need a body grooming tool. I ALWAYS recommend the Norelco body groom tool. It’s lightweight, discreet, and it’s actually pretty quiet. You won’t have to worry about bringing a lawn mower into your communal bathrooms to take care of your business. It’s lightweight, and will fit in any toiletry bag.
2. Grooming Kit
Keeping things simple in college is an absolute must. You’re going to be moving around a lot, whether you like it or not, so keeping a lightweight grooming kit is going to be a must. For this, I’d just go with a simple grooming kit from Amazon.
1. Learn The Student Schedule
Knowing the times your roommates leave and return is critical to ensuring you’ll have privacy to manscape. This is especially true if you dorm in a suite. If it’s just your roommate and the two of you alone share a bathroom, then it will be much easier to plan a time to groom.
Remember to always schedule ahead of time. Picking a time spontaneously, only to hear your roommate return with the body groomer buzzing may make you feel uncomfortable. Always know beforehand when you will groom your groin area and the rest of your body, knowing you have about an hour to be by yourself.
2. Groom in Two Steps Whenever You Can
When you think about it, you don’t have to shave and trim all at once. This is especially true if you are manscaping your chest, armpits, legs, and groin. You can do it in two steps.
If you’re going to completely shave off your pubic hairs, which I don’t recommend, it’s really best to first trim the hairs all the way down to nubs or stubble the first time. The second step is when you either shave it off completely with a razor or apply depilatory cream.
You might think that using the two step method means you’ll need to find two periods of alone time rather than just one. This is true, but the advantage is that you will need less time to manscape each time, so you can groom in shorter periods of time when you’re in a hurry to do it.
3. Do I Manscape In Or Out Of The Shower?
If you want to trim and shave in the shower, you should only do so after you’ve done a pre-trim. This means you should have already trimmed your public hairs before going into the shower, because it is much harder to trim with water running. On the other hand, if you have a waterproof body groomer, such as the Philips Norelco Bodygroom, you can both shave and trim at one time.
There’s been great advancements in tools for personal hygiene, so it’s worth investing in the most modern and up to date body grooming equipment, such as the Philips Norelco body groomer. Modern tech body groomers give you more options for when you can manscape and lessen the time it takes.
In the Shower
If you are going to shave in the shower, the easiest way is to trim your pubic hair beforehand outside of the shower. This will enable you to shave more closely once you’re under the water.
There are a few advantages of trimming public hair and scrotum hairs in the shower. If you do trim and cut in the shower, use warm water, not steaming hot water, because the water opens the pores and allows the hairs to be cut shorter. The hair follicles are loose, so the hair is more pliable and this easier to cut.
It isn’t recommended that you shave or trim your balls in the shower. It is easy to cut the thin skin covering your balls and this will cause pain and sensitivity for a long time afterward.
Do not ever let any personal grooming products come into contact with your scrotum, no matter what the box says. Trimming this area requires you to pull at the hairs to be trimmed between your fingers, slowly and precisely. It’s highly recommended cutting in this area once you are out of the shower.
If you’ve decided to trim and shave in the shower, make sure to exfoliate the area after you’ve finished. Exfoliating ensures you’ve removed any ingrown hairs and leaves the area clean and prevents the burning sensation that often comes after grooming. Use a loofah or a washcloth. It will provide enough exfoliation to the skin when you’re done manscaping.
Make sure to remove all the hairs stuck in the drain. There is not a more common occurrence than clogged drains due to stud nets trimming and shaving in the shower. Leave the drain clear of all hair. You should do this even if there was hair already there in the drain.
Wrap a towel around your hands or use cellophane to remove the hair. Once it’s out, let hot water run in the shower after you’re out for one minute. This will push any hairs in the drain further down and will help prevent the drain from clogging.
Out of the Shower
The major issue with manscaping out of the shower is hair than has fallen on the ground. You don’t want to sweep there afterwards because it’s time consuming.
Today there are disposable bath mats you can buy that you stand on. After you’ve finished grooming, you can simply throw the bath mat out. If you don’t have disposable bath mats, try to get them, but in the meantime, you can stand on a towel, and shake it out when you can.
Take a shower before you groom, and let the water run over the areas you will trim and shave. This allows the hair follicles to loosen and makes it a lot easier to do the job.
Remember to be considerate of others. No one will really care what you’re doing if you do your best to clean up afterwards. If you don’t leave a trace, no one will think about what you’re up to if there’s no evidence left behind. Consideration goes a very long way, and we know that there are inconsiderate students who do leave traces of their manscaping behind. If you’re considerate, point out to this guy how he should do a better job cleaning up.
4. Manscaping in Community Bathrooms
Some dormitories only have community bathrooms for a quad of students. These bathrooms have several mirrors, sinks and stalls. You can manscape in a stall. This is highly preferred over doing it in front of a sink and mirror.
On the other hand, you can use the bathroom at a time you know no one will be there, and then you can use the mirror. But this is usually before 6 o’clock in the morning. If you really want privacy, manscape at 4 in the morning!
Bring a newspaper into the stall or an old towel and place it in front of the toilet. This will pick any hairs that fall outside the toilet.
Sit on the toilet bowl in the opposite direction you normally sit to shave testicular hairs. Remember not to let the body grooming razor come into contact with your ball sack.
Now trim the pubic hairs with the body groomer, letting the hair fall into the toilet. You can straddle the toilet and shave standing up if you wish.
When you are done, pick up the floor mat or newspaper and shake the hairs off into the toilet, and flush. When you return to your dorm room, go into the bathroom and exfoliate.
No one will care what you do in the stall as long as you clean up after yourself. Leave no trace of your manscaping, not only to be considerate but also so you don’t gain a bad reputation for leaving pubic hairs around the toilet.
5. Manscaping in the Dorm Room
More space is one of the greatest advantages of body grooming in your dorm room; you have extra space to do everything. If you want to groom your chest hairs and abdominal hair because you’re going to soon be intimate, the whole job can be done at once.
Know your roommate’s schedule. Remember to never fall into the habit of doing any personal grooming in front of your roommate, or anyone else for that matter. You will cause embarrassment to your roommate and to yourself, because your roommate will mention to others that you groomed in front of him and word will spread.
6. Why You Should Clean Up After Yourself Thoroughly
Living in public spaces like a college dormitory requires that you always show respect to your roommate’s personal space. It is the first time that on-campus students have been on their own, many take a lot of time to adjust to the fact that they’re no in their own living room at home. Some will take your food from the refrigerator or put their feet on a table where you normally will eat.
Some of them will even groom themselves while having a conversation with you, standing there and talking to you as you stare in horror and search for any excuse you can make up to get the hell away from him.
Too many young college students today aren’t considerate of other people. This does not mean you should be the same, sinking to their level.
Quietly showing the consideration you give to others, will make them be considerate of you in return. This is natural human behavior. On the other hand, playing music loudly while you’re trying to study will make you lose respect for the perpetrator of the music because he is inconsiderate.
Consideration and respect for the fact that others cohabitate with you is especially important when you are manscaping. If you do groom yourself in the dorm room itself, make sure you have access to a vacuum cleaner to pick up every piece of hair that drops to the ground.
If you are the most considerate person in your dorm suite, it will get noticed eventually. Cleaning up after yourself completely, whether it is personal grooming or after eating, and returning the bathroom and every piece of furniture back to the condition they were in before you were there, will garner respect towards you from fellow classmates.
Don’t ever manscape when you are in a hurry. Not only can you cut yourself because you are rushing, but you won’t be cleaning up after yourself well. You need to know that you’ve left no trace after you’re done, so later on you can focus on the material in class, and not worry that you left a mess behind that will make your roommate feel awkward.
7. When You Go Home On Vacation
Shower stalls, bathroom stalls and every other part of the dormitory are public spaces. The same bathroom stalls, showers and flooring may have been there for a decade or more.
This means that thousands of people have used the same toilet you use, the same carpet in the dorm, and the same shower stalls where you bathe.
Out of these thousands who preceded you, a good percentage of them used the shower to do body grooming, and their pubic hairs found their way down the drain, just as yours do.
Most people accept this and do the same thing. After all, custodians come in and clean everything, right?
If you attend a college close to home, consider doing you manscaping in a place you are familiar with, your own private bathroom. The bathroom space in your home may have only been used by you. Often it’s a bit more sanitary and safer to manscape in your private bathroom.
Not only can you take a longer time to groom your body, it will also be more sanitary then manscaping in the college dorm.
If you can wait to groom your body when you go home for season vacations, then wait. Manscaping is not as critical for personal health and optimum hygiene as brushing your teeth twice a day or taking two showers per day.
8. Why Students Manscape in College Dormitories
Some students need to groom their bodies at college, so waiting for college vacation to go home may not be possible.
Some students play sports in college and perspire a great deal. Others apply straps, padding and tape to their bodies to play football, soccer, rugby and baseball. Keeping the groin area clean and free of hair is required to play your best.
There is no real biological benefit any longer for pubic hair. Our biological ancestors did not wear clothing and their bodies were exposed to intense heat. The hair worked to trap particles and impurities in the air so it would not get on their skin and cause infection. Our ancestors had a lot of hair, all over their bodies.
In the course of our evolution, we’ve shed hair, and over millennia grow less and less hair. Clothing has been worn to protect our bodies for over 5000 years, so there is now no known purpose for pubic hair.
In fact, having no pubic is more sanitary, and the body cools down and perspires less when we have less hair. This is especially beneficial for someone who plays sports. Less hair means less bacteria and less chance for infection.
Another reason for manscaping in college is for when you meet female college students. Manscaping builds self-confidence because you’ll feel physically better after removing hair from your body.
Women appreciate manscaping. No one will ever complain that a man has shaved his pubic hair and his balls. Ladies do NOT like a big forest below your belt, so keep it tamed.
When manscaping in anticipation of a date, make sure not to miss the armpits. This area has more odor if there is a lot of hair there. Use your body grooming tool I recommended earlier by taking hairs out between two fingers and cutting, moving closer to the skin after each cut.
There are also people whose skin is sensitive and when they perspire, the skin can become infected. Such people need to groom their bodies often, removing body hairs from the armpits, chest, back and pubic region.