Manscaping on the playa

[stylophonia]

Picture this: you finally convince your timid friends to come out with you to the Burn, and after a period of white knuckle/clenched cheeks action, by Tuesday they've done a 180 and want to completely cut loose and spend the rest of the burn nude. But they forgot to manscape!

What to do? For years I've wanted to bring electric clippers with me for just this purpose, but I always backburner the idea because of flying-bits-of-hair MOOP concerns.

I just can't let those asses waiting to see the Sun for the first time ever go unshorn any longer. Has anyone figured out a good solution to this?

Maybe we can rig up some kind of combination dust-buster/hedge-clipper?

[tamarakay]

Wow. Way to much to worry about. Just go natural. Hair is fun and tickley

[VultureChow]

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[FIGJAM]

Braids?

Beads?

Color?

[AntiM]

Penis gourd!

[VultureChow]

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[VultureChow]

Pejazzling?

[Captain Goddammit]

There just ain't nothin' new under the sun. Reverend Gadget over at Body Hair Botique was doing this back in 2001.

[Skyskater]

+1 on the Flowbee. My dad had two of them. They connect to a vacuum and whisk away all the clippings.

[maladroit]

Have you heard of threading as a hair removal technique? You could learn how, and offer it as a service...the yelps as short hairs are yanked out by the roots will draw more customers than Yelp.

[GreyCoyote]

I believe in Waynes World, it was called the "Suck Kut".

[chuckularone]

You are correct sir!

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[torrey.smith]

Just remember Hair is MOOP.

That's the final part of our MOOP sweeps after the event. Crushing little clumps of Playa to get the goddamn hair out.

[theCryptofishist]

Wow. Way to much to worry about. Just go natural. Hair is fun and tickley

Indeed. We're all beautiful on the playa, no matter what the hair situation. If you want to "manscape" (dreadful word) or get a brazillian, that's your business. Bringing that mandatory we all must interfere with our bodies mindset is a serious pollution of the event... Much too close to the commercial mandates of commerce.

[stylophonia]

OKAY, alternate demand for being able to cut hair: suppose you're a big hairy beast (like me) and you didn't realize you needed tiger stripes buzzed into you until you saw someone else with one, and it opened your eyes and you decided you just HAVE TO HAVE THIS RIGHT NOW. Need to make this possible for others. NEED TO.

[VultureChow]

Just wax. No hair moop.

[mooserider]

If you have a generator, how about having an assistant with a shop-vac follow the clippers around?

[LowePro]

There are camps out there that offer haircuts. Not sure how they did it with regards to MOOP.
Maybe a hair salon inside a cheap tent? Use a shop-van and a swiffer to clean the floor after each cut?

[FIGJAM]

Just wax. No hair moop.

Wax BM style= duct tape!!!

[Wigwam]

Agreed. More duct tape ands the "burn" to the burn.

[Nipple]

We're mammals... be a mammal.

Any time you shave body hair, that puts you into the likeness of our reptilian overlords.

Don't stoop to being a bagman for the lizard people.

[tatonka]

embrace the sasquatch , be the sasquatch

[The Rod]

Barberella has been a camp that offered haircuts in the past. I have personally given people haircuts and shaved designs into the sides of heads on playa.

We kind of copied Barberella's solution: they had a carport with all four walls and sealed tents inside the carport, inside each tent was a plastic wading pool and a chair in the middle of the pool. Similar to gasoline I think secondary containment is crucial for keeping moop of the playa. Burners were brushed off before being allowed to leave to tent.

We, had a tent inside a MH, zipped the tent shut and layed a tarp down that went up the walls some for a bathtub effect. When we were done we folded the tarp inwards and let it folded up until we got home. We were careful and we looked hard afterwards and didn't find any hair on the playa.


And as far as the comment about interfering with our bodies, personally I don't think manscaping interferes with anything. We have all sorts of fun dyeing and cutting the hair on our faces and heads why not do the same with the rest of it? Hair can be fun and tickly but smooth can be just as fun.

[theCryptofishist]

We're mammals... be a mammal.

Any time you shave body hair, that puts you into the likeness of our reptilian overlords.

Don't stoop to being a bagman for the lizard people.

Damn, I miss you, Nipple...

[Token]

Any man not sensible enough to shave his balls before heading out to the Playa deserves to suffer.

Nothing dangles like a close shorn scrote in the Playa breeze. A gift to yourself that keeps on giving.

Just fucking do it.

[trilobyte]

Time to point out a classic thread on the subject...
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=36055&hilit=shave+your+balls

MOOP issues are easily avoided, just do your 'scaping in an enclosed space

[tatonka]

i pull out the long grey hairs , never thought of shaving there tho

[Ratty]

I LOVE this thread. Hair removal has long been a hobby of mine. Hot wax, cold wax, dipilatory, epilady and every other crackpot invention. (I haven't removed any hair under my arms or on my legs for 35 years.)

[FIGJAM]

"Hey baby, do you live around here often???"

[Eric]

Any man not sensible enough to shave his balls before heading out to the Playa deserves to suffer.

Pfft.

I don't have stubble between my thighs at any point in my life ever. Leave the hair baby - the wind feels fabulous blowing through it, and you don't look like an 8 year old *shudder*.

Trendy-ass manscaping bullshit. Nothing lovelier than a natural man person - hairless to gorilla, just love what genetics gave you, it all looks good.