Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing?
Do you use one or more towels or washcloths?
Do you get worried that you might have dried your face with the same side you dried your butt with?
You're drying yourself off after cleaning yourself. If you cleaned yourself properly, it doesn't matter what you dry first.
and top to bottom, like someone with a brain.
Generally top to bottom but don’t overthink it.
Yup I'll just chime in to add I dry off while still standing in the shower to minimize wetness on my bathroom mat
Well, usually i take my underwear off first...
It seems more efficient to wash it while you shower, no?
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Why is that guy wearing underwear if he's just gotten out of the shower? Does he put his underwear on and then dry himself? Am I doing showers wrong?!
No you leave it on in the shower.
As a fellow nevernude...
I start with grit 60, working up to 120, then a 600 for the smoothest finish, then a once over with a buffing pad for a shine that really glows. Always top to bottom.
Pfft. No wet sanding with 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000. Amateur.
Top to bottom. Water runs downhill.
I use the side of my hand to squegee it all down, then just have to towel off a little dampness. Learned that technique as a kid when I went to camp and only had a hand towel size for 2 weeks because of poor packing.
I just try to befriend the water and it vanishes.
You mean to tell me y'all aren't just standing in front of a huge, industrial fan to dry off?
Head to toe, my dudes. Any other way is objectively wrong.
D2, B
I dry from head to toe. I use two towel, one just for my hair because I have long-ass hair and by the time I'm done drying it, the towel is usually pretty damp so I have another for my body.
https://xkcd.com/37/ oh wow, I need some mind-bleach now.
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I dry my croch and ass first so I can get that fresh whiff when the towel goes to my face.
Top to bottom but with D and E switched
I finish with the D too!
Top to bottom-ish. But I consistently use one side of the towel for my face, and the other side for my junk. I know it doesn't matter as I have cleaned up everywhere anyway, but I like to keep it separated anyway.
But do you track the face and junk sides across showers?
Yup! There's that thing you can hang the towel from, I consider that side "up".
I deviced this system as a child, I have honestly never stopped to think about whether it's reasonable or not.
The tag or label on the towel.
I just shake the water off like a dog.
It's good twerking practice, too!
I just have a human sized Dyson air blade. As I step out of the shower, hurricane force winds blow all the water back into it.
That actually sounds glorious, especially if it makes a ding-a-ling copter on your way out.
The human car wash method
Is this the right community for this post?
Its not a genuine question.
All the answers are jokes.
Seems more like an asklemmy thing.
Generally top to bottom, because otherwise drips from above will rewet areas you tried to dry
Surprised we haven't heard from the germophobes that they use a gantry of hot air blowers, like you sometimes find at the end of an automated car wash.
A,B,C,D,E, and F. I use the tag of the towel to determined the use of my towel. Tag always goes bottom right and that means my feet always go there to dry. Divide my towel to 4-5 sections and always use the same spot of the towel for the same parts.
I'm bald
I put on my bathrobe for a couple of minutes. Use the sleeves to dry my head/hair. That's pretty much it.
It’s almost entirely just a progression from top to bottom with the one exception that I do my face first because I need to see properly.
From top down. I have a beard, and I use a hot brush to dry and straighten my beard so I don't use a towel on my face.
I just sit around in my bathrobe until I'm dry enough to put on clothes.
Start at the top and move down. Any areas such as crotch, ass, and feet are dried with the end of the towel while the face is dried with the middle of the towel.
big towel for lower body, small towel for upper body. big towel gets wrapped around hip after drying. but the order is correct
Dick, Butthole and feet last, everything else at random
A to D. Let the rest air dry
Hair, beard, balls and ass.
I stopped drying the rest of my body since apparently I suffer from dry skin or something. Now I air dry.
I had dry hands to the point of skin breaking open and bleeding until I realised that properly drying them after washing hands improved things. I think the water evaporating drys the skin or something
I imagine the sequence would be different depending on the amount and range of body hair.
Personally, depends on delta-T to next task.
Neck to crotch on the front then a good rough polish cycle to try and dry off my back - all with a nice thin towel that knocks the moisture off rather than absorbing it. Once my body is done I have a separate fluffy towel for my long hair, face, and beard.
After drying my hair I just put my clothes on and dry automatically.
(A, 1/2 B, C1-4, 1/2 D2, E1) then (1/2 B, E2, F) finally (D1, 1/2 D2)
I put on my hooded terry cloth bathrobe that simultaneously dries hair, head, neck, torso and legs above the knees. Wipe face, lower legs and feet. Remove robe and dry genitals and butt crack.
Using a single sheet towel.
B, A, using one whole side of the towel. Then fold it in half with the dry side out. Shoulders/begin C3, C4, C1, finish C3/C2, D2, D1, E1, E2, F, all with one side of the towel. Then flip it and use the dry outer side to do a quick pass in the same order.
Just move the towel around randomly until Im halfway dry. Doesnt matter if there is some water left, it will dry soon enough.
I often just stand there until I stop dripping after a minute or so and just air dry.
That sounds unhinged to me. Are you perhaps bald? My hair is really thick and not very porous so it holds water rediculously well. If I did that it'd take 30 minutes
No. I just have very fine hair.
Top down, then beard for last to seal in the flavor.
I use a terrycloth robe as my towel. I dry my hair with the back, then put it on and head to my bedroom to get dressed. I'm dry when I get to the dresser.
I'm not fucking with these letter but it's: Face, head/hair, torso front, torso back, armpits, head again (long hair), arms if still wet, legs if still wet, feet if still wet.
Anybody not starting with the face is a borderline psychopath imo
The only difference for me is the order of c's: C4, C1, C2, C3.
A, B, C1 ,C3, C4, C2, F, E2, E1, D
A, B, C, D, E, F(optional). I go straight down to stop dripping
I always start with my hair first, dry my back and upper body, then my legs. But then I keep a second towel for intimate areas, because why would you want to wipe your face with the same towel you wipe your ass with?
Wash your ass better.
This, if my ass isn't clean enough for me to use the same towel, how could I ask anyone to go anywhere near it