"Please Shower" (415)

“Please, take a shower.” I’ve had to hear this sentence three or four times over the past few weeks. Not about me (I hope)! But about other people in my show choir. Weather you believe that show choir is a sport or just a physical activity you have to know that we sweat. We sweat a lot. Some people worse than others. And there are some that smell quite awful. Like B.O., bad breath, and like they haven’t showered in a few weeks, which, in some cases, might be. Ew, Gross!

            “Wow you smell great,” and “you smell yummy,” Are, in my opinion, some of the best compliments to get, although you probably won’t be getting any of those types of compliments after a six hour long practice.  There are some people who smell before practice though. Add six hours of sweating to that and you are left with someone you couldn’t pay me to smell.  

            Now these people may be perfectly nice people, with loads of talent, they just don’t know how to take a bath. Which literally stinks for their poor partner.

            So I have some tips to not smell so bad, in general. (Feel free to use these tips even if you don’t think you smell, they are just kind of common sense anyway.)

1.      Shower daily. This may seem like a dumb think to put on this list. You’re probably thinking “Well, duh. Who wouldn’t shower every day.” And I’m here to tell you; some people don’t.

2.      Use soap and sprays. The kind of soap isn’t important, as long as it takes dirt of your body and makes you smell better, that’s good soap. Sprays like perfumes and body mists help cover the smell, but you should start with a clean slate any way.

3.      Make using deodorant a habit. You should be using deodorant at least once a day, at the very least! There will be days when I put deodorant on like four times. When I wake up, during school, before show choir, and after show choir. Fun fact! Sometimes doctors say that if you sweat or smell a lot, you should put deodorant on before going to bed to let it sink into your glands.

4.      Change your underwear. Just one thing about underwear: that’s were all your “business” goes so change it.

If you fallow by these few rules you should be smelling clean in the time it takes for one shower, probably about 15-45 minutes, not a long time to get that compliment!