Shaving

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-05-13 10:45am

For those guys who need to shave everyday, have you mastered this fucking pain in the arse? If you have, what's your secret? Electric or blade? Before or after shower?

theski · Post by **theski** » 2003-05-13 10:52am

Blade, in the shower with fog free mirror

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2003-05-13 10:54am

Why does my fog free mirror fog up now?

theski · Post by **theski** » 2003-05-13 10:57am

The coating wears off over time..

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-05-13 10:57am

I use a Gillette Mach3. The only "trick" I find is to keep your blade clean and new. With a new blade I do it with just water and nothing else. It hurts a bit, but nothing I can't deal with. If I let it grow a little, a bit of shaving cream makes it feel like nothing at all.

I'm considering getting one of those battery powered submergible shavers for use in the shower, they kinda look nifty. I might as well put the time I waste sitting in the shower to good use.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-05-13 11:00am

When I'm at home, during the shower, usually w/o a mirror and with a bit of caution, when I'm at uni, when ever I get round to shaving... *rubs chin* hmm, that might be in about 5 mins actually...

Electric razors have never worked for me, they never give me the smooth feeling, wet shaves tend to be a lot more effective (now, if only I had someone to appreciate the smoothness, *sob*

), and I only cut myself very rarely these days... however, I do tend to bleed for 3 hours when I do slip.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-05-13 11:05am

Im not very good at shaving, I dont get a close clean shave like others. I think it is related to my skin or beard. I think as you get older it must toughen up or something. I remember being able to shave with cold water when I was 19. If I tried that now, it would not even cut the hair.

Electrics seem to irritate my skin for some reason and leave a little rash, so I use a Gilette Mach 3.

GonK · Post by **GonK** » 2003-05-13 11:10am

[quote="The_Lumberjack"] when I'm at uni, when ever I get round to shaving... *rubs chin* hmm, that might be in about 5 mins actually...
quote]

It's that I NEED A SHAVE FEELING...

I only tend to shave when you can't tell the difference between the stubble and the goatee. I tend to use an electric beard trimmer to hack off most of the stubble then have a shower then have a wet shave. I find that having a hot shower help's to soften the stubble so I don't cut myself as often. Mind you when I do cut myself it's almost always in the same place, nice lines parallel to my sideburns.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-05-13 11:11am

Norelco electric BEFORE shower. Every other day.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-05-13 11:12am

What is this "shave" you speak of?

GonK · Post by **GonK** » 2003-05-13 11:18am

Dalton wrote:What is this "shave" you speak of?

Normally I'd agree with you there but I'm going to have to start shaving every day when I start work

D'oh

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-05-13 11:20am

I shave with an electric razor about once every 1-2 (sometimes 3) weeks. I first use the pop-up clippers to shave it all, then go over it with the actual roters.

The entire operation doesn't really bother me. What bothers me more is when I don't shave for a very long time, because those semi-long whiskers start to get bitchingly irritating.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-05-13 11:23am

I stopped shaving for a month, to see what I would look like with a beard, was hoping for either an Aragorn-esque or a Gandalf-esque beard, but was reliably informed by my mate that I looked like a Spanish terrorist. After a week of being kept awake by the beard rubbing against the quilt, I gave up, shaved it off, and was then told that I suited it... curse those mates of mine...

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-05-13 11:25am

Never get started on electric razors

They are a bitch to clean, get dull fast, and don't give you the closeness and comfort of your average razor

Get a Mach3

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-05-13 11:27am

Heh, I probably haven't cleaned mine for almost a year.

But that's because I use the clippers first before the razors. It virtually eliminates the ammount of trimmings that get inside.

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-05-13 11:30am

Dalton wrote:What is this "shave" you speak of?

This thing my work colleagues do every morning. Take a sharp object, like a blade, and scrap it over your nut sack.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-05-13 11:31am

Bic disposables.
All those expensive 'lady shave' pieces of shit are a waste of money and don't work.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-05-13 11:31am

I use both a Mach 3 and an electric. Allow me to explain:

Mach 3 is good for shaving against the grain and removing all those annoying little stubs- it's also just fine for going with the grain too. Electric just isn't as close. That's fact.

HOWEVER

I have the annoying tendency to cut myself in the same places AGAIN and AGAIN. So I avoid those places with the Mach 3 and use the electric. I don't understand how I keep cutting myself. If I shave against the grain in a certain area, I just get cut. I don't know why.

As for minimizing the pain

1: if you're using a conventional, PUT SOAP all over your face while you're in the shower. This will soften the hair.

2: Once you get out of the shower, CLEAN IT OFF WITH HOT WATER. This will stimulate the hair to rise.

You'll shave *much* easier.

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-05-13 11:36am

Vympel wrote:I use both a Mach 3 and an electric. Allow me to explain:

Mach 3 is good for shaving against the grain and removing all those annoying little stubs- it's also just fine for going with the grain too. Electric just isn't as close. That's fact.

HOWEVER

I have the annoying tendency to cut myself in the same places AGAIN and AGAIN. So I avoid those places with the Mach 3 and use the electric. I don't understand how I keep cutting myself. If I shave against the grain in a certain area, I just get cut. I don't know why.

As for minimizing the pain

1: if you're using a conventional, PUT SOAP all over your face while you're in the shower. This will soften the hair.

2: Once you get out of the shower, CLEAN IT OFF WITH HOT WATER. This will stimulate the hair to rise.

You'll shave *much* easier.

You shave everyday? Your advice goes against current Internet wisdom on shaving. Apparently it takes a week or more for your face to properly adjust to either an electric or blade...

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-05-13 11:41am

Zoink wrote:With a new blade I do it with just water and nothing else.

Ok, mutants with cool regenerative powers please don't add advice.

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-05-13 11:43am

verilon wrote:Norelco electric BEFORE shower. Every other day.

Why before?

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-05-13 11:43am

BoredShirtless wrote:
You shave everyday?

Certainly not. Only when I'm going out-out (gym doesn't count).

Your advice goes against current Internet wisdom on shaving. Apparently it takes a week or more for your face to properly adjust to either an electric or blade...

Maybe so, but I can't stop cutting myself, don't understand why, so I just have to mix and match (it's majority Mach 3, with electric getting the cut-zones).

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-05-13 11:51am

BoredShirtless wrote:
verilon wrote:Norelco electric BEFORE shower. Every other day.
Why before?

Because if you use an electric razor *after* a shower, it will pull up the skin and cause *really nasty* razorburn.. And yes, it hurts. A lot.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-05-13 11:57am

verilon wrote:
Because if you use an electric razor *after* a shower, it will pull up the skin and cause *really nasty* razorburn.. And yes, it hurts. A lot.

He's right you know. Listen to this man.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-05-13 11:59am

verilon wrote:
BoredShirtless wrote:
verilon wrote:Norelco electric BEFORE shower. Every other day.
Why before?
Because if you use an electric razor *after* a shower, it will pull up the skin and cause *really nasty* razorburn.. And yes, it hurts. A lot.

I hope you moisturise properly and use a good cream, ver, else, you'll look 40 when you're 25.