Men only thread (for reasons which will become apparent): How do you shave?

Neewbie_noob

Sorry if this has been done before, but how do y'all shave? I have shaved before with an electric one, bt no matter how good or expensive it is, I can't get a close enough shave. I switched to normal razors and get a much closer shave, and I love the gilette battery one that vibrates, but no matter how careful I am I still get nicks on my face, I usually splash warm water on my face and leave a hot towel on it before shaving, but alas to no avail.

castletownman

I shave with a butter knife

MagicMarker

I don't, because I'm a real man.

Grrr

Chorcai

I don't shave because I have no need to

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El Guapo!

I don't shave because I have no need to

I've had a ridiculously pitiful goatee for a couple of years now and I've been growing an equally pitiful and ridiculous beard for about two weeks. I know its shít looking but the gf hates it, so I'm keeping it for now just to annoy her. I really wish it'd grow properly though!

Neewbie_noob

Cut throat

Chorcai wrote: »

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Sorry, please move it if you can. Cheers.

Mint Sauce

Trim and edge with an electric trimmer thingy. Shave the rest after a soak and steam in the shower with a 'King of Shaves' blade.

Would be quicker just to shave the whole face, but I look like teenager clean shaven.

cloud493

Safety razor (one of those old fashioned ones wher you can replace the blade)

Disposable razor. Can't stand not shaving, facial hair is itchy and looks bad.

KTRIC

Virating gilette

A sharpened spoon. I'm hard like that :cool:

Wurly

Some women shave too, you know!;)

Hande hoche!

Safety razor (one of those old fashioned ones wher you can replace the blade)

Those cheap Bic razors. Keep meaning to get a decent safety razor.

bluecode

Use a blowtorch myself. It's the only way with my beard.

Incidently I don't know why you exclude women. I know one or two who need a bit of help in that area.

But you're right. Electrics are never as good as they pretend and you will always get nicked by a razor no matter how many blades they put on them. Unless you have the skin of a five year old.

You just have to be realistic, you can never remove all the hair and in any case what's the point. As long as you look respectable that's enough.

Can't understand why there hasn't been an invention that stops hair growth where you only shave once a week or a month. Oh wait there is a reason. The multi million dollar business selling us wildly expensive shaving gear. Any inventor would either be bought out or disappear.

ejmaztec

Angle-grinder.

antodeco

I use loads of Sellotape and just rip it off

franktheplank

I don't shave because I have no need to

I use a Stanley plane. The best a plank can get.

Feathers

I don't shave because I have no need to

bluecode wrote: »

you will always get nicked by a razor no matter how many blades they put on them. Unless you have the skin of a five year old.

Damn, I would've tried shaving as a 5 year old if I'd known I couldn't cut my face :pac:

bgrizzley

I don't shave because I have a beard

Shaving is for pussies...:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

Eramen

Virating gilette

Double edged razor. Dispite the single blade I find it to be much better than the latest mach 17, or whatever number of blades they have now..

Also 12 euro for 100 blades, it would make a nice Christmas present

CaSCaDe711

Virating gilette

With a tweezers. 1 hair at a time

fasttalkerchat

Safety razor (one of those old fashioned ones wher you can replace the blade)

Wanting to try a safety razor sometime but use a Gillette.

Fulton Crown

Safety razor (one of those old fashioned ones wher you can replace the blade)

Gillette Fusion for me ..Nivea shaving foam...good hot water ...face cloth applied to face soaked in said hot water.

Nice lather ...out with the razor ..left side first ..then right side ..Chin...neck ..under nose ..reverse blade and do those difficult bits under nostrils and around sides of mouth.

Freshen hot water ...in with the face cloth...good swab ...admire handsome unknicked visage.

Whats not to like about that ....?

WindSock

I just singe myself a designer beard with my trusty Zippo.

Tar.Aldarion

trim with trimmer, screw shaving completely!

taytothief

Safety razor (one of those old fashioned ones wher you can replace the blade)

Looks like the op has reached shaving age. Congratulations! You're a man now.

wendell borton

Safety razor (one of those old fashioned ones wher you can replace the blade)

What now? Let me tell you what now. I'm gonna call a couple of hard, pipe-hitting niggas to go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch.

Marsellus Wallace.

Scanlas The 2nd

Safety razor (one of those old fashioned ones wher you can replace the blade)

Neewbie_noob wrote: »

Sorry if this has been done before, but how do y'all shave? I have shaved before with an electric one, bt no matter how good or expensive it is, I can't get a close enough shave. I switched to normal razors and get a much closer shave, and I love the gilette battery one that vibrates, but no matter how careful I am I still get nicks on my face, I usually splash warm water on my face and leave a hot towel on it before shaving, but alas to no avail.

Try cold water instead of warm.

RADIUS

Safety razor (one of those old fashioned ones wher you can replace the blade)

1: Shower
2: Gillette Mach 3
3: ?????
4: Profit

Jen Pigs Fly

I don't shave I wax!

Like a boss!

General Relativity

Trim of course.

Wow, that clean shaven guy looks super manly, said nobody, ever.

RADIUS

Safety razor (one of those old fashioned ones wher you can replace the blade)

General Relativity wrote: »

Trim of course.

Wow, that clean shaven guy looks super manly, said nobody, ever.

Most women hate beards - fact.

Scanlas The 2nd

Safety razor (one of those old fashioned ones wher you can replace the blade)

General Relativity wrote: »

Trim of course.

Wow, that clean shaven guy looks super manly, said nobody, ever.

Interestingly enough heard a few females say Gary Barlow looked rotten tonight because he was clean shaven.

Hippies!

I don't shave because I have a beard

Double blade FTW, anyone that shaves with more than 3 blades has severe issues IMHFO.

hatrickpatrick

Safety razor (one of those old fashioned ones wher you can replace the blade)

Don't you change the blades on pretty much all razors except disposable ones?

Biggins

Electric shaver and razor.

Shaver to get rid of the bulk and finish off for smoothness with the razor.
Sadly not on the options.

bgrizzley

I don't shave because I have a beard

RADIUS wrote: »

Most women hate beards - fact.

Sauce for this fact?

RADIUS

Safety razor (one of those old fashioned ones wher you can replace the blade)

bgrizzley wrote: »

Sauce for this fact?

wimminz

Overheal

I use a buzzer but I've never taken a razor to the area, and I'm kind of hesitant to, I'm afraid of what it might do to the goosebumps.

Oh, you meant face. Ha. I'm still posting this. The real answer is a Mach 3 disposable; they seem to last forever. Regularly leave a strip on the jawline.

Corkfeen

Virating gilette

Electric Razor when I'm feeling lazy but for the most I use a safety razor. Have about 3 years of blades to go through.

Pottler

bgrizzley wrote: »

Shaving is for pussies...:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

Do they not just wax them?

I use a gilette fancypants 2001, the best a man can get, unless the missus nicks it to do her under-shoulder-de-foliation in which case it's usually as blunt and raddled as a rusty tea-spoon.

I then vow to buy blades, go into Tesco, see the price, and come home with a bag of Bics which I then use to inflict self-harm each morning until the pain drives me back into the arms of the Gilette.

I have stubble like wire wool and by 4 each day I look like Desperate Dan. i hate shaving. I hate beards more though..

Mint Sauce

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Try cold water instead of warm.

Warm water opens the pores, softens the skin and hairs. Cold water though for rinsing the blade. Warm/hot water causes it expand and mis-shape.

1ZRed

Safety razor (one of those old fashioned ones wher you can replace the blade)

Gillette fusion proglide :cool:


Though I hadn't shaved since Thursday and I'm scruffy enough at this stage but I love my stubble all the same!

Reoil

I have one of those stubble-razors. So I can control the level of stubble that I have.