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The secret of a good shave

  • 27-09-2013 04:00PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭


    Did your Dad/Mum teach you how to wet shave correctly? We're talking facially here so no innuendo please


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Nope, my dad was useless. He still shaves with a poxy electric.

    It has taken me years to realise that you should get your grandfather to teach your, or failing that a barber.

    Nothing, repeat, nothing beats a straight razor shave.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    WilyCoyote wrote: »
    Did your Dad/Mum teach you how to wet shave correctly? We're talking facially here so no innuendo please

    Nope, only electric shavers in the family ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭meemeemee


    No. But what a good idea. Patent it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,788 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    No, I found it pretty self explanatory. Blade cuts hair, run balde over face, hair gone.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    The army showed me.

    A Recruit that had heavy growth was picked out, pretty much grabbed in a headlock. Water and foam was slapped on, cheap disposable 1 blade razor was methodically criss crossed over his face.

    Et voila....blood all over the shop and a "you fcukers better know how to shave in the morning" instruction.

    I still headlock myself to this day.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,571 ✭✭✭patmac


    I use Tesco's triple blades @ €2.99 for 8, one a week does along with non perfumed soap and a shaving brush very cheap and nice shave, feck paying €9 for 4 Gillette Mach 5,000,000 blades to keep Federer, Henry happy and €4 for shaving foam in a can.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,528 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    Nah, me mam's a disaster. She's a face like a badger's arse


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I often wonder why people buy Bic razors, they must have some other function other than as razorblades, because they are good for fcuk all in that regard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    No,my mother had a beard


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 358 ✭✭Weevil


    Rinse, lather , shave. Repeat.


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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,087 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    MadsL wrote: »
    Nothing, repeat, nothing beats a straight razor shave.

    I'm thinking of getting a straight and a strop for Christmas this year. I feel ready to graduate from my DE now!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Conditioner is great to shave with,apply it about 2 minutes before you shave and all the hairs will be softer which leads to minimum irritation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,788 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    patmac wrote: »
    I use Tesco's triple blades @ €2.99 for 8, one a week does along with non perfumed soap and a shaving brush very cheap and nice shave, feck paying €9 for 4 Gillette Mach 5,000,000 blades to keep Federer, Henry happy and €4 for shaving foam in a can.

    Have you heard of www.shaving.ie? It's like tescos prices expect your buying the top end gear.

    Dump the disposables and get yourself a safety razor, I have a full beard now and could just shave the whole thing off without trimming first using a safety razor, they're incredible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Have you heard of www.shaving.ie? It's like tescos prices expect your buying the top end gear.

    Dump the disposables and get yourself a safety razor, I have a full beard now and could just shave the whole thing off without trimming first using a safety razor, they're incredible.

    Boring website, nothing innuendo there :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 326 ✭✭Savoir.Faire


    Converted to the wet shave movement a number of months ago. Proraso shaving soap to start, work up a lather using a badger brush and Kiehl's wet shave cream, Muhle R89 razor for a really close shave, Clinique post shave balm to finish.

    Head out to work feeling and looking groomed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Find electric useless, good old fashioned razor all the way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,923 ✭✭✭Wossack


    old motor oil and a bowie knife


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,788 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    I got one of the London aftershaves and found if you brush it through your beardy bit it acts like a hair gel keeping everything in place.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    Wossack wrote: »
    old motor oil and a bowie knife

    You should head for The Green Room. Lots of Southside luvvies there fancy a bit of rough. Don't let me down now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Jonny Blaze


    Just remember an angle of about 30 degrees if you dont want to end up looking like freddy kruger...
    I'm thinking of getting a straight and a strop for Christmas this year. I feel ready to graduate from my DE now!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    The army showed me.

    A Recruit that had heavy growth was picked out, pretty much grabbed in a headlock. Water and foam was slapped on, cheap disposable 1 blade razor was methodically criss crossed over his face.

    Et voila....blood all over the shop and a "you fcukers better know how to shave in the morning" instruction.

    I still headlock myself to this day.

    What's hilarious about this post is the fact the you were in d'army.
    Were you private Fancy Pants ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    The army showed me.

    A Recruit that had heavy growth was picked out, pretty much grabbed in a headlock. Water and foam was slapped on, cheap disposable 1 blade razor was methodically criss crossed over his face.

    Et voila....blood all over the shop and a "you fcukers better know how to shave in the morning" instruction.

    I still headlock myself to this day.

    The irish army has quite a thing about shaving judging by some stories.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Bambi wrote: »
    The irish army has quite a thing about shaving judging by some stories.

    I was in Baldonnel years ago and saw two NCOs shaving the back of a recruit's neck with BIC razor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,494 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I forked out on a very expensive blade and full shaving set about a year back.. Genuine badger brush and the whole lot. I've used it about twice so far. It's a nice novelty but seriously not worth the hassle when you're up early for work, in a hurry and rushing about still half asleep.

    I'll be sticking with the auld Mach 3 for a while yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    No, my Dad's always used electric, so one day I was just handed an electric and told to figure it out.

    I've kind of jumped between blades and electrics for years. I'd try blades, discover that I was shaving my face red raw, then switch to electrics. Then pissed off with how long the electric took and how raw it was making my face, I'd switch to blades again for a few weeks, and repeat...

    It was only this year that I bothered to ask the internet how to shave that I discovered I can wet shave without destroying my face.

    1. Shaving foam on the face, leave for at least 3 mins.
    2. Shave with the grain
    3. Shaving foam again
    4. Shave against the grain.

    Et voila, 8 minutes, baby's bottom, no bleeding.

    Though I'm pretty lazy about shaving, so the blades get dull pretty quick going through 4 days of growth.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    mattjack wrote: »
    What's hilarious about this post is the fact the you were in d'army.
    Were you private Fancy Pants ?

    Still serving....haven't been sacked yet.

    I prefer Brigadier General Fancy Pants III

    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Bambi wrote: »
    The irish army has quite a thing about shaving judging by some stories.

    Don't get ya


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    mattjack wrote: »
    I was in Baldonnel years ago and saw two NCOs shaving the back of a recruit's neck with BIC razor.

    Yep. Neck shave!

    Still a very normal thing in recruit training etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,336 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    havent shaved in a week now. Im actually dreading shaving tonight :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Don't get ya

    ah I've heard lads who were in the army going on about recruits being made to shave over and over again until the shouty sergeant fella was happy with the results


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