Electric razors vs razors

I'd rather deal with cuts than that sharp painful tugging pinch that electric razors deal out. And then you have to clean that shit out.

and mitch: glitch shaving is classic! i've said some things which make autechre song titles seem like paragons of grammatical excellence when cutting myself shaving. ;)

You are a sick motherfucking bastard, Harvell. You've seen my photo, imagine *that* with a mustache.

However, I know a certain birthday boy who won a bale of hay and some sand as The Smoothest-Faced Man In Sidmouth some years back, and he's purely 'lectric.

oh, i am baby, i am. (rowr.) ;)

(you know, it would have to be a handlebar moustache. and a big top hat. and then you would be a victorian detective's nemesis. oh yes.)

i should also note that i have *never* shaved with a 'lectric, so i can't really offer anything but a one sided opinion. although i always have heard the argument that they don't shave close enough.

bic razor = GORE.

My answer = stop shaving.

xoxo

Oh Jesus Christ, make me a *proper* Victorian villain, dammit! Something from A Rebours or The Picture of Dorian Gray or, if you like, an Edward Gorey piece.

Stop showing off, Nedward, or you're going straight to your room with no dinner.

I already had dinner *in* my room while reading things like your mean responses to my perfect and wonderful self. Excuse me. *strikes melancholic twenties pose by the window, sighs*

As for other bits, wax, cream (for when being too much of a wax woos), bleach. DAMMIT yr beauty industry is larffing all the way to the banXor.

Saying that, am a confirmed Mach 3 wet shaver - I like 'King of Shaves' gel or spray. What happened to those litle soap sticks and brushes that people of my Dad's generation always used? And stypic pencils - what was in those?

I'm toying with upgrading to a cut-throat razor but am somewhat pu- off by its name.

That badger hair better have been harvested humanely or there'll be trouble.

Now don't get me wrong, because I love the Gilette Mach 3 turbo, and I will still use that from time to time, but the Sensotec electric is a very close second, and a 1 hour charge lasts about a month. IT's faster than the Mach 3, and does the job most of the time. I'm just hoping that my neck will get used to it.

I did learn that they can use gluey stuff these days instead of stitches for bad but not horrible cuts. I had no idea. I feel like I have Elmer's glue under the BandAid. ;-)

(Also, I think girl razors are lame, hence the mach 3. shaves sooooo much nicer than the chick equivalent, and it's silvery!)

anyone use an electric razor that works real good - shaving is such a pain jeez

Here's a little trick for those of you who use razors. Most of the dulling of the blade that occurs over time is not due to hacking at your bristle, but to microscopic corrosion of the blade edge between shaves. Tap water + soap + whatever salts picked up from your skin only accelerates it.

So the trick is to displace that watery solution with a hydrophobic/oily one. Food oils go rancid, machine oils have nasty carcinogenic additives. But in your local pharmacy you'll find cheap bottles of pharmaceutical mineral oil, of the kind used as a laxative for infants. If its good enough for a baby's gut, its good enough for my grizzled face.

Just dry your blade after use (I blot the tip against a paper towel), immerse the head in the oil, and your pricey Mach 3 cartridges will last 3-5 times as long. There are companies that charge $20 for this sort of kit, but for me a finger of mineral oil in an old pimiento jar, on a folded paper towel next to the sink, works just fine.

Brilliant!!

there are no electric razors that work real good.
just shave in the shower. cream is for sissies.

also I found out over the holidays I think the Bic Comfort 3 may be the best disposable razor out there

derelict i am going to do that!!

first i need to find some pimentos

my beard is too intense for shaving in the shower tough guy - there must be an electric shaver that works good what w/technology in this day and age

srsly anyone who says "cream is for sissies" doesn't have a real beard

but yea electric razors suck

best shave = old-timey shaving methods (shaving brush + good razor + good cream). as far as gillette's fancy new razors, the only one i like is the original sensor. the mach 3/fusion etc are all too bulky

I had a shaving brush + huge blade razor + shaving powder shave at an old time barber shop once, and it was unbelievably close, almost uncomfortably close. But if he would have cut me it would have turned me off of blade shaving forever.

I am OCD when it comes to this: shaved areas (of face) must be maintained daily with a clean, sharp razor - once down-grain & once up-grain until perfectly smooth. Electrics leave behind a length that, while probably not even visible to others, seems to me like an intolerable five o'clock shadow.

Tried using electric for a coupla weeks on two separate occasions a few years apart and was never satisfied with the closeness - especially around the contours - and even managed to cut myself once. Plus cleaning/charging the thing was a pain in the neck (a metaphorical pain, obv, as opposed to the literal pain derived from cutting your throat with gnashing electric blades.) Twin-blade disposables for me, thanks, a new one every two shaves, or three at the most. Luckily I can get away with shaving (in teh shower) only twice a week.

beard trimmer 4 me 4 eva

sometimes i dont want to hav stubble or a beard tho - shaving daily for me is nearly impossible tho :(

Yeah I'm kinda lucky on this front, because the millimeter of stubble left over by a close trim tends to leave me looking better than a full shave. (Also I suppose darker skin leaves it looking less like scruffy stubble.)

i mean what if i got a job one day that required me to leave my house and be shaven - what would i do then

ice craem i hope you are not enlisting in an armed service or police force?? to be honest i can't really think of many other professions that would explicitly ban facial hair

i'm a beard-trimmin ass dude but if i need to really go clean shaven for a broad i will whip out the mach 9 million or whatever

best o both worlds basically

xpost: If police forces banned facial hair, there would be no ironic hipster moustaches.

yah but waht abt just looking generally unshaven - tho i understand this is pretty much ok these days - and actually ive never worked in a place where it wasnt - but uh i guess u never know

anyway id like the option of shaving everyday - why because it look cute

then just shave every day motherfucker!!!

but it hurt mah face :( OWWWW

i bread trim every couple of weeks but usually have to shave upper cheeks / under nose / lower lip / neckline regularly, with a three-blade deal, to prevent beard-creep.

nose-beard, neck-beard, and soul patch = no no no no no

otoh i have shave the space between the 'stache and the beard because they connect in a most unpresentable and scruffy manner

http://i42.tinypic.com/10ql8gg.gif

maybe it is just the face you are making in the unshaved photo but i'd say stick with the beard dude

the beard is too intense its like when spiderman gets that black suit

sustainable harvesting, no need to clear cut the rainforest

yea i couldn't shave everyday. i've got the thick curly beard + sensitive skin combo that would ensure that my face would be pretty ripped up if i did so

i need options theyre important to me - tho truly laziness likely precludes any regular shaving on my part - which is why i was asking abt electric solutions in the 1st place - seems easy

once down-grain & once up-grain until perfectly smooth. Electrics leave behind a length that, while probably not even visible to others, seems to me like an intolerable five o'clock shadow.

never satisfied with the closeness - especially around the contours - and even managed to cut myself once

I full agree with and wholeheartedly endorse both of these viewpoints

srsly anyone who says "cream is for sissies" doesn't have a real beard

I can't really argue much with this though unfortunately

tbh 4 me the best shave is straight out of the shower hot water no cream - kiss my face shaving cream is highly recommend for other situations tho

+mach III obv

Icey, we probably just have different facial-hair qualities, but me after a complete trim-down with a beard trimmer looks pretty much like you in your "shaven" photo. Maybe your beard's too heavy for it to work, but if it does, there are advantages -- clippers are cheap, fast, easy, don't irritate the skin, and only leave the vaguest of unshaven shadows. Like an 8 o'clock shadow at most.

Myonga's face is populated by adamantium pylons

yah my beard is super think and dark and im wite btw so it just looks 5 oclock w/a beard trimmer

you might wanna use this thing, i have one and it works (mine is from Odd Bins):

http://www.thesustainablevillage.com/servlet/display/product/detail/34539

sorry, that was to Myonga, tha human steel destroyer

ice craem i hope you are not enlisting in an armed service or police force?? to be honest i can't really think of many other professions that would explicitly ban facial hair

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being a yankee

fuckin hate shaving and i thought going old timey with the brush and the warm lather and shit would make me enjoy it more but no

fuckin chore that leaves my baby's-ass-face all red

tho i'm not all serious beardo man like jho so perhaps i would benefit from an electric shaver

I've seriously been sorely tempted to just have my facial hair removed by electrolysis. Not because I look good in a dress, mind you, but because it grows in a sparse but coarse hairs (due to some Indian blood) that looks terrible as a beard/goatee/stache...

I figure I'd save enough time (5 mins a day = 5 hours/year = 55 days over my actuarial remaining lifespan) to make the investment worthwhile, if it worked.

this mineral oil trick is like a light from the heavens. i hope i remember it the next time i'm at the store.

if I was going to have a serious medical procedure to reduce my hygiene maintenance workload I think I would get a complete set of implanted techno-teeth first, then facial hair removal, then lasik

http://www.greencine.com/images/static/moonraker_jaws.jpg

Tom OTM about teeth first, for sure x infinity

It's not even the hygiene maintenance, not even the dentist appointments, but just living free from worry about the inevitable staining, chipping, rot, hassle, root canals, etc. -- I could sleep so much more easily without having teeth as front-line indications of the degeneration of the body.

maybe invent a way to keep your teeth soaked in mineral oil each night

the mineral oil trick IS a light from the heavens. i've been on the same razor since i swear like new year's. i don't shave every day tho.

gold star for derelict.

Myonga's face is populated by adamantium pylons

*surfs to yourdictionary.com*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamantium#History_and_properties_of_adamantium_in_the_Marvel_universe

Ah, I see. I'm pretty ignorant about superheroes - never had much use for Marvel or DC stuff. (My own comics of choice were Dennis the Menace, Archie and Uncle Scrooge.)

pretty sure dennis the menace had an adamantium catapult in one of the runs?

I'd never used an electric razor before but I was so fucking bored with shaving - after decades of having to scrape hair off my face - that I recently bought one. And... what's use/point of these things, the fuckers don't shave you properly!

So glad I've never been in a position that I had to shave regularly. I let it go until it starts looking comical and then do something about it. Maybe.

In my mid 20s I used an electric razor for convenience as a "that'll do" attitude to shaving while I was working in an open plan office. But from late 20s onwards it wasn't cutting it (pun intended) so I switched back (pun not intended) to a razor.

Smooth

I've tried electrics, all variety of disposables, a safety razor. I've yet to find a satisfactory shave. I think my technique probably sucks. I'm left-handed, not sure that that makes any difference. I'd try a straight razor, but I'd probably end up cutting my own throat.

I've been shaving for 40+ years, btw.

My First Electric got a jammed button and vibrated itself to death in the cupboard. I think I'll pick up something with batteries I can replace myself and a firmer switch. Panasonic ES-RS10 ?

I have never found that anything apart from a safety razor works for me. disposables get clogged up, electric doesn't really work at all, blades are terrifying. only problem with safety razors is how few shops stock the blades, though it's getting better of late.

Made my peace with electric vs periodically finding new Mach 3 blades (always later than I oughta)

I've found that you have to spend quite a lot to get an electric razor that works. my current one was over £100 but it does actually work. not as close as a Gillette or whatever but does a decent enough job. cheap electric razors are completely useless though

I find it difficult to get a safety razor at the right angle, and I've cut myself deeper with one of those than with anything else.

(xp) Well they can cost £300/400, so I assume those one works.