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What razor do you use?
bluefoxicy
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My parents are absolute heathens and kept trying to force electric razors on me. Funny my mom uses a blade but got me an electric as soon as I started shaving. I smashed it one day (I barely grew facial hair! She wanted me to shave every day!), and they made the mistake of getting me a pack of Bic razors and a can of Colgate garbage. I've tried electrics since, but in high school I ripped the skin off my throat with one (I've never heard so many people say "How the Fuck did you do that?" to me in one day...), so fuck that. They hurt so fucking bad and don't even give a good shave.
Nowadays?
Screw Derby's. Gillette Platinums, or Feathers.
Or not. Whatever. I'm looking at a nice Dovo 5/8 half-hollow round point Ebony handle, carbon steel.... $120 for the blade (and you thought Fusion blades were expensive? I pay 70 cents for imported Sweedish steel blades for my Merkur 41C open-comb 1904 replica). The above's just a cheap $15 wedge carbon steel (1045 surgical) Chinese razor, french point.
What do YOU shave with?
Nowadays?
Screw Derby's. Gillette Platinums, or Feathers.
Or not. Whatever. I'm looking at a nice Dovo 5/8 half-hollow round point Ebony handle, carbon steel.... $120 for the blade (and you thought Fusion blades were expensive? I pay 70 cents for imported Sweedish steel blades for my Merkur 41C open-comb 1904 replica). The above's just a cheap $15 wedge carbon steel (1045 surgical) Chinese razor, french point.
What do YOU shave with?
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I use a Schick Quattro. One that vibrates. So I can stick it in my ass if I so feel the desire, which is admittedly not often.
I use a Gillette... razor.
A pack of 40 heads will last the better part of a year and only costs like $25 if you go to the Costco, though, so it's really not very expensive.
You talk about razors the same way gearheads talk about cars...
is a little weird
Here's a long-exposure shot of a Roomba vacuum's path
I know the amount of blades are fucking absurd but man
My facial hair grows pretty god damn thick and coarse
Gotta bring out the big guns
Safety razor (Merkur Classic $30 thing) if you want to go that route. Shaving's a cult, straight razor isn't for everyone, blahblahblah. If you're looking for something different then I can definitely recommend proper brush, glycerin soap, double-edge razor, Gillette Platinum blades, and a week or two of patience. And no pressure, don't press down with these things, they're heavy for a reason.
At the very least, brush and soap make a huge difference. I use a $15 Tweezerman badger brush btw (yes there's $200 brushes out there, wtf?!).
I always found the vibrating Mach 3 and Fusion razors to work pretty nicely, for a cartridge razor (yes I'm biased towards double edge razors). The vibration helps them glide easy. Probably same with the Quattro, though I didn't know they had a vibrating version.
i don't work, so it's not like i gotta look professional
and the woman doesn't give a shit really
so pretty much i am rocking a scruffy almost-beard most of the time
I don't really shave often though, I'm more of a trimming man.
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I shave probably once a month
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But I trim it every day or two because I get antsy when my sideburns and shit start growing in
Also I had a Gilette Fusion when I was in basic, but I left it behind with the refills, in the magic drawer
Big guns == slant razor and Feather blades <_<;
Seriously? Try this:
1. Get some Proraso, it's 12 bucks.
2. Hot shower, hot towel, whatever. Wet your face with hot water, rub some of that stuff into it. Dip a towel into hot water, wrap it around your face for like 2-3 minutes (not kidding). If it cools, get it hot again. Don't burn yourself.
3. Wipe that stuff off with the wet towel. Apply lather (really? A brush and proper soap like Proraso shave cream or Col. Conk's shave soap is best here; but you can use crap in a can if you want).
4. Shave.
The glycerin in real shave soap-- and in that preshave stuff, which is packed with it-- soaks into the hair. The hot water helps this AND opens the pores. When your razor hits your hard, stiff hairs? .... no. They're more like thin elastic bands. I'm sure your Fusion can cut a bunch of tiny, hair-sized rubber bands easy enough.
Yes I've put WAY too much thought into this. I could write a small book on shaving. Point here though is, yeah, double edge or straight razors and good technique helps immensely; but even if you have that stuff, throwing canned shaving cream on a cold, dry face and having at it is worse than using a piece of broken glass. I know, I've tried, I've cold shaved in the bathroom at work and I will never do that again.
i just use a Quattro, as i got a buttload of free samples from some promotion at a local college a while back.
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I work a my second job (Starter at a golf course) once a week so I only shave before that shift. The rest of the time I'm at UPS before dawn and could give a fuck less how I look.
I trim them down.
I use a gilette mach 3 or whatever and I have a braun 360
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I once shaved with a razor blade before a wrestling match
Ref's like GET RID OF THAT STUBBLE
I'm like fuck I finally grow some stubble and I gotta shave it off
Nobody had a razor, so we got a razor blade off this dude who had one for some reason
meh, not for me
i am a broke-ass who uses shitty shaving gel i get from the pharmacy for a couple bucks
i buy new razors for my fusion like once every few months
shaving, for me, is a losing battle
i shave, and by about noon that day i already got a shadow going
i sometimes think i am a god damn werewolf or something
otherwise, i'm not a hairy guy in general, but it's basically impossible for me to look clean-shaven for any length of time so i generally don't try
Wet the razor and I'm good to roll
You know you're making me cringe, right? No, seriously.
When I shave it feels good. O_O
Same, though I've been known to dry shave if in a hurry.
i have shaved with some weird things... including a throwing knife and a huge knife.
we had an easy cut boxcutter at walmart that was pretty hard to shave with
nope, it's pretty thick and consistent, i can grow a proper beard or vandyke or whatever i want, really
maybe every couple months i'll grow out and keep a proper beard trimmed, then i'll nix it
i got this thing where i have to change my appearance in some way every few months, or i get bored
leads to my shaving my head, or dying my hair, or growing a beard, whatever
speaking of
maybe i should bleach it
ain't done that in a year or so
edit: Pony, I wish I could grow real facial hair. Sure it'd be even more of a pain in the ass because I'd have to shave more often but at least I would have the option to grow it. Instead I get thin, patchy, nearly blond facial hair that I have to shave off or else end up looking like an even bigger retard.
eh, it's not all that great
being able to grow a beard is kinda nice for a change of pace
but i am basically constantly scruffy looking, i'd post a picture but that would turn this shit into a camwhore thread
i get complimented on it sometimes, there's been folk who tells me it looks rugged or whatever
i think it just looks slovenly
but i don't care
Some guy ground a pretty fucking nice blade on his bowie knife and honed it to mirror, then shaved. It takes effort. Lemme try to make this clear for you... if you try to sharpen one of my razors with a knife hone? You'll tear the blade off and destroy it on your first pass, and it costs about $200 to put a full hollow blade on one of these things (yeah, those $250 razors? The razor's 50 bucks).
A knife has a wedge blade; and although you can't get it quite razor sharp, you can hone it to a sharp, mirror finish. Razors have a completely different blade ground on, the geometry is "hollow" (i.e. take a triangular wedge, and curve the sides inward; "full hollow" is basically an obscenely thin sheet of metal).
Doable, yes. It'll be like a cheap straight razor, almost. It takes a lot of work though; these two things aren't even in the same class.
No kidding. He's also serious about brewing beer.
i know a lot of dudes who have this curse
it blows for them
they just end up looking scraggly and pubic
Generally shave about twice a week.