Why izit that.....

Why is it that when I shave after two or three days beard growth I get an incredible bbs face, but if I shave the very next day I'm irritated with less removal of stubble? I've tried this with different razors in a rotation, but the results are the same. Is it possible that I have a slow beard growth? I know after the bbs shave, I don't feel stubble for at least twelve hours and usually longer. Is my stubble too short to get the bbs again? I'm doing the wtg, atg, and xtg after the two or three days to get it to bbs. I know common sense says to just wait two days between shaves, but midway into the next day my grays show up, and just doesn't look cool.

I notice much of the same thing and I don't understand it either. I just shave every other or third day because it works better for me.

X

Every other day is the way I do it!

I think when you wait a day the hair is longer and that gives the razor something to really bite into. If you are shaving very short growth its just less and the blade will irritate the skin more and seem to shave poorer. Of course I don't have that problem I always get a BBS shave every time!

Everyother day here as well, or day and a half if I get impacient :p

Every other day as well...

Every other or 2 days here....Found that when i was going every day i would get irritated and more sensitive to the shave. Since i switched to the 2 or 3 day.....BBS with my mach 3....still waiting for the straight :P

Hmmm. Ever since I lost the beard last October, my retentive nature has required that I shave every day. I just can't stand my face feeling like 50 grit; 2/0 steel wool was a completely different matter.;)

every morning, Bruce

I shave every morning too, and sometimes I can go weeks and all is fine. But if I irritate my face skin just once, it starts a chain reaction where I continue to get irritation unless I leave the shave for a day or so. My head skin seems more forgiving.

James.

I shave daily, too....although, I'll occassionally skip a Saturday morning shave, and I too notice that the shave after skipping a day is much closer than my daily shave.

In fact,, one of my favorites is to skip Saturday, not shave Sunday morning, mow the lawn and work up a sweat, then go to the health club and go for a swim, followed by a steam-room session and a straight shave...after all that water and steam, the beard hair is so soft you could scrape it off with a fingernail! After one of those shaves, I can easily go two days without shaving and barely notice it!

-whatever

-Lou

I'm an every day shaver myself. If I get too agressive on the chin and get a bit of the burn, I'll pull out my trusted Gem 1912 SE safety and get a beautiful shave and a rest from the straight. When I do skip a day, however, I get a nice shave the next day - that's for sure!

Thanks for the replies, guys. I'm glad to see I was o.k. with the every other day thing. I thought with the seven day sets that some sites sell, it was the norm to every day shave, but I found some do, and some don't. I guess I can stop honing my razors now! I'm there!:y

Great observations. I usually shave every two or three days but I sometimes get the same irritation if I do two in a row. I just have written it off as a bad stropping or being in a rush.
If that is the case, that there's not much for the blade to grab on to, those in the corp sector might want to get those razors honed to day 1 feather sharp?

:hmmm:

Hmm... interesting read here. I was planning on shaving everyday. I'll have to try different shaving schedules now.