Thread: shaving someone else??

so does anyone have any experience shaving someone else such as a friend or family member? how long did it take for you to get comfortable enough in order to take that razor to someone else's face? hehe! i was just curious...

Well, I'm an actor and have a ritual. I always give myself a straight razor shave in the dressing room opening night before a show. Twice, I've been asked to give my friends a shave. The first was two years ago. Went pretty smoothly, except for the young man in question's girlfriend rushing in and practically feinting. The second was last year. A friend of mine asked for one and I did it. Worked fine, but he suffered a few nicks due to the fact that he was shaking like a leaf the whole time. Nothing serious though. I also had to do all of the guys' hair for that show. We did Bye Bye Birdie (I was Conrad) and seeing as I'm a greaser normally, they put me in charge of giving 1950s hairstyles to the guys. Overall, a fun experience. Pomade, Brylcreem, Vitalis, Hawleywoods No. 9 Aftershave and shaving soap create an intoxicating, barber shop smell.

I did my wife's legs. I was confident but she was pretty scared.

My friend was staying over last weekend and forgot his mac 3 or whatever the poor fool uses.

He asked if he could use one of my razors, but i told him hed probably cut himself. Ignorantly he insisted and I told him again that it took me a few weeks of trial and error before i got it - its not something u can just pick up.

He then asked if i could do it for him. I had never done this, but i thought why not, so proceeded with the preparation. I felt like such a barber!

It was fairly easy 2 do the sides, but I found it tricky to do the chin and neck areas. This is becuase I only know how to shave myself and have familiarity with my own faces's geography, in addition to the fact I had to work out which diretion my friend's hair grew in as to work out which ways to stretch, as Im so used to my own.

3 passes and near BBS. Not bad for a first attempt - a better job than I paid a barber to give me a shave with a shavette once. And I only gave my friend a small nick, hardly noticable.

In the end he was quite grateful, and a good experience for me. I used a rescaled Wapienica, Prorasso pre shave and AOS cream.

yeah, my fear obviously would be cutting someone real good! i would be too comfortable if someone held a really sharp object to my throat!! my dad and uncle told me yesterday that they would go drive down to mexico to camp, fish and get really cheap shaves from the local barbershop who used straight razors. i couldn't imagine having someone i don't even know in some other country shave me with a SR! no way!!

I cut my brother in law yesterday as a matter of fact giving him a shave...it was a blood bath. If you're looking to show people how to shave, stand next to them while they shave themselves. The full story is in the shaving forum.

I think about this every time I see my grown son with a couple days worth of beard. I know he wouldn't let me near him and don't know I have the guts to try.

Rich

"There is no native criminal class except Congress,"- Mark Twain

I only did the sides on my son to show him the angle the feel and the technique, and handed him out the razor under my close supervision. Fortunately for me he didn't like the time that had to be spent and got back into the mach 3... maybe when he's old enough he'll try again