Thread: Spectacles?

I am also short sighted but have no problem without glasses as shortsightness lets you see close up, at least in my case.

Have always worn glasses but take them off to shave and although I'm quite shortsighted it has never posed a problem for me - like you say ,I too strike the mirror with the scales as I move positions but I have never cut myself as a result.
Try it and see how it goes.
Regards

Noggs

I just started str8 shaving a couple of weeks ago and wore my glasses the first couple of shaves. They kept getting in the way or when I turned my head the correct direction I needed in order to see I wasn't even looking out the lenses. As my vision is horrible without them I was fearful of not wearing my glasses. However, it was so much easier to shave without them. Ocasionally I'll turn the scales down if I need to get closer, but mostly I'm learning by feel.

I've worn glasses since I was a kid as well. I take them off the shave though and I always have. I tried to change that with straight razor shaving, and tried to wear them for the first few outings. The temple bar was in the way for a clean cut on my sideburn length, so I ditched them. Before I went electric I was a blind shower shaver (cartridge razor, no soap or foam, no mirror, in the shower). I'd do the sideburns in five seconds at the sink after getting out. As a result of that horrid shaving ritual I shave mostly by feel.

It's exactly how I type on a keyboard. I don't have to look at the keys, but I'm not a touch typer either. I just kind of need to look....near them....sort of. If I can see that the razor is on my face in the blurry mirror, and can see which quadrant of my face has lather, I'm good to go.

I've tried wearing glasses, but the style of lens is such that I can't always be guaranteed to be looking through the lens so I rarely wear them. Contacts work nicely, or shaving by feel worst case scenario.

Always!

Rich

“If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.” – Mark Twain

I just shave with my contacts in

I shave with my glasses on, no problem. I just reach under the temples to stretch my skin. I've left sideburns on and shaved them off, it's no biggie since whatever I miss I can easily get by moving the glasses a bit when I do my touch ups.

I'm having PRK done today, so we'll see what it's like to shave without glasses soon enough. Fingers crossed I don't have to learn how to shave blind.