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04-03-2011, 12:25 PM #1
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Thanked: 993I do a mix of both actually.
During the week, I shave in the morning, simply because I like the feel of stepping into work looking and feeling my best. I also keep it to a WTG pass, and a few spot touch ups.
During the weekend I complete my day and just before ****tail hour I have a nice long shower, bust out the scuttle and do two or three passes. My Saturday shave is my favourite shave of the week.
Then it's happy hour.
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04-03-2011, 12:56 PM #2
I'm a grumpy Neanderthal in the mornings, so I always shave at night. I can go all the next day still looking like I shaved that morning so log as I use a straight. I have been finding that a DE will give me BBS shaves, but it doesn't seem to last as long.
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04-03-2011, 02:50 PM #3
According to Mr Bloom in Joyce's Ulysses
What advantages attended shaving by night?
A softer beard: a softer brush if intentionally allowed to remain from shave to shave in its agglutinated lather: a softer skin if unexpectedly encountering female acquaintances in remote places at incustomary hours: quiet reflections upon the course of the day: a cleaner sensation when awaking after a fresher sleep since matutinal noises, premonitions and perturbations, a clattered milkcan, a postman's double knock, a paper read, reread while lathering, relathering the same spot, a shock, a shoot, with thought of aught he sought though fraught with nought might cause a faster rate of shaving and a nick on which incision plaster with precision cut and humected and applied adhered: which was to be done.
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04-03-2011, 03:24 PM #4
I shave mostly at nights. It is all due to me always being late for something in the mornings.
I do believe my 5 o'clock shadow is acceptable the following day for most occasions.
In the weekends, and when there is something really special I need to do at work, I do a morning shave.
The ritual of shaving with a straight is a joy to me, and something I look forward to every day, so I really like to take my time with it. That kind of time is best spent in the evenings. To me that isBjoernar
Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years....
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04-03-2011, 03:48 PM #5
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04-03-2011, 04:45 PM #6
As much as I have patience for Joyce (even Finnegans Wake), I can't say I have managed the same assiduity with Proust! But one thing I know is that Proust really liked Guerlain's Jicky.
AFAIK, from a cursory search here: PROUST - A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU - TEXTE INTEGRAL | CLASSIQUES & MODERNES - LITTERATURE - CINEMA - MUSIQUE - POLITIQUE - VIDEOS - PEOPLE - EBOOK TEXTES INTEGRAUX OEUVRES COMPLETES
there isn't much about shaving in Proust.
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04-03-2011, 04:53 PM #7
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Thanked: 2591I shave evenings usually , for me it takes ~20 hours to get the 5 o 'clock shadow so I am clean shaven during the work day.
Stefan
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04-03-2011, 04:56 PM #8
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There is quite a bit about shaving in Ulysses. It starts off with Buck Mulligan shaving and it certainly fits in with the "physical" actions that Bloom enjoys talking about. Proust would have liked the fragrances (plenty of stimulus for going off about memories of the past) but the actual act is not really for him.
I am just about to reread Rememrance of things Past on my Kindle. The kind of book ideally suited to a Kindle.
Claude
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04-04-2011, 12:16 AM #9
On another forum I put together all the passages relevant to Buck Mulligan shaving, and noticed that he did not use any aftershave, nor did he rinse his face...
There's also mention of "Skinfood," which might have been a common preparation term at the time (just like "serum" is nowadays) and Molly's perfume is "Peau d'Espagne", a.k.a Spanish Leather. It's not her favourite perfume, because she finds it smells cheap, though. Gift from Bloom.
The whole novel needs the reader to have sensory imagination: you have to visualize, smell, hear, and spatially locate things at every moment to get the meaning.
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04-04-2011, 07:19 AM #10
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Thanked: 5I started shaving at night so that I could take all the time I needed. Now that I have a better grasp on the technique I can do it in less time so usually shave in the AM. For me, no matter what time I shave, within 8-10 hours things start growing back a little - slower than with my old Mach 3 though. For me, the shave is closer so I have more time between shaves, AM or PM makes no difference to my face.