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So if shaving with a straight razor is closer than a safety razor, can you shave at night without a bad 5'oclock shadow at 10am?
I'm only asking this because from what I have read, straight razor shaving takes quite a bit of time and would be difficult to do in the am...????
Shaving at night is great way to go, very much so when learning. The unrushed pace is a much better experience as you learn technique. Once you get down the process, you'll find come 5pm the next day, still closer shave than you had at 10am with the disposable.
When I was learning, wanting to shave and practice as often as possible, I would do all my passes at night, and often a quick wtg in the morning only for the practice time. Didn't need the morning shave, but was just so charged up to do it again and practice.
Enjoy the learning process, it all comes natural soon.
I mostly shave at night. Always have. Hard day of work is over. Time to shower, shave and chill. I like to get up in the morning and get straight into the action of the day. I don't have time to lose in the bathroom that early. Luckily I don't have a job that requires me to be clean shaven every day. I also don't have a very fast growing beard so the 5'oclock shadow is of no importance to me.
I suspect the answer is different for different people. Some have slow-growing beards, others have fast-growing beards.
And, FWIW, I don't know that you'll get a closer shave with a straight razor than you will with a sharp DE razor (with equivalent preparation and technique). For me, they're about the same.
Charles
I 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.
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.
According to Mr Bloom in Joyce's Ulysses
I personally shave in the evenings because I'm short for time in the morning, and I like the relaxing effect of ending the day being fully groomed. I do a full cleanup, three passes and touchups, and I don't have any unseemly 5 o'clock shadow.Quote:
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.
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 is:)
Fantastic! Anything from Proust?Quote:
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Claude
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Claude
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.
I 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.
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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
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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Not to reconviene the thread upon it's first purpose, but I shave in the evenings and have a fairly quick growing beard. I really can't go more than 24hrs without shaving and people not notice. That said, I don't get a 5 o'clock shadow until around 5 o'clock the evening following my shave which is about 21hrs of growth (I tend to shave around 8pm). I'd have the same look after shaving in the morning with a cartridge with only about 11hrs of growth.
YMMV, but I think shaving in the evening will still keep you looking good for work the next day. Plus, coming to bed with the smell of aftershave and a smooth face is not a detriment to evening activities if you take my meaning.
Peace,
I 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.