Thread: Shaving night vs day

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

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 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.

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

Originally Posted by MHV

According to Mr Bloom in Joyce's Ulysses

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Fantastic! Anything from Proust?

Claude

Originally Posted by Claude

Fantastic! Anything from Proust?

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.

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.