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12-29-2011, 05:59 PM #23
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Thanked: 2I did every other day for the first five months into this. I think a lot of factors fed into me going to that routine. One was certainly time, since it took me a lot longer to do a shave. Another was I only had one straight and I was horrible at stropping so I determined I was wearing out of shave ready status very quickly. Now I am onto daily shaving because I like to be clean shaven, but I definitely don't go for BBS, it is good, but not perfect. On the weekends I will usually take a day or two off and then get a BBS while I have time.
Not to rant, but I am amazed at the elaborate nature of some people's shave prep. Regardless of how good it is, I am not retired. I have a career and two kids. I cannot imagine a hot towel on top of lather for a few minutes and then re-doing that twice before actually shaving each morning. That sounds ridiculous other than perhaps once a week or something. My prep is shower, really wet face, mix lather, really wet face again, and then lather and shave. I do two WTG passes, and some XTG on the upper lip and very little clean up. This keeps the process quick and slick with generally no irritation or cuts.