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Just wondering when people shave, Night or Day and if that has changed since you started using a straight razor?
Before using a straight razor I commonly would hack it out quickly in the morning. However, since starting to use a straight, I've developed and enjoyed such a relaxing ritual that I shave exclusively at night now as a calming thing before sleeping.
Interested in others' experience/preference...
I was MUCH like you about a month ago...and before that. (I used to hack quickly in the shower with a lousy multi-blade plastic thing...then developed a passion for straight shaving that I used to relax in the evenings).
Recently, I have switched back to shaving in the morning because I faceterbate all day and like to feel smooth...and shaving in the evening resulted in noticeable roughness in the AM.
Great thread, and I suspect there are no wrong answers:D
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Faceterbate... That is hilarious and my new word for the day! I never thought of that angle before.
For now I am still shaving in the evenings, but maybe once I get used to shaving with a SR I might shift it to a morning routine, but that is debatable since then it would mean getting up at about 4-4:30 in the morning and I do enjoy staying up a bit late most nights.
I shave at night during the week. If I happen to get the weekend, or any other day off, then I have a good ol' morning shave. The shaves after the shower are always the smoothest though.
I always shave in the morning. From my first shave with disposables, then cartridges, then DE, then shavette, and now a SR, my shave routine has always been for the morning. I have noticed that my morning routine takes longer now that I'm using a SR, but it's time well spent.
I have always shaved in the evening right after my shower.
Ya know, that is something I've never done with any razor... Shaving in the shower... Or, after a shower... I guess I've always depended so heavily on a mirror that it never worked in my head. I have read so many posts and heard so many stories about it but just never have done it. Gonna have to switch my routine up sometime and give it a shot!
I don't recommend you take your cut-throat razor into the shower with you. If you drop it, you might lop it so to speak. You'll know what I mean when you look straight down when your undressed for the shower.
Mick
@ MickR... Roger that! I was thinking about just shaving with my normal routine but 'after' a shower. Yeah, a wet steamy environment, wet hands and a lethally sharp instrument held precariously above my other instrument would not a fun time make! I imagine the greater risk would be to my hands as I'd be compelled to save the razor from certain death, but, there is just no way I could see that turning out well either way. ;-)
I used to shave in the evening during the week and mornings on weekends but last summer I switched and now I shave in the mornings during the week and weekends can go either way.
I do kinda miss the regular evening shaves but I don't plan on switching back any time soon
The twelve to fifteen hours after a shave my face feels best. To enjoy that most I shave in the morning.
When I started using a straight, I shaved in the evening because it took a long time compared to the "zip zip" of a cartridge razor. Over time, as I became more skilled and comfortable using a straight, it took less time to shave, so I returned to a morning routine.
+1 to Pensacola Tiger above. When I started out, I had to shave in the evenings because it took so long. Now, I can shower and shave in about a half hour.
I have only been using a straight for a few weeks now. I shave in the evenings on weekdays. I have cut my shaving time down considerably in the last week or so, and may eventually switch to mornings. I do like the relaxing, almost meditative time in the evenings though. Helps with releasing all the problems I may have had during the day.
@ EisenFaust... That bird would be a good animal symbol for politicians! Too funny! :D
I usually do the same. Sometimes I don't have time to do it for two days, too. I always love that second-day shave because the before/after difference is much more dramatic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike1969
I am a morning routine man. My beard likes to grow... and grow fast. If I shave at night I look like a hobo in the morning. The only time I shave in the evening is if I have a date lined up. Might as well get the face nice and smooth so a lady can enjoy the shave as well.
Morning. I like to start the day fresh.
Also it's always a little cooler at 4am so I don't sweat during the shave.
Michael
Night, so my skin can settle before facing another sweaty, dirty workday. Plus it's relaxing.
Whenever it happens to work out that I can spare the five minutes.
I haven't developed a set time yet. It's nice to have the evening sun streaming in the bathroom window. But it's also nice to use warm lather in the cold bathroom in the morning, when everyone is still asleep.
I have switched back to evenings last week. It's nice.
I guess my answer is "yes";)
Evenings. The only reason I'm shaving at all is that swmbo wanted some skin (I used to have a full beard for 15 years, now its a goatee so I get to keep some of it and she gets to have smooth cheeks).if I shave in the morning and go to work, by the time she gets to see me in the evening I'm sand papery leaning toward grizzlyish. no point in that now is there ? Plus this way its my wind down time, instead of the hectic rush of morning. If I hogged the (only) bathroom in the morning, my dear MD of a wife would probably bump my elbow, say its just a scratch, offer to stitch it for me, and whirlwind out of the house on her way to work in the hospital. Much safer in the evening…
Grizli