Thread: Shaved with a Gilette Mach whatever this morning

That's a SCREAM!!! A razor designed by Homeland Security!!! I love it!!!!

I know how you feel, had to shave after about a month of not shaving but I had got to my destination out of town and well my bags didn't get there until a day two later and of course my razors were in my bags because well can't bring them on the plane, had to use a five or six bladed contraption it was awful, my face hurt all day and it took way longer than if I would have had my straight because the blades kept clogging up. I don't know how people still say it is a good shave

Brainwashed by Gillette. Well actually, more like old school shaving is time consuming and people really just don't have the time for it. I don't think it started that way but that's why wet shaving isn't for everyone. Now.the revolt against high dollar crappy shavers is to just not shave at all. I had a goatee when I was younger but now it just plain look old with one.

Not because I was late, but because I wanted to see, after using my SR for 6 months, what the difference is between my SR and the Fusion Mach 5.
Granted, the Fusion shave was quicker, BUT OMG, what a lousy shave!!
I'm at work and my face feels awful!!
I had my wife and daughter check my face this morning....They were disgusted!!!
My daughter actually said, "Daddy, you're not REALLY going to work like THAT are you??!!
Never again

Originally Posted by dash8guru

Well actually, more like old school shaving is time consuming and people really just don't have the time for it.

I recently had a 4 day vacation away. What I did was to make sure I had enough stropped razors ready to go. Brought a strop, hones, lapping marble, sandpaper, multiple soaps, etc., a razor that needed honing(just in case I got bored)...

In terms of the shave time, it was the same as usual and just as pleasurable, maybe a little more, shaving in a new location.

I will not buy those mach whatevers again. For the price of one of those I can get a good shaving beater straight from ebay.

Originally Posted by ColonelG

Not because I was late, but because I wanted to see, after using my SR for 6 months, what the difference is between my SR and the Fusion Mach 5.
Granted, the Fusion shave was quicker, BUT OMG, what a lousy shave!!
I'm at work and my face feels awful!!
I had my wife and daughter check my face this morning....They were disgusted!!!
My daughter actually said, "Daddy, you're not REALLY going to work like THAT are you??!!
Never again

A lousy shave is the same as no shave. Actually worse because you wasted time giving yourself a lousy shave.

Originally Posted by jgjgjg

There are rare mornings when I elect to sleep late, and thus want the 20 minutes of shaving back. This morning I rolled out of bed at 6:30 feeling decadently late, so to make up time I did the 2 minute Gillette shower shave. Which I haven't done since I started straight shaving in Oct of last year.

What a CRAPPY shave it was! My gosh, my face feels all bumpily nasty and only 3 hours into the office and I've already got 5 oclock shadow. Bleh!!!

Yeah, that's in a nutshell why I'm here. I could never achieve closeness and comfort with today's multiblade razor. My dad had more sensitive skin than I did and used an electric razor, and recommended that I do the same and accept the poor results.

This picture illustrates just how poor the results can be with an electric razor:


This picture illustrates just how my face felt after using a multiblade razor: