Thread: The worst thing about shaving...

Surely must be the wait for when your beard grows back to a shave-able length again. I just got some new soap too!!

Yup! How many hobbies limit you to practice for only 30 minutes a day? You spend a quite hour cleaning, polishing, honing, creating, but can't use it in practice until go time. I think I am going to take up brush making so I have an excuse to create lather

Got any pets? Surely their squirming will give you good practice.

I hear you Andrew... For a while I was shaving daily just to be able to practice, but I find it more rewarding to allow 2-3 days growth to shave... feels more rewarding to remove a facefull of stubble than simply shaving a face that almost looks clean-shaven. Plus, I don't need to shave for work, so every 2-3 days is nicer to the skin.

Yup - not being able to shave more, too many soaps, and the fact that it's hard to justify doing more than a 4-pass shave...sometimes I think of getting a custom 9/8 blade made with a length of 1" - time for a 50 pass shave!

Originally Posted by AndrewJM

I hear you Andrew... For a while I was shaving daily just to be able to practice, but I find it more rewarding to allow 2-3 days growth to shave... feels more rewarding to remove a facefull of stubble than simply shaving a face that almost looks clean-shaven. Plus, I don't need to shave for work, so every 2-3 days is nicer to the skin.

I wish I could wait.

I am trying to convince my wife to let me shave her legs... Not sure if she will let me...

I'm just the opposite. If I skip a day, the next shave is a pain, so I never let it go more than 36 hours!

Shaving is the worst thing about shaving. This may sound weird, but I started shaving with a straight razor for three reasons.
1. I was getting tired of the razor burn i always got around my neck.
2. I was fed up with paying $20 a month for disposables.
The next could be shocking...
3. I hated shaving.
My friend who is a barber told me I could get more time between shaves using a straight razor so i figured I'd go for it. There were a few years where my wife was pregnant with our first then second child and was so against it because she thought she would find me bleeding out at the sink i just gave her the peace of mind and used a disposable. Then got back into it a few years ago and haven't bought a disposable since.

I'm with him I hate shaving though shaving with a straight razor makes it fun and all the different soaps keep it fun in changing up the routine but in truth I diss like it the wife hates facial hair and you know the old saying happy wife happy life