I've only been straight sharing for a couple months and to be honest I engirt to much to rust so it takes me around 30-40 min to shave.
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I've only been straight sharing for a couple months and to be honest I engirt to much to rust so it takes me around 30-40 min to shave.
I voted 15-30 minutes but that's because I go over several areas, such as my neck between chin and adam's apple, several times. If I could stick to a two pass only shave I could do it in under fifteen and possibly not much more than ten minutes.
On MOST days it takes 15 minutes exactly. One pass WTG/XTG, one pass ATG, and one water-only touch-up pass. I've also started using cold water instead of hot for whipping up lather and blade rinsing, which saves a couple of minutes waiting for water to heat up (with the added bonus of saving energy). No hot towels, either. For me, they just take up more time, make a mess, and make my skin more prone to nicks and irritation. I like to simplify things as much as possible without sacrificing good results.
It has taken about a year and a half to learn how to get a BBS shave in 15 minutes without bloodshed. The very first time I tried to shave my entire face with a straight, it took more than an hour and I looked like I'd been slapped repeatedly
13 mins, three passes, BBS, but I have a goatee so I get to skip the hardest parts.
I've only been using a straight razor for about a month and I voted that I never got a BBS shave last week. Since then I've gotten a sharpening kit and changed my technique to draw the razor slightly diagonally across my face so that it cuts rather than scrapes. Now I can get a BBS shave in two passes 15-20 minutes.
I have a tough beard so the only way for me to get BSS is to do 3 passes. Since the ATG pass irritates my skin I take more time on prep. 45 minutes to complete everything, including hot towel and a pre lather to moisturize my beard. I strop in between each pass. I usually do BSS about once a week, and it gets me smooth enough that I don't need to shave the next day, which I find awesome and impossible to do with any other razor.
Now that I'm shaving only my chin, 20 minutes. When I did my entire face, 35 to 45. And BBS was rarely consistent in all areas.
Depends on how long it takes the bleeding to come to a full stop...:y
I've been shaving with a str8 for only a couple of months and only have tried BBS a couple of times, and for this I used my DOVO shavette, my other razors are not as sharp yet. I need to be extra careful with the area under my lower lip or I could cause serious damage to my face.