Have any of you experimented with shaving various days of beard growth? More beard easier or harder? Any difference when honing a razor and then testing on more than a days growth? Lynn
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Have any of you experimented with shaving various days of beard growth? More beard easier or harder? Any difference when honing a razor and then testing on more than a days growth? Lynn
To me it seens the quicker I get my beard to the razor the better and faster I can shave. It seems like I have to go over my beard more times when it is longer, to get a smooth shave. I normaly shave daily, and when I skip a day its more work to get a good, close shave.
Ditto Bones59. Seems tougher to shave after a few days of roughing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by bones59
Opposite for me. I like a two day growth for best results. However I usually shave now everyday. 8)
It seems like I get a closer shave after a few days growth. That being said, my beard doesn't come in like a barbed wire/Miracle Grow combination.
Generally I shave everyday but if I leave it for a couple of days I tend to get a better shave abeit for a lot more work...the down side of having a tough beard.
John
Two or three days for my optimum shave. Every day makes things very easy, however it tends to cause too much of a 'rashy' result on my chin area.
I must agree with FXR. I have been experimenting with varying growth for about a month and a half now. I get a better shave with a bit more effort with several days growth. I have noticed though that 2-3 days growth on my face is tougher than older growth. Maybe it has something to do with the lenght of the hair. If I shave after 3 days growth, my razor requires more time on the strop than if I shave after 4 or more days. Even less stropping is required if I shave daily as I have strarted to do.
At the risk of being tossed out of the forum, I've taken to shaving once a week. But 1) I'm not married and don't have to listen to complaints about the scratchiness; 2) I "work" at home so I don't have some fussy boss to please; 3) It suits me.
I think the longer between shaves generally, the smoother the next shave will be. I think hairs grow thicker at the surface if they're being shaved every day. Given a chance to grow out, the shaft is thiner. I don't scissors the growth off before shaving either. I suppose that might be a good idea for someone with a longer beard so they can see better where they are going. But with longer whiskers, there is the disposal problem. With short whiskers, its down the drain they go. So I just shave regular way ....
I generally go about three days between shaves. makes me feel like I've accomplished something...
I usually shave every day but on occasion skip a day and find I get a smoother and closer shave with that extra growth.
I usually shave every couple of days too. But if I go5 or 6 days I still get a real nice clean smooth shave. I have tried to shave everyday just cant do it all the time face stays irritated and red.
:nono: It is unadvisable to revive the dead, but why start a new thread? :shrug:
I find my best shave is at night when I have shaved in the morning. Maybe it's because I'm new at shaving with a straight, or maybe it's because my stubble is standing up straighter. I have yet to keep my face bbs for more than a few hours
I always do a 3 pass shave WTG, XTG, & ATG and I shave every 36 hours. My best shaves come when the stubble is 2-3 days old. I imagine the longer I let my beard grow the better the shave.
I do not get good results when shaving after 24hrs as the there is not enough stubble and the skin is still quite supple. It causes irritation, as I am just scraping skin.
Although I have just started shaving, I find that skin is too irritated day after day....so I shave one side one day and the other the next day in order to be able to practive straight razor shaving everyday.
It doesn't look wired as most of the time the day old stubble vs. the newly shaved side is barely noticeable....
Sorry to hear you are having trouble maintaining a BBS for more than a few hours, but at least you are getting to that point of having one at the completion of the shave again....I think the ultimate BBS would be page 35 of Moss's manual.
Either the contrast between my skin color and hair color is too great, or my hair grows too quickly to be able to shave alternate sides of my face daily. Or perhaps I am not cutting as close as I could! Maybe I should attach a camera to the collar of my shirt for a few days and get a time lapse photo montage of how my beard comes inQuote:
Originally Posted by shaverdude
I shave every day, but if I do miss a day, it seems to be just a little more work. Not much though.
My grandfather used to shave twice a day.
I enjoy my daily shave. However, in my experience of many years of shaving, the best feeling shave is experienced after 2 or 3 days of growth. I think the rest gives the skin time to recover as it feels particularly smooth afterward.
Nonetheless, I can't put a straight down for more than 24 hours. My morning dilemna is whether to stick to my rotation or pick a favorite blade out its order.
I tend to shave every three days (sometimes two). Any sooner and it irritates my neck. I had the same problem when using a cartridge razor and I've had it even with a newly honed razor. Otherwise, I would rather shave every day.
I like letting it grow, it just seems to be more fun.
Everyday, but 2-3 days seems optimum (good shave, and noticeable results :D ). However, I find that if I have longer growth than that, I get more puling at the beard. Can't say that I really know why either (I'm not a professed honemeister, so maybe that's part of it).
Althought it was my first shave, two full days of growth had occurred, razor was honed by Lynn, got some pulling, but I seemed to overcome that by stretching skin....
I have the unfortunate dichotomy of great shaves on my cheeks with 2-3 days' growth but ingrown hairs on my neck. My cheeks are wonderfully smooth if I let my hair grow out a little. The curly and wiry hair on my neck must be tamed regularly though or I'm setting myself up for ingrown hairs and ghastly razor bumps. It happens much less than when I first started wetshaving but I am still careful.
I usually shave every 2 or 3 days. On the rare occasion that I need to shave my less than 2 day stubble, the shave 's just as close, but I always end up with a bit more irritation. I'm not sure if it's my skin not being used to that regime, or the short stubble possibly being harder to shave, or just me generally using a bit too much pressure.
I love shaving a week or longer worth of growth, but it does happen very often that I have the patience to wait that long.
I find that, no matter what, the first pass generally leaves me with something that resembles a "one-day-stubble". My second pass ATG takes care of that. For that reason and for avoiding the slight irritation I spoke above, I had planned on trying an ATG pass only, when shaving a one day stubble. But then I got in front of my mirror, all lathered up, and some kind of mental blockage kicked in... I just *had* to do my regular 2 passes. Weird.
I used to leave my beard to grow in about a week or two (quite a lot of beard) until I'd get sick of it and use an electric buzzer just to whip it off my face, leaving stubble but not nearly as much as the beard.
I am in the shave every day camp. If I skip a day I have a harder time of it particularly around the chin and under the jaw line. I rarely miss a day though as I look forward to my shave and all that goes with it. :roflmao
I used to occasionally go a couple of days between shaves, not anymore. First off, I enjoy the ritual that shaving has become now, much more than previously. Secondly due to radiaition treatments for cancer in my jaw, I lost all of my facial hair on the left side of my face, except my moustache. It looks odd as hell if I don't shave for a day or two.
Wayne
I let it go for several days now, longer whiskers seem to be softer or soften up a lot easier than stubble. I have a hell of a job trying to get bbs after 24hrs growth but give it 72hrs and we're away laughing. :roflmao
More beard not only easier, but more satisfying.
X
I have only been straight shaving 2 months but have been varying number of days last 3 weeks. I for a fact I get no burn if I wait till the 3rd day. Everyday and my skin gets thiner it seems. And shaves are closer! My beard is like thick black cable and when its short its tough .3 days is my magic number although I want to shave sooner but It dont work as well for ME. It also seems I require a lighter touch on the longer hair.
matt
more than 1 day is rough on my chin when i shave
I also have a full beard(Al Borlen type) so neck and cheak is all I get to enjoy.:)
Matt
Nice bump! :tu
I shave every other day. But I find the most satisfying shaves are after 3 days of rest. Having said that, I've never gone more than 4 days without shaving. (For aesthetic reasons... I'm not really keen on the Fu Man Chu look!)
I notice many prefer to shave after a couple-few days growth, if this is your common time table for shaving, do you need to hone/sharpen your razor more than a person who shaves a little bit of stubble everyday?
The blade wear is about the same for stubble as it is for a little more growth, the difference comes in how fast your skin replenishes itself.
Every 2-3 days is the soonest I can shave.....longest I can go is a week.
My beard grows slowly due to haviing native american bloodlines, it grows nearly to my eyes but is very sparse on my cheeks. Im letting my goatee go, trying to re-grow my van dyke, probably in another 3 months my stache will be long enough to curl again.
Just this morning I had my first shave in 4 days. There was a bit of pulling, but it was a quite smooth and satisfying shave after that first pass.
Normally I shave every day (only two passes, however). If I go for 3 or more passes, I get irritated skin with daily shaving, thus I backed off to the ol' 2 pass daily, since I have to get my "fix".:tu
That being said, a 2-3 day growth yields optimum results for me, I just can't wait that long!
I find that I get more skin problems when I let the beard grow. I.e. clogged pores due to dirt perhaps accumulating in the beard hair.
I do however get a closer shave off the first pass with a few days' growth than If I am shaving every day.
Best results for a real close shave are after 3-5 days growth for me. I'f I am going to a function or wedding etc, I let my beard grow for the fews days prior in order to achieve the closest possible shave.
If I want to get the ultimate shave (closest with the least chance if irritation) then I like to let my beard grow for at least 3 days. Most of the time I will shave every day or at least every other day.
Usualy I'll shave every two days. Before, shaving with the electric lawn mower or cartrage razor, I would go at it everyday.
Now with the str8 I'll do it everyother day or else it is to short to shave. It seems that the closer shave with the str8 , the beard dosn't grow back as fast.
Twice I waited 3 to 4 days before shaving and beside having the impression to being closer shaved it was the same but cleaning more apparent beard lets you think it's cutting more!!!.
Jacques