Thread: Blasted Eye Glasses

Gentlemen,

Even though I have refused to budge from age 27 for several decades now, my eyes, unfortunately, have not. Now I find myself forced to wear reading glasses while shaving.

With double edge razors this is a little problem. With straight razors, however, with all the stretching, tugging and pulling, especially around the temples, the blasted eye glasses get in the way and become a big problem.

Today for the first time I lost the eye battle and wore my reading glasses while shaving straight. It was most awkward. What do you four-eyed gentlemen do to make life easier when shaving straight? Your thoughts will help.

Many thanks and regards,

Obie, the four-eyed straight razor commando.

I don't wear eye glasses, but one thought cam to mind. If your out at the mall you may want to experiment with one of the portable 2 sided mirror's where one side is magnified. This may give you better visibility without use of your specs. Just a suggestion

Nobody can call me 4 eyes, 3 eyes maybe, but certainly not 4 lol. Fortunately my sight is great up close, I can read smaller print sans glasses than I can with, however, I think the magnified mirror would be the ticket. I'm not sure where you could buy one, but they used to have the ones that hang around your neck. You wouldn't have to hang it from your neck, maybe the shower head or a hook on the wall.

I wear bifocals but fortunately for me I can and do shave without them. I guess it will depend on each individuals visual acuity.

When you really think about it most of your shaving is done by feel. we used to have or maybe still do have a member who is legally or totally blind and uses a straight. I wear glasses and don't use them for shaving however my eyesight ain't that bad.

Try and shave part of your face with you eyes closed and you'll see what I mean. I've tried it with no mishaps but if you cut yourself I'll deny I told you to do it and this post will self destruct in 72 hours.

I wear glasses when shaving the stretching does not bother me, when I do the over the head with the opposite arm stretch.

The place where the glasses is a problem for me is where I have hair growing underneath the lens. I shave as best I can below the the lens then I do a few carefull up-strokes ATG to get the remaining hairs that are beneath the lens. To sum it up I do an all over pass then do cleanup ATG to get the straglers that are underneath my glasses.

Four Eyed Charlie

I take my glasses off when I'm not wearing contacts. A magnifying mirror on an extension arm to bring it very close to my face is also quite useful.

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Gentlemen,

Thank you for your thoughts and ideas. They are useful.

Obie

This is a good question as I too must use my glasses to shave with. My problem is that I wear bifocals and I cannot see up close without them. So for me, it is a matter of shaving by feel. Not a fun way to shave I assure you but it can be done. I shave once a day without nicking myself too badly.

Yes, I am that age where reading spectacles are required.

I don't think it's a problem. I recall my first shave with a straight, (all nervous and terrified with full expectation of being cut to ribbons), and I think that if I can learn to shave with a straight, learning to shave with a straight (plus eye glasses) is a doddle.

I have actually started to shave without my eye glasses as I realised that after shaving my mug every day for about thirty odd years, I can actually do it by feel, and everything being a bit blurry is better than nothing.