Thread: Worst Shave

Every shave I did with my old Wahl electric was the worst. As was every one with the Panasonic after that. Even when I screw up with the straight it doesn't hurt that badly. Why I did that for years, I'll never know.

When I was a police officer I made the mistake of turning up to work without shaving. The Sarg marched me into the cell block and made me shave there and then with a disposable prisoners razors ( realy blunt cheapo disposables that the crims cant pull apart and hurst themselves or us with)

I was allowed 2 minutes and cold water, no soap. Looked like I went thru the windscreen of a car.

Always shaved after that

Worst shave champion: Mach III for sure. Once I managed to get like 17 cuts, large burn areas, and bumps after a couple of days... uggh

Norelco Advantage and Panasonic Wet / Dry were NOT that bad, I used them for years and my skin was adjusted to them but I still had problems with my neck area...

Over the years I have tried several different electric shavers. Remington, Norelco, Braun...doesn't matter. All shave terribly and burn the face up!

I wonder who that brillant handsome guy was? :-P

Originally Posted by deepweeds

In fact, somebody here wrote about using a piece of paper with lines on it as a guide: I've done that ever since and managed to produce smooth edges.

actually my worst shave was yesterday....I used an alum block for an afstershave and had razor burn all over my throat, my chin and even the left side of my upper lip.....never again.....

Worst shave ever:
I had to go to a schoolfest and I had e date with a pretty girl (in fact there were two girls, one had to be certain... ). I was about 15 yrs old and I took a hot shower and decided to shave with the Gillette my father had given to me. It was the first model with two blades, don't know the name anymore.
Anyway, I shaved my face, got a little razorburn from lack of experience and decided to give it another pass...WITHOUT LATHERING AGAIN ....!

I managed to give every pore on my upper lip a cut. After alum and cold water, my upperlip seemed to have grown a moustache within 10 minutes.
The girls at school said "do you have a moustache? Looks great on you" That was the day I decided to grow a real moustache, never to shave off. Until som 6 yrs ago, another pretty one said, you must look younger without your moustache. It has been gone since then.

Second worst: all the electric shavers I have used in the past 25 yrs or so, be it a Braun or Philips. Without a good pre-electric shave-lotion, it feels like I havn't shaved at all. (Not to mention the razorbrn)

Third worse: the first shave with a SE about 10 yrs ago, I managed to dig the entire lenght of the blade into my left cheek. Clean cut, clean heal, no scar...

Pinda - you are a top contender in this race! The first and third stories made me cringe

Cheers
Ivo

Originally Posted by neesko

You shouldn't have been pressing too hard, then. You're shaving your face, not sanding it.

I think there are people here who would beg to disagree with your opinion. Of course, this is a straight razor forum, so we probably have a bias.

As for my worst shave - well, I've butchered myself on a few occasions. Ironically, usually much worse with a disposable than with one of my straight razors (which I find give you a single clean, if sometimes deep, cut). I was using a disposable 3-blade and somehow caught a bit of skin, and was bled through about three bandages despite the styptic. I thought it was going to need stitches.

But I went to a barber shop in Ireland where I got the worst shave someone /else/ has ever given me. It was supposed to be a hot towel shave. It was more of a chilled towel shave, with some cold lather, and a half-dull razor. It took all of two minutes. Bah. What a waste of money. Oh, yeah, and he cut me, too.

Thanks Ivo. Someday I will collect all of my stories and combine them into a horrornovel...

Makes me think of another strange worst shave. The first time I used a 3-blade (don't know exactly if it was a Wilkinson or a Gillette) it gave me a 3-blade cut.
Exactly 3 cuts paralel to one another. After that Wilkinson had to put their blades behind bars...