Thread: Shaving Others

Yea the lack of a proper chair was what made it difficult. But other than that it was easy.

Just stretch the skin and use light pressure. Same rules apply, the only time it gets tricky is with some angles.

I understand you saying leave it to a professional. But you didn't just wake up and automatically know how to shave someone else it took practise. Which is exactly what I'm doing now.

Originally Posted by basil

it took practice. Which is exactly what I'm doing now.

I had a notion to give it a shot too, but I was thinking I'd start with the back of a neck...not as many angles... Now to find a first victim.

Just a warning here guys about shaving somebody else. When you shave, there's two points of reference for pressure and angle. The first is the feeling in your hand and the second is the feeling on your own face. If you remove the feeling of the blade on your face, it really does give you a sense of 'shaving in the dark' since you have a harder time judging your technique.

I tried, once, to shave someone else's face and it resulted in a wicked cut to my BIL

Not having the proper chair makes it much harder. barbers are always readjusting the chair in height and dropping the back up and down and spinning the whole chair around to get to different part of the face. I can't imagine trying to shave someone without those adjustments. It seems like you're starting off with 2 strikes against you.

Ive had the provelage to try to shave one person, It was the forth of july and one my my uncles buddies were up , he decides he needs a hair cut so he ask me to shave his head for him , so i do (with electric clippers) and afterwards he ask if i could try to gve him a stright shave, he was fasinated that i use a stright razor, any way he sits down and i lather him up and then put a warm towel over his face and wait five minets and then re lather and start shaving , What a bad way to test your nerves, But long story short his beard was cut and no cuts.

I tried it once. No nicks or cuts, but by the time it was
finished, I needed a drink! Bigtime!

Too much stress! Half the "feedback" wasn't nearly
enough!

I remember seeing something on TV, when I was a kid.
It was about a barber school in Chicago, and how they
taught their students to give a straight razor shave.

They inflated a party balloon, drew a smiley face on it,
lathered it up, and that was the "customer".

First nick = lather all over the place...especially on the
students face!

It was hilarious!