Thread: How long does it take you?

20-30 minutes..I shave in the evening so that I can take my time and enjoy and relax...as stated before its me time

Well it takes me 45 min but that is stropping shower and shave. Never timed the actual shave though.

I don't time how long it takes me to straight shave. If I don't have time to strop correctly and use the razor correctly, I use a more safer way to shave.

Originally Posted by Skippy

I don't time how long it takes me to straight shave. If I don't have time to strop correctly and use the razor correctly, I use a more safer way to shave.

Once minimal experience is gained, I don't consider a straight shave to be unsafe.

About twenty to thirty minutes. The only concession I make to time is face lathering. This time includes, walking down stairs to boil a kettle and load the coffee pot (while the Alum does its business), dressing (while the coffee brews) etc. If I shave after coffee, the jitters add a quarter of an hour on to the time, this rarely happens (weekends, sometimes). If I'm rushed, I set the alarm for earlier. My teenage daughter sometimes 'alters' my routine, but it's all good.

Originally Posted by Utopian

Once minimal experience is gained, I don't consider a straight shave to be unsafe.

Neither do I. I just don't use a straight if it means I have to rush it because I have to be somewhere.

There was a thread on this not too long ago where a guy was looking to cut down his shaving time. When I shave in the evening, I like to take my time and enjoy myself, but sometimes I shave in the morning and am just going for the simple servicable shave. Not even BBS, but a clean shave none the less.

My tricks for cutting down my time are to use shower time as beard prep, building lathering on my face instead of in a bowl (halfs lather time), using fewer but longer strokes, and using water instead of lather for my XTG pass.

This gives me a good shave in less than 10 minutes, not counting shower time. It isn't BBS, but I'm not dancing cheek to cheek at work so I don't need it.

About 6 months into straight shaving, I've gone from about 50 minutes to half that (with a much better result to boot). From the time my feet hit the floor until I am shaved, showered, teeth brushed and strapped into a suit is about 45 minutes. I'm also one of those irregulars who shaves before showering.

This habit of shave first dates to all the years when shaving poorly, the shower was saved to help stop the bleeding, sooth the rash!

Well, I guess I'm just slow, or too particular, or both. I started str8t shaving back in May this year, and even now it takes me 35-45 minutes just for lathering and shaving. But I do 2 passes (3 on my neck and chin). I don't think I could stand just doing one pass. I do shave every day. I went through a spell a couple of months ago of feeling really frustrated that I wasn't getting below 30 minutes, but I just let that go--decided to just focus on enjoying giving myself a quality shave.

I view my shower and shave as "Brian's special time," and I view the shower and shave as one act now. The whole routine takes me from 40mins-1hr all in, that is from walking into the bathroom to walking out of the bathroom, the main reason for variation in the time is how long I stand in the shower staring blankly into space. I think the actual shaving part takes about 25 mins for 2 passes, WTG & ATG and some touch up, but I have never timed myself. I'm only about a month and a half into the straight razor journey and I think I could cut the shave time in half if I didn't have to spend so much time on my chin and moustache area, but I suppose I will get better at that with time. I have recently switched to shaving in the evening since the house is more peaceful at that time, and I never rush; to me it is worth eating into my sleeping time a little if I have to, plus I think the relaxing ritual actually helps me get to sleep faster anyway.