Thread: How many days between shaves?

It's every morning - part of my daily morning ritual.

Due to heavy beard growth, I use a straight razor daily, I can "get away with" TWO days at most without looking (and feeling) like a cactus.

I shave daily..I have thick and dark facial hair, I get the Homer Simpson shadow after about 12 hours no matter what I shave with..DE, SE, Straight, etc. It depends on you and what your needs are, really.

I shave prettty much every day (currently 18 days continuous with a straight) because I like the feeling of the smooth skin and love the ritual.

Nothing starts the morning better than taking a razor sharp knife to your face. Everything else that day is easy after than. :-)

Charlie

Originally Posted by Disburden

I have thick and dark facial hair, I get the Homer Simpson shadow after about 12 hours no matter what I shave with..DE, SE, Straight, etc. It depends on you and what your needs are, really.

Same here, Nick. In fact my wife teases me with the same Homer Simpson comparison

Daily...except on weekends. I don't see a difference between my straight and my DE safety razors. I might get a slightly better shave with the straight, but I also get more cuts, nicks, and scrapes. Regardless, I still need to shave daily.

Should be daily but if my wife is working I often don't have the energy after the kids are on bed (she works 7p-7a 3 days a week and I work 8.30a-5.15p M-F).
Sometimes I make a cup of coffee just so I can have the energy to shave before bed.
If I need a shave but was too wiped out before bed I do a quick one pass on my neck with my shavette before work so I don't tear up the collars of my shirts.

I shave twice a day, have been for the past 30+ years.

When I was using electric, I shaved every 3 days because it took FOREVER and I was lazy. With the cartridge razors, it was every two days because of razor burn and cuts. With the straight, I'm shaving every day for two reasons. First is that I need the practice, and second is because my technique isn't good enough to get a close shave, so I need to do it every day. But I'm glad to say there's no burn...daily shaving was unheard of with a cartridge.

I think it all comes down to hair growth. I can go two days without any problems, but I have friends who grow a stubble after 7 hours, so it's not a general rule to go X days or hours without shaving. I have soft facial hair and it pretty much goes unnoticed, even if it's there. On my chin it grows much faster than my whiskers, for example. That's why I let a goatee and moustache on, since I always irritate when shaving them off.

Since I haven't mastered the straight well yet, I have to go daily with it if I don't finish on the DE. If I use the DE, I can go easily for two days. If I choose to go ATG with the straight it's the same thing, but I'm avoiding that because there were instances when I got a BBS - probably by mistake, cos I don't recall doing anything differently than usual - without ATG and I want to perfect my technique to acquire those constantly.