Thread: anybody wear eyeglasses? limited vision...

Originally Posted by belovedbishop

I use "cheaters" to analyze my blade, or bevel. Great magnification.

You are young yet! When you get my age, cheating becomes surviving! Try magnifying over the "cheaters" !

Originally Posted by sharptonn

You. Sir, are a wedge man! Seriously, try propping the glasses all over the nose to get a bit of view. it works! You also might want to try some strong, big reading glasses for shaving purposes.

Yup, I tried it in the mirror at work. You might have something there. I'm definately gonna give it a try tonight.

Although God might miss my morning prayer before shaving!... wait, I think I'll keep up the prayers just in case.

I'm incredibly blind and wear contacts most of the time. When I shave with my glasses on, it affects how I stretch my cheeks because I have to be careful not to move the glasses around my field of vision. I really did have to learn to do it by feel but it was tough for me. Plus I learned how to contort myself to get the maximum field of vision. Just keep trying.

Originally Posted by U2Bono269

I'm incredibly blind and wear contacts most of the time. When I shave with my glasses on, it affects how I stretch my cheeks because I have to be careful not to move the glasses around my field of vision. I really did have to learn to do it by feel but it was tough for me. Plus I learned how to contort myself to get the maximum field of vision. Just keep trying.

... and U2Bono269 forgot to add, that if you actually play U2 (older Josua Tree stuff) while you are shaving, you will relax more and that will help your vision (This is from expeperience!)

I have this same problem. I find myself leaning towards the mirror when I need to see details like sideburns, under the nose, etc. More than once I got so close that the handle of the razor bumped the mirror and I came REAL close to slicing my face off!

Whoa. thanks for all the responses
I believe i tried both moving the glasses around my face and leaning closer to the mirror, but found them to be obnoxious because of trying to stay the glasses and stretch my face at the same time...and the issue of having a sink in the way plus i just found it awkward to lean forward while shaving... to each his own, i suppose.
I am interested in learning to shave by feel, it sounds like the best option to me. only thing is, i can hardly shave by eye at this point. i can count the number of shaves i've had on...i'm gonna say one hand, although i may have just started on a second hand. I'm not sure how much experience i should have before i start trying to shave by feel...

Have any of you tried a magnifying mirror yet? I am starting to get too close to the glass myself, and had a similar "bump" experience to Zeus.

If a mag mirror would work, I would like to give that a try.

I use a magnifying mirror, one of those round ones on a parallelogram mechanism, I shave the runway's cheeks and neck sans my reading glasses, but wear them for the upper lip and chin and to home in on any missed bits. Shaving with glasses on is a pain though, they keep slipping off the end of my nose.

Just shave with your eyes closed. It's perfectly possible. I've done it a couple of times, as have other members.
At some point in time we even had a member here who was completely blind.
If you go slow, you should be able to do this by feel alone.

Originally Posted by ndw76

Don't use your eyes to guage the pressure of blade on skin, but use the sensation in your skin itself.

+1 I also wear glasses and have an issue seeing clearly without them, it's why i was considering a magnifying mirror. But really, I'm doing okay without being able to see, I go by feel.