I am a electric shaver man myself, but yesterday, I used a free (new) razor that the college gave all the guys in the bookstore.
I have to say, I can get a closer shave using my electric, unless I'm doing something wrong...
Girls... Please input too. I'm thinking about trying NAIR or some other hair remover you girls use on your fine looking legs (and other unmentionables... :laugh:)...
I know it sound wierd that I'm considering a women's product, but if they can produce such a close smooth feeling, why not for our faces??? :dunno_white:
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there is actually a NAIR for Men.
However, I'm an old Razor and Cream kinda guy. Electrics tend to rip the hair out of my ass... I mean, face. And that doesn't feel too good.
I'm a fellow asian dude, so I can get away with an electric. BUUUT, when I want a really close shave, like when I'm going on a date (so like once a year), I'll use a blade..
Be vewwy, vewwy careful with NAIR. It's very harsh, and it can really burn your face if you're not careful.... :o
NAIR is a waste and NADS are a waste. Waxing is cool if you can stand the pain and the price. I just stick to razors myself.
Quote from: ajgs500 on April 30, 2006, 04:39:04 PM
NAIR is a waste and NADS are a waste. Waxing is cool if you can stand the pain and the price. I just stick to razors myself.
What about NARDS?
lol never heard of them
Quote from: ajgs500 on April 30, 2006, 04:42:04 PM
lol never heard of them
Nards=balls.
I couldn't resist.
Dave :cheers:
exactly
Ok...I've never heard of that expression... I'm more sheltered than I thought... :icon_razz::laugh:
I agree with aj on the NADS, though. That stuff is a total waste of money. For waxing, try EMLA cream. It's a prescription numbing cream, and it's a lifesaver! ;)
Quote from: pandy on April 30, 2006, 04:51:51 PM
Ok...I've never heard of that expression... I'm more sheltered than I thought... :icon_razz::laugh:
I agree with aj on the NADS, though. That stuff is a total waste of money. For waxing, try EMLA cream. It's a prescription numbing cream, and it's a lifesaver! ;)
Not sheltered, just old :flipoff: ;)
Dave :cheers:
I've used both electric and blades and either works great for me. However when i use a blade i have to shave less often. never used wax or any other hair removal stuff. I've heard bad things about NAIR though, as pandy said before, like it can cause chemical burns on some and just plain doesn't work a lot of the time.
Quote from: pandy on April 30, 2006, 04:51:51 PM
Ok...I've never heard of that expression... I'm more sheltered than I thought... :icon_razz::laugh:
I agree with aj on the NADS, though. That stuff is a total waste of money. For waxing, try EMLA cream. It's a prescription numbing cream, and it's a lifesaver! ;)
Wonder if that would work for sunburn :laugh: :laugh:
h7
You can get aloe with lidocaine in it OTC
I stick to blades myself. I got one of the new Gilette 5+1 bladed razors recently, and i's actually pretty nice.
My girlfriend uses NAIR and it works really well, but she says you have to be careful about how long you leave it on.
Quote from: My Name Is Dave on April 30, 2006, 04:54:40 PM
Not sheltered, just old :flipoff: ;)
Damn right, shonny, and I'm gonna clobber you with my walker if I ever meet ya'! :icon_mrgreen:
Oh wow...flash back time.....----+++++-----..........1975!
I was at the beach with a bunch of friends (in Florida where I grew up). One brought a surf board and was fiddling around with it. Asked me if I wanted to give it a try.
"Sure" was my reply.
He had just waxed his board and the stuff was sticky. As I tried to stand up....the stuff started pulling the hair off my chest and stomach!
The worst part was explaining why my skin as rashed up looking.
The dude just had to deal with a hairy surfboard. :laugh:
I use a Braun Activator 8595 with Afta pre-electric gel. It's quick and easy, but not as nice as my good'ol Mach 3.
I've used NAIR before, but not on my face, I would highly NOT recommend it because it can remove a layer of skin and make things burn like the blazes of hell for a couple days
Mach 3 + Gillette lime shaving creme.
Anyone ever see that MAD TV spoof of a Mach10? It went something like this: The first 3 blades get a deep skin close shave. The last 7 cut deep past the Epidermis and Dermis.
I use a Mach 3 and Softsoap 2 in 1 Moisturizing Antibacterial soap (the flowery peach-colored stuff). It works better and is much cheaper than any shaving cream I've ever tried. That cream-in-a-can crap is a pathetic hold-over from back when stuff coming in cans was a novelty. It doesn't work worth a crap. I don't burn my face any more thanks to the softsoap. It's nice and slick.
An, if you want a clean shave with a razor, you have to shave against the grain of the hair growth, I don't care what any instructions say. It increases your chances of an ingrown hair though.
I have an electric razor, but I don't like it. It irritates my skin as much or more than a blade.
Yeah, razor all the way. I do remember the Mad TV sketch, they did an animation of the razor cutting the hair like all the razor ads, but once the hair was gone the next 7 blades just kept cutting through the flesh. Is it really bad to shave against the grain? I tried going with the grain for awhile but the shave sucked and I'd have to shave twice as often. I just keep a pretty new blade on there all the time and it works well for me. Mach 3 FO LIFE.
I think some of us ladies can get some good tips from some of the gents here! :thumb:
Quote from: Blingmasta on April 30, 2006, 07:36:18 PM
Yeah, razor all the way. I do remember the Mad TV sketch, they did an animation of the razor cutting the hair like all the razor ads, but once the hair was gone the next 7 blades just kept cutting through the flesh. Is it really bad to shave against the grain? I tried going with the grain for awhile but the shave sucked and I'd have to shave twice as often. I just keep a pretty new blade on there all the time and it works well for me. Mach 3 FO LIFE.
I can tell you're good at shaving just by your avatar. :laugh:
Ever since the Navy, I dry shave.
Ouch...doesn't that hurt? Rash? Burn? Ouch? Or are you just tough? :o
- Mach 3 razor
- Aveeno shaving cream (http://www.aveeno.com/detailAction.do?id=3859)
I would like to start using a straight razor one day, i have always thought it was really cool when they do it at the barbers.
Quote from: pandy on April 30, 2006, 08:28:58 PM
Ouch...doesn't that hurt? Rash? Burn? Ouch? Or are you just tough? :o
When you're too lazy to buy more shaving cream (for someone to just steal), you learn to train your skin to be tougher.
Quote from: scratch on April 30, 2006, 08:32:42 PM
Quote from: pandy on April 30, 2006, 08:28:58 PM
Ouch...doesn't that hurt? Rash? Burn? Ouch? Or are you just tough? :o
When you're too lazy to buy more shaving cream (for someone to just steal), you learn to train your skin to be tougher.
You are so hardcore.
Well...me being a guy of color with sensitive skin, i have to switch off every so often. I shave every other day because in all the hundreds of products that I've tried, they all seem to result in bumps.
Now i use a Schick Xtreeme 3 with the Aveeno for a week every other day. Then switch back to the traditional already mixed in a tube Magic Shave that surprisingly enough works rather well.
You see, shaving with the rather works very well but results in bumps after a week.
Apply the MS, take it off with a credit card, and im good to go. Then back to the Xtreeme III.
I am an electric razor kind of guy. I've been using electric pretty much since I start shaving. I tried the tradition razor and cream for a couple of months but I didn't like it. It DOES give a smoother shave, but I do't really care. Electric is much easier and faster for me. I shave my head with my electric razor also. That works out semi-well.
But to shave my face, I just turn the ole Norelco on, run it over my face for a couple minutes, splash on some aftershave and booyika.
shave with a razor, like a man. shave once "with the grain", shave again against. closest shave you'll ever have. indulge yourself once and have a tgrue barber give you an old time style shave, with an old skool razor.
Quote from: pantablo on April 30, 2006, 10:27:06 PM
shave with a razor, like a man. shave once "with the grain", shave again against. closest shave you'll ever have. indulge yourself once and have a tgrue barber give you an old time style shave, with an old skool razor.
I'm Asian/Irish.. I barely grow stubble in 3 days. I think he'd laugh at me.
just... wait a week before you go in.
I hate it when I haven't shaved in a few days, and I pull my helmet off, and the stubble gets ripped up by the helmet.
Bah, don't let anyone - not even Pablo - tell you to do something "like a man". A real man defines himself; he doesn't let anyone else define him. Do what works best for you. Try both ways, see which works for you. I assume from your comments that asians have a hard time growing facial hair? Then why even worry about it? :laugh: Hell, ever consider growing it out a little?
The only problem I have had with an electric is if I don't stay right on top of if - daily - it can grow too thick to come off easily and smoothly, and it can "pull a little". Yours might not come in as thick so quickly, I dunno. And if you do buy an electric - go for the best quality one that you can afford. The cheap ones will last a few months, a year if you are lucky, and nothing is more frustrating than trying to shave in the morning and having it die - especially half way through! haha. I learned THAT the hard way :thumb:
Im a razor kinda guy. Use a giletta mach 3 with that stupid vibraty thing?!?! god knows what that does - i know what its meant to do (i think :icon_twisted:) but it doesn't make any difference in my opinion. Never tried an electric shaver but i might be tempted for the sheer ease of it. My girlfiend used to use the cheapo razors where you buy a bag and chuck them away when there blunt (dunno if you've seen any of these?) but she managed to cut her angles so much i bought her a brand new one (i think it was a Venus one deisgned just for our lady folk - now her legs are silky smooth
*chuckle* :icon_twisted:
Quote from: pantablo on April 30, 2006, 10:27:06 PM
shave with a razor, like a man. shave once "with the grain", shave again against. closest shave you'll ever have. indulge yourself once and have a tgrue barber give you an old time style shave, with an old skool razor.
+1
I'm a razorblade man myself, my facial hair is too thick and if I use electric it just rips at it and leaves my face feeling like it's in a blazing inferno -- damn my Mediterranean ancestry!
I have a full beard, and only have to shave around it. So I do it every other day, with a blade. In the summer when I run sans beard, I shave every day, with a blade.
I have an old electric from when I was 15 and didn't have much facial hair. Its now basically a very fast tweezer, pulls out hair like a sumbytch.
Haven't shaved since I got out the army two yrs ago. just a trim every now and then.
I'll never go back!!!! :laugh: :laugh:
Same here. Navy for five years. They will have to hunt me down to get me to come back. :thumb:
How about how often you guys shave? I'm pretty lucky and can go a week inbetween shaving. I mean, I can start looking a little rough and Federline-ish by the 6th day or so, but I can still pull it off.
From earlier posts, it sounds like I'm one of the lucky ones. Until I try to grow a beard...then I won't be so pleased.
Dave
I have to shave every other day. it was a real chore when I raced bicycles and had to shave my legs AND my face every other day! imagine how much surface area that is...
Quote from: pantablo on May 01, 2006, 09:20:18 AM
I have to shave every other day. it was a real chore when I raced bicycles and had to shave my legs AND my face every other day! imagine how much surface area that is...
I still think you're lucky though. I know some guys that MUST shave every single morning, and maybe even twice one day, like in the morning for work and in the evening before a date. That's rough. Literally.
And as for your shaved legs...thanks for the imagery. Boo hiss!
Dave
I consider myself a shaving master. I shave my face and head daily. I started loosing my hair in my mid 20's so I said to hell with it.
The basics are simple
1- a sharp blade. I am using the Mach III blades now. The turbo blades have lotion, but you can do that yourself. I believe they have dulled down the old blades to sell the new 'turbo' blades. Honestly the old style blades ' double' work just as well, but don't last as long.
2- really hot water. I tried using shaving cream, but decided it is really not need unless you have really hard water. I shave in the shower with the water at the point where I can just barely stand it. This will open your pores and let the hair become more soft. I have a very rough beard.
3- angle of attack. It takes a lot of practice, but the angle and pressure of you razor is crucial. You wan't the blades to be at about 45 degrees to you skin with a firm and steady pressure.
It is also better to take long smooth strokes. This will raise the hair before your blade gets to it. Rub your hand down you skin. Yo can see this affect in action.
Mr. Pantablo is correct for that good shave you will need to shave an area twice. Once with the grain and once against it. Now this can be two much of a good thing and is really only recomended for the 'friday night shave'.
I like to shave daily, but I take at least one day a week off to let my skin heal.
Dave you suck. :flipoff: If I waited a week I'd look like Billy Gibbons. :o
When I use my Braun, I have to shave everyday. Actually, if I shave in the morning before work, I could use another shave before going out at night. I'm sometimes a little lazy and don't shave on Saturday or Sunday, and by Monday morning I'm a hairy beast. I hate it, it drives me nuts, I can't stand looking scruffy, but I'm also super lazy.
When I use my Mach 3, I can go maybe a day and half, but I'd still need to shave everyday.
And to those considering electrics, my advice is don't cheap out. My first one was a cheap Remington from Walmart and it was a piece of crap. It was downright painful to use that thing and it did a pretty lousy job. It pulled and left my face feeling like I shaved with a grinding wheel. My Braun on the other hand is awesome. It cuts pretty close and doesn't pull at all, even after not shaving for a few days.
Quote from: buzz on May 01, 2006, 09:26:12 AM
Dave you suck. :flipoff: If I waited a week I'd look like Billy Gibbons. :o
Yeah, it's great until you actually want some facial hair. If I try to grow it out, it just looks like one of you guys shaved and I put glue on my face and sprinkled your clippings onto it. Not sweet.
Yeah, I'm a hairy mo'fo. takes me 5days to go from nothing to OSAMA BIN LADIN.
So I just stay with the terrorist look.
Quote from: pantablo on May 01, 2006, 09:20:18 AM
I have to shave every other day. it was a real chore when I raced bicycles and had to shave my legs AND my face every other day! imagine how much surface area that is...
I'm a swimmer, we shave for our championship meets but thats only a couple times a year. You certainly didn't do that for every race did you?
Quote from: Unnamed on May 01, 2006, 11:10:08 AM
Quote from: pantablo on May 01, 2006, 09:20:18 AM
I have to shave every other day. it was a real chore when I raced bicycles and had to shave my legs AND my face every other day! imagine how much surface area that is...
I really dont want to hear any boy complain about the surface area!!!! Most of us girls do this about every to every other day. And have been doing it for a long time!!!! :icon_razz: :icon_razz: :laugh: :laugh: :kiss3:
To be fair, when you shave it probably doesn't include your arms, chest, back, and head. Unless you're actually a bear. 8)
Well when I shave it includes my legs, and armpits, anda few other places and like I said I do this damn near everyday. So for a couple of months out of the year you shaved your enitre body.... bid deal.... I will be doing this the rest of my life. Total time according to life expectancy for me will be around 64 years.
Yeah that does suck. I'm really glad I'm not a girl.
Electrics for me suck, to the point where all I used them for was the trimmer. After my last one died I just replaced it with a trimmer that runs on AA batteries. The only time I use it is to cut long hair off before using the blade so it doesn't clog up the razor, a cheap Select Trac II. I have a Mach III Turbo at my GFs house and it doesn't clog up like the Select Trac.
Once every two days to stay smooth.
I can't use an electric razor. I've got a pretty heavy beard, even though it is blonde. I grow a beard every winter, which is awsome.
One time I was at a buddy's house, using the restroom, and his wife had a bottle of Nair on the counter. I rubbed some of it on my knees, waited a few seconds, and wiped it off. Took the hair clean off. Also I had scabs on each knee from a crash I had in a mountain bike race. The Nair totally melted the scabs, so I had hairy legs and hairless knees with pink spots in the middle. Looked pretty tough.
That's really sexy, Jake!!!!
Thanks for sharing Jake....please go sit down now :laugh: :laugh:
:laugh:I actually hooked up with Miss Missouri that night, so I'm not sweating it either. :thumb:
And how did those knees hold up????
My wife surprised me with a Gillette Fusion 5-blader last night. i tried it out this morning. It was admittedly better than the Mach 3...but no miracle cure for skin irritation. i usually use gel shaving "cream," and always shave as soon as i get out of the shower so my coarse facial hair is at least a little softer.
i'm currently rocking a 6" goatee. It looks hilarious flapping out of the bottom of my full-face helmet! O0
Quote from: ajgs500 on May 01, 2006, 01:10:27 PM
And how did those knees hold up????
The knees were fine. I was standing the whole time.
Quote from: 12thmonkey on May 01, 2006, 01:16:41 PM
My wife surprised me with a Gillette Fusion 5-blader last night. i tried it out this morning. It was admittedly better than the Mach 3...but no miracle cure for skin irritation. i usually use gel shaving "cream," and always shave as soon as i get out of the shower so my coarse facial hair is at least a little softer.
i'm currently rocking a 6" goatee. It looks hilarious flapping out of the bottom of my full-face helmet! O0
Maybe that was a hint to shave that thing :laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: Egaeus on April 30, 2006, 08:00:04 PM
Quote from: Blingmasta on April 30, 2006, 07:36:18 PM
Yeah, razor all the way. I do remember the Mad TV sketch, they did an animation of the razor cutting the hair like all the razor ads, but once the hair was gone the next 7 blades just kept cutting through the flesh. Is it really bad to shave against the grain? I tried going with the grain for awhile but the shave sucked and I'd have to shave twice as often. I just keep a pretty new blade on there all the time and it works well for me. Mach 3 FO LIFE.
I can tell you're good at shaving just by your avatar. :laugh:
Owww....my...pride....
On a lighter note though, I do like to make it a point to get my shaving done on the slopes. Sometimes this approach fails miserably. (See Avatar)
Ok... Before this gets into "What do you shave?"... lock it!
OOo now that could be interesting. I will be the first to open this line of thought. I shave face and shins (for skiing, bloody hurts wen ur ski boots pull out the hairs on ur legs) Occasionally certain other areas get a trim :icon_twisted:
Anyone else?
Quote from: Kasumi on May 02, 2006, 08:52:29 AM
OOo now that could be interesting. I will be the first to open this line of thought. I shave face and shins (for skiing, bloody hurts wen ur ski boots pull out the hairs on ur legs) Occasionally certain other areas get a trim :icon_twisted:
Anyone else?
Oh man, I remember the pain of having my leg hairs ripped off when I used to ski. Soapy water barely helped in preventing the pain, too.
ah...my young padawan... behold the Squid secret to shaving.
ride hard with no gear..haha no dermis- no hair.
Oh man, I just looked in the mirror and had a good laugh. Not because of the fact that I didn't shower this morning and look like complete shaZam!, but because I looked at my "beard" and thought of this conversation.
Here's a picture of me from 5 minutes ago. I haven't shaved since Monday. No, not the Monday that was 2 days ago; the Monday a WEEK and 2 days ago. So here is my "beard" after 9 days of growth:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/all_out_of_gum/Photo52.jpg)
Just thought I'd rub it in. :flipoff: :flipoff: :flipoff:
Have fun shaving everyday, dudes!
Quote from: My Name Is Dave on May 03, 2006, 12:30:39 PM
Oh man, I just looked in the mirror and had a good laugh. Not because of the fact that I didn't shower this morning and look like complete shaZam!, but because I looked at my "beard" and thought of this conversation.
Here's a picture of me from 5 minutes ago. I haven't shaved since Monday. No, not the Monday that was 2 days ago; the Monday a WEEK and 2 days ago. So here is my "beard" after 9 days of growth:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/all_out_of_gum/Photo52.jpg)
Just thought I'd rub it in. :flipoff: :flipoff: :flipoff:
Have fun shaving everyday, dudes!
Dude.. I could let my face grow for a month, and not have half that.. Yay asian genes!
Quote from: Phaedrus on April 30, 2006, 10:43:45 PM
Bah, don't let anyone - not even Pablo - tell you to do something "like a man". A real man defines himself; he doesn't let anyone else define him. Do what works best for you. Try both ways, see which works for you. I assume from your comments that asians have a hard time growing facial hair? Then why even worry about it? :laugh: Hell, ever consider growing it out a little?
Yes? I can't stand a clean shaven face. Feels better to shave lightly a couple nights a week and have some stubble to run the fingertips over the next day.
I was a Don Johnson before there was a Sonny Crockett. Stubble does offer some useful protection from the elements not to mention providing added definition to the face. It does suit certain Asia-types who tend to look like kids for forever. Heck, might as well enjoy the masculinity--it's not a disease.
Sure, society will try to whip you into conformity but once those bastards hack-off that
foreskin they should expect further attempts at forced domestication to be met by some of this --> :flipoff: by right thinking males.
Is this a great guy thread or what? :icon_razz:
Quote from: NiceGuysFinishLast on May 03, 2006, 12:37:01 PMDude.. I could let my face grow for a month, and not have half that.. Yay asian genes!
Hmm, I have that same problem.....But I'm not anywhere near Asian. It takes me ~6 months to grow a beard, which goes back to the post of getting a battery powered trimmer as rechargables just short out on me from lack of use.
They say its what your skin is used to.
Skin that has been shaved often with a blade will not shave well for the first few weeks with an electric shazor and visa versa.
Quote from: galahs on May 04, 2006, 02:40:14 AM
They say its what your skin is used to.
Skin that has been shaved often with a blade will not shave well for the first few weeks with an electric shazor and visa versa.
Shazor? Best word... ever.
cpoyright it and sell it to Gillette. they will market anything.
I can't wait for the 10 blade electric shazor to come out :thumb:
Incisors are good for trimming... some areas :thumb:
I've been using the same razor for the past two weeks...dry.