Inspired by the facial hair thread, what do you use to shave?

I use BiC Twin Select disposable shavers with Gilette shaving cream. I heard about better, easier brands, but it gets the job done. I don't need aftershave.

I get atleast one cut from shaving everytime, not bad. What do you use to cut away your facial hair? Disposable or electric? Good product suggestions (I guess it depends person to person)?

I use electric, but a crappy 2 year old one.

I use electric, but it's really oldskool. It's my dads. It does what it's supposed to so whatever, It isn't one of those cheap ones either. It's fancy.

I have a beard and mustace trimme that I use most of the time. When I need to be clean shaven, I have a Shick Quatro.

I have a gillete mach 3, but i ran outta blades, so i'm using some cheapo disposable bics. I usually shave dry, or with water sometimes.. I never get cut, or get razor burn.

I use either a Gillette Fusion Power (5+1 blades!!! ZOMG) and Edge Pro Gel Ultra Sensitive... OR I have a straight razor and some powdered cream and a brush. The latter takes a long time, but the shave is SOOO good.

Where's the picture of the 15-blade razor when you need it...

Electric.

I use that mach 3 one that vibrates.

That stupid Mach 3 vibrating POS gave me small scars because it oscillated too much.

I use a regular Gillette Fusion and any shaving cream I can find. I like the stuff from Aveeno, my skin is way too sensitive. I also use a crappy Norelco rotary electric when I don't want to get hair everywhere, and an awesome dual head Braun when I need a real electric shave.

I've been using disposable BICs with no cream; just water.

Gillette Fusion and some lemon zesty shaving oil. Let me tell you this, shaving oil is FAR superior to any shaving cream/gel i've tried. The only downside is that it's invisible so you have to do everything my feel rather than sight.

A machete /w unsalted butter.

Either a Mach 3 Turbo or electric...which hurts for some reason.

Those BICs are horrible in my opinion, at least the regular single-blade ones, I haven't tried anything else from them.

mach 3 with really old blades but it still works when you scrape hard enough.

Whatever works.

I have a Mach 3 razor blade or something. My Braun elec. razor never did it for me that well.

Mach 3. I generally end up with a cut or two on the right side of my neck. For some reason, it's a real problem area.

Mach 3 (seems to be a popular choice around these parts) and whatever shaving gel/foam we happen to have at the time. Only thing I won't use was this King of Shaves gel we had one time, which severely dried out the skin on my neck. As in, peeling off. It was disgusting. I haven't cut myself from shaving in a long while, though, which is pretty cool.

A tolerable Philips electric shaver.

Buck 110 Folding Hunter

I use a leccy razor.

And just shear it off every year or so.

mach 3.

echoman, try out a better quality razor that maybe aint disposable, everytime i've used a disposable its cut my face to ribbons.

never cut myself on a mach 3 unless i slip and it goes sideways against the skin, then i know what it means to be a goth with the razorblade thing.

I use a Mach 3, which seems like overkill because I don't have to shave that often and when I do it's so light I don't need and gel.

Protector 3d diamond.

I use early 90s razors!

its even better when someone else does it.

i dont know how to use a straight razor, but damn after a trip to a good barber, my face feels smooth for a week.


wanna learn straight razor though. cause thats just badass

also, i use a mach 3 turbo, the kind with the battery. also gillette shave gel/cream, whichever i happen to have. i rarely cut myself, and when i do i dont put dabs of TP on it like a wuss.

also, i shave in the shower, and thusly w/o a mirror. mirrors are for wussies too.

I have a Remington electric shaver that I haven't used in a while because the blades are dull, and I can't find replacements at Wal-Mart.

So I've just been using a Mach 3.

Here's an article I wrote about shaving.

The haggard visage stared at me blearily at me. Its face — if you can call it that — the slashed, torn, gory remnants of a nightmare, wince wearily. Trickles and spurts of bright red blood flowed over the older blood across its horrific face-caked, coagulated, and cracked.

I am responsible for this vision of horror, this specter of facial disfigurement bleeding in the mirror.

I am the one who — once again — has summoned this ghastly mutilation- I’ve mugged my own mug.

I would like nothing more to avoid this twisted ritual. But alas, I can see no way around this manifestation of coagulation. No, to cut to the chase, the cuts on my face are a part of that futile war against my facial hair.

You can beat it out, you can cut it, you can pull it, you can burn it off, but STILL it comes back for more. Each time, it is stronger, quicker, savvier. The hair force quickly learns the lessons of their fellow fallen follicles. They can change, evolve, adapt to whatever I throw at them.

I have a dastardly combination: Black, coarse, quick-growing hair and an incredibly wussy face.

I can go from clean-shaven to Fidel Castro to ZZ top in a matter of minutes. You’ve heard of No Shave November? I tried No Shave November 18th from 3 p.m. to 5:17 p.m. At the end, I looked like Cher the Wookie, but more poorly groomed.

Mere moments after I’ve shaved, even while the blood is still fresh, then you know, my friends: Ya got Stubble. Stubble in razor city.

Back in Prehistoric times, of course, this would have been an evolutionary benefit. When the temperatures plummeted and the Ice Age beckoned, I’d still be warm and cozy, hidden in my insulated coat of fur. I could even keep little scraps of food in my beard, in case a famine hit.

Nowadays, however, the Cro-Magnon look is out, while the PeeWee Herman look is in.

So I have two choices: The Electric Razor… or THE BLADE.

The problem with the Electric Razor is that, while it doesn’t cut me, it also doesn’t, technically, *cut hair* Oh, it makes a lot of noise; it puts on a nice show, with a lot of whirring and scraping. But when the dust clears, the Before Picture and the After Picture look exactly the same. Even if I really dig in, if I shave for hours, violently, still a legion of octopus-like facial hair juts out through the red razor burn, smugly blowing in the wind.

The problem with the blade is obvious. I can clear the weeds, but it looks like I’ve used a WeedWacker. I can shave my entire face, and for one tantalizing moment, it looks like I’ve succeeded. I’m shining, I’m smooth, I’m porcelain, I’m —

Then, without fail, one by one, a hundred minuscule pinpricks of red appear.

Like Moses’ Second Plague, here comes da blood. Sometimes you have cuts in places you don’t even remember shaving (Wha… I don’t remember shaving my *eyelids*.)

It’s a cruel irony. You only shave with the blade when you really want to look sharp, clean-shaven, a suave and debonair specimen of etiquette and erudition. So it’s always right before important events that you reduce your image to shreds. It’s awkward, during a job interview, to start bleeding all over your resume. Most career services recommend against this. I’ve gone to many classes with large wads of Kleenex bonded to my face. Students pretend not to notice. “I don’t want to judge him, just for being different,” they think to themselves.

There are ads, of course, for better blades: “Try the Dodecahedronra Techno-Razor! Our laser guided technology actually seeks out hair follicles and fries them at the source! Our patented terrain-mapping GPS system in the handle prevents nicks and cuts! Only four easy payments of $47.95! Good for up to three uses!”

Unfortunately, as a College Student on a Top Ramen Budget I can only afford Western Family’s Generic Razors. A single blade! Not all that rusty! Can also be used for shearing sheep! Two complimentary Band-Aids in every package!

Now if you’ll excuse me, the Kleenex on my face needs replacing.

Mach 3 (non-powered). Also, usually the gillette foam. If I'm at home, sometimes I use shaving soap and a brush instead, but still the mach 3.

**** Everything, We're Doing Five Blades <-- Language.

Cool people use a Fusion.

I use a Mach 3. Got it in the mail I think. In any case, it only works to my satisfaction when it's a super-fresh blade and I got near-boiling hot water and the like. Even then, sometimes the chin area's all "screw you" and still doesn't feel smooth. As it is, I usually just use it with water and get what I can (sometiems I use shaving cream or the like, but usually I just apply moisturizer or the like after I shave).

Right now, though, I'm just taking my beard trimmer, minus the thingy (making it mostly just a buzzer-thingy), and make my face insta-stubble. Yeah, I got rid of the facial hair. I don't care what some of you said -- I was only really attatched to it because I'm lazy.

Shave? What is this... Shave?

Men are supposed to be hairy. Wrawr.

A fact waaay too many people have forgotten these days...

[QUOTE=Commander 598]**** Everything, We're Doing Five Blades <-- Language.

Cool people use a Fusion.[/QUOTE]


real men use a knife


and janitor bob... i got to zz top and stopped reading for five minutes

I use a trimmer to cut the hairs down, and a disposable blade to shave the rest off.