COED Guide to Shaving
December 2, 2007 Posted in Style
If you still haven’t got the hang of stroking your palms against a smooth cheek each morning, you probably still have a lot to learn, old boy. Take a look at these shaving tips to get the smooth finish.
- Avoid shaving first thing in the morning. Your face would still be puffy due to the fluids that collect in your face tissues over a night’s sleep, and the perfect shave would be hard to get.
- Stubble should be wetted with warm or hot water before shaving. This swells the hair shaft allowing the blade to cut the hair, not your skin.
- Use a sharp blade. A dull blade is responsible for many shaving cuts as it drags over your face and catches your skin along with the hair of your beard.
- Thoroughly massage shave cream into stubble. A vitamin and Aloe Vera based shave cream will provide a close soothing shave and protect against razor rashes and burns.
- Rinse the blade often in hot water when shaving and use slow short strokes. Take your time.
- Shaving with grain means shaving in the direction of how the hair grows on your face. It is always best to shave this way. Shaving against the grain can cause redness, rashes, razor burn and ingrown hairs, which are all painful.
- Use an exfoliate such as a facial cleanser or scrub to eradicate dead skin cells and open up the pores of the skin to prepare it for a close shave.
- After shaving, apply an oil-free moisturizer to soothe and protect the face. If you prefer an after-shave, check the label for alcohol. Dryness and stinging sensations are by-products of most after-shave products whose primary ingredient is alcohol. It may feel good at the time, but alcohol based after-shaves are actually irritating to many complexions.
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Use an electric shaver first, then shower and clean up what's left with a blade.
@all
He forget the most important part:
Dry your blade after use! So it stays much longer sharp (1 year and longer)..
Obviously people leaving comments tell the real story. I'll add that electric razors suck big donkey toe. And yes cheap disposable razors are exactly that – cheap and disposable and they too suck big phat donkey toe. I was in the hospital for an extended period (why is a long story for another day). Anyway I was given a shave by my dad with a Schick w/3 blades and a lube strip. It was a great shave. It's not a cheapass disposable but it is a disposable. Works well if you only use them a couple of times. Yes cartridges suck toe as well. I'd love to get a real safety razor or straight razor. I used a real safety once and by far it was the best.
Against the grain, warm water, real cream if any at all, neck and no alcohol based whatever after. Actually "real men" shave with cold water and no mirror but we're all civilized these days.
I used to have the problem of ingrown hairs and with sensitive skin, my face would get irritated quite easily.
My technique:
1. Dab some skin conditioner for electric razors.
I use either Lectric Shave or shaving powder.
2. Shave with an electric shaver. I use Braun. It's worked best so far for me.
3. Finish off with a razor blade. I use Gillette Fusion. By this point my face is smooth and I am only using the blade to shave any stray hairs the electric shaver missed for a smooth clean shave.
Every once in while, I exfoliate my skin. This helps condition my skin and loosen ingrown hairs if any. Plus it gives my face a healthier look.
This is solely based on my experience and what has worked for me so far. Hopefully someone would find it useful.
In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
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electric shavers BLOW. I am about as hairy as a medium sized bear, and those damn things just give me razor bumps.
My dad says the same thing about cold water to bring the inflamation down before you shave, but then it hurts my f-ing face!
You know, they take girls out of class to teach about what to do when they bleed – why not at LEAST try to give us a heads up on shaving?!?!?! WTF!
Its funny when people make the ridiculous claim that shaving with the grain is better. Obviously these people have facial hair equivilent to a girl or maybe a house cat. For men who have real facial hair and can grow real beards, cross/against the grain is the only way to get a close smooth shave.
Vibrating multi-blade razors are also key to getting a nice shave daily without irritation.
Wash face with cold water – let the skin shrink and let the stubble out. A little salt water wash helps in raising stubble out of the skin.
Apply cocoanut oil _before_ shaving – smooth shave guaranteed.
Alum – greatest after shave.
Go to badgerandblade.com for extensive tips on wet shaving.
most of you guys are no better than girls, buncha fags have never even grown real facial hair. Shaving is such a PITA – I have lost jobs because I would have to shave every day to stay smooth, but I literally cannot shave every day and I get severe nigger-neck pretty easily. Boss was like "shave every day" easy for him to say cuz he had no facial hair.
@fred
Maybe, he had no facial hair, because he shaved? And, maybe if you were to shave, you could get a professional job? And, I'm pretty sure you could shave everyday, if you lost some weight, and moved sometimes. Lazy ass.
1) Shaving with the grain will not give you a smooth shave. You have to do a second and third pass across and against the grain.
2) Get a sable brush and a good shaving cream/soap (Proraso is excellent and cheap).
3) Safety razor or multi-blade cartridge both work great (just don't get the super-cheap Bics). Shave with very light pressure. Let the blade, not your hand, do the work.
All bollocks.
1 – Throw out the stupid aerosol can of foam and mach3/fusion.
2 – get a traditional DE ‘safety’ razor (old gillette safety speed or merkur hd)
3 – get a good shaving cream (like taylors of old bond street)
4 – watch mantic59′s youtube tutorials on making a lather and doing a traditional shave.
If you shave with a cartridge based razor you’ve already lost.
A lot of this is useless information, and sounds like a woman's guide to shaving. I've shaved against the grain for over 10 years, and have always used an alcohol-based aftershave, and I've never had a problem with "stinging, dryness, irritation." Those are just medical terms doctors use to get you to buy expensive products that you don't need. Girls always compliment me on how smooth my skin is. Don't listen to this, do what works
Well, at least a couple of guys here know how to shave. Recommendations of Taylor of Old Bond Street shaving cream and a badger brush are spot-on. Even if you use a cartrifge razor, these two items will improve your shave substantially! Bateman- you're using women's products that have been re-packaged for men. Anti-aging eye balm? Herbal mint facial mask? Men don't use these things son, regardless of how many stomach crunches they can do! As for alcohol being evil for your skin – bullshit! Denatured alcohol evaporates so quickly it does'nt have time to hurt your skin. Stop being babies afraid of cutting yourselves and of a little burn! Go to shavemyface.com and learn how to shave like men!
Hey, I have an idea for all the complainers…why not get a job that DOESN’T REQUIRE SHAVING? *whacks forehead* WOW, I didn’t think of THAT!
Apres swin, shower,face wash, hone+strop Yr. Grandfater's pearl handled razor.
Add a touch of hot w. to the old mug w/ the end bits of soap. Lather ancient badger-hair brush+apply to physiognomy.
Shave. Rinse gear. Apply Montege Bay rum, to tonsils not delicate dermis.
Swash Yr. buckle, slip+proceed, me Heartys. Arrugh!
From wikipedia — Patrick Bateman is a fictional character, the protagonist and narrator of the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and its film adaptation. Vic, you are arguing with a fictional character.