Shaving

HiDesertHal said:
At age 81, I have never used a razor for shaving. Not Once!

Even during my 2-year Army enlistment, I always used a battery-powered electric shaver.

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You must either have a really thin soft beard or the Army had some mediocre standards. No way would an electric get close enough to pass muster in the USMC. Inspection days I would hit the barber and get a good old fashioned hot towel straight razor shave. When the inspector rubbed his card against the grain it was smooth as a babies butt.

I use a double edge safety razor and mug soap now. I messed with the multi blade thing until the expense became insulting.
 

I don't shave as often as I use to. This morning I used a 1980 model Norelco. Mostly I use a blade. Sometime I use both a week's beard. Sometime I shave with one of the earliest Norelco, with a screen, Depends on my mood.
 
My husband uses a single edge razor mostly, but he's had a mustache and short beard for many years now, so it's just to clean up the exposed skin. He used a couple of different electrics over the years when he was completely clean shaven.
 
Years ago I used an electric shaver. When we got married and went on our honeymoon the cord got left behind at home. I had to buy and learn how to use a blade all over.

I have the straight razor that my father used in the 1920s, but I never had the nerve to try it. The English call them "cut throat razors".
 
I had a Norelco with "floating heads" that gave you an OK shave. A razor made looked like I was a veteran in some horribly tragic war battle. But now, I ditched the electric. And now, sometimes I look like I was in a minor skirmish.
 
I use both. There's no comparison between an electric shave and a razor blade.

But there are some people that can get by with the electric. Others can't get a close shave with an electric.

But I haven't been to a barber for years. I cut my own hair. Really it's a trim every day with one of those battery operated trimmers.

My bathroom mirrors are set up perfect . There's a big mirror on the door. And I can see the back of my head to trim it.

It's not the cost. It's the time you have to take to go to the barber to get a haircut. I can't afford the time.
 
I was in the Air Force for 20 yrs.
I only shaved twice in basic training - and didn't really need to (other than being told I HAD to in no uncertain terms).
Once I got whiskers growing regularly (years later), I shaved with a razor on Mondays, an electric the other days of the week and seldom shaved on weekends.
When I retired, I stopped shaving. I trim it with an elec. beard trimmer to keep it evenly fairly short, every week or so. Every couple of days I use a razor on my upper cheeks to even out sideburn-beard line and on my neck as I wear motorcycle helmets.
 

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