The Ultimate Shaving Thread

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Your favourite shaving method?

  • plucking with tweezers

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  • waxing

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  • Total voters
    38

Zur

surrealistic mad cow
Jul 8, 2002
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I use both. A philips electric razor+trimmer to keep stubble down and gilette mach5/fusion for a cleaner shave. The 3-blade/5-blade razors work well but it's a good idea to have a cup with some mineral oil to dip them in so they last longer.
 

NRG

Master Console Hater
Dec 31, 2005
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I use my electric Braun 95% of the time because that's how often I don't need a super close shave. I'd rather just save time.
 

Arcturus

Not From Bloody Starcraft
Jan 23, 2000
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38
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Totally Not Korhal IV
Wet shaving, disposable razor. My facial hair apparently has an elemental resistance to electric-based attacks, since all the electric razors I've tried on it seem to do sod all.
 

SleepyHe4d

fap fap fap
Jan 20, 2008
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I use that spray stuff where you can wipe the hair off afterwards.
 
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Kantham

Fool.
Sep 17, 2004
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I just don't want to look back ever since I got my hands on a electric razor. Much faster, no cream (a can could last me so long it started getting rusty) and no hassle.
 

TWD

Cute and Cuddly
Aug 2, 2000
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Salt Lake City UT
members.lycos.co.uk
The trick for me is to use shaving shower gel instead of the more common foam. If I don't, I always get a razor burn mustache. I always shave in the shower at the very end, and use a face cleanser just before applying the gel. Oh yeah, and I use a Fusion, but I've found the other stuff makes a bigger difference than the razor.

I really want to try shaving paste with the old style plain razor, but I don't know where to buy the thing that actually holds the razor. I've been told that with practice it works just as well if not better than the 5-blade razors. However, it's a ton cheaper. The blades for the fusion are just waaay too much.
 

Darkdrium

20% Cooler
Jun 6, 2008
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Montreal
I have such little facial hair and it still doesn't grow very fast, so I use one cheap razor that you can throw away after a few uses. Since I don't use it much, it can last a long while :D
 

Sjosz

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Dec 31, 2003
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Edmonton, AB
www.dregsld.com
Dry shave with disposable Gillette (I think Fusion?) 5 bladed things. (not an option in the poll!)
Sure, occasionally the stubble is stubborn and irritates when I do it that way, and when it's bad I'll dip the razor in water a bit, but otherwise nice and clean.
 

Sir_Brizz

Administrator
Staff member
Feb 3, 2000
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I us a Fusion, and if my wife had her way I'd use it three times a day. I have one of those vibrating Fusion razors and I just do it wet, sometimes I pre-shave with the electric since my facial hair is the thickness of century old redwood trees and even a little more than a single day of not shaving makes it hurt a bit to shave with the razor.
 

dragonfliet

I write stuffs
Apr 24, 2006
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I use the mach 3 razors, but I generally don't shave every day because 1) I'm not that hairy, so I can get away with it and 2) it really irritates my skin if I do. I've been thinking about picking up an electric razor but I'm pretty ignorant on the subject and don't want to get a cheap one that I won't use (having experienced how crappy cheap ones are).

~Jason
 

BITE_ME

Bye-Bye
Jun 9, 2004
3,564
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Not here any more
leggs = Never
Back = Never
Butt = Never
Underarms = Never
Feet = Never
Pupic area = Never
Head = Never
Arms = Never
Chest = Never
Face = Lightsaber
Nose = Never
Ears = Never
 

Lruce Bee

Transcending to another level
May 3, 2001
1,644
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Sherwood Forest
Wet shave with a Mach3 every two days.
Any longer than that and I'm tearing my face off.
Could never get along with an electric shaver - never felt like it gave me a proper shave.
 

anaemic

she touch your penis?
Jan 7, 2002
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london, uk
Mach 3, I refuse to pay to upgrade to a newer razor just because it has a vibrator built into the handle.

Electric razors just don't cut close enough, and for longer work I have an actual beard trimmer.

Then again I sport a Beard most of the time so all the razor gets used for is shaving mah bawls.