I started shaving regularly when at the ripe old age of fourteen. I had a beard by the time I was sixteen, and I’ve had it ever since aside from a fast food job my senior year of high school.
Which is to say I hate shaving, but it is oh so necessary. The beard can hide my shavelessness for a day, but after that I’m looking sporting the crazy wilderness guy look.
On top of that my beard hair is rough and thick. My beard does not want to be shaved; in fact, it actively resists it. The not shaving against the grain rule? Sorry, Queer Eye, but that only gets me down to a five o’clock shadow.
So I have moved up the razor blade ladder as they added a second and third blade. I had good luck with Gilette’s electric three blade razor, but it still wasn’t quite cutting it.
I resisted the new four blade razors. What would four blades do that three blades hasn’t? But then they were on sale for cheaper than my three bladers, so I took the plunge, getting the electric one to boot.
No dice. It was a step down in my smooth shaving experience. Frustratingly, I’d purchased a couple of packs of blades to get in on the sale price. I was stuck with a piss poor four blade do nothing razor.
I’d read in the instructions (yes, I’m one of those people) that the electric one could take the non-electric blades, so when I ran out and those were cheaper, I bought the standard four blade package.
Shaving heaven. Maybe those electric four blades were a bad run. Maybe they just don’t make them as sharp, figuring all the buzzing and vibrating will make up for it. But a standard four blader with the vibrating handle?
Shaving heaven.
As my wife says, if NASA made space-travel innovations as fast as Gillette makes razor innovations, we would be to Jupiter and back by now…
PS – I’m convinced that Gillette gel/foam accellerates the decay of razor blades… after all, it’s in their best interest
I got myself a nifty beard trimmer recently. You’ve probably noticed, as I look less like Grizzly Adams :) It’s made by Conair and it has all kinds of little attachments. This is a great improvement over the standard hair-buzzing thingybob I was using before. When I bothered. Now, I am neat and trim-like. Not to say sculpted and styling like Chuts. But the squares do seem to accept my beardedness better now.
This has nothing to do with shaving, other than beardedness allows me to avoid shaving so I can sleep later in the morning.
i must mention that both chutney and kermit_is look much hotter than they would sans beards.
and i have to second the recommendation for the beard trimmer. soooo great. i use it to trim my naturally bushy eyebrows and the hair on the back of my neck. it’s also especially useful for knocking down the forest pre-shave when i don’t shave my legs for a long time. you know, in case you gentlemen ever have that problem. ;)
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