Forums | MacLife

Damn!  I have really thick hairs and relatively thin skin.  Even with a Mach3 my face is covered in blood and it looks like I shave with a belt sander.  My towel looks like I used it to clean up a murder scene.  Why is there such a damn obsession with male facial hair removal?   

My skin is tough enough that I wash my face with FastOrange handcleaner, and I have a beard, so I may be looking at things from a different perspective. However, for the parts of my face/neck that I do shave, I prefer a straight razor - curiously enough I cut myself less with a straight razor than I do with a Gilette Sensor. It takes practice, and it can be really messy until you get the hang of it but a straight razor does a nice job.

jeebuz, how do you guys shave with a straight razor.  The thought gives me the willies.  Maybe that's from seeing Dressed to Kill to many times.

Hey, stop complaining. You are a guy so you have to shave only your face.

Oh, and where does one find a straight razor?  I can't even find an older non-cartridge safety razor.

I suppose I'm thick skinned as for a long period of time I shaved with just water and never really had a problem with cutting myself.  The only areas that are tough are right around the corner where your jaw makes an "L."  For some reason little bits of sideburn sneak around the corner and it annoys me to know end when I notice later on.  The only way to get rid of them is to shave against the grain at a funky angle, making it easier to snag yourself.  And throat hair just never needed to be conceived, awful stuff.

Well, I too have the same problem, being 50% italian gives me some damn thick face hairs.  I use the Mach Three Turbo by gillette, and I usually cut myself, but i found ways to reduce my cuts....

Rather than using the can of shaving gel, get the soap and brush (from Crabtree and Evelyn or other stores similar), you can lather it on real thick if you like, and you can make it warm, letting your skin become more flexible and less prone to cuts

Also shave at night, With the Mach Three Turbo, you don't usually have to shave every day,  it is hard to tell if you didn't shave come morning because you can get such a close shave with this razor.

I also shave down with the hairs, and then up against my hairs to get even closer, but it took me awhile before I could do that and not get cut. 


I hope that helped.

Try a beard.  No pain, no hassle.  Much quicker in the bathroom in the morning.

Once a month, I trim my beard.

That's why I wear a goat and try to avoid shaving as much as possible.  When I do shave, I use an electric razor set so as to have a perfect constant 5 o'clock shadow look a la George Clooney or something.

'Lectric razors rule. Not only do you get that ruggedly handsome stubble look, but you can get it in the car on the way to work. Or in the bathroom at work. Or at your desk. Or racing around on an Icelandic glacier.Or hanging by your toes in a North Korean detention facility. (What, you didn't see Die Another Day?)

Just grow a beard if you get bored of shaving. Seeing a geek beard scares no one. It's ok *for a male* to not shave (his beard or anything else).

When you are a girl .. instead you have to shave below your throat. That is a lot of more space and time. If I do nothing for 3 days .. I feel (look) disgusted. So shaving at least legs and armpits .. I hope I don't have to go to the dirty details? When I'll have enough money, I'll do the lasering, I can't stand shaving, waxing etc  ...

Any woman that wants to wear a bathing suit or shorts these days, needs to shave her legs from the navel down... that's a whole different ball game.

If a man was to shave to those extremes,
then you would be talking about a whole different ball game   

Who would have thought that a topic on shaving would lead to such lively debate 

That's why I wear a goat and try to avoid shaving as much as possible.  When I do shave, I use an electric razor set so as to have a perfect constant 5 o'clock shadow look a la George Clooney or something.

Amen, brotha.

They don't call me the Wookiee for nothin'!

I do shave once in a while, just to keep everybody wondering. But I think my wife has only seen my chin twice in 8 years.

Alopecia is the disease that makes all your hair fall out.  And the back and shoulders are two places men might consider removing hair.  Alec Baldwin used to get his chest waxed if you can imagine that pain.

Youch!