I save money on razors by honing the cartridges so I can keep using them. I just use the double-bladed ones. I get about two months from one and I shave every day.
Full disclosure: I don't have the kind of thick beard that would meet standards for beardliness among the swarthier types.
I have a beard mainly because shaving is a pain.
I use an electric razor, usually while driving. I have to get a new one every 5 years or so, so that's about $16 a year.
Plucking is probably due for a come back.
3: Rear-end one bus and your costs shoot up.
Also, eventually your car's floor gets completely filled with little hairs and you need to buy a new one.
I use dove soap which is the next best thing to not using soap.
I use that also. Soapy-soap makes my skin crack in the winter.
I hate Dove soap. It leaves a slimy feel that's difficult to wash off.
3: Me too! Except I've never tried to do it while driving.
Do any of you use black soap? I like the liquid form better than the solid, but it's easier to just pick up somewhere in solid form.
I have a beard because a) shaving is a pain and b) I'm trying to grow a Confucius beard so I can go to China and give people advice.
I use a safety razor and blades. Much easier on my skin than cartridges.
On the stinky thing, I couldn't. I'm not particular body odour ridden. My wife, who would absolutely moan about it, confirms that I'm not generally someone who smells. But, in this heat (it's about 86 F) ... no. Soap and deodorant are required.
I use deodorant or soap, but not both.
Deodorant is for when there's no time to shower.
I use deodorant. But you really don't need soap. It's been in the 90s here: I ride the train and walk a mile each way. It's fine. I think if you're a mechanic or otherwise get greasy, you need soap. Otherwise, no.
Just saw Theresa May for the first time. Is Thatcher the Younger her actual whole thing? On topic because English people eat mashed things.
I'm considering extending a Chicago visit by an extra day to catch a band I really like, LCD soundsystem, at Lollapalooza. My biggest trepidation is a fear that the venue will be profoundly shitty-- I imagine myself a half-mile from the stage with shitty sound.
Can I get advice or anecdotes on what these zany hundred-band multiday music events are like? Are my concerns grounded in reality, or is a best case of a basically pleasant crowd and OK sound likely?
I'm big and don't mind the mosh-pit part of general admission shows.
Put mildly, why would anyone take advice in men's grooming or beauty from this site? People here generally have styles made for a text-only comment box.
I shave very intermittently but I've been using a safety razor (a gift from a friend, actually, a long time ago) and Feather blades. I actually cut myself around my Adam's apple a reasonable amount but that's because I'm incompetent.
And the font isn't even clean shaven.
20: Careful! Pointing out the things she wants to draw people's attention to marks you out as one of those sexist BernieJeremyBros.
Soap, no deodorant. And I don't smell. But I can't stand that slightly sticky feeling I get when I break even a slight sweat and especially so when I'm trying to sleep so I have to take a shower before I go to bed.
I shampoo my hair around once every six months or so and otherwise just use conditioner, works great, AMA
"I dont smell" sounds like every stinky thirteen year old.
26 I've been told by various girl friends and wives that I smell nice so there.
Safety razors are great but Feather blades are... tricky (and infamous as such). I get better results, including not cutting myself as much, with some Derby blades.
I also have been told by the laydeez that I smell nice, which seems so implausible that I assume they were also lying to Barry.
In the sietch everyone smells the same.
I've been told I'm a good listener. All sorts of lies are told in relationships.
Just saw Theresa May for the first time. Is Thatcher the Younger her actual whole thing?
Pretty much. That and having been an authoritarian home secretary, even by the standards of always authoritarian home secretaries. Though since the leadership campaign she has been spouting some economic stuff that Maggie wouldn't have touched.
Put mildly, why would anyone take advice in men's grooming or beauty from this site? People here generally have styles made for a text-only comment box.
As the saying goes, I have a face for eclectic web magazine commenting.
And a body like the below-grade part of a brick shithouse.
18: Sally has had a very pleasant time three years running now at Governor's Ball, a reasonably similar sort of festival in NYC, if that's any help. Pleasant crowd, decent sound.
25: If you call it no-pooing, we are no longer friends. Actually given the mention of cuts around the Adam's apple, maybe I should just decree that anyway. Ew ew ew ew ew.
I also don't use soap and do use deodorant. I do use shampoo, but not every time I shower. I tried skipping shampoo and my hair got way too much volume and was huge, and plus I wanted my showers to be the same length as always.
If you call it no-pooing, we are no longer friends.
Uh, what do you take me for.
I poo enthusiastically.
Soap only for feet and junk, shampoo once every few weeks, weather in the 90s and humid, and I smell delightful according to my dog.
Let's have the next meet up in the winter.
Adonis died? Did ALL the Greek gods die?
GODS of Hellas, gods of Hellas,
Can ye listen in your silence?
Can your mystic voices tell us
Where ye hide? In floating islands,
With a wind that evermore
Keeps you out of sight of shore?
Pan, Pan is dead.
I actually cut myself around my Adam's apple
Young man, pull the skin to one side and shave the hair while it's not over your Adam's apple. You shouldn't need to shave directly over the Adam's apple at all.
You could protect your Adam's apple with a healthy layer of chin fat.
I'm sure that would lubricate well, but it'd all scrape off as you shaved.
34. Thanks! That's more than I knew before.
Young man, pull the skin to one side and shave the hair while it's not over your Adam's apple.
Thanks, pops, but I actually do do that. Don't ask me what's going wrong.
Eggplant smells like an Adonis; ogged smells like an Average Dog Once Nose Is Severed.
18
I have gone to some of those festival shows. The sound is fine. They are tiring though. I usually go a little bit later in the day and try to have a string of bands I want to see without too many gaps.
I've been using the same cartridge 2x a week for a year now. seems to work just fine.
And I have just showered, using soap and deodorant both, you fucking freaks. In this climate I feel actually encrusted with salt, like a castaway.
52 thanks also.
So far the only discussion has been above the shoulders shaving, this is a safe space for sharing.
25
That is my boyfriend's routine. It works fine, his hair never gets greasy, but every 3-6 months he shampoos the scalp. He has the world's coarsest hair, and it isn't all that curly but it's just really really big. Like, strangers stop him in the street to tell him how big his hair is. Not washing has helped him control the volume a bit.
I have completely the opposite hair. While we probably have the same number of hairs, his hair has 8x the volume. I shampoo my hair every other day, every third day if I want to stretch it, but by then the roots are already really greasy. I also have the greasy roots/dry tips annoying combo, and I read somewhere that when your hair is extremely fine, conditioning it and then shampooing it allows your hair to get moisturized without having conditioner weigh it down. I've been doing that with reasonable success (I try to leave the conditioner in for about 5-10 minutes).
Lolla rules. Their ability to find bands with good live acts is such that sometimes if I'm considering a show I use whether they've ever been on a Lolla bill as a tiebreaker.
I shave my legs anywhere from 2x a week to 1x every two months (avg probably once every 2-3 weeks), and I use cheap bic disposable razors from CVS. I do a pretty crappy job, but since I have blond leg hair it doesn't really matter. I only shave above the knees maybe once a year, but that leg hair is almost completely invisible.
My nose hair is mostly invisible if you aren't really short.
I only shave above the knees maybe once a year, but that leg hair is almost completely invisible.
I have never even thought of shaving above the knees, and didn't realize this was a thing (but my hair is also blond and near-invisible). I shave my legs (below the knees) a few times a week, but I resent myself for doing so. Makes me feel like a traitor to feminism, I suppose.
Oh don't worry, JPJ, you're on the list.
60
I was curious so I googled it, and this is what I found:
http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/shaving-above-the-knee-do-you/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskWomen/comments/1enx6e/how_far_up_do_you_shave_your_legs/
60 I shaved above the knees when I was younger and I'd like to credit stopping to increased not giving a fuck. ACTUALLY THOUGH I just got a lot less hairy after I had a kid which is really not an economical alternative to new razor blades.
I went through an olive oil/strigil-instead-of-soap phase as a teen.
THESE ARE MY SOAP FACTS.
19 is ludicrously inapplicable to moi but I'm also virtually certain no one here would ever solicit let alone take my (strenuous but impeccable) grooming advice!
My hair just broke a containment device at the hairdresser. 😱
ogged only shaves twice a week? What the hell kind of Iranian is he?
Ogged is going to pay for that wall.
I went through an olive oil/strigil-instead-of-soap phase as a teen.
Hawt.
I can't handle more politics. Cly, where would a person buy a strigil in what I'm assuming to be the days before ubiquitous online shopping? I'm guessing Greek festival or DIY. It's certainly something I've considered but I don't think olive would be the right oil for me, and it also seems like more of a time commitment than I'm willing to make.
Wow, I always shave above the knees if I'm going to be exposing most of my legs. Thankfully, this pretty much only occurs if I'm wearing a bathing suit.
Huh, until this thread I hadn't realized that any women distinguished between above and below the knees when shaving, and it's making me realize I don't have a good sense for how much hair is typical for women to have where. I think I have a fairly good sense of what's typical for men, due mainly to being way out on the hairy end of the spectrum (which I kind of hate, but less than I did before I learned that most women don't actually care about the amount of body hair on men). Now I'm wondering if the apparent tendency for at least some women to shave below but not above the knee is due to having different amounts of apparent hair, or different levels of public exposure, or what.
I used to shave my legs, but only below the knee where there is a lot more hair. Nowadays I get them waxed every so often in the summer. Blondish hairs so I can get at least a month out of it. I also get my underarms waxed occasionally but I have stopped doing anything about my bikini line because the skin is too sensitive.
73. There was a reference to this in the original Bloom County, back when it was funny. I hadn't heard of it before then either. Being of a certain age, most women I knew well outside work are/were 2g feminists who make a point of shaving nothing.
I need to shave daily to look respectable, which means that now I'm retired and have given my last fuck it comes to about four times a week. I wash my hair frequently or it starts to itch long before it looks bad.
71 I used a spatula. Until my mom was like, hey where did the spatula go?
Let's hope she washed it before pancakes.
I'd have thought olive oil would have a distinct smell which wouldn't be unpleasant and which you'd quickly get used to on the streets of Antonine Rome, but would cause raised eyebrows in Obama's America. Was this a thing?
This was Clinton-era so it was fine.
Young man, pull the skin to one side and shave the hair while it's not over your Adam's apple. You shouldn't need to shave directly over the Adam's apple at all.
This intrigued me, so I tried it this morning. You either have a much smaller Adam's apple than I do, or more looser neck skin. My skin doesn't even come close to pulling that far to the side.
I shave directly over my Adam's apple, just lightly and carefully. It's prone to cuts, but they are avoidable if you are careful.
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a while.
more looser neck skin
Very likely! I have comically stretchy skin. Still, the technique seems sound.
shave above the knees
That downy hair above the knee is really quite sexy. I mean, not on me, but.
Boyf reports that there is a generational divide in the men-with-tattoo-sleeves community over whether or not a man is obliged to shave his arms/chest in order to respectfully display The Art (this being the position of the young persons) or whether he is obliged to NOT, because come on.
The biggest generational divide is all the tattoos the kids have today.
84 is correct. Also they had to choose those strips carefully, because Calvin sometimes says things that are way too sensible, kind, and mature to plausibly come out of Trump's mouth.
At this point I regret all the halfway sensible unorthodox things Trump said during the primaries, because I think by the time this is all over every idea that is publicly associated with Trump will be thoroughly discredited by association. I hope he never mentions any of those sensible things ever again. Pure idiocy and/or conservative dogma from here on out!
