Are you clean shaven, beard or stubble ?

[Gunk]

Not sure I would look cool with a beard
what with the "head of less hair than average" and all that


On another note
those who wet shave - what lubricant do you use (stop sniggering at the back - you know what I mean!!!)
I sometimes just use a bar of soap but normally use shave gel
I find that one can of gel last for months if I use the absolute minimum every time
(unlike the adverts where they seem to use half a can to shave one hair!!!)

Just a can of shaving foam does the job

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Just a can of shaving foam does the job

I find the foam cans last much shorter period of time than the gel - so I get the gel

 

[presta]

what lubricant do you use (stop sniggering at the back - you know what I mean!!!)
I sometimes just use a bar of soap but normally use shave gel

At home I use gel, but I'm not making room for a can of that in the pannier when I'm touring, so I use shampoo then, just because it's a liquid, and more convenient to put on than working up a lather with a bar of soap. It's noticeably not as good though.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Not sure I would look cool with a beard
what with the "head of less hair than average" and all that


On another note
those who wet shave - what lubricant do you use (stop sniggering at the back - you know what I mean!!!)
I sometimes just use a bar of soap but normally use shave gel
I find that one can of gel last for months if I use the absolute minimum every time
(unlike the adverts where they seem to use half a can to shave one hair!!!)

I use a bar of shaving soap; I find regular soap is too watery.

 

[Alex321]

Had a beard all my adult life apart from one spell of a few months in my late 20s.

Was a goatee for several years, but now a full beard.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

A year or so ago my wife's nephew offered me a very good quality cut throat razor that he had bought himself ages ago as a treat
Great looking thing in a presentation case

He has been advised to not use it by his doctor as he has epilepsy and if he has a fit when using it the only the Gods know what might happen

He ignored them

Now his partner has told him to never use it and he isn;t dumb enough to ignore her (seriously - she is scary!!)

so he offered it to me - but I know I would never use it so I turned it down

I do think maybe I should have taken it and had a go!!!

 

[classic33]

I have a Circle, extended goatee, or Van Dyke beard depending on how you define such things and if I was concentrating while shaving that morning.

I recently heard this about a Van Dyke, which I think is rather marvellous:



I want to make a T-shirt with this.

I shave every couple of days with a "Safety Razor" which works far, far better than more modern alternatives, a fact known to shaving companies when they marketed their new 'disposable razors', but the disposables have higher profit margins.

That describes someone I know better than anything else I've read, and he has a goatee.

 

[tyred]

Not sure I would look cool with a beard
what with the "head of less hair than average" and all that


On another note
those who wet shave - what lubricant do you use (stop sniggering at the back - you know what I mean!!!)
I sometimes just use a bar of soap but normally use shave gel
I find that one can of gel last for months if I use the absolute minimum every time
(unlike the adverts where they seem to use half a can to shave one hair!!!)

I use traditional shaving soaps or creams with a brush. I just prefer it to any of the canned products.

No need to buy any of the posh, heavily scented stuff unless you really want to. Palmolive is good, as is Erasmic if you can find it. Wilkinson Sword sell a shaving soap which is cheap and easily available. Boots do their own brand too.

 

[Drago]

That describes someone I know better than anything else I've read, and he has a goatee.

Was it a goatee or was he merely halfway though eating a rat?

 

[classic33]

Was it a goatee or was he merely halfway though eating a rat?

He'd be a slow eater in that case, he still had it on Saturday. Over two years since he grew it.

 

[Once a Wheeler]

My beard was grown as a participant in a beard-growing competition on board a ship that was stuck at sea for five weeks. On going ashore, I chanced to see a strangely clad woman walking along the street. I puzzled for a moment and then the truth dawned: it was not a woman but a clean-shaven man. In those few weeks a key difference between men and women had become the presence or absence of a beard. At the time this caused a chuckle; but now, after several decades, I still have the beard and clean-shaven men always seem to have a touch of the dandy about them.

 

[dicko]

Never had a beard always clean shaven. Had two Phillips rotary head shavers and one Braun in my life. Braun didn’t last long foil split and cut my face. Now I wet shave every day.

 

[Drago]

It's sad that the eccentric English moustache seems to have fallen out of favour.

 

[Gunk]

It's sad that the eccentric English moustache seems to have fallen out of favour.

Beards have taken over, the Millennials all seem to be sporting one.

 

[T4tomo]

Not sure I would look cool with a beard
what with the "head of less hair than average" and all that


On another note
those who wet shave - what lubricant do you use (stop sniggering at the back - you know what I mean!!!)
I sometimes just use a bar of soap but normally use shave gel
I find that one can of gel last for months if I use the absolute minimum every time
(unlike the adverts where they seem to use half a can to shave one hair!!!)

proper shaving soap and a brush - it lasts for ages and is way better than canned crap and a "proper " DE razor. not only do you get a better shave, its way way cheaper than multi blade cartridge razors like your mach 84 or whatever number Gillette are up to now.