@Limewater Mine’s a Lady Gillette. I can see that some modern razor advances are good, but there’s a lot to be said for being able to get 100 blades for five bucks.
@brennyn@Limewater
Do you remember when every medicine cabinet came with a slot in the back that you would feed used blades into to collect inside the wall for posterity!?
@brennyn @chienfou@Limewater
I don’t have to try too hard to remember. My present (1960ish) house has one in the main bathroom. (The other bath was from a remodeled garage 20 some years later and doesn’t have one.)
Wonder if those ever fill up? Someone needs to sponsor a guessing contest on the count for a house being demoed. My house is on slab, so I guess the blades go to the blade netherworld.
I use an electric trimmer (not rotary shaver like this) to periodically trim beard to stubble level .(3-6mm). Then let it grow back. The frequency of this might range from a few days to a few weeks. Or months?
Was aware that I had annoying neck hair below the beard and use a trimmer set to close (0), or a manual razor for cleanup of that. Or else I don’t and just get known as neck-hair guy.
Back when I shaved fully I did try various electric shavers. Best for me was the Panasonic linear shavers from Japan. The top-end ones were amazing, with a true linear motor. (not a spinning shaft converted to back and forth by a plastic gear, as cheaper ones did),
Before I grew a “quarantine beard”, I used a non-electric razor. Now, I use electric clippers to keep the beard under control (every week or so) and trim the errant hairs outside the beard line (twice per week).
@phendrick Unless the device uses direct conversion of the heat to kinetic energy without an intermediate heat-to-electricity step, it’s still electric. Those direct-conversion ones tended to be a bit aggressive. Closer to a wood chipper than a shaver. Never buy a shaver from a Foundation trader if the shaver has an exhaust port.
Beard gets tamed with electric trimmer, things outside the margins get controlled by a razor I use in the shower. Shaving in the shower has been my favorite way to do that for a long time. Beard is already soft, rinsing is a piece of cake.
@danpritts well… that too… but even with a beard I need to shave my neck, cheeks (facial cheeks), and between the eyebrows once or twice a week… just to tidy things up.
I’ve gone through Philips/Norelco, Braun, and now Panasonic. Each was a step up from the previous, but the Panasonic is miles ahead of the other two. Wish I’d tired it years ago.
@blaineg I will mourn the eventual and inevitable lack of spare parts for my classic Remington someday, assuming that I still need it by then. I’ve tried several alternatives “just in case”, and a Braun came sort of close, but I never tried a Panasonic.
@blaineg@werehatrack Yeah the high-end linear motor Panasonic would be my recommendation. I had one of the first ones way back around year 2000 (remember when Y2K was a thing?). Also one of the first true wet/dry where you could use shaving cream and then run over it with the shaver, rinse, repeat. Then got another one a few years later because there was an Amazon deal. Also tried a cheaper one that looked similar but wasn’t as good. Eventually the built-in battery goes bad in any of these which is sad but true.
EDIT actually one from at least 10 years ago still works after I charge it but I don’t normally use it since I’m doing the stubble beard trim thing mostly.
Looking around now it seems you have to expect to pay at least $200 (well I saw one for $175) and looks like the top end is now $500! Yow!
@blaineg@phendrick They used to try to say that STP was for “Scientifically Tested and Proven”, but it was originally Studebaker Treatment Product. That said, everyone I worked with called it Slow To Pour.
I have not yet managed to rid myself of the legacy annoyance of facial hair from my prior identity/existence, but I have little enough remaining (and it grows slowly enough, and is unobtrusive enough) that I just use whatever method is close at hand. My twenty-odd-year-old Remington, from The Days Before, still works very well indeed, though I’ve had to surgically replace its batteries once already.
@werehatrack Don’t get your expectations too high. From the time I married her 27 years ago, my wife needed either a shave or mustache-lightening. And I never saw any other signs of male hormones. Least of her problems nowadays (Alzheimer’s).
i’m the outlier here…
I use both.
I have a “beauty mark” mole on my upper lip. blade just tends to cut it. so cheap electric for upper lip, Dollar shave club blades for the rest of it…
The “beauty mark” comment reminded me of why I don’t do the clean-shaven look. I have a round scar on side of my chin that looks like a big round pimple, from a skiing accident almost 40 years ago. On the occasions I do go back to shaving, I feel conscious of it as it had been obscured by beard or stubble for many years. Even I kind-of forgot it was there. Funny thing was my wife made a comment about ‘there’s this thing on your chin’ and I had to say, ‘of course, don’t you remember it was there since before we met, and I told you the story.’ And I’d actually been clean-shaven for the first 10 years or so.
Still using gas.
@awk Diesel is the way to go, man.
@awk @pmarin Just don’t forget to splash with DEF afterwards.
@awk @werehatrack
/image Mos DEF Louis Vuitton
Feel the cold steel scraping across my dry, sunburned face skin is so much more pleasurable than that annoying buzz of an electric razor.
I use a 1950s double edge safety razor. It’s not the most convenient thing ever, but it’s the only thing I’ve tried that never gives me ingrown hairs.
@brennyn I use a Gillette Tech from between 1946 and 1950 (inclusive). I love it. Super cheap to use and great control.
@Limewater Mine’s a Lady Gillette. I can see that some modern razor advances are good, but there’s a lot to be said for being able to get 100 blades for five bucks.
@brennyn @Limewater
Do you remember when every medicine cabinet came with a slot in the back that you would feed used blades into to collect inside the wall for posterity!?
@chienfou @Limewater My medicine cabinet still does that, but it just drops into the dirt under the house.
@brennyn
Nice!
@brennyn @chienfou @Limewater
I don’t have to try too hard to remember. My present (1960ish) house has one in the main bathroom. (The other bath was from a remodeled garage 20 some years later and doesn’t have one.)
Wonder if those ever fill up? Someone needs to sponsor a guessing contest on the count for a house being demoed. My house is on slab, so I guess the blades go to the blade netherworld.
[need a “two” somewhere in that first sentence]
Female here - I use wax.
@Kyeh
@kjady Well, it’s just for my legs.
I got the armpits laser-zapped one year - painful, but one of the best investments I’ve ever made!
@kjady @Kyeh Somewhere along about 1996, my armpit hair gave up and left. I don’t miss it. Nor do I miss having to deal with it.
@kjady @Kyeh
So you still sport a nice handlebar mustache? Nice.
me runs and hides
@kjady @yakkoTDI I’m not a bearded (or mustachioed) lady, sorry.
/image bearded lady
Gave up shaving and caring that others care.
@katbyter Yeah did that a while ago. Also, on a topic that came up here recently, same with matching socks.
Wax. Or sugar wax.
I use an electric trimmer (not rotary shaver like this) to periodically trim beard to stubble level .(3-6mm). Then let it grow back. The frequency of this might range from a few days to a few weeks. Or months?
Was aware that I had annoying neck hair below the beard and use a trimmer set to close (0), or a manual razor for cleanup of that. Or else I don’t and just get known as neck-hair guy.
Back when I shaved fully I did try various electric shavers. Best for me was the Panasonic linear shavers from Japan. The top-end ones were amazing, with a true linear motor. (not a spinning shaft converted to back and forth by a plastic gear, as cheaper ones did),
haiku:
silly facial hair
why do we even have it
to sell Meh shavers
someone had to ask
can this shave my pubic hair
not a good idea
Before I grew a “quarantine beard”, I used a non-electric razor. Now, I use electric clippers to keep the beard under control (every week or so) and trim the errant hairs outside the beard line (twice per week).
Does nuclear-powered count as “electric”?
(Bought it a while back from a Foundation trader.)
@phendrick Unless the device uses direct conversion of the heat to kinetic energy without an intermediate heat-to-electricity step, it’s still electric. Those direct-conversion ones tended to be a bit aggressive. Closer to a wood chipper than a shaver. Never buy a shaver from a Foundation trader if the shaver has an exhaust port.
@werehatrack Dunno … the manual was extra so didn’t get it. Besides, nobody reads those anyway.
Okay it depends on what I am shaving. Exposed face - blade. Beard and top of head - electric trimmer.
I use either or depending on time and mood. Sometimes both. I have a buzzer more suited for heads and a safety razor
a blade, cheaper and best way to do it…
Beard gets tamed with electric trimmer, things outside the margins get controlled by a razor I use in the shower. Shaving in the shower has been my favorite way to do that for a long time. Beard is already soft, rinsing is a piece of cake.
Non-electric.
Why?
Electric trimmer (not shaver), because beard trimming is so much easier than cutting with scissors.
Beard. Shaving is work and I don’t like work.
@danpritts well… that too… but even with a beard I need to shave my neck, cheeks (facial cheeks), and between the eyebrows once or twice a week… just to tidy things up.
If I don’t, I look a bit like a warewolf!
Electric. Why? I’m still waking up, I don’t trust myself with blades that early.
I’ve gone through Philips/Norelco, Braun, and now Panasonic. Each was a step up from the previous, but the Panasonic is miles ahead of the other two. Wish I’d tired it years ago.
@blaineg I will mourn the eventual and inevitable lack of spare parts for my classic Remington someday, assuming that I still need it by then. I’ve tried several alternatives “just in case”, and a Braun came sort of close, but I never tried a Panasonic.
@blaineg @werehatrack Yeah the high-end linear motor Panasonic would be my recommendation. I had one of the first ones way back around year 2000 (remember when Y2K was a thing?). Also one of the first true wet/dry where you could use shaving cream and then run over it with the shaver, rinse, repeat. Then got another one a few years later because there was an Amazon deal. Also tried a cheaper one that looked similar but wasn’t as good. Eventually the built-in battery goes bad in any of these which is sad but true.
EDIT actually one from at least 10 years ago still works after I charge it but I don’t normally use it since I’m doing the stubble beard trim thing mostly.
Looking around now it seems you have to expect to pay at least $200 (well I saw one for $175) and looks like the top end is now $500! Yow!
@blaineg @werehatrack UPDATE this one for $100 says it has a linear motor. Also comes with a Houmy Leather bag, whatever that is.
https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-ES-LT67-Electric-Trimmer-Intelligent/dp/B0BRT9YYSH/ref=sr_1_9?crid=BXMG0SH2PSER&keywords=panasonic+linear+shaver&qid=1687988174&sprefix=panasonic+linear+shaver%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-9&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.18ed3cb5-28d5-4975-8bc7-93deae8f9840
This shaving cream is wonderful:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009WQH8SA/
Works great with the Panasonic in the shower. Feels like it would be good for blades too, very slick and slippery. Don’t need much of either.
@blaineg Here’s the missing “it”.
@blaineg Do you recommend it as slicker than STP?
@blaineg Seems like another vote for Panasonic + shaving cream, which was my choice when I shaved regularly.
@phendrick I haven’t done a double-blind test with STP, but I’m fairly sure it’s easier on the skin than STP.
I’m not sure if they still stick, but I came across some STP stickers from the early 70’s, including the flower.
@blaineg @phendrick Early 70s? Like maybe on a VW camper with tie-dye curtains? So NASCAR + Hippie, what a combo!
@blaineg Ya never know; those might have some original Andy Granatelli DNA (from trackside sweat) on them!
@phendrick That would make them more collectable. But it’s unlikely as I got them when I was a kid, and rediscovered them a while back.
@blaineg @phendrick They used to try to say that STP was for “Scientifically Tested and Proven”, but it was originally Studebaker Treatment Product. That said, everyone I worked with called it Slow To Pour.
I have not yet managed to rid myself of the legacy annoyance of facial hair from my prior identity/existence, but I have little enough remaining (and it grows slowly enough, and is unobtrusive enough) that I just use whatever method is close at hand. My twenty-odd-year-old Remington, from The Days Before, still works very well indeed, though I’ve had to surgically replace its batteries once already.
@werehatrack Don’t get your expectations too high. From the time I married her 27 years ago, my wife needed either a shave or mustache-lightening. And I never saw any other signs of male hormones. Least of her problems nowadays (Alzheimer’s).
@phendrick I am slowly killing it off with electrologist visits.
i’m the outlier here…
I use both.
I have a “beauty mark” mole on my upper lip. blade just tends to cut it. so cheap electric for upper lip, Dollar shave club blades for the rest of it…
The “beauty mark” comment reminded me of why I don’t do the clean-shaven look. I have a round scar on side of my chin that looks like a big round pimple, from a skiing accident almost 40 years ago. On the occasions I do go back to shaving, I feel conscious of it as it had been obscured by beard or stubble for many years. Even I kind-of forgot it was there. Funny thing was my wife made a comment about ‘there’s this thing on your chin’ and I had to say, ‘of course, don’t you remember it was there since before we met, and I told you the story.’ And I’d actually been clean-shaven for the first 10 years or so.
KISS
@pskemp2 “Simple” can be situationally variable, but overall, usually best.