Shaving Survey

Just curious about my fellow men on the forum, how do you perfer to shave, manual or electric or do you use a combination of both?

How do you wear your facial hair, beard, goatee, mustache, soul patch, sideburns or completely clean?

I use a manual razor once a week except over my lip, where it is real sensitive to cutting. I use an electric on a daily basis.

what say all of you guys?

I have my facial hair in a beard, goatee, mustache,and a soul patch i try to keep mine trimmed but i just get to lazy to shave everyday so i do it every other day with a old manual razor. I can't afford a fancy electric one i always wanted t get one are they any good ?

Walmart actually sells a couple electrics for arround 30 bucks that seem to work just fine, I am not sure how much better the really expensive ones are anyway.

glad i looked here...I HATE FACE HAIR! I shave with electric, then razor, then tweeze...I try to get rid of it, but it keeps coming back! Ive spend at most 2 hrs once trying to shave that damn hair away. ARGH! What to do, thought about laser too.

I use a razor on the days when I see my therapist (want to look my best) the rest of the time I use an electric razor. I am clean shaven, I would wear a mustache but my wife doesn’t like them.

You and my wife on the same page, she hates it when I go more than a day without shaving, and fusses up a storm. I normally do not shave on Saturday, if I do not have a need to look "presentable"

Yeah, my wife likes it too when I go without shaving for a couple of days. When I do shave, which is most of the time, I use a Braun electric that comes with one of these self-cleaning boxes. At least I don't have to CLEAN the damn shaver anymore. When I shave, I'm clean shaven. Shaving is one of the more boring parts of the day, but for my work, when I have work, I have to be clean-shaven. I would much prefer some magic substance that would take the face hair off once and forever.

Take care.

I think my red beard can be best described as the clean, Canadian lumberjack look. I use a beard trimmer on the odd days to keep it at the verge of frizzing, and a disposable razor every other day under the neck and at the top of my cheeks.

I thought girls called us scruffy/hobos. I often leave it a few days because I'm really tired in mornings, and 'cause I'm lazy. When I do shave I regret leaving it 2-3 days because it's too long and wont shave off without tugging.

I've had some version of facial hair for 25 years. Initially I hated shaving in the morning, always cutting myself or getting razor burn so a beard or stubble was the way to go. It is fun to be able to change your look.

I can't post links here yet, but there's a clip of dave Gorman discussing shaving his beard off, search YouTube for "Dave Gorman Googlewhack Tattoo"

I have really sensitive skin, but don't like how I look scruffy or bearded, and thus got tired of how badly the electric razor and those extremely expensive Fusion and Mach III razors affect my face when I shave. $45 for 18 cartridges?!?!? WTH?

So, instead, I researched shaving on Amazon, and decided upon a Parker safety razor that uses those double-sided razor blades. Lathering takes a little while, but I get much smoother shaves and it's a soothing little ritual in the morning.

I use an electric shaver, 'n TBH, I can't imagine ever shaving with shaving cream and a razor, ---- that for a game of darts.

I tend to go for the roughly shaven thingy, I'm not fond of being all super smooth; I'm a man! Men shouldn't be smooth! lol Men should be rugged and AARGH! Yuh know? Haha Nah, but seriously, I like the roughly shaven thang; it suits me, I think.

I think this is funny.... I shave every single day with shave cream and a razor. I am in the Army so I have to, especially since I am deployed, no real such thing as a day off so clean shaven every day. When I am back home I might skip a weekend sometimes but usually shave. If I get a long weekend or on leave I will usually stay clean, full beard, or chin strap, but all of the touching up and trimming is with a good 'ol razor and shave cream. Once your face gets used to doing it everyday there is no razor bumps or cutting yourself and it doesn't hurt or pull at all. I used to hate it, but now barely even notice, takes me less than about 2 minutes to shave.... and I don't miss anything every day....

I keep trying to tell my wife that... but she is not buying it

Not shaving at the moment, I have had issues with esteem and identity since steering away from drug use.
Its funny as I havent shaved in a month and notice myself from time to time and think wow look at all that hair I could shape a new look with a razor no worries ha.
yeah dont like the whole razor thing multi billion dollar industry that surrounds it.
I was saying to my missus it seems as though its a pre requisite for a bloke to have a thick head of hair and be clean shaven like it is for a woman to be underwieght and that, just media brainwashing.
Dont get me wrong men people who shave can look really cool.

I sometimes wish I could just nair my face and have it gone for good, then other times, I wish I could have it LOL

I do fine with the stubble, but after it gets a little hairier and starts bugging me, its gotta go...

I can't grow a proper beard or moustaches cause I still have more like facial hairs... so I shave everything manual (except for the sideburns, which I only trim) with a disposable razor.

any hair on my face feels like needles. i hate...HATE facial hair! even hate seeing black little dots in the mirror. i try to pluck as many as i can, it feels smooth but if i see a black speck, it is not close enough and i cant get the damn hairs off! Even went to a plastic surgeon for hair removal, but did not like what he said. I think i have a problem..

I have a full beard but shave the neck. More often than not, I use an electric razor but sometimes I use this old single-blade manual razor from the 1950s.

Electric only. Razors are irritating (not to mention absurdly overpriced), and I don't seem to be able to get a much closer shave even when I use one, so I figure why bother?

My life in razors
It started with my dad's electric Philishave when I was about 15...
I had that little baby-mustache business going on under my nose. You know, the one that looks like old ladies get. Well the razor zapped that in no time. Then the sparse chest hair - I had read that if you shave hair off, it grows back thicker. I figured after a few times, I would have chest hair like Sean Connery playing Bond.
Bad move - it took YEARS to grow back. And no thicker.
When I was 16, I bought a safety razor. The most inappropriately named device ever invented. I also purchased a tube of shaving cream, a brush and a styptic pencil for cleansing and closing cuts. I had no clue how to use any of this stuff, save what I had seen on TV.
Anyway I lathered up and slid the razor tentatively across my face. Just like in the movies. Slasher movies. There was blood everywhere! Hah - no problem to me, I just deploy my brand new styptic pen...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!
It was like dressing an open wound with chilli powder.
Well, I persevered, moving through various twin-blade models before graduating to the newly marketed Gillette Contour - the first swivel-head razor. It had a chunky aluminium handle and was supposedly designed with all sorts of high-tech sensors to ensure that the blade contacted the skin more effectively than with a standard razor. I was sold. It did actually shave very smoothly, and I got a girlfriend about the same time, proving beyond all doubt that such a device will improve one's sexual magnetism. If only I had it now...
In the eighties I bought my first electric. Remember Victor Kiam? The guy who liked his Remington so much he bought the company? (The razor, not the gun.) Well, I was so impressed by his money back guarantee that I bought one. It was better than dad's Philishave but still not as good as my blade razor. Anyway, he seemed such a nice guy, I didn't have the heart to demand my money back. I have it to this day, gathering dust in the bathroom cabinet.
Down the years, I have watched as the blades multiplied and all sorts of fancy lube strips promised to smooth out those facial curves.
My latest purchase is the new Gillette with ridiculously priced blades. I never believed it would be any better than the twin-blade I was using, but its a buzz to buy a sexy new razor and a pretty cheap form of self-indulgence, so my Catholic guilt doesn't torment me too much about it.
The thing which really puzzles me is the vibrating feature though. Makes no difference at all to the shaving efficiency. But I did wonder, in these days of metrosexuality, if it was really a cunning way to conceal a sex toy inside an innocuous-looking toiletry. Looking at the bulbous shape of the handle, I had to wonder if some focus group had got all confessional and admitted to wanting a discreet vibrator which could be carried in their everyday kit without blushing. Is there some hidden marketing agenda here?
Maybe I'm just pervier than most, but I'm pretty sure there must have been a few admissions to A&E already, involving tragic shaving accidents in the shower...
The last word goes to dad's Philishave, though. He passed away a couple of years ago and I inherited it. Nice to remember him when I use it Still a lousy shave though.

No offense intended, don't take this the wrong way; I'll never be able to look at electric razors the same way again...

There isn't much that people can do about their appearances. But being able to cleanly shave without problems can really help your self-esteem. Just wanted to add my two cents in case it's somehow helpful. I know that some people have problems with irritation and whatnot. The minute cold steel touched my face razor burns appeared everywhere. Now I use the wetshaving technique. (Yes, there are actually shaving techniques.) And I haven't had a problem since. There's a hardcore following on youtube with walkthroughs and instructions.
http://www.youtube.com/user/geofatboy

I use safetyrazor and shaving oil, shave every day, no facial hair. Pubic hair i've tried going smooth, but it's too big a hassel to keep those little prickly new hairs shaved off so let it grow back

I tried it 2 yrs ago, horrible pain. every step felt like needles! Anything that touched the area caused pain. NEVER again!