Any of you bros fans?

Picked up the Sandalwood kit in Vegas, and must say, it's given me an entirely new outlook on shaving. Instead of dreading the shave, I'm now actually looking forward to it. And I'm not even a hairy dude (sissy). Noticeable difference on my already beautiful face. The essential oils work wonders.



Gonna snag this next...



I just posted about shaving. Yikes.

i want this stuff, but i'd prefer a kit with a straight razor, stropping band, etc

how much did you throw down for this

I got into straight razoring for a little bit. It takes a lot of time while yr first starting, and obviously can be painful. It kinda stinks that its now only really associated with hipsters, dandys, and the eccentric. I love the history of it. Got my grandpappy's shaving mug. Too bad I never shave now. I've got a hairy beast face.

in store it was $110 for the entire kit. well worth the loot.

pretty much the only reason i'd want it

I've never been able to consistently make myself use the pre- and post- shave bs. I enjoy a nice shave, and can grow a beard in a week, but I'm straight with the Mach 3 and zirh or Jack black.

agree. wrap it up in 3 minutes. no need for all this fancy stuff. also dont have time to wrap my face in seaweed and panda bear cum or whatever this is while the kids are both screaming at me at 6:30am.

Funny I would've pegged you more for a dandy.

^oh shit, I want that outfit.

I only shave about twice a year. And when I do I just do a quick zip-zip job with an electric thingy.

nah im just a fag

Agreed for the most part. I do swear by the pre shave oil, not because I get a better shave necessarily but because it makes your blades last a whole hell of a lot longer (and those Fusion blades are ridiculously expensive)

This is my preference:



They make some good shee.

Yail, is that oil similar to The Art of Shaving oils? I guess I could answer my own question.

As far as the time...I usually shave after a nice hot shower at night, so adding another 2 minutes or so to my shave isn't really a big deal. And damnit, I'm worth it.

haven't shaved in a loooong time.

I'm in the GAR/Bloor camp on this. Once over with a facial wash/scrub in the shower, all the necessary swipes, and some balm/protectant afterward. How often y'all suckas do the deed? I'm on an every other day sked, but will stretch out a third day if I got nothing important to be at and time is scarce.

i only have have shave every 4 days or so (sissy).

If I wasn't pro-beard, I'd be shaving every day if not twice. It grows back fast and starts itching after about 5 hours. Can't stand that.

5-7 times/week, depending on social engagements and energy level. Cranium always included.

Every other day as well unless I've got some place important to be.

I hate shaving, and yet I hate having a beard. I also have a pretty thick beard.
I'm pretty much fucked that way.
I use that barbershop stuff for aftershave; you know, the kind that stings like a motherfucker?

Now, that's man-style!


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I started shaving probably a few years before I actually needed to. Couldn't grow a full beard if James Garfield rose from the dead and held a knife to my throat. Even so, I shave every day, because I could take 6 showers a day and still feel dirty without doing so. I'll never understand why people make near-religious rituals out of mundane life tasks. Progression of equipment goes something like this:

1) Gillette safety razor with whatever blades and shave cream the old man used. If you weren't slow and careful, blood transfusions were regular follow-on activities.
2) Adjustable Gillette safety razor- touted as a major technical advance because you could select one of 3 blade heights, same idea on shave cream. Same technique as above.
3) Schick (maybe Personna) injector. I seem to recall this being an actual improvement over the safety razor, but that might just be nostalgia. Use these a fairly long time, as I recall. Barbasol Lime shave cream, because it was cheap and the first wife liked the smell of it.
4) First generation of modular razors, maybe Gillette Atra, but damned if I can remember.
5) Somewhere along the line in here, disposable razors came along. Used them for a while, off and on, mixed in with whatever flavor of the week modular razors Gillette rolled out.
6) Of special note during the period of 5) above, Bic came out with the Bic Metal Shaver disposable. Bic used Nolan Ryan as the pitch man for these instruments of terror on teevee, and I still hate him today for that reason. Horrible and dangerous.
7) Remington electric. Used one of these for a few years because my mom gave me one for Xmas. They were "guaranteed to shave as close as a blade or your money back." That should have been enough to put Victor Kiam in the soup kitchen within 6 months of buying the company. Or at least in jail being ass-raped daily.
8) Been using a Mach 3 for quite a while, not because I like it, but because the blades are convenient to buy in Walgreens. And expensive as saffron to buy, which is a frequent activity since they don't last for shit. On a new blade, the first 3 days or so are terrible, then they shave pretty well for 3 or 4 days, then they go to hell, and I put up with them until shaving becomes an exercise similar to the scene in A Man Called Horse where Richard Harris gets hung on hooks through his chest.

I fucking hate to shave.

I've been doing the safety razor/brush style for about a year now. My only complaint is that it takes twice as long to get a close shave but I will say I enjoy shaving slightly better now because it makes me feel like a real man.

Here's my set:

See this makes sense. I shaved last night - if I don't this morning, around 6pm, if you gave me a cigarette and a terrible euro-leather jacket, I could win a Vlade Divac look a like contest.

i used that round shaving soap you can get at the supermarket and a brush for awhile til the brush broke

i liked it because the smell made me feel like i'd fought in the korean war or something

I have to shave everyday for my job because I'm so manly and I hate it. I skip for "casual Friday" on occasion and usually only shave once on the weekends so it turns out to 5-6 times per week.

The main reason I switched to a safety razor was cost. Mach3 blades run about $2-2.50 each and I just bought 100 double-edged razors for $22.

i use the anthony products, too. some guy at nordstrom couldn't stop hyping it, so i gave it a shot and immediately noticed a difference in how well that pre-shave oil worked with, as opposed to only, shaving cream.

but right now i'm letting the winter beard grow, so i only shave to clean the edges maybe once a week now. normally it's every other day without fail.