Smooth operator
When I’m at home, I still shave with a straight razor a lot of the time. On the road, though, it’s a difficult thing to drag all that stuff around. So I use disposables. I have a preference, and that is for the Bic Metal razor. Once common, it’s now damned difficult to find. Only Walgreens carries them, and not all walgreens.
Fortunately, I found some here in town, and stocked up (ten packages) while here. As I only shave cheeks and neck, a razor lasts me quite a while. Hate it when a produt i like is hard to find.
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Cheeks, neck, and my entire ginormous head. Burn through blades quickly, and it’s easy to tell when I need a new one – look for the 17 or so bleeding holes in the top of my skull…
For me, the Gillette Sensor 3 has worked best. Unfortunately, BJ’s doesn’t stock the mongo-pack of the Sensor 3, just the 2…
Was curious about why you had to mention specifically cheeks and neck. Jay’s comment enlightened me about heads.
As a woman…. well…. as a woman, my thoughts turned *cough* elsewhere.
I stopped shaving long ago. The only blades that worked were $20 a pack and I burned through em so fast it became a major expense. My beard is about the consistency of barbed wire so I just groom it with a hedge trimmer.
I had a deodorant that I loved. Then they stopped making it. I was pissed. I called the company that produced it, and they asked me if the letters “F O” meant anything to me.
Your post reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine stocks up on her favorite “Sponge Contraceptive” because the company had stopped making it. She went to all the stores that carried it and bought every last box of those sponges. Then the premise for the rest of the show was asking Jerry if he thought her boyfriend was spongeworthy. Cracked me up.
Fiona, what were you thinking, that he shaves his pits?
More likely, he has a mustache and/or partial beard, like a goatee.
Also, at least in my case, the hair density on the chin is higher than that on the cheek, so if you have a chin beard you don’t shave, you’d get more life out of the razor.
Goatee, Fiona.
I’m all about electric. Not those shiny, fancy contraptions in the commercials. I use an old-fashioned electric shaver, the Styliner II. It’s the same kind the barber uses when you have the type of hair or style that calls for your hairline to be edged w/precision. The blade is sharp enough that I can shave my face clean w/it, but not so sharp that it bites and irritates the skin.
James, I’ve been around enough brothers I know how challenging it is for them to shave. Lots of different challenges.
Damn straight. Hard to keep facial hair straight. It curls, and then when that happens you get ingrown hairs if you shave too close. Pain in the ass, or actually in the face.
When I was a kid my dad used to use that stinky Magic Shave cream that burned the hair off. Ironically, it was the only thing he could use that wouldn’t tear up his skin.
I have Homer Simpson facial hair. When I shave, it stays smooth for about ten seconds than then stubble pops out.
I’m pretty seriously thinking about shaving the noggin and leaving just a goatee though….