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The dollar shave club is pretty awesome. FYI, the title of the thread is just meant as a joke. But in all seriousness, it is a really cool company. The price for the whole package is awesome and the shaving butter I got smells like the beach. It feels good to not be using the pink disposable razors my mom usually gets. Not that I had any sort of dysphoria over them but now that I do have my own good razor, it definitely makes me feel more confident in my own masculinity. You guys should check out the video on the site. It's both awesome and hilarious.
And if you don't have that much hair to shave, you can always make it so they send you razor's every other month. And they of course can be used for other parts of your body.
If you do decide that you are going to sign up for it, could you please use the link that I posted? I think it helps me out somehow. If not that's cool too. But regardless, check them out. They really do have great deals. And if not, just watch the vid for the entertainment aspect of it.
I don't like those kinds of shavers, I use a wahl and I was thinking of making my own beard care kit since it's growing in now, but this is kind of cool. I love very light scents since I live with someone who can't handle strong smells, but maybe I can send this to someone for their b-day.
I've been using Dollar Shave Club for well over a year now and loved em. Actually switched to the 2 month razor deal though since I don't shave my legs and stuff anymore lmao
This seems pretty sweet, thanks for the info androidnick. How well does the Shave Butter work? Has anyone tried it?
I have some and love it. Makes my face feel awesome after shaving.
Awesome. I was reading up on it and it sounds like it'd be great. I'll have to get some of that once I'm shaving full time. What else do you use from them? I think I saw after shave on there as well.
psh.
double edged safety razors only for me.
Quote from: GnomeKid on June 30, 2014, 12:15:41 PM
double edged safety razors only for me.
I was going to say the same thing. Once you try them, you can't imagine going back. These multi-blade abominations are a marketing gimmick. "It has more blades in a row so it's obviously better!" Invest a little up-front in a good safety razor (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_6?url=search-alias%3Dhpc&field-keywords=safety+razor&sprefix=safety%2Chpc%2C156&rh=n%3A3760901%2Ck%3Asafety+razor) and then buy some good razor blades for it, pretty cheap in bulk. You can get them on Amazon. Also invest in a decent cream in a tube like Proraso. The stuph noted here doesn't seem bad but I wonder if you can order it separately and leave their razors.
So far, I like the Merkur blades the best of the ones I've tried but I heard Gillette Silver Blues are really good by a couple of people and they're really cheap in bulk. I'm planning to try them next.
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I've been using just a safety razor and replaceable blades for some time now. I just got this full setup, far more than what you really need, for $90--Merkur safety razor, badger hair brush, the stand, and the bowl (you can just use a coffee mug). The brush and bowl is just for fluffing up the cream a bit and spreading it more evenly. Up to now, I've just been using my hand and it was fine, but I don't have coarse hair. I already had the Proraso cream. It's a big up-front investment but it's all stuph that will last many, many years. You really only need the safety razor (about $30) and the blades and I would recommend good cream like Proraso but you can use off-the-shelf stuph. I got 100 Gillette Silver Blue blades for about $20. Those will last me for years as well. Everything else is optional and you could always pick up the extra stuph later.
Oh we have some of those razors around the house. I thought they were some old hippie razors from another century.
Shaving is not that great. I would like it much better if I didn't have any facial and body hair and never had to shave.
Quote from: Alexthecat on July 06, 2014, 10:15:49 AM
Oh we have some of those razors around the house. I thought they were some old hippie razors from another century.
Hehe. I guess they sort of are. FWIW, I've been using standard modern razors with 2 or 3 blades and little moisture strips and all those gimmicky things for my whole life until a couple friends of mine talked me into trying the old school stuph and now I'm sold. Just got a good friend of mine to try it as well. Don't think I'll ever go back no matter what sort of fancy CGI animations of zoomed in views of giant hairs being sheered off by rows and rows of giant blades they put in the TV commercials.
I just tried my new getup for the first time and here's my baby's-butt face. Admittedly, my facial hair is fairly thin and sparse to begin with. The redness is unrelated to shaving. That's just my skin being weird. It doesn't correspond at all to the spots that I shaved. I didn't have any irritation.
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I like the Gillette Silver Blue blades. Thank goodness since I just bought 100 of them at about 22 cents each. Like I said before, the Merkur blade that came with my razor was really good but I couldn't find those for less than about 50 cents a piece! Even though I use the same blade for a number of shaves, I don't want to spend that much and there wasn't any noticeable difference to me to justify it. I've heard that different guys seem to have different preferences for blades depending on their particular skin and hair types. Guys with coarser beards change blades more often than I do.
If shaving lasted for a few days, I wouldn't mind so much, but when I have to do it every single day, I really hate it. I hated it ever since I was old enough to shave! I must go to waxing soon!
My mates told me about that dollar shave club. I tried out some of the shave butter and it's amazing. If I ordered anything from that site, it would be the shave butter. My razor is perfect for me.
One of these days, I might even get brave and use the straight razor in my haircutting kit. Maybe.
I can stand the crappy shave I get with disposables and I could never get the hang of double edged razors.
Straight razors for me, all the way.
I think I am using Gilette Fusion because I didn't want to use disposable razors (they're atrocious) and there are essentially no other brands here in Sweden. Gilette has pretty much monopoly on all shaving products, both for men and women lmao. It's ok though, but it's a little difficult to get the hair just at the corner of my mouth.
And yes, using razors meant for men makes you feel better even though it theoretically shouldn't matter. It's quite dumb actually. I wish I wouldn't care so much sometimes.
Quote from: Ephemeral on July 08, 2014, 02:12:20 PM
And yes, using razors meant for men makes you feel better even though it theoretically shouldn't matter. It's quite dumb actually. I wish I wouldn't care so much sometimes.
"This pink-handled razor can't POSSIBLY sheer through my testosterone-infused extremely manly beard nuggets!"
hahaha.
Quote from: Ephemeral on July 08, 2014, 02:12:20 PM
And yes, using razors meant for men makes you feel better even though it theoretically shouldn't matter. It's quite dumb actually. I wish I wouldn't care so much sometimes.
Quote from: dalebert on July 08, 2014, 03:32:39 PM
"This pink-handled razor can't POSSIBLY sheer through my testosterone-infused extremely manly beard nuggets!"
hahaha.
I don't think that there is any real difference in the disposable razors for men and women. They look the same to me.
Quote from: dalebert on July 08, 2014, 03:32:39 PM
"This pink-handled razor can't POSSIBLY sheer through my testosterone-infused extremely manly beard nuggets!"
hahaha.
Not gonna lie this made me laugh so hard. That being said, I'm the guy that steals my mom's pink raspberry leg shaving cream for my face because I am too cheap to buy my own stuff. :P
This sounds like a really cool concept though. I like the idea of being able to get supplies regularly, I tend to procrastinate and stretch razors out way too long sometimes.
Quote from: mac1 on July 06, 2014, 02:15:53 PM
Shaving is not that great. I would like it much better if I didn't have any facial and body hair and never had to shave.
I'm with you on this. But... Oh well. Comes with the territory.
Quote from: MacG on July 08, 2014, 08:30:05 PM
I'm with you on this. But... Oh well. Comes with the territory.
Nice smooth hairless facial and body skin would be great!
With 30+ years of unwanted experience shaving my face I found one great way to do it: I soap my face and shave it under the shower with the water spraying on my face. The razor is instantly cleaned with every stroke and the shave is baby butt close. A Gillette fusion works great but BIC makes a good 4-blade disposable that cuts close and is far cheaper than the fusion blades.
Jen
Quote from: JLT1 on July 09, 2014, 12:01:51 AM
With 30+ years of unwanted experience shaving my face I found one great way to do it: I soap my face and shave it under the shower with the water spraying on my face. The razor is instantly cleaned with every stroke and the shave is baby butt close. A Gillette fusion works great but BIC makes a good 4-blade disposable that cuts close and is far cheaper than the fusion blades.
Apparently this is a thing--using soap as a shaving lubricant. I cringe at the thought of putting soap on my face unless I'm about to immediately wash it off. My hotel roommate did it and I made him stop and using some gel I had brought along. I've always heard soap was drying on sensitive facial skin but maybe it depends on how resilient your skin is. Still, sticking your face under the shower, doesn't all the soap get rinsed away anyway just as you barely get started shaving?
Quote from: dalebert on July 08, 2014, 03:32:39 PM
"This pink-handled razor can't POSSIBLY sheer through my testosterone-infused extremely manly beard nuggets!"
hahaha.
hahaha
Quote from: mac1 on July 06, 2014, 02:15:53 PM
Shaving is not that great. I would like it much better if I didn't have any facial and body hair and never had to shave.
send me your hair. I have very little body hair and just the start of some *tiny* facial hair. I have about 3 hairs in each armpit. I call myself the hairless wonder.
Quote from: christopher on July 09, 2014, 08:55:10 AM
send me your hair. I have very little body hair and just the start of some *tiny* facial hair. I have about 3 hairs in each armpit. I call myself the hairless wonder.
I would love to be that hairless, except for the face, but even that is not a big deal if I could be hairless all over.
Gel is atrocious. I can't stand putting that goop on my face. Regular pump soap is a terrible thing to shave with, but proper shaving soap is far better than that crap gel. I prefer tallow, but glycerin shaving soaps are fine too.
Quote from: Wolf Man on July 09, 2014, 09:11:18 AM
Gel is atrocious. I can't stand putting that goop on my face. Regular pump soap is a terrible thing to shave with, but proper shaving soap is far better than that crap gel. I prefer tallow, but glycerin shaving soaps are fine too.
I should clarify. He was smearing hotel soap on his face. It wasn't shaving soap. I've never used that. Now I use Proraso which comes in a tube but I just brought a bottle of gel with me for a brief trip.
Using soap seems like a very bad idea even if you got a ridiculously good skin since it is likely to irritate the skin by drying it out etc.
I still have some shaving gel leftover from the days when I used to bother to shave my legs and armpits because I never liked body hair, so I'm using it for my face too because why not. Shaving gel is shaving gel and might as well use it instead of letting it go to waste. It works fine really, especially as I got a very sensitive skin. Doesn't help with the current pimple outbreak either.
Shaving gel never agreed with my skin, used to cut me all up. Shaving cream was the best, the original stuff. Regular liquid soap only if I run out of the shaving cream. I seem to do ok with a dull razor, too, for some reason, even though a sharp one gets the hair better. I have shaved my legs recently with a razor that I had used for a few times with no problem.