I've always been clean shaven, as I can't grow a beard to save my life. I'm Asian, so I look twelve all the time even though I'm 36.
I was never really taught to shave, I just started by doing what felt natural and what got the job done. I mean it's not rocket science, right?
So my father always shaved with the cheap-*** disposable razors. You know, the yellow and white BIC ones. So that's what I started with as a teenager. I found that I got a closer shave going against the grain, so through my teens and twenties I just did a single pass against the grain.
Then I bought into the hype of the multi-bladed monstrosities as an early twenty-something. I kept that forever as I started wising up to the marketing wank.
Eventually that broke and I went back to disposables. Though old habits die hard, so they're triple bladed disposables from Costco.
When my wife sees me shave, she cringes. She calls me reckless with the razor blade. I mean really, it's impossible to really injure yourself with one of these things. Sure I'll get a nick here or there... But it's a papercut. No biggie. Shaving is not something I really enjoy doing, it's a necessity. I want to finish the job as efficiently as possible; Safety Third.
I was never really taught to shave, I just started by doing what felt natural and what got the job done. I mean it's not rocket science, right?
So my father always shaved with the cheap-*** disposable razors. You know, the yellow and white BIC ones. So that's what I started with as a teenager. I found that I got a closer shave going against the grain, so through my teens and twenties I just did a single pass against the grain.
Then I bought into the hype of the multi-bladed monstrosities as an early twenty-something. I kept that forever as I started wising up to the marketing wank.
Eventually that broke and I went back to disposables. Though old habits die hard, so they're triple bladed disposables from Costco.
When my wife sees me shave, she cringes. She calls me reckless with the razor blade. I mean really, it's impossible to really injure yourself with one of these things. Sure I'll get a nick here or there... But it's a papercut. No biggie. Shaving is not something I really enjoy doing, it's a necessity. I want to finish the job as efficiently as possible; Safety Third.