Wet Shaving & Safety Razor RISK-Too close?

[sebdj]

Hi!
I am new this this forum and I am a new switcher from Gillette
to Merkur double edge razor.

But I have a recent fear that double edge razor might be dangerous to get a gray skin. I look at Mantic and I am sure he have a pretty close shave
but his skin still look gray... Like he did not shave.
Is it because after time the shave is too close? The hair because tighter?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qSIP6uQ3EI&feature=related
(look at the end of the video)

VS

Gillette advertisement :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWZdEbnWN8M

Is it possible that double edge shaving is too close and can make your skin looking gray even after close shaving?

 

[Silverstar]

Your sample is too (!) small to draw conlusions, you look at only 2 guys. Furthermore, you can't compare an amateur video with a professional video by Gillette.

 

[sebdj]

You are right
That is why I ask opinion from long time users. Did you notice the hair on your face was getting bigger? harder to remove? Harder to get a close shave?

 

[Not The Original Kermit]

nope no difference,
a common myth is that shaving affects the growth and thickness of hair.

 

[sanuginz]

Mantic does have greyish skin, but under his eyes are worse. It appears to be lighting or lack of sleep on his part. If a pro studio crew put makeup on him under lights with photoshop and pro video editing, he would look like everyone else on tv / commercials.

 

[Emmett]

Not something to worry about. Shave away.

 

[mantic]

Mantic does have greyish skin, but under his eyes are worse. It appears to be lighting or lack of sleep on his part. If a pro studio crew put makeup on him under lights with photoshop and pro video editing, he would look like everyone else on tv / commercials.

Lighting, lack of sleep, and I'm 50 freakin' years old!

SWMBO gave me some makeup products made specifically for video shoots for Xmas. I'm using some of them on a couple videos I'm working on right now: they do seem to even out the complexion.

--Mark

 

[DFrancis]

Mantic does have greyish skin, but under his eyes are worse. It appears to be lighting or lack of sleep on his part. If a pro studio crew put makeup on him under lights with photoshop and pro video editing, he would look like everyone else on tv / commercials.

wait wait wait, are you telling me Gillette is using makeup to make it look like somebody is getting a closer shave then they actually are? That sounds so much like, like, marketing ...

 

[tominabox1]

Mark - be careful, everytime I've worn makeup (high school drama) I looked like a chick... BE CAREFUL!

 

[Go West Young Man]

I only noticed after I started the whole wetshaving/DE thing that my skin was a darker shade even immediately after shaving, I'm not sure how I went my whole life without seeing that. It's just due to the presence of hairs at/slightly below the skin.

Of course, I also shaved every day for almost 2 decades before I realized that my hairs grew in odd directions. That seems like the kind of thing you would notice, but until you start paying close attention to your face you skip over details like that.

 

[sebdj]

I only noticed after I started the whole wetshaving/DE thing that my skin was a darker shade even immediately after shaving, I'm not sure how I went my whole life without seeing that. It's just due to the presence of hairs at/slightly below the skin.

Of course, I also shaved every day for almost 2 decades before I realized that my hairs grew in odd directions. That seems like the kind of thing you would notice, but until you start paying close attention to your face you skip over details like that.

So you did see a difference? after switching to DE ?
I'm sure it is a slow process to have a greyish skin... So it doe's not appear after one or two shave but after one year of shaving...

can this be the bad side effect of Double Edge razor?

 

[funkyb]

Mantic does have greyish skin, but under his eyes are worse. It appears to be lighting or lack of sleep on his part. If a pro studio crew put makeup on him under lights with photoshop and pro video editing, he would look like everyone else on tv / commercials.

With the right combination of makup, lighting, and photoshop, I bet the pro's could make mantic look like Milla Jovovich.

 

[mantic]

With the right combination of makup, lighting, and photoshop, I bet the pro's could make mantic look like Milla Jovovich.

 

[K.T.]

Some people also just have grayish or darkish areas on their skin. It's a genetic thing.

I had several close friends who had dark circles under their eyes no matter how much sleep they got. Turns out it was a family trait. Looking at photos of their relatives confirmed it. I'm not sure in what populations this tends to happen in, but my friends were of Russian or Eastern European descent.

Well, I'm too new to DE razors to say if my skin is more or less gray before or after I started using a DE.

But because I have dark hair, the areas where I have hair will always be darker than the areas of clear skin no matter how close or far my shave is. Those areas tend to look darker because of that.

K.T.

 

[troy1979]

that takes care of it...i am going to throw my razor out and use nair.

 

[bigstick]

Lighting, lack of sleep, and I'm 50 freakin' years old!

SWMBO gave me some makeup products made specifically for video shoots for Xmas. I'm using some of them on a couple videos I'm working on right now: they do seem to even out the complexion.

--Mark

Chill, bro! Some of us are older and less beautiful, even than you!

No explanations. No excuses.

 

[mdunn]

DE shaving cuts hair at skin level (rather than below it like an m3), so the dark stumps of hair, and surroundings can cause the 'grey face'.

Look very closely at a picture in a newspaper, the dots seen up close look like solid colour further back - same thing here.

 

[bigstick]

It takes an army of hair and makeup artists to make MJ look like that in the first place.

 

[DunEdinRanger]

Mark - be careful, everytime I've worn makeup (high school drama) I looked like a chick... BE CAREFUL!

There are some things one should never, ever try to picture...

 

[sanuginz]

Lighting, lack of sleep, and I'm 50 freakin' years old!
--Mark

Isn't that the "new" middle aged? And many more shave videos to follow.

wait wait wait, are you telling me Gillette is using makeup to make it look like somebody is getting a closer shave then they actually are? That sounds so much like, like, marketing ...

Nah, Gillette is a respectable company like Toyota.