When did you realize that wet shaving became a hobby? What triggered it? With me I use to wet shave only some of the time. Then one day while I was on Amazon.com looking around their site, at the bottom of the page one of the items they suggested was an Edwin Jagger shave mug. So I decided I would buy a new mug to stimulate my interest in wet shaving. Well 2 more mugs, 5 brushes, and 9 razors later. I guess I accomplished my goal to stimulate my interest. That started in Nov. 2011. I'm far from done buying.
When did wet shaving become a hobby?
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After my first few strokes with a DE. It was almost magical how the blade removed the hair so easily.
ha, yeah this is a correct assessment.
hey reboot, you need more razors and blades imo.
The moment I signed up for an account at B&B to discuss shaving with total strangers online... that's when it became a hobby.
For me...
I remembered long time ago when I was in my late teens early twenties when a guy showed me an old DE that I was living with, was a silver open comb don't ask about brand I was totally aloof of such little things but I recall it being open comb. I don't think I used it but it stayed in my mind from there on and got my own from an antique store or some thing and used it a while before losing it some how prolly a move as that seems to be my MO back then. Years passed and I had gone back to the old Mach 3, and then that degenerated to the Fusion vibrator doomahickey. I went through Edge, Barbasol and the like in cans and even had a lather heater thing you could toss a can into and get nice hot lather. Shaving was a chore I hated and I think it was mainly due to burn light or heavy depending on my level of disdain of it that day when blade met face, I had no one to teach me proper shaving and this was before my intro to the net and I think it wasn't too common then any how.
Well a few years ago I think three now I was surfing the net and it came to mind that old memory of that DE razor, and so as per my nature I sought out every thing DE that I could and stumbled upon a treasure trove of info and to my amazement gear. I remember being gobstopped at ALL this stuff, and I was under the impression that DE razors and shaving were extinct and you were left to hunting down relics of a bygone age to shave with. Oh no...I found a market that is lucrative and adorned with a plethora of razors, blades and creams and all of this cool stuff. I found and made my first purchase between a team of web sites, namely Classic Shaving and Shave Nation.com. I got a standard set of gear, Merkur 34c HD, sample pack of blades, proraso cream, pre shave and balm, along with a tub of TOBS Sandalwood and a tweezerman badger brush...which is still in heavy service near 3 years now.
It became a hobby for me when I found it works and it was interesting enough for me to keep going, it was saving me money in the long run and I kept getting better and better and so I was addicted and tossed out my carts and razor and cans of goop and never looked back. I have depression and a touch of PTSD and so aside few other things DE shaving has given me some thing I can feel good about and I don't mind shaving at all now and it is even a little fun but mostly relaxing and a point of pride as well, then I found B&B and learned SO much here and my skill and bag of tricks and products and all that has exploded and I could not be happier and so it continues today and I am a happy shaver and getting by far and wide supreme shaves with little to no irritation and I continue to refine and see how close I can get with out burn and let me tell you...these day's I can pull off a BSS almost at will and it is so close some times I do not have to shave for day's on end...a few times it has taken stubble 2 day's to fully emerge lmao!
So...shave like a samurai!
I remembered long time ago when I was in my late teens early twenties when a guy showed me an old DE that I was living with, was a silver open comb don't ask about brand I was totally aloof of such little things but I recall it being open comb. I don't think I used it but it stayed in my mind from there on and got my own from an antique store or some thing and used it a while before losing it some how prolly a move as that seems to be my MO back then. Years passed and I had gone back to the old Mach 3, and then that degenerated to the Fusion vibrator doomahickey. I went through Edge, Barbasol and the like in cans and even had a lather heater thing you could toss a can into and get nice hot lather. Shaving was a chore I hated and I think it was mainly due to burn light or heavy depending on my level of disdain of it that day when blade met face, I had no one to teach me proper shaving and this was before my intro to the net and I think it wasn't too common then any how.
Well a few years ago I think three now I was surfing the net and it came to mind that old memory of that DE razor, and so as per my nature I sought out every thing DE that I could and stumbled upon a treasure trove of info and to my amazement gear. I remember being gobstopped at ALL this stuff, and I was under the impression that DE razors and shaving were extinct and you were left to hunting down relics of a bygone age to shave with. Oh no...I found a market that is lucrative and adorned with a plethora of razors, blades and creams and all of this cool stuff. I found and made my first purchase between a team of web sites, namely Classic Shaving and Shave Nation.com. I got a standard set of gear, Merkur 34c HD, sample pack of blades, proraso cream, pre shave and balm, along with a tub of TOBS Sandalwood and a tweezerman badger brush...which is still in heavy service near 3 years now.
It became a hobby for me when I found it works and it was interesting enough for me to keep going, it was saving me money in the long run and I kept getting better and better and so I was addicted and tossed out my carts and razor and cans of goop and never looked back. I have depression and a touch of PTSD and so aside few other things DE shaving has given me some thing I can feel good about and I don't mind shaving at all now and it is even a little fun but mostly relaxing and a point of pride as well, then I found B&B and learned SO much here and my skill and bag of tricks and products and all that has exploded and I could not be happier and so it continues today and I am a happy shaver and getting by far and wide supreme shaves with little to no irritation and I continue to refine and see how close I can get with out burn and let me tell you...these day's I can pull off a BSS almost at will and it is so close some times I do not have to shave for day's on end...a few times it has taken stubble 2 day's to fully emerge lmao!
So...shave like a samurai!
since i got my first shave with DE, and then when i am buying new stuff i am so excited to get the items.
Wet Shaving became a hobby when I realized that instead of just scrapping whiskers off my face I needed to learn the correct technique with a DE.
I am not a collector but I take great pleasure in learning a new skill and continuing to improve it. Wet shaving gives me that.
I keep my kit simple, 1 razor , 1 brush, 2 or 3 soaps. I will admit that I like to try different Aftershaves.
I am tired of products that take no skill and promise instant gratification.
I am not a collector but I take great pleasure in learning a new skill and continuing to improve it. Wet shaving gives me that.
I keep my kit simple, 1 razor , 1 brush, 2 or 3 soaps. I will admit that I like to try different Aftershaves.
I am tired of products that take no skill and promise instant gratification.
An even better question is when did wet shaving become a hobby, period. Not just our individual stories, but in general. Are we all bunch of weirdos/dandies or is this something that some men have always fallen into, but it just didn't get around due to there being no Internet back in the day? I know without B&B I never would have started down this path. I'd still be paying way too much for cartridges and only shaving every 2-3 days to make them last as long as possible. Or I'd just have the beard you see in my avatar.
I somehow doubt there were too many people that considered wet shaving a hobby back in the day. It was something you just did. Then when everything went high-tech most guys jumped on that wagon and off they went. I suspect at that point you started to see people who didn't switch, and they became known a hobbyists. They had choice, and could use it. This soap one day, a different soap another day.
If one of the high tech gang switched, it was in quest of a better shave, looking for that magical razor or foam that actually worked, not just for variety. The wider the gap gets between real shaving and TV-commercial shaving, the more this will seem like a hobby, and the more enjoyable it will become when a guy discovers it.
If one of the high tech gang switched, it was in quest of a better shave, looking for that magical razor or foam that actually worked, not just for variety. The wider the gap gets between real shaving and TV-commercial shaving, the more this will seem like a hobby, and the more enjoyable it will become when a guy discovers it.
It became a hobby when I started watching videos of other men shave on YouTube. I hope that's why I watch those videos.
I blame it all on Badger and Blade.
To me, shaving is not a hobby. It's something you do to remove whiskers from your face, or wherever. Collecting shave gear is a hobby. To some it is an obsession
When I joined B&B until then it was "going to save me money".
Exactly!
Well said!
April 14th
About the time I discovered I could buy a bunch of crap I didn't need. Actually I'd been wet shaving, more or less, for a while before getting into the hobby aspect of it. I think it was probably some of Mantic59's videos that were the hobby catalyst.
But seriously, it wasn't all about buying crap, it was taking shaving more seriously and doing it right. So thanks, Mantic.
But seriously, it wasn't all about buying crap, it was taking shaving more seriously and doing it right. So thanks, Mantic.
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