First shave

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Hello all. What was used for your first shave? Also, while your here, who taught you to shave? At what age did you first shave?
 
First shave was I believe a gillette something or other. I take that back...it was another brand, but I don't remember the name. Pretty el-cheapo. Maybe 10 for the handle and a couple bucks each for the cartridges.

Taught myself how to shave. Didn't work out too well the first time; I learned quickly not to use sideways motions. Didn't do it on purpose, but still I had to learn it. I learned lathering from Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris. Butter anyone?

Started shaving at 14 I believe.
 
My first was with a Gillette Adjustable Razor. My father gave it to me and I still have it half a century later. It's retired. I'm not. But we are both still serviceable. It used those thin double edged blue blades. Dad also had a hand operated sharpening machine for them.

We used Noxema shaving cream that came in a blue glass jar and smelled like real guy's stuff!!

Anyway, I was about 11 and probably didn't need to shave again for a year! I do recall that that particular razor required a good deal of concentration; sure, not as much as a straight razor, but you did have to keep your mind on the job at hand.

It wasen't long before I learned about another shaving item: the septic pencil!
 
At 15 (1994) I was given my father's old norelco rotary electric. No instruction or advise given. I had but mustache growth at that point. Received a remington triple foil for christmas in '97. In '98 went to mach 3 again with no instruction. Until just a month or so ago I was back and forth between the remington and the Gillette, I now use an old safety razor, soap and brush (When I shave anyway, I am currently sporting a beard). The safety razor provides the best and most comfortable shave I have ever experienced, when I tire of the beard (read this summer) I plan on going with a straight razor.
 
We're talking about shaving faces, right?:D In that case, I probably shaved for the 1st time when I was around 14. I really didn't need to shave everyday until I was 18. I used the cheapo gillette disposables with Foamy(?) or barbasol cream, until I used a Braun shaver when I was 18. I use the 4-bladed Gillette now. That's a fine product.
 
Weird coincidence. I just shaved for the first time in my life today. (water and disposable bic)
 
I'm just a little older than most of you...I was a kid in the 50's. My dad taught me to shave with his dad's old Gillette. I've been using the double-edged blades since then. Today's shaving blades with those multiple edges dull a lot faster (by design??) than what I use...I buy a pack of 12 blades for $2 which last for months.

Sometimes older is better!
 
jkarp_53 said:
I'm just a little older than most of you...I was a kid in the 50's. My dad taught me to shave with his dad's old Gillette. I've been using the double-edged blades since then. Today's shaving blades with those multiple edges dull a lot faster (by design??) than what I use...I buy a pack of 12 blades for $2 which last for months.

Sometimes older is better!
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Yeah, I started using the old double-edges a year or so ago. Just bought a sleeve of a hundred Derby's for $16.00 so my blades cost 16 cents apiece. Let's see, Fusion cartidges are 8 for around $24, so $3.00 apiece. :eek:

And I get a much better shave. :D
 
Cheap electric crap, or cheap safety razor (what I still use) was my first shave, around age 14. Can still get away with shaving every other day (I'm not yet 20).
 
started shaving with gillette handles and blades in the 80's. I would get the handles and blades for free at the local corner store cause no one shaved with that stuff... they all used trac II.
by my first boot camp at 18 I converted to trac II and threw away my septic pen.

used that same trac II handle until last year when my backpag zipper unzipped at 140 km per hour on the highway... soooo I recently converted to one of them Mach III.. sure the shave is closer than a trac II... but the blades only last one shave or two at the best.

i learned by myself, my dad was part of that generation that was just too damn glad to get away from gillettes or straight blades and use electric... he has been a PHILLISHAVE electric man since 1967.

oh, I don't use foaming stuff, I use a face brush and buy mug soap. When I go in the bush with my army unit, I can pack a small brush and a razor INSIDE the plastic lid of the mug soap container. i got the smallest shaving kit in the unit!
 
I started to shave at 13. I didn't really need to, but hey, I was game. I had a lot of blonde peach fuzz on my face that I (and only myself) noticed and I wanted to do something new. I asked my dad to give me one of his throwaways, and he was amused slightly but didn't care much. He asked me if I wanted him to show me how to shave "correctly," but I told him I would figure it out. After all, it is not rocket science. Each person's face is slightly different, so what would be good for him could be different for me.
I shaved the fuzz from my face, and I had a baby-butt smooth face for almost two months LOL. Anyways, I kept at it and soon (well, maybe about a year) started to grow a goatee and pathetic sideburns. Now that I am older, for some reason, and somehow I developed a skin problem. If I let my beard grow (which I would prefer), I get really bad beard dandruff. I know... sounds nasty and it looks nasty too, especially to the ladies so I just clean shave.
I am seriously considering buying a straight razor and learning how to use that since it can last me a life time if I only take care of it and take the time to learn how to use it.
 
when i was 12 using a disposable Gillette razor.

I am too lazy to use cream, I just dip it in water.
 
I probably shouldn't admit this but..

When I was 11 or 12 my mother would not let me shave. She thought I was too young. So, I had the unforgettable opprtunity to have her wax my upper lip. I think now it was probably for torture or retribution for something I had done. It was one of the most painful experiences I ever had. Seemed like she would pull the wax off slowly instead of with a quick snap. Felt like my lip came off with it.

When I did finally start shaving shortly thereafter (at 33), I used the white and orange single blades, Bic I think. And barbassol foam.

-Coop
 
My first shave was with a DE adjustable that had belonged to my great grandfather. Later I fell into the M3 trap, but now I'm a born-again straight shaver. :D
 
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