Beards and shaving

[OwlHoot]

I used to dry shave with a bic but find my skin gets scabby.

All I use now is tea tree oil soap. Hair, body, shave.

Funnily enough I find the blue double-bladed bics do a good job. But when I once tried a yellow bic it cut my face to ribbons! Maybe different blade spacings and angles suit different skin types.

[Troll]

I have been told, by a couple of women friends, that I suit a beard.

Perhaps you're just hideously ugly and they are suggesting it to be kind

[RichardCranium]

The ancient Romans were clean-shaven. They saw it as a mark of civilization that set them above the barbarians that they conquered.

And, I believe, the hair on their head was kept sufficiently short that it could not be grasped by an enemy.

The Old Bill do that today.

[RichardCranium]

Soap works for shaving too?

Yep. Using soap as the shavnig lubricant stops you getting a shaving rash, too.

[suityou01]

Does anyone shave their balls?

[MarillionFan]

Does anyone shave their balls?

Do you have any to shave? :

[oracleslave]

Does anyone shave their balls?

[MarillionFan]

WHy?

[shaunbhoy]

Perhaps you're just hideously ugly and they are suggesting it to be kind

Nope. They feel it makes me look "distinguished", in a sort of Trevor Eve meets Captain Birds Eye kind of way.

[TimberWolf]

Well I had a half hearted go with shaving with a yellow bic, sans water or other lubricants, today and the results are as follows: I just tried on the neck, which is probably the easiest place second only to below the sideburns, and this worked okay. I didn't attempt the chin area as the stubble was a bit too long. No doubt the moustache area would have been a pain, literally. It is possibly a possible possibility with lesser stubble and a sharp razor, but at this point I whipped out the electric shaver and was done with it.