Shaving poll

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1639286]

Um, that's men only. I'm not trying to be sexist; I just don't want to pry too far into the personal habits of my female friends!

Comments

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Before I had the beard, it would generally be once a day, every day, unless I was going out in the evening, in which case I might shave again.

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

Ditto (i.e. maybe twice if I'm at a formal evening function)

[tovaglia.livejournal.com]

Sorry. Could not resist voting on this because the beard option tickled me ...

"I don't, I just trim my beard" will now be my stock answer to when eg the hairdresser says snidely "So what Products do you usually use on your hair?"

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

"I don't, I just trim my beard" will now be my stock answer to when eg the hairdresser says snidely "So what Products do you usually use on your hair?"

I like this option!

Of course, I get around that problem by not going to the hairdresser...

I'm guessing Products means more than "Shampoo" doesn't it? I use conditioner too natch, but that's because my hair is long, it's not really something I'd expect people to use unless their hair went down beyond their shoulders.

[lanciatore.livejournal.com]

"the beard option tickled me ..."

argh! Pun! Detention for you!

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

Good thing you put the caveat on there. I was *so* going to answer this poll... :-)

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Try as I might, I can't grow a beard. I never shave my face, so I'm giving it ample opportunity to grow.

I wonder why more men don't go for the option of waxing/epilation/electrolysis for facial hair if they never want to have a beard. I mean sure it might smart a bit the first few times, but it's much kinder to the skin than repeatedly scraping it with a blade.

[lanciatore.livejournal.com]

why? Because

- would you put hot wax on your FACE??

- facial hair is thicker than leg har so epilation would really hurt

- would you stand there for a couple of hours sticking electrodes into your FACE??

that's why

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

FWIW you could use cold wax on your face. That's what the facial waxing strips that pharmacists sell are.

Oh, I missed off hair removal creams. Hair free for ages. But I don't recommend it for sensitive skin (it's quite likely to make your skin dry/give you eczema).

I don't want to come across as overly callous here, but I've been socially conditioned to be female, which means that transient pain during beauty treatments is just one of those things we learn to put up with and not something that springs to mind as being top of the list of most significant issues when deciding what method of torture to use to remove hair (and yes, I agree, leg hair removal barely even rates on that scale!). But, er, yes, I'll try to have more sympathy for the pain issue.

And yes, personally, I CBA to spend that long on anything like that, so electrodes in random bits of me isn't particularly appealing because OMG WHAT A FAFF.

[tovaglia.livejournal.com]

On the subject of electrolysis. I was listening to an episode of Women's Hour (on iplayer - not skiving off work!) and they had an electrolysis woman on there saying knowledgeably "well, of course, any other method of hair removal [shaving, plucking, hair removal creams] only makes the hair grow back thicker afterwards."

Also I'd always thought that electrolysis was a quick zap but it seems to take repeated expensive treatments that only very gradually have any noticeable effect. You can see why people go "sod that" and just get the razor out.

Does anyone know if this is actually true? My take on it would be: 1. shaved hair will feel a bit spikier at first because the ends of the cut hairs don't have their normal taper and 2. how can removing hair affect the rate of re-growth without some kind of [as yet undiscovered] physiological negative feedback system? More likely that the person subjectively perceives hair growth as thicker once they've had the experience of completely hairless skin.

I see so many female patients with very distressing alopecia / hair loss (including eyebrows, eyelashes etc) I reckon I am bloody lucky to have hair at all. That's why I only trim my beard :-)

[tovaglia.livejournal.com]

I mean - is it true that non-electrolysis methods make the hair grow back actually thicker?

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

No actual knowledge, but I too have always assumed (1) is the case. I expect any practitioner of one method will naturally tell herself that her method is superior to justify the effort/expense/time she puts into it. I am far too lazy for most of these things - that's why I only trim my beard :-)

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

I suppose this is sort of covered by your middle option, but I definitely think you should have had an option for "every work day, but not necessarily on weekends/days off" :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I do that sometimes, but it leads to a marked decrease in the frequency and length of kisses.