"You need to shave that beard off - it makes you look old".

[Stalker62]

Funny enough that was my wife's comment to me...not mine to her.





Anyhoo.

I only don't shave because I am genetically lazy. Every once in a while it gets too much for my wife, and she starts that campaign that always results in me slinking off to find the shaving stuff.

It is because I do not shave every day, that I cannot immediately lay my hands to what is needed.

Electric trimer to do the 'heavy lifting', then wet shave to finish off.

I studiously avoid the, cutthroat razor my son bought me for my last birthday. Tried it once. Did not end well.

Anyhoo.

Finish up with some 'balm'.

Bastard! That stings!


Yeah well it would...I should have checked...




Ah well. With a face as leathery as mine, I am guessing it's all good...

 

[VSS]

Seems a right faff, all that shaving malarkey.
Last time I scraped the whiskers off my face was at the beginning of March 1995.

 

[Stalker62]

Last time I scraped the whiskers off my face was at the beginning of March 1995.

 

[Alexj]

I love that renapur stuff, can't say I have tried it as an aftershave balm though!

I will say that it's fantastic on hot crumpets.

A

 

[willie_gunn]

I will say that it's fantastic on hot crumpets.

A

 

[Pedro]

One of life's great luxuries when you retire is not having to drag a sharp instrument across your face daily. Although I have taken to wearing a moustache of late (the wife hates it, but that just might be more of an incentive to keep it) I think I probably shave around once a week. Usually when I'm going out somewhere and I want to look vaguely smart. Otherwise, some growth to me is quite acceptable. There was a time when some "shadow" was ultra cool. I fear that time has passed though. Bovvered? Me? Nah.

 

[Dave_45]

My moustache would rival Tom sellecks or is it burt Reynolds.

Sadly the rest of my face can be rendered hairless with a stiff breeze.

 

[Cottis]

I haven't had a proper wet shave for I don't know how long. Certainly not in the last decade, maybe even two.

However i dislike having a beard so I am just that semi lazy type who grows incessant stubble and after a week or two, out comes the Wahl Peanut and it is zipped off back to a couple of mm's again. I'm not even sure I still have proper shaving stuff. I would need to look under the bed of dust on the bathroom window sill. Another job for "later"

 

[VSS]

One of life's great luxuries when you retire is not having to drag a sharp instrument across your face daily. Although I have taken to wearing a moustache of late (the wife hates it, but that just might be more of an incentive to keep it) I think I probably shave around once a week. Usually when I'm going out somewhere and I want to look vaguely smart. Otherwise, some growth to me is quite acceptable. There was a time when some "shadow" was ultra cool. I fear that time has passed though. Bovvered? Me? Nah.

Why does retirement make any difference to whether or not you can grow a beard?

 

[Rake Aboot]

I had to keep mine short at work and it was a constant battle with them insisting I shave it off. Clean shaven policy.

Since then it does what it likes. The wife nags when it’s filled in the cheeks under my eyes but other than that every wee while some barber or other manages to hack of more than I’d like.

 

[DavyG]

Funny enough that was my wife's comment to me...not mine to her.

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Anyhoo.

I only don't shave because I am genetically lazy. Every once in a while it gets too much for my wife, and she starts that campaign that always results in me slinking off to find the shaving stuff.

It is because I do not shave every day, that I cannot immediately lay my hands to what is needed.

Electric trimer to do the 'heavy lifting', then wet shave to finish off.

I studiously avoid the, cutthroat razor my son bought me for my last birthday. Tried it once. Did not end well.

Anyhoo.

Finish up with some 'balm'.

Bastard! That stings!


Yeah well it would...I should have checked...

View attachment 390173


Ah well. With a face as leathery as mine, I am guessing it's all good...

That’s more like it…

 

[Pedro]

Why does retirement make any difference to whether or not you can grow a beard?

Depends on the job really. In my old job at one time, you had to submit an application to grow a beard and it was generally only allowed if you grew it over a period of leave, so you weren't at work with would have been described as having a scruffy appearance.

 

[Flash G 74]

Hello, If I do not shave daily i end up like Mr Magoo !!!!, But i nearly have a pony tail !!!!!, I do get comments but hey they can F off, in my 50s i was an extra in a great film all because i had a full pony so make up did not need to do much,

 

[paulst]

Shaved daily for work until a couple of years ago and hated it. However I now use a straight razor (cutthroat) and enjoy the experience, once you discover how to do it! Helps that I don’t need to rush to go to work of course.

 

[bogtrotter]

Had beards off and on all my adult life , wife hated them though and constantly nagged until I gave in
wife has been gone for over four years and I have had a beard since then, wish she was here to nag me now.
No contest!

 

[Alexj]

I love that renapur stuff, can't say I have tried it as an aftershave balm though!

I will say that it's fantastic on hot crumpets.

A

I am sure I didn't need to add the disclaimer, but I don't really eat Renapur on crumpets, not anymore anyway.

In the spirit of all those American medicine adverts, "may cause an*l leakage".

 

[Foxyboy43]

Ah the hairy chin conundrum - you think it’s great but SWMBO hates it so what’s a guy to do….
Shave it off!
One of my finer moments when for several weeks leading up to a January trip to the Highlands I railed against HRH; why I even told her precisely what I thought; for an awful moment I thought she heard me…

A lot of carryouts were consumed during that period but the silence was almost worth it….

 

[Rasputin]

Shaved daily for work until a couple of years ago and hated it. However I now use a straight razor (cutthroat) and enjoy the experience, once you discover how to do it! Helps that I don’t need to rush to go to work of course.

I went through a phase of using a straight razor was such a good shave reminded me of the process of smoking a cigar from the prep to relaxing side. Had my grandfathers old dovo soligen re profiled and sharpened was quality steel it used to hum if you drew the blade along something. Dropped it moving house and snapped the end off .

 

[Rake Aboot]

A beard, recently

 

[vmaxphil]

Have to say I've never shaved, but I do trim with a whal electric trimmer once a week. My trimmer which I've had for over 40 years started to pull a bit so decided to see if I could get new blades, I put the model no in Google and it came back as a "pet hair trimmer" surprisingly blades still available!, I knew I was a labridor in a former life