Mens Electric Shaver

Just let your stubble grow – I did in 1970 and haven’t seen my chin since !

johnbarry wrote:

Boris I did let it grow once, but it drove me insane (and still does) with itching, I like my chin to match my head.

My chin also matches my head ?

I use one of the cheaper Phillips shavers with the adjustable guards. It’s more like a small hair trimmer than saver. Not had a wet shave in about 5 years.

I grow a beard from october to march every uear then match to octobwr, give my face a number 2 grade about every 4 days.

If I have a meeting or something important. I’ll give myself the number 2 cut, then get the cut throat out to clean the edges up.

I get dry skin from soaps etc, so wet shaving gives me a rash, as a 16 recruit I was made to wet shave every morning, even though I couldn’t grow w hair on my face back then. I could probably of got away with a 6 month shave!

The traditional ‘3 circle’ electric shavers would irritate me too.

I’m now set to have hair om y face forever. If I didn’t have the wife moaning oct to match, id have a full beard all the time.

I shaved my winter beard off last week, but to wind the wife off I left the muzzie on for 2 extra days. Real handle bar job, she was refusing to leave the house with me. Lol, should of kept it.

The wife has never seen me without a beard – trimmed close more recently, but still there. Grew it in 75 after I left home in 72.

Her classic description of me was ” the tall guy with the ginger beard and glasses”!!

These days the ginger has gone white, the tall guy is still the same height, but the later generations seem to have grown even taller, and as age has caught up the hairline has started to re-locate from the forehead to the nose and ears!!!!!

My hair when all of it was still present. was dark brown with a dark red streak off centre. My eldest brother was almost black haired and curly: middle bro was ginger but is now 88 and what is left, is white. He also has dementia and does not know anyone, including wife and his 6 remaining kids. We never got on, but it still hurts to know that.

My dad was black haired, although he had it cut short every week, said he could not stand pit work with long hair. Even after he retired, he still had a weekly haircut. It was almost all black well into his 70’s, but mine started to go at about 65 and just carried on the process desribed by John:   “…as age has caught up the hairline has started to re-locate from the forehead to the nose and ears!!!!! ” I inherited my granddad’s hair loss: last pic of him at 71, he was almost bald. Grandma still had lots of dark hair. mam was red haired with the temper to match.

As a result of parents’ mixed hair colour, my ‘tache never matched my hair: it was light ginger and is now what they call ‘salt & pepper’. I have a pic somewhere of me at 18: masses of hair swept straight back, DA and sideboards. I was a Rocker then. Time is cruel!

Maybe there ought to be a Topic created – Old Pharts in better times…….Mis-spent Yoof…………. and we can post the pictures that defined the times, if not us.

I’m now considering shaving my head as there’s very little hair growing there and it doesn’t look good if over a grade one. It grows so poorly babies hair is much thicker.

I won’t get rid of the beard though, it’s been with me since 1973 except when I once shaved it off I discovered a ‘double chin’ that wasn’t there when I grew it. The wife threatened divorce..

Then again some days I think about shaving it off..

That’s pretty much what I’ve done, except I go down to a number 4. My head’s too lumpy and full of scars to go any lower.

I impressed myself last week though. I had to look reasonable for a christening, so I brushed the top towards the middle, and shaved the back and sides. Short back and sides in a hurry. After a few washes now, I can see where it’s not perfect, but it’s pretty damned good for something I did in the mirror in a rush ?