Do you remember your first shave?

I vaguely remember my first shave when I was 14 ish. My dad didn't show me, I just grabbed his stuff and winged it. I used a can of Gillette Foamy and a disposable Bic 2 bladed razor. I remember thinking, "is this it? I have to do this for the rest of my life? This is awful..."

If only someone had showed me the proper way to shave.

So do you remember your first time? Lol... Share.

 

Back in Israel at the age of 14 Daddy saw my facial hair was already growing thick and black, he said "my son, you need to start learning how to shave. He took me to the drugstore, bought me a brush, a DE which I cannot recall the name of, some blades, and a tube of cream which I also cannot recall the name of. Then when we got home he taught me how to do it.

 

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Sounds almost identical to my first shave, only my Dad's razor was an injector. If I recall correctly, very little, if any blood.

 

I wish I had had that sort of experience. Cherish it my friend

 

I don't remember when or anything about the outcome. I do remember that I used a twin blade of some sort. I know I used my dad's boar brush and his puck of Williams.

 

Thanks buddy. I do cherish the experience and I cherish my Dad. He's 92 and still going strong.

 

My first shave was with a Schick Adjustable Injector. My mother bought it for me. Since my dad had died when I was 4, my mom got the neighbor next door to show me how to shave. He gave me a quick half-a$$ lesson. My first shave was PAINFUL, BLOODY and started me on a lifelong "HATRED" of shaving!! Until that is I rediscovered "traditional" shaving and found TSD!!

 

Dad gave me a TracII and Gillette foam and told me to have at 'er. I don't remember it being awful as my beard was still pretty sparse back then.

 

I remember a Trac II would nick you fairly easily.
my dad worked from before I woke up, and I was normally in bed when he got home.

 

My first shave was with a Phillips electric razor. The type with three little circular blades on the headpiece. It was a Christmas gift and I was about 14 and not even close to needing it. I used it anyway. I honestly cannot remember when I started using a blade but I did convert to a mug and brush early, as I found the foam to be irritating. Williams soap for many years until I discovered DE shaving.

 

I wish I could...but I really can't remember it. My guess is that it was with some electric razor.

 

That was over 50 years ago. I think I probably snuck a shave with my dad's Gillette three piece. It seems like it was an open comb ball end. Man, I wish I had that razor.

 

I started using a brush with the brush plus system. when it died out, I got a green boar brush, I assume was a Van Der Hagen. always liked a brush.

 

What was this brush plus system?

 

No recollection honestly. It was only 30-odd years ago, but apparently it didn't leave much of impression. The old man was a bit of a fan of all shave related gadgets, and so the cupboard under the sink was full of all sorts of razors. Electrics that he never used, DEs and injectors, which is what he did use mostly, those orange Bic SE diposables...I probably was just told to grab one from the pile and get after it. He was a barbasol man too so that was likely the first lather.
I do remember that within a few days or weeks or whatever, he'd gifted to me a black handle super speed (from the pile under the sink, you guessed it) and I'd gotten a brush & puck (probably Williams I'm guessing, though the Colgate was also a possibility) from the local drugstore, and that was it for the next few years. I also remember the "old fashioned" mug & brush being the source of a fair bit of laughter and generally good natured razzing from the whole family (especially around the holiday get-togethers) But it worked for me from the off and I never really looked back.

 

it was a brush that had a little tube in the center. a canister of shave gel was inserted in the bottom. a twist would send a dab of gel onto the brush. you would face lather from there.

 

I know my dad gave me some pointers, but I don't have a real specific memory of it. I know the equipment was a Trac II and a can of Barbasol.

 

That seemed to be standard issue shaving stuff for most of our dads. I still can't get my dad into DE razors. Maybe one day lol

 

I do remember my first shave. It was with a 1960s vintage Remington 300 electric shaver when I was 14. I just picked up the shaver and started using it. No instructions were given, and none were really needed. It worked very well, quite a bit better than any other electrics I have used. The Remington originally belonged to my grandfather. It finally just wore out in the late 1980s after around 25 years of daily use.