Cringe Worthy Shaving Moments

Cringe cringe cringe!

 

I shaved with a Merkur blade .... The Horror!

 

hot off the presses...

I was mixing up some custom WH ala @GDCarrington.

Step one is dissolve a gram of menthol crystal in 1oz of 91% ISO alcohol.

Step two is not splash mixture into left eye while opening spout.

 

30 years or so ago I was shaving with a Schick injector. I didn't have a mustache then and as I brought the razor from the right side of my face back to the left, ( I'm left-handed ) I caught my upper lip and sliced it open like a Thanksgiving turkey. The bathroom looked like a scene out of Sweeney Todd. I was finding blood in cracks and crevices around the room for days afterwards.

 

Oh GOD! Alcohol and menthol.......

 

Sorry I couldn't stop chuckling as I read this. Lol

 

I am a go-getter like that. Don't sell me short...Alcohol and a LOT of menthol.

 

Most of my DE accidents were little nicks.
A few weeks apt, an explosive surprise sneeze hit me in the middle of the straight razor shave.
Fortunately, I wasn't shaving my upper lip, but still managed to get a nice slice with the square point from the razor on the cheek.
Clean slice that bled like crazy at first; but slowed and I was able to finish the shave, albeit with a pink-tinged lather….
Took a few days off shaving that area until it healed.
Photo taken later the next day….

 

Yes, step two is most critical!

 

It wasn't funny at the time but 30 years later im more inclined to laugh about it as well. I was single and living at home at the time and remember my mother looking at the aftermath and telling my father that it looked like a Chicago slaughterhouse. On a side note, is it just me or do any of you get a little nervous when unwrapping a new blade? I feel like I'm handling a live grenade every time I change a blade even though I've done it countless times without incident.

 

I am always super careful...DE blades are so sharp and thin you don't feel it till after the blood hits the floor.

 

I'm usually ok unwrapping a blade it's disposal that worries me, putting them in the sharps container can sometimes be a little tricky.

I actually lost my mind and grabbed a blade by both edges to drop it in a couple of weeks ago. Only received a small nick on my knuckle for that stupidity.

 

That's the advantage of having a belly that sticks out farther than your manscaping regions.

 

So far so good.... but then, my family used DE blades to scrape the cooked on gunk on the pre-teflon pans. After a few nicks, dipped in hot soapy dishwater, one learned to be VERY careful (obviously pre Child Welfare nanny state)

 

I Learned the straight razor before ever using a DE or joining any forum.

There has some blood loss learning the straight but when I started testing DEs I had a couple good shaves and then...feather

I tried feather blades and would shave with any razor I had and slice skin off my face. I wouldn't nick or cut myself. More like blood seeping slowly through my skin all over. I I could lather for a second pass and the lather would start to turn red everywhere slowly. When I finished the second pass and wiped off my towel would be pink. I had 4 shaves like this before I switched up my angles and lightened up on the pressure.

Yucky bad shaves. Yucky bad very close shaves

 

Losing the upper later of epidermis is indeed the epitome of a close shave! Lol...

 

37 years and no cringe moments.
Now watch, tomorrow....

 

Five years old, father at work, mother hanging out washing....muggins here decides to "shave like daddy". I stood on the side of the bath, reached into the cabinet and grabbed his DE, and started "shaving".
Obviously not really having a grasp on what I was doing, I shaved my lips and all.
I looked in the mirror (and I remember this vividly!!!), my lips just seemed to burst. Soon as I saw red, I screamed like scalded cat, turned around to the window, to shout on my mother......and that's all I remember. Turns out, my mother ran inside, saw the blood.....and passed out. A neighbour had luckily seen me, along with my mother dropping, and called an ambulance. Apparently they had a job stopping the blood!

 

That's just scary. I would've flipped my lid if I saw my little kid covered in blood!

 

While shaving? Don't sneeze.