When did you start to shave regularily? (only if you're man & shave for some time)

[Mirc]

My question is simple. I saw another thread about shaving and I thought I ask this here.

At what age did you start to shave regularily? I mean not that you were seeing some little hair on your face when you were 7, you said "I want to shave" and you did it once.

I'm curious as I see I'm starting to have pretty annoying moustache and some annoying hair below my mouth, but my father started shaving only when he was 17.

Of course, I want answers only from men (because women most likely shave their facial hair only after a certain age when they start to look like a man, and I'm not interested about that age).

And BTW, I'm only refering to shaving facial hair, not hair from any other parts of your body.

 

[Abaddon]

im 19, and only shave every week or so.. i could shave every day if i wanted baby soft etc every day.. but im a student so can rarely be arsed!

 

[Mirc]

But when did you start doing it?

 

[IglooDame]

Definitely before I turned 18 as I recall having to shave daily at college from day one. So probably when I was 17.

 

[Abaddon]

probabably within the last couple of months or so its got to the state i could shave if i felt like it...

 

[Gladi]

Bright day
Fifteen, by eighteen I stopped and just crop my beard and trim my moustache.

 

[Shadylookin]

i started having to shave around 16 every few weeks or so to get rid of side burns that grew in like david spade in joe dirt. Now i can use a shave everyday, but with summer and no job or girlfriend i really don't have the motivation and will go for about a week before it really bothers me.

 

[MobBoss]

Around 15 or 16. But I let it go in HS and grew a bunch of uneven facial hair. My football coach called me Yoda my junior year in highschool.

 

[colony]

I started having to shave regularly when I was 16 or 17, but fortunately I can get away without shaving for a few days because of my hair colour

I hate shaving, but thankfully I'm a student so I can get away with looking scruffy

 

[spankey]

I have had to shave every day since I was 13 or fourteen years old. Being part Lebanese is probably the reason why. So that makes over 22 years of shaving

 

[CaptainF]

I started shaving when I was 14.

I'm so damn lazy, however, that most of the time I don't even bother.

If I don't shave, I get a goatee, a crappy excuse for a mustache, sideburns and some chops. Not a full beard quite yet.

 

[Chazumi]

I started to shave when I was 17 but I only needed to do so about every third day. Now I am 20 years old and I still really only need to shave ever other day, but I shave daily because I get a little rat moustache and beard by the end of the day. Unfortuantely I inhereted my dads face, I have very thin hair so it is very impossible (at least at this point) to grow a goatee...which I really really wanna get...


EDIT: I would like to add to this conversation: What is your shaving method? When I first started I used electric razors, but it was a hand me down and I didn't want to spend 70$ on a new one, that's when I realized it's more fun and you get a closer shave to using a blade and cream. Thanks Edge!

 

[Gladi]

I used blade and cream (Gillete), same as my father. Now I use scissors and that electrical machine for hair...

 

[Mojotronica]

Age 13? I was an early bloomer facial-hair-wise. Used a Norelco electric razor to get rid of the little hairs on my chin. Norelco makes the best electric razor, in my opinion.

When I started dating at age 17 my girlfriend complained that it wasn't close enough a shave for her comfort and I switched to a safety razor, which I've used ever since. I like three-blade disposables. Two blades is too skimpy, four is overkill, three is just right.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Can't recall ... fifteen? Thereabouts.

 

[IglooDame]

The 3-blade Mach3 is what I use, water, no shaving cream. They put a little bit of aloe or something into the blade so it slow-releases, I think. Works adequately for me.

And Victor Khayam (Remington 'shaves as close as a blade or your money back' guy) can kiss my hairy ass, no WAY his electrics shave close enough for me.

 

[downtown]

I started shaving about every week when I turned 16. Now, its about every day. I have very dark hair, so I cant really hide it if I forget to shave (which I do....often, much to my girlfriend's dismay). I use an electric most days for convience, but if I have to look real snazzy, or if I havent shaved in a few days, i use a safety razor, (water + cream)

 

[Sanaz]

I started shaving once a month or so when I was 18 as a college freshman, I still only shave once a week, every Monday morning for the week of work. I doubt that will ever change, I am far past the point of increased hair growth...

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I think I was 16, and regularly meant every tuesday...
Now I shave whenever I have the feeling my beard is too long...

 

[Taliesin]

Daily with an electric shaver at 18.