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I've used the Gillette Mach 3 for the last 12 years nearly. It is and will always be the very apex of shavers.

Using comfort shaving foam at the moment which is pleasant drop.

Do it it the sink.

Was a Gillette Mach3 / Gillette shaving gel (the blue stuff) man up to Christmas, but then I got a nice new Braun Series 7, which seems to do the job quite nicely.

I would go to an Italian barber who charged £5 for a shave and a haircut. He was around 70 and used a cut throat razor with great aplomb. The best and closest shaves I've ever had...

http://www.mankind.co.uk/src/awin/Merkur-Futur-Brushed-Steel-Razor-PRODM...

High initial investment but running costs of 20p a week in blades. Face wash before hand, Real Shaving Company shave cream and a soothing moisturiser followed by a moisturiser with some sun protection built in.

And sometimes in the shower but mostly not (my sideburns tend to suffer if I don't use a mirror).

Always shave in the shower so I use oil, either Somerset or KingOShaves (but not the cheapest one!). Razor - it's a Gillette, it's green and it vibrates... or it used to until the motor died - need to get a new one!

the commercial minefield that is wet shaving product availability drives me potty.

For years I have used a cheap Wilkinson Sword Diamond Protector 3D twin blade swivel head razor. Bloody stupid name of course; as if it were a high performance Japanese sports car, and what's the 3D bit signify? That my face has contours? How unusual, but never mind. It's given me a pretty perfect shave, it has a good shaped handle with a rubberised grip, a flexible head system, two blades to get that second chop effect, and it's easy to reload with new blades...er, well no actually.

Can I still get blades for this little wonder? Can I heck. I can get replacements with three blades, four blades, five blades and Christ knows how many blades, some so vast and wide I can't imagine they are any good for anything except smoothing the svelte expanses of ladies legs. I can buy them in eighteen different shades of vile plastic, from belisha beacon yellow to Jimi Hendrix Purple, British Racing Green or Royal Blue. I can even buy a wet shaver that needs AAA batteries, or one that makes the tea while I trim my upper lip. What I can't buy are new blades for the razor the marketing team designed a decade ago, and which I actually like.

I can buy huge plastic bags full of disposable razors, with as many blades each as I can possibly desire. I can buy them in sets of 5, 10, 20 or 50. They can have 'lubrastrips', they can have swivelling heads, and they will sit slowly degrading in landfill sites for several centuries before Baldrick's distant descendants dig them up one Sunday afternoon and discuss their original function with a gert big lump of a real ale drinker in a cowboy hat and a bearded Prof wearing a hippy jumper.

I've had to throw away my faithful Wilkinson Sword Diamond Protector 3D twin blade swivel head razor and buy another brand. I plumped for Sainsburys own, as they at least let me choose to use only a twin, rather than something armed to the teeth with enough steel to furnish an entire series of The Flashing Blade.

Where can I get an electrolysis treatment that will remove the whole damn lot of bristles once and for all? Aaaaaarrrgghhhh.

A Gillette something or other, though the vibrating is neither here nor there IMHO. Neal's Yard shaving oil for chaps, always in the shower, have used nothing else for years. I live miles - counties even - from my nearest retail outlet, so I get a couple of little bottles every six months or so by mail. Expensive, but it makes me (and my wife) happy.

I shave in the bath which is very decadent. I use one of those five blade Gillette things which aren't bad and proper shaving brush, but the cream I use is magnificent. Ingrams Lather Cream Shave. Has never let me down in 15 years. Very smooth and soothing. Highly recommended.

You can only find it in small chemists or Superdrug. Boots, Sainsburys etc just don't seem to want to stock it.

Gillette Sensor Excel, which I suspect will go the way of the other posters above who can't get their preferred razor anymore. I have so far resisted the move to replaceable razor blades as I need to use planes to fairly regularly for work, and I can't see these being OK for hand luggage, and then I'd need one set for home, one set for travel, guaranteed face-shredding.

Any one of a range of shaving oils / preparations / potions, although my favourite is the The Body Shop shaving cream.

No mirror - shave by touch, generally in the shower. Slightly scary the first time I did this (in a partially renovated bathroom which had no mirrors) but very quickly got so used to it that I soon found mirrors confusing.

http://epictudor.tumblr.com/post/375895615/dr-harris-provider-of-very-fi...

I shave in the shower, no soap or mirror. Wilkinson Super Phat Wicked Bastard or something. Can't bring myself to use Gillette.

am I on the GQ website?

I thought this thread would be about the songs of Brent Mydland, but since you ask: Gillette Sensor Excel, in the shower (which is one of those tiled wet room things kitted-out with a combination heat-lamp/fan to prevent the mirrors from fogging up - man that beast must have the carbon-footprint of a procrastinating Harrier Jump Jet - must speak to the landlady)

in the shower. No mirror. done by touch alone. try to convince myself I'm training for in case I ever go blind.

...Amy Winehouse yesterday.

Because I work shifts, I generally perform my ablutions after everyone else is up and away. Everyone else in the house gets around 20 minutes in the bathroom....I get twice that.

Battery operated Sony boombox.

Oh yeah.....supermarket disposable blades, supermarket gel or foam and sink.

Facing a mirror. In direction of growth. Short, smooth strokes. Hot water rinse. Cold splash finish.

have upgraded/replaced about three times since my first one, so life expectancy of about 10 years. Fuss-free, no nipping, no nuthin',with mirror, quick job (except Monday if I've forgotten to shave on Sunday night).

that I'm a sad fucker for reading the Word website, I'm going to point them to this thread, and show them just how wrong they are.

plus whatever foam or gel is in the cupboard.
Wet Shave on Sunday night (to remove weekend beard - don't shave Saturday), Electric rest of week.

Why Gillette Fusion - was on Special Offer just after Christmas when I needed new blades for Wilkinson Sword Platimun-coated, diamond encrusted (or whatever it was called).
Four quid for new Razor plus two blades, or six quid for pack of 4 blades.

Yes, I'm a tight git.

I've been trialling the King of Shaves 'Azor' and I'm not overly enamoured. It's fairly flimsily constructed so lacks the nice weighty feel of a Gillette and replacing the blades is pure guesswork. Although it looks and feels a bit cheap there's not too much difference in the price of the blades so I think I'll switch back when they are used up. I've recently been using a Boots Botanicals shave gel which is very nice and relatively kind to my oh-so-sensitive skin.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930

I own a Remington. I shave a maximum of twice a week. I would prefer to grow a bloody beard to avoid the palaver but the FPO threatens me with superglue.

Haven't been clean-shaven in 10+ years. Bit of a trim every couple of weeks, job done.

35p brush from Wilko's, Neal's Yard shaving soap (gives a wonderful lather, even in the hard Essex water), Mach 3, then shave twice - first with the grain then against. With the grain doesn't give a close enough shave, and just shaving against gives me stinging shaving rash. Oh, and Nivea post-shave balm - an essential.
I don't usually bother on a Sunday, but my girlfriend was over earlier and she likes me with a smooth chin. Given the effort that women make to look good for us blokes it's the least I can do to please her.
Fortunately she likes my hairy chest and back. Too much information?

...that the optimum number of blades required to render one's visage stubble free is 3. 3 is the magic number and so my weapon of choice is the Tesco own brand (not disposable) razor. Today I replenished my ammo and 12 blades came to about £3. Gel is my emollient of choice.

Completing the shaving 'system' is the application of the wife's moisturiser and a splash of Chanel Egoiste.

Nice.