/fa/ - Fashion

>>15961336
Tried it. Cut myself too many times. Switched back to regular disposable razors and now I get a better shave.

>>15961357
What soap were you using?

>>15961449
Some cheap shit

>>15961336
Started using a DE razor a few months ago. Probably obvious, but some things that I'm starting to figure out:
1) Switched from the blades that came with the razor to Wilkinson Swords, which I like a lot.
2) Recently bought an alum stone. Wild how much better my neck looks and feels
3) Prolly will start experimenting with soaps next? Any recommendations?

>>15961508
Well there you go. Of course cheap soap isn't going to be slick. A DE shave with proper tallow soap is better than anything you could get with a disposable.

>>15961527
Try barrister and mann, wholly kaw and Stirling

>>15961336
>Why do the mods keep deleting the shaving threads?
it's not so much fashion, it is more /diy/

>>15961595
Nah, it belongs here

>>15961595
How is it /diy/?
Grooming and facial hair styles falls under /fa/

>>15963248
Long live the fighters

First I used a butterfly DE razor, but it was too aggressive for me. Got a standard model Qshave, being able to adjust the aggressiveness for different parts of my face is great. Got 3 years worth of Wilkinson Swords for $20. Never going back.

Recently I also got a shaving brush, but I find it doesn't lather the shaving soap I bought very well, I'll need to experiment some more. I wonder if you could put a soap+water mixture in a sodastream and carbonate it; whenever you open the lid a bunch of foam would come out. That or one of those pressure-pump sprayers.

>>15961336
I'm tired of shaving, I'm not planning on having a beard ever.

Should I wax?

>>15963742
IPL your face, so long as you're white with dark hair.
I plan on building a high-power flash box to stick my chin into, because I'm into electronics. Fuck paying hundreds of dollars just for some bimbo to point a flashlamp at my face for half an hour.

>>15961561
I just use hair conditioner when I shave because it's slippery. Am I doing it wrong?

>>15963760
>I plan on building a high-power flash box to stick my chin into

>>15963774
You fucked up bro.
Not a shill for this company, but they make good cheap soaps that will work much better than anything in the grocery/drigstore. You should also buy a brush to lather it.

https://www.stirlingsoap.com/collections/shave-soap

using a Defender cartridge razor that i like a lot for its wide spacing. makes rinsing easy which always sucked with a mach 3 or disposables.

just bought my first shave brush, synthetic bristles, seemed like a good deal for ~$20 or whatever. Also bought some soap from Phoenix pretty happy so far!

>>15963760
>IPL
Explain?

>>15963927
Intense Pulsed Light
The dark hair follicles absorb light more than the surrounding skin, due to their melanin. So if you shine a really bright light on a patch of skin, the hair follicles heat up quicker than everything else by a large margin. If you shine an extremely bright light for a very short amount of time, the heat builds up faster than it can conduct away to the surrounding tissues, causing the hair follicles themselves to overheat and die without damaging the surroundings.
Naturally, light hair will cause the treatment to be less effective, and dark skin will cause the light pulses to be shorter to avoid damaging the skin itself.

Also if you look at an IPL source the exact same thing will happen to the light absorbing rod and cone cells in your retina, so don't do that.

>>15964041
Interesting...
How much would it cost to build?

>>15964051
Maybe $50, depending on what you've got lying about? Assuming a flashlamp will work fine, I think at least some machines use an Nd:YAG laser, and those aren't terribly cheap.
Anyhow, I'd only attempt it if you've got a semblance of the electronics and optics knowhow. It entails both an electrocution risk and a blindness risk.

>>15964229
Thank you for the knowledge electric man.

>>15964247
Actually might be upwards of $100, I'm not really sure what it takes to drive a flash lamp. More pulses per second (within the safe limit) and/or wider area of exposure means faster progress, but requires more electrical power. Chances are there are some good circuits online for similar uses.

>>15964041
retaed alert

>>15964752
nice debunk anon

>>15964041
Why not make a diode instead? It is more efficient from what I've read

>>15965425
LEDs you mean? Not sure if you could get sufficient instantaneous power output from LEDs without overheating the chips. If someone's done it already then I guess it's possible, and would be cheaper than using a flash tube. Before attempting it you'd need a good look at the LED datasheet, to see what kind of instantaneous stress you can put it through, if it even has that kind of time-domain safe area graph.

>>15961527
Somerset Shaving oil

smells good too

>>15961336
I'm thinking of grabbing a safety razor, but I'm not trying to deal with all the fancy soap. Will normal hand bar soap do the job if I lather it up good?

>>15965659
No, it's not slick enough. You need actual shaving soap and a brush to get a good shave. There's lots of soaps around the $10-$20 price point that work perfectly and will last for months, just have a look through these sites.

https://www.maggardrazors.com/product-category/soaps-creams/all-brands-shaving-soap-cream/?orderby=popularity

https://topofthechain.ca/product-category/shaving-cream/?orderby=popularity

bumd

>>15965659
>Will normal hand bar soap do the job if I lather it up good?
Works passably, depending on the type of soap. Did it myself for over a year. Even if the soap doesn't lather well that just means you spend more time re-lathering. What I prefer about some dedicated shaving soaps is an anti-irritant or soothing effect, like menthol.