Am I weird for even asking this? But why not. If you’re going to keep your face clean-shaven, wouldn’t this be a great time saver? Have any male dopers actually done this, or considered it?
In my case I wear a goatee but keep the sides of my chins clean shaven. Even though I have less to shave than most guys, it still takes about as much time as it would if I were completely clean shaven. Then also, my beard tends to grow erratically, and wants to creep up one side of my chin much faster than on the other. I have an electric razor which doesn’t work that great.
Hot water and manual razors are a hassle. So does anyone know if facial waxing works for men?
javaman, this might work for you, but I think it might be too painful. I sugar wax my legs about once a month and by the time I get to my knees, morphine is looking good to me. Why don’t you look in the yellow pages and call a salon that offers waxing. Explain to the esthetician what you want and see what she says. Waxing involves spreading warm wax over the hairy area and pressing a cloth over the wax. Then you rip the cloth away with the wax and the hair is removed right down to the root. It might be that your face is too sensitive. Good Luck.
Back in 1984, I decided to make a similar attempt to free myself of the need to scrape my face. I was a crewmember on a nuclear submarine, and we had set out on a West-Pac cruise. I had a full mustache and a pair of tweezers. Every time I went on watch (four hours either at the Reactor Plant Control Panel, or in the Auxiliary Machinery Room, Number Two, Upper Level), I would begin plcking whiskers out of my upper lip.
Hey, when you’re poking holes in the ocean at ahead two thirds for four weeks at a time, you make up your own diversions (or you go nuts and do crazy stuff like the guy who snuck into the main fan room with a bottle of ammonium hydroxide and a hammer – they caught him before he could asphyxiate the crew, but that’s another story for another time), okay?
Anyway, I always got the follicles out, but the procedure made my lip swell up, and although I eventually wound up with a nice smooth upper lip, it didn’t last. My 'stache grows in today as it always has.
I could be wrong here, but it seems to me that whiskers are much thicker and stronger than leg hair. Waxing your face could result in removing a significant portion of your face along with the whiskers.
Well, the problem is that an average man’s whiskers are MUCH closer together than the average woman’s leg hairs. My daughter is furrier than average, and she gets her legs, forearms, underarms, and face* waxed. She says that the underarms give her the most problems, as the hair there is denser than anywhere else. She doesn’t get a bikini wax, so I can’t give any data on that.
*She’s got a bit of a mustache and a few other stray hairs, as well as some peach fuzz. And she’s gonna KILL me if she ever finds out I posted this!
Has anyone ever tried dipilatory cream on their faces or heads? Are there any health issues? I ask because I shave my head and I would dearly love the reduce the number of razor blades I go through.
I tried using Nair on my face. No results only burns. I tried using the stuff for black men on my face. Burns only. In both cases it did little for the hair.
Dipiltory cream makes no sense on a thick beard. I have used it on my chest and the stubble grows back the next day. That would defeat the point of shaving.
I have seen ads for laser surgery for hair removal. For one side of your face it is $350. They say 3 treatments are needed. So 350 X 2 X 3 = 2100 to be hair free. If it really worked it would be worth it.