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Posted: 2/23/2006 10:39:29 PM EDT
Hey guys...
My oldest is 17, and I started noticing some fuzz on his lip a few months ago. I tried to bring up the topic of shaving, but I think I embarassed him.  It seems to me that he is late to shave. I guess he is like me in a way, a full head of hair, but not much else. I bought him a razor, and shaving cream, just left them in his bathroom...but he didn't use them...until tonight.  How old were you all, when you started shaving? Any tips or advice you can share? Any helpful info on the subject would be appreciated. |
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Posted: 2/23/2006 10:40:38 PM EDT
[#1]
14, it sucked then and it sucks now.
Some men just bloom late, rather than early like me. My younger brother is 20, and he barely has enough hair to grow a goatee. My father cant grow a decent beard. I sure as hell can. Thankfully my facial hair grows slow, so I can shave every other day. I had a buddy in college that had to shave twice a day. He could have a full goatee in a couple of days. |
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Posted: 2/23/2006 10:41:40 PM EDT
[#2]
15 or so.
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Posted: 2/23/2006 10:43:02 PM EDT
[#3]
15 or 16, but not regularly. Also still dont shave daily if I can avoid it (and I can being blond).
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Posted: 2/23/2006 10:43:23 PM EDT
[#4]
I've been able to grow a full beard since 14...
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Posted: 2/23/2006 10:45:53 PM EDT
[#5]
16, and I hate shaving, so these days I'm lucky if I shave once a week
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Posted: 2/23/2006 10:46:43 PM EDT
[#6]
When I was I think 15 I would shave every once in a while, didn't need to shave regularly until my late teens though.
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Posted: 2/23/2006 10:46:45 PM EDT
[#7]
So long ago I can't remember , but I think about 16 .
no tips really that I can think of |
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Posted: 2/23/2006 10:48:57 PM EDT
[#8]
12 was when I started.
I had enough so my Mom to me to go see Dad about a razor, some cream and instructions. I thought I was just too cool. To this day though, I don't shave but twice a week since where I work is relaxed and none of the other guys there shave on a regular basis. It really comes down to when my wife says that its time. To this day though every time I warm up with the hot towel, I think of my Dad teaching me for the first time. Funny how certain actions call up those memories. |
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Posted: 2/23/2006 10:50:37 PM EDT
[#9]
By fifteen I was shaving regularly . Thirty years later
I'm still at it 
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Posted: 2/23/2006 10:51:21 PM EDT
[#10]
Pffft Hot towel, these days I've been so lazy/ rushed sometimes I'll barely wait for the water to warm up, let alone use shaving cream
 . (I don't reccomend this  )
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Posted: 2/23/2006 10:53:36 PM EDT
[#11]
18
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Posted: 2/23/2006 10:57:47 PM EDT
[#12]
So 17 isn't that late? It was hard for me to approach him....and I wasn't sure if I should have earlier. He just never looked like he needed to shave until recently. |
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Posted: 2/23/2006 10:58:29 PM EDT
[#13]
I stopped using cream ten years ago and went with a plain bar of dial soap. This has really made my area of the bathroom into the true anti-metrosexual bathroom. Bar of soap, razor, toothbrush, toothpaste, deoderant....hmmm thats it.
No hot towel and suds and I might as well be using an epilady on my face. The hairs will pull out before they get cut. I have tried once with much pain. |
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:00:14 PM EDT
[#14]
Thirteen.
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:02:48 PM EDT
[#15]
16 I think.
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:03:23 PM EDT
[#16]
around age 25 - 26
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:03:25 PM EDT
[#17]
Yup. I could grow really long blond hairs (my hair is brown) in a week, but color didn't start coming to them till about 16/17. My mustache is still pencil thin, and it takes a week for anyone to really notice that I haven't shaved to this day. I am 22. |
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:04:07 PM EDT
[#18]
18 - forced to do so in Basic Training
My eldest son started when he was 14 (dark hair) |
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:13:49 PM EDT
[#19]
14. At my HS they checked. If you needed a shave you got sent to the Dean's office, and did it dry.
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:14:52 PM EDT
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Not really. I had to shave once every two weeks from 15-16. Once I hit 18/19, it was everyday. God, I fucking hate shaving.
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:18:54 PM EDT
[#21]
Im 20 and dont shave but maybe once a week or so.
That kid with the dirtbike in his avitar is a year younger me though and could probably shave twice a day! 
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:20:25 PM EDT
[#22]
In order to avoid the billy goat chin, I had to shave every other day at the age of 17.
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:33:35 PM EDT
[#23]
Yeah 17 sounds about right.
on a side note, if you really want to embarrass him, keep reminding him about how he's "becoming a man now". Especially when his friends are over. |
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:34:38 PM EDT
[#24]
87.
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:35:21 PM EDT
[#25]
Freshman in high school...13. I remember not shaving the whole summer between freshman and sophmore year...came back to school and got all the "where were you? You a mountain man now? comments. My JROTC Sgt Major looked at me, "That'll be gone tomorrow...right?" "YES Sgt Major!"
Damn shame of it is that's one of the signs of premature balding is early facial hair development. That and the old saying the more hair on the chest by age 30...the less hair on the head by 40. I had an Austin Powers rug on my chest by age 20....I was no longer able to maintain a flat top hair cut by age 26...it was becoming a horseshoe. Tell your son, he's more likely to keep his hair when he gets older...that'll cheer him up if he's bummed about not shaving. No Expert |
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:37:14 PM EDT
[#26]
13 and it shocked the hell out of my parents. They expected it to come later.
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:39:32 PM EDT
[#27]
I was in my 20's.....
the real question is when YOU started shaving 4xys
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:41:19 PM EDT
[#28]
Had a Rican mustache at age 12... starting shaving it before 8th grade. Only shaved completely on 3 occasions since then.
Record beard length is almost 3 inches from the chin at age 20. Looked like a damn hippie for a while. - BG |
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:43:59 PM EDT
[#29]
12
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:47:41 PM EDT
[#30]
I was 13. or 15...  or 19.  Depending on what you are asking... |
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:50:08 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:56:16 PM EDT
[#32]
When I was 20 I would shave about once a week.
I'm 28 now and only have to shave about every 3-4 days. I take after my moms side of the family....not a very hairy bunch. My brother and sister take after my dads side of the family...quite hairy. My brother looks like he is wearing a sweater when he takes his top off, I always wondered if my sister was the same way
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Posted: 2/23/2006 11:56:47 PM EDT
[#33]
OK... I get the joke... ya know... legs and ...  ... but what the hell were you shaving at 15?? Upper lip?? I'm all out of ideas.- BG |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 12:00:09 AM EDT
[#34]
Armpits dumbass. Gees.  then cooter, THEN upper lip/chin hairs. |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 12:03:00 AM EDT
[#35]
ooooohhhh... forgot about the pits.  Wow, you folks have it rough. I don't think I even own a razor... neverthless let one come close to my torso and/or pickle. - BG |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 12:08:01 AM EDT
[#36]
Sigh... Thats cheerfull news. I was 14 or 15 when I started, hated it ever since. |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 12:12:33 AM EDT
[#37]
13
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Posted: 2/24/2006 12:15:14 AM EDT
[#38]
How old are you now? No Expert |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 12:16:10 AM EDT
[#39]
No, I was about 20.......  |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 12:17:27 AM EDT
[#40]
Yekimak gets it! But... Still waiting for facial hair... Maybe next year? 
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Posted: 2/24/2006 12:21:15 AM EDT
[#41]
21
Too much Injun in me to grow a beard. |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 12:28:02 AM EDT
[#42]
LMAO!! I almost missed this one! I only have to exist, to embarass that child. Poor kid dreams of Carol Brady as the perfect mom... I am WAY more fun than Carol...but that is lost on him. |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 12:31:14 AM EDT
[#43]
Hmm, well you have the six kids already....so you could do a Brady Bunch kinda thing....but which son has to dress in drag to make it 3 and 3 ?? No Expert |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 12:32:16 AM EDT
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15. I'm a hairy sumbitch...
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Posted: 2/24/2006 12:38:00 AM EDT
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Tips: Shave after a hot shower. Shave with the grain. Use cold water to rinse the razor during and your face after.
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Posted: 2/24/2006 12:39:11 AM EDT
[#46]
I'll be 22 in May. |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 12:39:45 AM EDT
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last week
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Posted: 2/24/2006 12:44:42 AM EDT
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 That will be tomorrows family game! Me: BOYS...One of you had to be Cindy Brady...GAME ON!! Last man standing has to wear the pig tails!  Me and the girls will watch, and laugh. |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 1:34:13 AM EDT
[#49]
Started shaving at 13. Quit at 18.
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Posted: 2/24/2006 1:55:39 AM EDT
[#50]
I got my first bits of fuzz in 6th grade, and by 7th grade could grow a full goat.
I guess that puts me at about 12-13 when I started shaving. |
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