Mirror Shaver or Shave By Feel

[Ming the Merciless]

Hand mirror for the back of the dome.  Easy as pie.  If you rely on "feel," you are going to get shaving foam all over your fingers as you go.  Get the foam off with razor work and then use the fingers to find the less smooth places and shave them again.

 

[Y2KOTA]

Shave by feel for the most part. Use the hand mirror to view the damage (bumps and red areas).

[Roger]

I also shave in front of the sink mirror but the back gets done by feel.  I could only use a hand held mirror if I grew another arm because I use my free hand to pull the skin on my melon taught while I'm shaving.  I find that when I'm shaving the back of my head, it works better for me to start in the middle and work to one ear then start back in the middle again and work to the other ear.

[Sir Harry]

Mirror for facial hair, feel for the head.

[Razorhead]

For the the top and sides I use a mirror only because I have a steamless mirror in the shower or a mirror in front of me at the sink. Even then I still rely on feel. The back is pure feel. Too much coordination is needed to hold a mirror in one hand and a razor in the other. When I rinse, I rely on feel to double check the work to make sure I didnt miss any spots. Then the last check is with a hand held mirror to make sure I don't have any nicks.

[reddog]

I'm the same as Sir Harry, by feel on my head, mirror for the face.

[Sir Harry]

I'm the same as Sir Harry, by feel on my head, mirror for the face.

Red Dog, I'm willing to bet we use the mirror for the face, because the last thing we want to do is to make a mistake and be forced to cut off our fine facial hair, right?

[reddog]

Absolutely, Sir, I am very careful in that area. Matter of fact, Friday nite at the pub, I got 2 more compliments of the beard. Both by young women!

[TSE]

I shave my head mostly by feel. But tend to do touch up areas (like around the ears) by mirror.

[Goatee]

Absolutely, Sir, I am very careful in that area. Matter of fact, Friday nite at the pub, I got 2 more compliments of the beard. Both by young women!

Were they your granddaughters? lol

[slybeard]

Mainly by feel in the shower, but I do have a small shower mirror I use to keep from cutting my ears off.  My scalp hair grows all the way down to my ears, so it is a hard spot to get and not cut my ears.  I usually end up using tweezers every few days to get the hair that I just cannot seem to be able to shave.  And Like Reddog and Sir Harry I use the mirror to get the line between my beard and scalp even.  I do not want to risk loosing any facial hair in the process of removing scalp hair.

[greatnessinc]

If I'm traveling, I shave by feel but at home I have a mirror set up in the shower.

[DOC_OSMC]

Shaved the dome this morning and tried to do it by feel in the back, but went back to using the hand mirror. Felt weird to not see what I was doing. I guess I'm just a visual person. When I touch up, I do do it by feel, but that's just small patches.

[warhawk]

Head shave by feel and face shave in front of a mirror.

WARHAWK

[Sir Harry]

I have a friend who has a three-door medicine cabinet all with mirrors....He says when he shaves his head, he opens the two oustide mirrors to about a 45-degree angle and it gives him a perfect view of the back of his head similar to those mirrors you see in dressing rooms at the store. If(when) I redo the bathrooms, I may invest in one of those myself....