Hate the 5 o'clock shadow!

[Antimidas]

Ok.  So my hair is fairly light, so there is not much of a visible 5 o'clock shadow.  But I can certainly feel the stubble by the end of the day and it does not feel so neat.  Aside from shaving twice per day or using chemical dipilatories, anyone know of anything to slow down hair growth?  Never have had this problem with my face.  In fact I can go for a couple/three days without shaving my face.

[Bolohead]

I just shave twice a day, and its gooooood 

[D.A.L.U.I.]

For me, if I fail to do the gym in the morning before shaving, I can start feeling some sandpaper before 5p, otherwise, no problem.  Do you shave right after getting up in the morning?  If so, and your schedule permits, wait 45 minutes to an hour before showering and shaving and see if that helps. 

[Antimidas]

I get up at 6:30 in the morning on weekdays and muddle around watching the news until about 6:50.  Then I hop in the shower as hot as I can stand and start from the top down so that the head has some time to steam up.  I shave at the end of the shower and am out by 7:10-7:15.  After that is brushing teeth, getting dressed, feeding the dog and out the door by 7:30 to be at work by 8:00.  By 5:00, even the MPB spot feels like fine grit sandpaper.

A few times, I have come home and shaved again if I have plans in the evening.

That ten hours just seems long enough to get enough growth to annoy me.  It is not readily visible and the shine hides it from others well.  So at this point, I am the only one who has noticed and is bothered by it.

Took the day off and am watching a Hair Club for Men and Women infomercial.  If you watch it in the context that the only solution to baldness is shaving instead of surgery, it gets a bit humorous. 

[Tyler]

I find that if I wait about 30 min or more after waking up that I get a smoother shave that lasts longer in the day.  I think JJ was the one that said that it's due to the blood having time to leave your head from being horizontal the whole night.

[Antimidas]

Guess I will have to go to bed earlier do i can get up early and try that out.  Now there is a thought.  Blood pooling in the head.

[D.A.L.U.I.]

By 5:00, even the MPB spot feels like fine grit sandpaper.

A few times, I have come home and shaved again if I have plans in the evening.

That ten hours just seems long enough to get enough growth to annoy me.  It is not readily visible and the shine hides it from others well.  So at this point, I am the only one who has noticed and is bothered by it.

Took the day off and am watching a Hair Club for Men and Women infomercial.  If you watch it in the context that the only solution to baldness is shaving instead of surgery, it gets a bit humorous. 

I think you're sort of getting really into the smooth of Sly, perhaps so much that you forget that what's left continues to grow. 

For myself, one oddity, the sparse stuff on top, the "dying area"  seems to start getting gritty first--maybe it's just their way of putting up a last stand before smooth all the time.

 Therefore, I think it's just something you live w/, like the shadow.  In the evening when  I'm watching the tube [note: I never watch that HCM cr_p--I'd go to the booze cabinet and drink it dry or worse throw something at the flat screen] or even more so in the morning when I am waking up and thinking out what needs to be done that day, I can feel the profoundly bald parts of my head--totally soft and smooth, and I am now even able to differentiate between the sparse thin areas and the strip that is thinning together w/ two stupid spots on the front where the stubble is softer and the heavier and coarser stubble in the side shadow fringe area.   I am absolutely positive nature will finish making totally sly what I started.  She'll do the same for you.

[Antimidas]

I guess I am just impatient SaintC.    HCM was only background noise while I caught up on the site and did the mask thing.  Everything feels like a baby's butt after the mask.

[Stu]

I find that if I wait about 30 min or more after waking up that I get a smoother shave that lasts longer in the day.  I think JJ was the one that said that it's due to the blood having time to leave your head from being horizontal the whole night.

Actually I think it was that when you sleep, all of your bodily fluids distribute themselves evenly, but when you get up, gravity causes the fluids to move downward from your scalp... or something like that.