I have nothing to add to this. I use an electric razor only under my chin. Everywhere else I was nuked to the level that all follicles were completely destroyed, so I have a perfect goatee left showing exactly where the radiation ended around my mental foramen on each side. So shaving for me is a 30 second deal with an electric. Here in CA the obsession with esthetic surgery and all the collateral things is beyond belief. There are laser hair removal parlors on every corner it seems and more cosmetic surgeons than Starbuck's... which are on every corner. We have parlors that specialize in Brazilian waxing for those inclined (big in small bikini CA beach areas) We are a obsessed society of aging people that wish to look like 20 year olds. I recently ran into a 70 year old woman that I know from a eatery locally who used to have more chins than a Chinese phone book - who now is stretched so tight that there isn't a wrinkle on her face. It's wrong on so many levels, her hands still look like those of a woman her age....

I watch this with some associated pains of my own about my particular esthetic compromises, but facial hair isn't one of them. I'm more concerned with the increasing lack of it on top of my head.... Go electric!!! That's what I was told when I left the hospital and never went back to a blade.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.