practice makes perfect
My friends grandad was a barber and apparently he used to get his apprentices to practise giving a shave on a balloon covered in shaving foam - if it pops you lose!
(bryo, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 17:22, 2 replies)

Paradoxically
The sharper the blade, the safer it is
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 17:28, closed)

Also
It's probably easier not having to shave around a beard. I had to contort my hand in all sorts of odd angles to get the blade just at the right place to shave the tiny bit of face I wanted shaving without shaving the rest of it.
(BearWithLittleBrain, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 17:35, closed)

^
For some reason, I misread this as 'baboon'.
Feck me, I thought, that's some hardcore apprentice barber training . . .
(SalRossi Laughter the best medicine? Nurse, penicillin....., Mon 8 Nov 2010, 12:07, closed)