Can I ask a dumb question? My stropping is going really well, and as far as I can tell my blade is sharp (when I pass it through my arm hair, it pops off some of the hairs. However, when I actually shave, it doesn't seem to be shaving clean on my chin and other areas where it's tough to get the blade angle correct (it's perfect on my cheeks). Am I just expecting too much of the chin strokes? Is it normal for the hair on the chin to need more than one pass to get a clean shave? Or is it possible that my blade is actually dull?

Also, when will my neck stop hurting? It's not really bleeding much, but it seems really irritated by the shave…