Thread: How to Resist the Urge to Shave

Try a cold shave as mentioned, I tried cold shaving, switched and haven't looked back.

When your healed up a bit, rinse your face well with very cold water. Then apply a first layer of lather. Once the lather is on, take your fingers and work the lather into your face and beard thoroughly. When you've done that, apply another good layer of lather. Now you're ready to shave.

Make sure you properly stretch your face, if you're not doing that now, look up the proper ways to stretch each part of your face as you shave. Stretching the skin is vital to getting solid contact between the blade and your face. It's a fundamental to a good shave.

Take your time, and your first pass should be WTG all over. For now, only do the one WTG pass on your neck, with very light pressure in the neck area.

Then, apply lather again, and do a XTG pass on your cheek area only. If your neck area is still fairly rough, use your old blade to tidy it up. You may want to use this for your first 20 or so shaves.

When I started, I got terrible redness and irritation on the right side of my neck, I backed way off on the pressure, and backed off even further on the pressure in my "danger" area, after awhile, I learned how not to get that.

And the cold water also went a long way to help reduce the irritation...hope this helps...