Thread: Mistakes and What Not to Do.

I'm 4 months in and still make the occassional mistake resulting in blood. This morning, a moment of inattention and voila, a nice shiny crescent just off the edge of my mouth. It wasn't too bad though. I thought I got myself good but the bleeding stopped within a couple minutes.

How about you? Are there areas of your face that tend to give you "reminders" of your incorrect technique?

Yup still happens more often than not..a lot of cuts on my off side cheek from improper angles. Seems at this short stage I have more with blood than without. But its still fun and I am getting better and the cuts smaller. Can't blame the blades because they are sharp and I am probably trying to rush to much. I will get it down eventually ! And so will you with time.

Well I'm pretty good at not slicing my face up with the exception of my Adam's apple. However the most annoying maddening mistake I make is during stropping. At the beginning of my return stroke I seem to always adjust my angle just a bit which makes a tiny little cut in the strop. I feel that after I'm finished stropping I should use the strop to beat don't sense into myself

I got a couple of old scar bumps that I'm managing to get flattened out

Mike

Just recently I found myself getting these straight horizontal red lines that scarred up w/o blood. I think that I was beginning to _rest_ the blade at the start of each stroke. Bad news. I've known for a long time that the blade needs to be moving when in contact with the face! Fortunately the scars faded in a couple of weeks.

No cuts for me in quite awhile, ever since I put away, sealed in a tomb, covered with Hex symbols, my Cursed Double Duck Goldedge...it's causes the Earth to rumble occasionally, but it won't cut me again!!!

I catch a mole near my lip once a week. Those suckers bleed. Styptic can barely contain it

Originally Posted by Phrank

No cuts for me in quite awhile, ever since I put away, sealed in a tomb, covered with Hex symbols, my Cursed Double Duck Goldedge...it's causes the Earth to rumble occasionally, but it won't cut me again!!!

Hilarious!

I'm with hardcase. Only continual area of issue for me is the adams apple. Its never a major gusher or slice. Just a nick that gets my attention. Now that I just jinxed myself, todays shave will probably go like this

Originally Posted by JTmke

I catch a mole near my lip once a week. Those suckers bleed. Styptic can barely contain it

The styptic pencil is my friend. As I said earlier, the problem area for me is around the edges of my mouth. My coping strategies have been the usual facial contortions including but not limited to the following which I've named according to the way they make me look:
1) Upper Puffer Fish
2) Full Puffer Fish
3) Amazed Otter
4) Sideways Duck Face
5) The Bubba Gumpface
None of them are completely effective