Thread: Ambidextrous Shaving

I use both hands pretty much equally for SR. Can't use my left at all for a DE or SE though. just can't seem to get the right angles.

Originally Posted by Birnando

I was born a leftie then forced by school to become right-handed.

Wow - they still do that? I thought that was something from the middle ages!

I use my non dominant hand for a few awkward places, but dominant for the rest of my shave. I used to fish at night a lot and used to shave in complete darkness sometimes easy with a de but a little trickier with a straight.

Originally Posted by Jakobs

Wow - they still do that? I thought that was something from the middle ages!

I am 36 and school tried to make me a righty, they failed miserably

There's some very good reasons to divide the tasks that you need to do between your right and left hands.[emoji40]

Originally Posted by scap99

Oddly, I shoot pistols, rifles, and shotguns right handed. I swing bats and clubs right handed. I practiced marital arts and spar right handed.

I couldn't throw a ball right handed or hold a pencil in my right hand to save my own life.... lol

Shave with both hands and like scap99 and Birnando I'm "somewhat" ambidextrous..
Shoot, bat, bowl right handed.
Cast a fishing rod and play racket sports and write left handed.
Some of it (the shooting for instance) may come from having a right dominant eye. When I have to switch to "weak side" in a match I have no advantage...

I wear glasses, but take them off to shave. When I use one of those "shaving" mirrors with magnification I have to close one eye when I'm trying to start the WTG pass at my sideburn.

Shaving with a Straight using only one hand would be very hard for me.

I use both hands. Took me a while to get used to it. Am happy I stuck it out.

I use both hands as that is what I saw reflected in videos, etc when starting out. I'm pretty much equal handed with the straight and roughly 60/40 with a DE. My non-dominant side has always been trickier regardless of which hand was at the helm. Could be due to the fact that I'm a right hander with right dominant eye, although I utilize my left hand for many things due to an accident when I was younger that left my right hand atrophied.

I use non-dominant for my 1st pass, for my lest side of the face. on the second and third pass, the non-dominant only assists when I need to shave with an angle I can't get with my dominant... mostly around the corner of my jaw...

As a lefty, I feel as though I've been forced to do enough things right-handed. (Wrong handed, if you ask me, but nobody does) Haven't tried a straight yet, but I get a much better shave sticking to my south paw with my Parker SR1 (same deal with my DE).