Thread: Having some trouble

Sad cause I don't thinks I will ever be able to get my neck shaved with a straight. Any videos out there with anyone shaving east to west or west to east with a straight. If I could just get my neck I'd have it down.

Stop obsessing with the East West thing. With the shape and contour of my neck I wouldn't even think about trying it. You have gotten some good advice here and since it has only been about a month just keep on practicing.

I decided I'd try a little but not be too worried about my neck. I never have gotten it super close. I had a decent one with a shavette but still a little gritty. My cheeks though like butter. That's what matters most anyway. The more I try for super close on my neck the more I slice my neck up. I look like I attempt suicide every other day.

My cheeks are relatively flat compared to my neck so the angle of the blade doesn't have to change much. When I come off my cheek around my jaw and down to my collar bone there is a heck of a variation of topography. I have a big change in the twist of my wrist to keep the blade at a proper angle.

Originally Posted by Chaddy

The hair under my jaw line and on my neck grows like towards my ears. So I'm trying to do a east to west and west to east. How do people do this? I find the blade just to long to get this right. Any help would be really appreciate. I'm on my 11th shave with some GD's if I get right I'll spend a couple hundred on something a nicer.

If you find that the razor is too long you might try like I sometimes do----> For the first two passes I shave with a straight razor, for the third pass I will switch to a shavette which has a shorter blade.