Thread: Shaving advice!

Originally Posted by Socalandrew

I struggled reversing the straight razor and doing an upwards pass on my neck, so it was more a case of shaving down my neck due to necessity. Glad I did though, although I still get some red marking on my neck it’s a huge improvement over the methods of shaving.

Ah, that makes sense. When I am feeling lazy and don't want to try the contortion mine takes, I have also found that I can do a down stroke with just 1/2" or so of the razor. Doing multiple narrow passes significantly reduces the irritation and I just live with it not being as close as the rest of it.

On my neck I go against the grain first, the with the grain on second pass. It works better for me, smoother easier shave and less irritation. I seem to be in the minority with that method.

Originally Posted by Ganyngegi

Hello all.

I feel faintly embarrassed to be a grown man having to ask this on an Internet forum, but here goes!

I get **terrible** redness and rawness on my neck after shaving, such that in the last 15 years you could count on two hands the number of shaves I have had - i usually just use a stubble-clipper thing to give myself a perpetual 5 o'clock shadow (or longer) - I do this to avoid the pain and burning.

Anyway, I want to be clean shaven for a change and need advice on how to avoid the terrible redness and itchiness, the latter of which goes on for 2 days. I have had 2 shaves this week and it's been awful, culminating in me applying a steroid ointment to my neck!

I have good equipment I think (mach3 with fresh blades and an electric Braun 7000 foil razor with a new blade and the auto cleaning base station).

What am I doing wrong, or what product exists to help?

Sorry to be a numpty! No actual grown up to ask in real life!

Aloha OP;

You posted this question about THREE (3) months ago and have not responded nor thanked nor liked any of the posts since then, plentiful and helpful as the responses have been. In fact, your original post was your one and only post as a member. Odd. I'll thank them for you. Thanks to all the excellent help and opinions offered here, gentlemen.

Originally Posted by ZipZop

Aloha OP;

You posted this question about THREE (3) months ago and have not responded nor thanked nor liked any of the posts since then, plentiful and helpful as the responses have been. In fact, your original post was your one and only post as a member. Odd. I'll thank them for you. Thanks to all the excellent help and opinions offered here, gentlemen.

HAHAHA well I guess now we have a "what to do if my neck is raw from shaving" wiki. OP probably forgot how to log in. Or he gave up and grew a beard.