Thread: tips for chin shaving??

Newbie here, For some reason, I can't seem to get as close a shave under my chin as I can everywhere else. I am wondering if anyone has any tips or tricks for getting a closer chin shave? Thanks!

It's probably just a matter of stretching your skin to where you can get to the whiskers, chins are hard for everybody, and it usually takes a lot of little strokes due to all the countours. All in all I'd say get a good stretch, watch your blade angle and use small precise strokes. Do not hurry and you'll be ok. God bless and good luck!

+1 on the technique being important but it is even more imperative that the blade be keen to get a nice chin shave. Be sure that it's all the way there or (if you're like me) the chin will be the dead giveaway - sandpapery after 3-4 passes even if it does look OK, the touch test is bad.

I couldn't agree more with Dewey on the chin being the ultimate in shave ready tests. I find that even a fairly dull razor can give me smooth cheeks without much if any pulling; try that same razor on the chin regardless of a north/south or east/west approach and that same razor will almost stop dead.

Even keen razors straight from honemeisters although they shave my chin smoooooooth with no irritation, have never "wiped or melted" the whiskers off my chin. Others use those adjectives when describing their razors sometimes. Either their chins are shaped differently than mine, their whiskers are not as coarse as mine are, or they're fibbing a little when using such adjectives. Why my chin whiskers are a different breed than other areas of my face I have no idea; I know each chin is different, but again I have a really hard time believing that a razor can truly "wipe" or "melt" chin whiskers away. If someone wants to prove me wrong, send me such a razor, I'll shave with it once and I promise I'll send it back (I pay the shipping back to you).

Chris L

I find that the hairs on my chin just never grow like anything else on my face. I can go from top to bottom without much result. Side to side, however, will give me a really clean shave.

See how your hair is growing, pull your skin tight, and go gently.

/my newbie .02

Even though i'm still a newbie all I can say is make sure you know which way the hair is growing, I found that I need to shave from midline outwards on a diagonal for the left and right sides of my chin but in the middle it just seems to grow straight out so i just shave straight down.

No book can tell you how your hair grows, so feel for it, I find it easiest to feel the grain of my beard after 2-3 days of not shaving i.e. a weekend

Happy feeling and shaving

- Ed