Thread: What if i have acne?

So, I am luckily past the point in my life (am 23) where I dont get acne really anymore. however, I do get an occasional pimple on my neck, prolly resulting from ingrown hairs, dunno.

What sort of ... unfortunate situations, if you will ... will i get into when shaving with a straight? Will it completely slice the entire pimple off or just kinda cut it a lil like a safety razor does

I don't get pimples on my face area any more (I'm 37) but I do occasionally still get some on my head for some reason (bad diet, probably). Sometimes they get shaved straight off at head level and bleed; sometimes (if they are the blind type) the razor just goes over the top of them with no ill effects.

If you're worried about them, try a more acute angle and a very light touch with the blade - that will probably mitigate the damage a bit. But unfortunately you'll probably knock the head off some and get bleeding occasionally.

Good Luck!

James.

Depends on the pimple and depends on how sharp your razor is IME. I never had real acne, but at the age of 38, if I look hard enough I can probably say that at any given time I have a pimple somewhere on my neck, face, nose, forehead, etc.

I've had razors skip over bigger ones and I've had razors just slice em right off.

Chris L

Ingrown neck pimples get the tweezer from me even though thankfully now I rarely ever get them when I used to get a ton before shaving with straights. The alum block and Witch Hazel have really helped me with this as well.

yea with my "amazing" hot shave i had today i talked to the barber who happened to speak almost no english (young spanish stylist ugh) and he said that what it was is ingrown hairs (bottom corners of my beard area) and i asked well,, how to prevent them.

he said to just let my beard grow a little and then tweeze them. we shall see. have tweezers, gotta try that in a few days.. always thought was razor burn.

im so excited to get a straight, my roommate just came in and asked what im doin and saw i was on here doin research still... finds it interseting how basically obsessed i have become

now i am tryin to find a decent blade, preferably shave ready, to buy and start with!

A good razor will turn acne into scars.
I would think tweezing ingorn hairs makes ingrown hairs more likely.
How about let the hairs come out then shave once with the grain only, don't go aggressive. It's better to have stubble flush against the skin than under it.

If I had acne I wouldn't use a straight. I currently shave around any pimples I have now because I'd rather not scar my skin

I would try conditioning your skin a product containing benzoyl peroxide or salicylic acid. I prefer Aveeno daily moisturizer with 0.5% Salicylic Acid... but that's because I have sensitive skin (and I'm obviously not shaving my face as you are). Panoxyl products (with benzoyl peroxide) are good too, they are just too gnarly for my face. Both, as with many others products, are available at your local pharmacy (CVS,Wal-greens etc.). Once you get on a routine and then introduce the straight, you'll probably be better much better off. You shave those suckers off, and you will replace it with a scar most likely. I'm not trying to go all female on you, but the skin of a man's face (especially because you shave) needs to be cared for every bit as much as a woman's face. Oh, and I have done the tweezing thing too, but once you get on a regular product schedule combined with the straight, you'll probably eliminate a lot of the ingrown hairs.

yea i busted out my big mirror and my tweezers and pulled up in my chair with a spotlight and tried to tweeze... no cluew hat im doin.. actually, i ended up cleanin up my brow line haha

but yea... it needs to grow more since everything is just a little raw. im assuming its just ingrown hair. i have SOME acne but its not bad, i dont think. i used to have REAL bad acne problems... ill post a pic or two of my problem spots that im concerned about

thanks for your help! so you think those creams could be of help with my issue to help prevent getting any, or as many, ingrowns?

theres are all a few hours after my "hot shave" at my barbers


my right side


my left side (you can see the ingrown and one of my"pimples" i get near my goatee)


gross looking, huh? macro on my ingrown. if only i could see that when trying to tweeze. grossssssss

Looks like acne to me.

I have terminal acne . Doesn't seem like I ever will completely get rid of it.

The straight shave seems to keep it down better than any other type of shaving and it creates less ingrown hairs too. I personally would just shave. Use a quality natural soap Like Mama bear or the gentlemans quarter and that will help too. I then like to finish off with an Alum block then a moisturising balm. This is the best method of exfoliation there is.

Good luck hope it improves, I expect it will.