Honest to God, my chin hair needs to be sent to NASA or something for research. Either that or I'm doing something wrong.

I do the whole pre-shave drill, I shave the sides of my face without TOO much problem, I shave the sides of my neck decent enough (not perfect but getting there) but my chin and neck below my chin...wow. I shave and there's tons of hairs on the razors and on the soap, but there's tons left on my chin. It's like I didn't make a pass. So I do it again. I do it with the grain, against the grain, across the grain. My razor is full of hairy soap, but my chin hair still stands proudly.

Is this normal? My cartridge razor cuts through it no problem, but my straight edge...

Maybe I am not making my skin tight enough, maybe I am holding the razor wrong, maybe it could do with a "I love you" hone; but there has to be a reason why it's not cutting it close. The hairs on the soap are very small so I assume I'm only just cutting the ends off but it hurts to keep shaving over the spot a dozen times.

Incidentally, if any of you guys are sadists and want the new experience of pain try the Tea Tree face soap I'm using. When I rinsed my face with cold water, I was worried my face had dissolved!