Thread: Most valuable and UNCOMMON tips and advices

Over-stretching=ingrowns... I've spent a week with an unwanted mustache inorder to fix this, and not only does it look bad it feels bad.

I have several tips I have written about before that might be of help.

1. How do I know when my lather is wet enough?
Well, after I lather up and take a few strokes with my blade, when I put the blade under the faucet and lightly rinse it, if the lather doesn't totally wash off the blade I know I need to add a little water to the mix. When it washes off completely, I know it is wet enough.

2. The chin seems to be a problem for most. I stretch the chin after I shave the cheeks clean by putting my thumb on the corner of one jaw and my middle finger on the other corner and push backwards. This stretches the chin tight so I can shave it without issues, in most any direction I like.

3. What about under the nose?
It seems that doing the masters pass is pretty simple, once you get the rolling technique figured out, but then what? I decided to try something a little different to do the fools pass, from south to north, without cutting my nose. It seemed logical to me that you can cut hair two different ways. Move the razor, or move the hair. So here's how I do it. I place the blade almost flat right at the top of my lip, and roll the lip down over my teeth, pushing the hair through the blade. This cuts about half way up so I then move the blade up a little and do it again. I do this all the way across my upper lip and end up with a really smooth shave there.

Hope this helps.


Ray

newbie tip.

When your face is sore after shaving, corn husker's lotion makes a very soothing balm. Try it you will thank me.

Originally Posted by Stubear

I guess my little "quirk" would be that when I shave my cheeks I dont go WTG then XTG, I just go straight to the XTG pass. IE: I start my stroke by my lips and make the pass going back across my face towards my ear on both sides. This results in a BBS finish with only one pass, so I get less irritation!

This started because I was finding it hard to shave WTG (from sideburn down to jawline) on my left cheek when I started using a straight. I found I got better results on this cheek so I just started doing it on both sides..!

Gee, I do the same type of passes, except that first pass, toward the ear, it WTG for me. Though I find that the best for me is a 3-pass shave. Then I am BBS for about 8-10 hrs, and I only have to shave every other day, or every third day.

The only tip I have to offer, being as new as I am, is this:

If you find the jaw, right under the ear, to be a difficult spot, I know I have, clear your cheek, dry your hand, and stretch from the cheek, it pulls the skin from the jaw up onto the cheek, giving a much smoother surface to work with.

If that doesn't work, you can always just drop your jaw, effectively doing the same thing.

Hope it helps.

Instead of shaving the chin first I use two razors if I let my beard grow a lot. I shave my whole face except the goatee, and then use one of my ultra sharp blades from utopian to mow it down. Sometimes I use this technique anyway, but do the first couple of passes with water ever I want and then switch to my current "smoothest" shaver for a nice feeling, smooth final pass.

If you want to make shaving the neck / jaw area below your ears a lot easier, and stop any possible nick from happening, lift the toe of the blade ever-so-slightly to shave with the centre of the blade.

This works in other areas of the face as well, and makes shaving those areas a lot easier with a spike or square point.