Thread: Trouble with Neck

My shaves are getting progressively better on my cheeks, upper lip, and even my chin. Thanks for the Help!!! I am even getting a better shave on my Jawline than I did with my DE

I am still struggling to get the correct blade angle on my neck. I am stretching my neck by tilting my head to the opposite side that I am shaving and I am lifting my skin from my cheek when I am shaving. My razor is skipping which seems dangerous to me, but so far no nicks. Does anyone have any advice?

Thanks!

Something I began doing was starting on my neck below and behind the ear rather than around the front of my neck. I tilt my head in the opposite direction and do a down pass. This wipes the lather off and then I shave in front of that spot and stretch the skin with the stretching hand where I had just cleaned the lather off below the ear. I started doing this because it is easier to stretch when you start where the lather begins than in the middle where once you do a pass you still have lather on either side of the freshly shaved area.

I work around towards the front of my neck from there and here again I shave to clear a good stretching area and I don't start up under the jawline but midway between the bottom of the neck and jawline. I do a down pass and then again I have a cleaner place to pull/stretch from and I go up to the jawline and shave down.

I also found that If I try pulling the skin in one direction and it doesn't seem to be effective I will pull it in a different direction until I find the one that works. The second pass is more or less the same but up or in some spots oblique if that works better than up.

If it's skipping on the first pass, then you may not be going WTG as you might think. Generally, if you try going ATG (or sometimes even XTG) on the first pass you will get this trouble. You might try getting a 2-day growth and looking very closely at the direction of your whiskers in the neck area. Relatively few people have them all growing N-S like the cheeks usually are.

I have to agree with fritz. I found that my lower neck, right around the Adam's Apple, the razor would catch, interrupting what seemed like a flawless with the grain pass. Now, when I shave my neck, I shave down (WTG) about 2/3's of the way, and the last 3rd I shave up, toward the chin. This is actually a WTG pass according to my growth pattern. Go figure!

Don

Originally Posted by fritz

If it's skipping on the first pass, then you may not be going WTG as you might think. Generally, if you try going ATG (or sometimes even XTG) on the first pass you will get this trouble. You might try getting a 2-day growth and looking very closely at the direction of your whiskers in the neck area. Relatively few people have them all growing N-S like the cheeks usually are.

My beard grows in all sorts of directions in the neck area. That has led to some interesting techniques. One is that what works on one side of my neck doesn't work on the other. Prior to shaving, feel the whiskers around your neck and determine their directions.

Originally Posted by Black Adder

I have to agree with fritz. I found that my lower neck, right around the Adam's Apple, the razor would catch, interrupting what seemed like a flawless with the grain pass. Now, when I shave my neck, I shave down (WTG) about 2/3's of the way, and the last 3rd I shave up, toward the chin. This is actually a WTG pass according to my growth pattern. Go figure!

Don

+1 on this. My neck hair grows the same way so I need to split up the direction for the WTG and ATG passes.

-Chief

Some good info here. What helps me avoid getting nicked in this sentive area was to decrease the blade angle to a much flatter angle. I don't know if this works for other people, I think my hair on the neck much flatter. May want to give that a try. I think the most important thing is get comfortable with the blade first than slowly try different things to see what works.

Crom

Watching Jockeys videos sorted out the problems I was having shaving my neck. They're extremely helpful.

Originally Posted by fatpanda

My shaves are getting progressively better on my cheeks, upper lip, and even my chin. Thanks for the Help!!! I am even getting a better shave on my Jawline than I did with my DE

I am still struggling to get the correct blade angle on my neck. I am stretching my neck by tilting my head to the opposite side that I am shaving and I am lifting my skin from my cheek when I am shaving. My razor is skipping which seems dangerous to me, but so far no nicks. Does anyone have any advice?

Thanks!

Good advice in this thread.

I ran into this problem of skipping as well and I found that my skin dried out. Add a little water to the applied lather mix right on the local area and no more skipping ... well, for me anyways. Sure, it thins the lather, but the slickness is what I am after.

Also, I noticed that I have to mind the blade angle a little more closely that I would say on my cheek, for instance. My hair also grows in all different directoions on my neck, so at some point I will hit the ATG hairs no matter which direction the blade is moving. I stop, re-evaluate and adjust as needed.

Everything under my chin grows left to right. Which will definitely make me nervous. Anyone elses grow like this? Side to side motion across the neck seems a bit dangerous lol.