Thread: Good Right Hand-Bad Left Hand

I'm n00b to this art of shaving, I'm not going to criticize you. For me I just performed short strokes when alternating between each hand. Hopefully that'll work with your left. :Beer:

I'm left handed and I didn't do as good a job shaving since it was my first. It wasn't that I couldn't do it with either hands. The reason being is I didn't want to force something I wasn't really confident in doing so I didn't stroke as much as I should've. The shave wasn't as smooth as it should be but decent enough there wasn't any big blotches or anything it looked more like 5 O' clock shadow. Either that or my hair just grew really fast as I'm not used to seeing it like that on day after shave. It's usually after 2 days. It's strange. I don't know maybe I'm crazy.

Anyway, when it came to neck, I gave myself razor burn because I really got into it

I shave my head with clippers using either hand switching the same way I would straight and I get clipper burns as well because I just like massaging back of my head but mostly during summer season it tends to get sticky and I've 10 bulbs in my bathroom and no fan which results in my doing several passes on my scalp but usually get burns on back of my head. But that's my problem :P


This is 10+ years of cutting/shaving my head be it spike style, normal hair, and shaven. I'm just weird like that.

Originally Posted by Lynn

I started off with just the right hand too. The left was really awkward until I just started doing it a little at a time. Someone had a great recommendation on here a couple weeks ago. They said that if you hold the razor in the non dominant hand and practice strokes and maneuvering it without shaving just to acclimate to the razor it helped. That was a really good one.

Have fun,

Lynn

Yes, that was me!

I really had problems shaving with my left hand initially, to such an extent that my left hand would start to shake quite badly as I was trying to put the razor to my face. I was like the Gene Wilder character in Blazing Saddles! Practicing holding the razor while not shaving made all the difference and despite shaving one handed for the first three weeks of using a straight razor, I am now comfortable switching hands during my shave and I'm getting much better results because of it.

Thanks to everybody for the encouragement, I actually had to shave today with a non straight razor (at work) and it was weird feeling, I guess it means getting use to shaving with a straight. That must be a good thing.