So I cut my ear lobe last night. It is about 10% removed from my face now. Ears bleed a lot.
But, I successfully shaved my neck, so I count it as a WIN!
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So I cut my ear lobe last night. It is about 10% removed from my face now. Ears bleed a lot.
But, I successfully shaved my neck, so I count it as a WIN!
Yes, they do! I nicked my earlobe twice in one shave a few weeks ago when I got my 4/8 round tip. I thought I was gonna run out of styptic powder. However, congrats are due for a successful neck shave.
With a cartridge, this is impossible. But with a straight razor, all things are possibleQuote:
Originally Posted by Zts2004
Your glass is definitely half full, what a great attitude! Enjoy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zts2004
i am only about 6 shaves in...but any advice on the chin?
Well at least it won't be in the way next time.
Is anything possible with a cartridge? Not counting bad shaves...Quote:
Originally Posted by hoglahoo
It's not as impossible as you think. A few years ago, I used to shave my head every day with a Mach 3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zts2004
I would brush my teeth and shave my face first, hop in the shower, and I'd shave my head instead of shampoo. One day I didn't notice that I had sliced the top of my ear.
I get to work and people were just staring at me. Finally a security supervisor came up to me to ask me what was going on and if everything was all right. (My day job is at a casino, so there's a lot of security) I just looked at him like he was a martian and asked what he was talking about. He told me I had blood all of the side of my face, that I needed to go get cleaned up, and to please let him know if I needed any help.
When I went to the bathroom, there was dried and crusty blood all over my ear and neck. It looked gruesome. As it turned out I had 3 tiny parallel cuts in the top of my ear. It had been a brand new cartridge that day and I hadn't even noticed. When I went back and showed the security supervisor the tiny little cuts that were responsible for all the dried blood, he was just shocked.
I find very short strokes to work well. I'm talking fractions of an inch hereQuote:
Originally Posted by Zts2004
+1 on the short strokes take your time and use short strokes. It takes a muscle memory and it will get faster as that improves.
Someone posted here that they found it helpful viewing the chin area not as a big curved area but as a bunch of small flat planes. That really clicked for me. Trying to go round the chin in a curved stroke just ended with the blade embedded in the skin, with the scars to show for it. But taking short (half inch or less) strokes makes it go quicker and easier.Quote:
Originally Posted by LAsoxfan
Another idea I've been toying with is trying to get as much of the chin and jawline as I can on the WTG downward pass, continuing from the cheek, over the jawline, to the neck. That works also going from the bottom of the lower lip area over the chin, carefully. If you can do that, and it does take a bit of trial and error and experience, then you won't have so much chin and jawline whiskers left to deal with. The chin and the corners of the mouth are the toughest for me.
Thanks! I used the super short strokes this AM and I got some noticeable effects. I think that I will need to follow my chin with a cartridge till I am comfortable with my XTG strokes - especially with my left hand.
I think there is only one thing you cant do with a cartridge and thats shave with it..! :D
Well, I'm almost ashamed to make this public, but many years ago I walked around sporting parallel cuts on the tip of my nose for a time.Quote:
Originally Posted by mretzloff
While shaving with a dual blade disposable a fly landed on my nose and I waved it away... with the razor.
If you shot coffee through your nose, you deserve it. It's not funny.