Hi Guys

I am new to the forum and have done a lot of research. I have a pretty special situation here that I could not find an answer to.

I was suffering heavily from ingrown hairs in my neck from shaving. Causing pain and in some cases infections. It was also taking up to 10 minutes to shave my neck alone. I was shaving using a Braun 790cc electric shaver which is one of the best you can buy. I decided to go with laser hair removal for my neck to avoid the pain and time spent shaving. I was only shaving about twice a week.

So I started my laser sessions and thing got out of hand and I ended up also lasering my cheeks and basically giving myself a permanent facial hair style. I am about 8 sessions into facial and neck laser hair removal. I have about 4 more sessions to go. The last few sessions I have are for shaping the left over hair. This is currently what my face looks like except my sideburns running to my goatee is about an inch thick. I am not the guy in the pic btw:

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I no longer have any hair growth on my neck or my cheeks (woohoo). I only need to shave around my goatee and sideburns to keep them shaped nicely. This is important for the last few laser hair removal sessions I have left since the better the shaping of my facial hair the closer I will get to the ideal look I want and the less amount of shaving I will need to do going forward. I have not been able to get the ideal shape I want with my trimmers and conventional gillette shaver. So... I started looking at straight razors.

After much research I decided to go with the DOVO "BISMARCK" SPIKE POINT 5/8" STRAIGHT RAZOR. I thought the spike point would be great to help me shape my goatee.

Then as I Was browsing I noticed some 4/8, 3/8 and 2/8 razors. I did some research on those and it seems they are made for sculpting which is exactly what I want.

I do not need to shave my face so I dont think I need a 5/8 or 6/8 shaver. I only need to trim around the hair lines I have not... goatee, sideburns etc.

So the question is... should I go with the Dovo Bismarch spike point 5/8 or should I go for something smaller such as a 4/8, 3/8 or even 2/8? I could not find much information on any of the smaller width razors.

Sorry for the long post but I wanted to be as detailed as possible since I am kind of a special case here.