Thread: Had success initially, now things are worse.

It sounds like you may have similar hair growth direction on the neck to me. After shaving with a DE for about 8 months I switched to a straight last week. I'm still struggling to get a comfortable shave on the neck, though I did manage to remove most of the hair for the first time today.

Back to the growth pattern, my neck hairs grow down and out on the top half of my neck then up and out on the bottom half. After a month or two of nicks and razor burn with my DE I finally figured out that I should shave up on the bottom half and down on the top. That got it sorted with the DE and I've enjoyed comfortable daily shaves ever since.

Like yourself, I'm trying to shave up on the bottom half of my neck but getting razor burn. I'm thinking of trying to shave down tomorrow, but as I get to the bottom half treating it like an ATG and flattening the angle of the blade right out so the spine almost touches the skin.

I'd be very interested to hear how you master the neck shave.

Originally Posted by Ragamuffin

It sounds like you may have similar hair growth direction on the neck to me. After shaving with a DE for about 8 months I switched to a straight last week. I'm still struggling to get a comfortable shave on the neck, though I did manage to remove most of the hair for the first time today.

Back to the growth pattern, my neck hairs grow down and out on the top half of my neck then up and out on the bottom half. After a month or two of nicks and razor burn with my DE I finally figured out that I should shave up on the bottom half and down on the top. That got it sorted with the DE and I've enjoyed comfortable daily shaves ever since.

Like yourself, I'm trying to shave up on the bottom half of my neck but getting razor burn. I'm thinking of trying to shave down tomorrow, but as I get to the bottom half treating it like an ATG and flattening the angle of the blade right out so the spine almost touches the skin.

I'd be very interested to hear how you master the neck shave.

My neck hair is the same. I just shave the neck down on the entire thing. sharpen your angle where it goes atg and you'll do fine. Go light....

@Ragamuffin: as quick as I figure it out, I'll post it here.

@jeffegg2: what do you mean by "sharpen your angle"? Do you mean steeper or flatter? On my neck I keep the spine of the razor barely above the skin, so my angle of attack is quite flat.

Originally Posted by myersn024

@Ragamuffin: as quick as I figure it out, I'll post it here.

@jeffegg2: what do you mean by "sharpen your angle"? Do you mean steeper or flatter? On my neck I keep the spine of the razor barely above the skin, so my angle of attack is quite flat.

I think what he is getting at is to lift your chin way up to tighten and stretch the skin, then yes, have the tang almost on the skin with VERY light passes. It's what I do.

Ok, I thought a steeper angle of attack sounded wrong... just wanted to make sure I understood what we said.

As suggested, I shaved straight down with blade fairly flat this morning and the results are pretty good. Quite smooth and slightly less burn than yesterday, which I think is good considering my skin was still irritated from the day before. I think with more practice this approach will work nicely. And I have to say that around the Adam's apple is smoother than anything I achieved with the DE.

By the way, I haven't found anything better for soothing razor burn than Proraso pre/post shave. If you don't have any I highly recommend some, and go for the big tub as it is addictive. Unless you don't like menthol...