Thread: "Nicks" vs. "weepers"

Seems to me that weeper<nick<<cut<severed appendage.

I'm not entirely sure there is always a difference beyond severity. A drawing motion will often result in a cut or severed appendage, but some cuts/nicks/weepers seem to be the result of filleting flesh to varying depth (cuts being the deepest).

Perhaps others see it differently?

I actually get neither. I have cut myself about twice in the two years I've been shaving with a straight; and both times it was due to moving the blade down rather than across my skin. I do have very smooth skin, and I don't have to worry about shaving my chin or top lip (I have a moustache and soul patch and beard thingy) which I'm sure makes the whole deal a lot easier. I wonder if you have bumpy skin? I'm thinking if you DON'T have bumpy skin, then if you get weepers every shave, there may be something in your technique that needs improvement...