Thread: Got my first straight

Originally Posted by senorswiss

Urleebird, OUCH!

X, I was able to get the blade sharp enough to catch the hair and cut it with some tugging. No effortless slices though. It is probably a matter of stropping technique at this point. Maybe i'll try going to the 1 micron.

Rich, do your razors slice hair (arm or hanging) after the 1 micron paste? the 0.5? How do you know when you are ready to move to the next finer paste?

Thanks guys.

You start with the .25 twenty passes test if not good enough 20 passes on .5 the 20 passes on the .25 test if still not good enough 20 on 1 then 20 on .5 then 20 on .25. The next step is the 3 etc. etc.

Originally Posted by urleebird

A couple of years ago, this is what convinced me to start using my left hand




Not paying attention and crossing back over to the other side of my face.

PS... I love super glue

All I can say is wow but I have two of them, one on each cheek. Paying attention, was spooked by family.

I have 3 small ones on my right cheek to match the larger surgical scar on my left. Why do you think I'm considering microderm abrasion? lol

Naw, X...

That's the inside of my left wrist at the bone. Picture this as you being the shaver. You are forming an X in front of your face with palms inward. Put a razor in the right hand that is on the outside of the left arm. The skin of the left cheek is being stretched with the thumb of the left hand as you look away from the razor hand.

Finishing up with the last pass on the left cheek, the razor is dropped from the face to move it to the other side of the face. Blade is facing up. The left hand is done and is being dropped to the left side of the body but moves downward before the one with the razor gets out of the way.

Result... a slice that starts on the top outside of the wrist bone all the way around to the inside of the wrist as seen in the picture. It did cut the bone also. I did not go to the hospital. I cleaned it out, put in hydrogen peroxide, dried it, and bridged the entire wound with super glue. It came off in three days at which point I took the pics and then reapplied the super glue. You can hardly see the scar today.

Lesson learned? Never form an X with your hands in front of your face if one of the hands holds a razor.

As a secondary note... Some of y'all gave yourself up as not having my CD cause I coverd this very injury as one of the topics, and it included this pic.

Yeah yeah yeah Looks like you were trying to end it all. Which is probably why you didn't go to the hospital. Next thing you knew you would have found your self in a padded room.

PS Now I am going to have to watch the cd to find out what else I missed.