Quote Originally Posted by wayne394 View Post
I've been SR shaving my face for a while now, but always used electric clippers for my head hair. I like it short, so I never used a grader, just the clippers as short as they'd go. Always seem to get ingrowing hairs/spots on my head. Decided yesterday to shave my head. It felt a little awkward to begin with and I nicked both my ears and my head half a dozen times. Nothing a styptic match didn't fix. I've gone over my head again this morning and already it felt easier and only 1 nick. I am converted. I hope it cures the ingrowing hairs. I'm going to try my wife's DE next to see if it's any easier - then I'll decide if I get myself a DE for my head, or stick with the SRs.
I have shaved my head for about 15-20 years or so with different devices and when I got my first straight my head was the first to get shaved It was my practice area. Its much easier than the face imo. You just need to figure out how to stretch the skin appropriately with either head bending or by hand. I always go against the grain as a first pass. And going over the different locations in different directions until its smooth.

I really like that you can shave of quite long hair with a straight that a mach3 or similar can only dream of since it just loads up.

I think I had it down to a science at about 10 shaves, but then not long after that I gave up and went back to the mach3 since it was so much faster, and only used the straight when I knew the mach3 would choke.

My head would look like it was polished after the straight

I used gilette gel btw.