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So ive been straight razor shaving for bout 6 months now and have only had a few "oh Shit!" cuts, yesterday while shaving I cut a knick into my chin, in yalls experience, is there normally a bald spot or has your haor grown back after a "semi-deep" cut
I haven't been straight shaving for long, but I can tell you your hair should grow back. I've been shaving my head for ~15 years and a couple times I've taken A LOT of skin in patches 1"x3" and it always grows back. Plus, I've received a number of gashes and stabs over the years and never had an issue with hair not growing back. Just let it heal on it's own and don't pick at it
Being in the,military and shaving every day takes a toll on my face, I enjoy long weekends so I dont have to shave and get a smooth shave on the night before work, should I avoid shaving. Over that area? Or switch to a conventional razor to give the patch time to heal?
Any time I have a cut, I avoid shaving. However, in your situation, you can't skip. So, if you don't have the ability to work your straight around the cut whilst still cleaning up enough to appease the supervisors, then I would go back to your cartridge until you are healed up.
First and Foremost as Vet I thank you for your service!Quote:
Originally Posted by rod68W
If you use some Neosporin on that nick it will heal faster!! As far as shaving, believe it or not, you can shave around it!!
When you get close to it, just use your fingertip and remove the lather from the AwCrap and work very carefully!
I’ve had worse! Just keep learning! It’s a long road but well worth the journey! :tu
Sounds good, I had a pretty gnarly cut on the bottom of my neck (not sure how much area matters in terms of healing) it left a scar that stayed white for a while, its pretty well healed now though im just concerned. About this one because its so "out there"
Thank you for your service as well, thank you for the tips, I really enjoy this art, my face now hates when I go back to cartridge haha, this is a skill im going to enjoy getting better at.Quote:
Originally Posted by cudarunner
I have intentionally gouged scars into my face to look tougher.
No, not really. My few blood draws have not resulted in any scarring.
As added information a neighbor of mine was bitten fairly severely in the face by a dog. His plastic surgeon explained that the healing property of creams on scars is primarily due to the rubbing process involved in applying the creams, not the creams themselves.
I do know that the spot on my lip that was hit by a machine gun part flying out at a million miles an hour has never grown hair over it since. The machine gun incident is an amusing story, remind me to tell it to you when next we share a pint of ale...
Carl
When next we share? Have I missed a pint of ale?
Heaven forbid that you did! I was just waxing lyrical, it's a night for waxing lyrical...Quote:
Originally Posted by souschefdude
Did some bits from the machine gun hit the top of your head too Carl?Quote:
Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider
In my experience shaving cuts seem to be fine as far a regrowth is concerned, but the scars where new skin has had to fill in patches such as the one on my chin after cycling through the back window of a car, the one on my sideburn where a chunk of my skin got gouged out, and the one on my head from where I gave myself a haircut when I was 10 haven't regrown hair.
No no. That shape's all natural...Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
Rod,
I'm military as well.
1. Unless you carved a hunk of meat out that included the folical, the hair should grow back...although I think most people realize most scar tissue doesn't include hair follicles.
2. Use some antiseptic, neosporan etc, and let that heal.
3. As to looking strack, shave around the cut and then cover the cut and hair you cant get with a band-aid. I've been in uniform long enough to see facial band-aids and know what happened...it's not just people who shave with SR that cut themselves.
The Chain of Command will understand.
Just, don't make a habit of it :nono:
The hair will grow back…
As to shaving around it, use a bit of olive oil or almond oil instead of lather and you'll be able to shave up to it really closely. Lather the rest if you like but just use oil for the "up close" fine detail stuff.
It'll probably grow back.
If you did go deep enough to remove or damage the folicals though (e.g. hair does not grow back), it's narrow and small enough that the surrounding hairs would cover the scar pretty quick anyway - making it hard to spot unless someone looks close right after you shave.