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How many people out there are right or left handed.....but are more comfortable using their other hand when shaving their face?
This is an odd discovery of mine that I am more comfortable shaving more of my face with my left hand....even though I cant really do anything else left handed.
Dominant right handed, here, and can't use my left hand for anything other than using a straight. It's interesting what you say because I pretty much fall in to this category, too. What I find is that it's easier to stretch the skin with my right hand, giving a more natural feel to my left holding the razor. Very strange, but true.
I use both hands about equally shaving with a SR.
Right handed , shave with Both hands equally , but for 40 years with my DE I use only the right and still do after 2 years with a straight. Just noticed it a couple weeks ago when I went on a 3 day bike ride, never thought about it but as I was shaving I started shaving my face and never changed hands with my DE, old habits but I use both when shaving with. Straight. Tc
Lefty. Shave with both. Some days both hands are great, some days only one seems to do what I want usually the left but occasionally the right.
I write with my left hand, but shoot and bat right handed, I golf left but can put either, when doing millwork I can scribe left or right handed, I shave using both. There are some people who are so dominant on one side than the other that is is very difficult for them. My mother injured her dominant arm and could not even operate a vacuum with her other. One of those jokes left handed people tell, if you want to see confusion give a right handed person a left handed pair of scissors. I think a big part of it is hardwired in our brain and there is nothing we can do about it, however we can learn new things, and it is fairly easy for some and other have a really tough time of it because of the wiring.
am pretty decent at using both, although left-handed, on my right-side neck is a bit wonky....
shave with my right only. i have very little dexterity in my left hand, though it has stronger gripping force than my right, which i find odd.
I'm left-handed. Most southpaws are pretty good with both hands. it's just a consequence of living in a right handed world. In many places as a child you are either encouraged or forced to use the right hand for a variety of stupid reasons. There are many out there who think of themselves as right handed but are really born left handed but were forced to be right handed.
I do my stropping with my right hand. if I use my left it feel very awkward.
I'm right handed. I shave using both hands about equally. Oddly, I've felt just as comfortable with the razor in either hand from the very beginning.
Pete <:-}
Ambi... comfortable with both lol
Left handed. Shave with both....not as good with the right yet.
Seems there are a lot of lefties on here. Maybe just because they are answering? Or is it something more....
We're taking back the country.Quote:
Originally Posted by 57vert
at first i was right handed...but now i use both (probably 60% right and 40% left)
the only part that I can do with the right hand is the mustache area
Lefty - I switch hands while shaving. There are some awkward angles and spots I will stick to my left hand but that's more because of how my beard grows on neck
i use both hands with everyting
My dominant hand is my right but I use both while using a straight razor, I'm left handed playing Golf and Cricket and I shoot right handed but my left eye is my true eye when sighting.
Use'em both, that's what they are there for.
Nope! Ain't gonna do it!
Right handed, shave right handed. Ain't gonna let the razor in my left hand at all.
I'm ugly enough as it is!!!
Same here with the right hand left eye dominance.Quote:
Originally Posted by celticcrusader
I'm right handed. I can use left hand to shave with the SR, but its more comfortable for me to use the right hand in the whole shaving.
My dormant hand is my right hand. With my back and neck injury, I had to learn to use my left hand, I still write with my right hand, but I can use my left hand. When I shave I use both my right and my left hand, I use my right hand more than my left unless I am having problems with my hands being numb.
Left handed and fill comfortable with the razor in either hand, surprisingly so.
Im a chitóg (lefthanded) cant do anyting with me right hand apart from scratch meself
I'm a southpaw. Some things I do RH (or became RH from needing to do them RH when I was younger) though.
I shave and write LH.
I know that some people used to make babies/children do things right handed when they were growing. I wonder how common that was.
I am right-handed but do use my left and right hand for straight razor.
Roger
HillbillyRevered,
I just read the whole OP. That doesn't sound too strange. I use a kitchen knife LH, but would probably use a machete RH. I would fell a tree LH, but probably split wood RH. I hammer LH, but a sledgehammer I might use RH. I always used pocket knives LH, but since I carry other things in my left pocket, I've gotten used to opening/closing/using my pocket knife right handed.
Left-handed, but I do a few things in life right-handed (bowling, for example).
I've gotten pretty ambidextrous with the straight razor, though it took me a while, and I'm still a little more comfortable when I'm shaving with my dominant hand.