Shaving Jaw Line

Regardless of what hardware you use to shave with, I wanted to ask how people shave their jaw line.

Do you go 'over' it in downward strokes (perpendicular to it), so from cheek -> neck?

Or do you go along it, so from ear lobe area -> chin?

Reason I ask is a few ingrowns (medium to monster size which is normal for me) that have recently sprung up on the jawline. My hair growth is rather crazy. I have very curly hair that is prone to turn back into my skin all too often. I use a straight mostly, but sometimes a DE.

I go both ways. On my first pass I go down over the jawline as I'm shaving my cheeks, then I relather and as I'm shaving the area around my mouth I start about halfway back to my ear and come back in to the tip of the chin. When going sideways I stretch the skin up so the whiskers at the jawline are actually above my jaw when I shave them.

My hair tends to grow horizontally along the jaw line and a little under it. I still have problems getting this BBS --I try to pull the skin up and handle it that way. But it's always hard to get the right angle.


Justin

I just do a LOT of stretching up. Until my jawline skin is on my cheek.

I tried shaving the jawline without stretching once and it wasn't a good idea for me! :cry:

I come perpendicular and then go right along the jawline.

I use three strokes.

1st pass N->S, pulling skin up over jawline
2nd pass stretch it up to the side of the jaw, shave from ear to chin
3rd pass S->N stretching down with a scything stroke against the grain direction and then on up the cheek.

I get great results this way on 2 days growth and usually not quite as good on one days growth.

First I go from the chin to the earlobe, but moving diagonally so I start at the corner of my mouth, and I end underneath my jawline.

Then I go slowly from my earlobe to my chin in 1 fluid motion, but I keep the razor perfectly flat against the chin. This will cut the whiskers without me feeling it.
I need to do this only once, and my jawlines are BBS. The trick is to keep the razor flat to the skin.

This also works very well for the ATG pass on my throat.