Thread: 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!

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.