Thread: Shaving with your left (non dominant hand no lefties excluded)

This is actually similar to what i was about to look for, tonight was my first straight shave, and i was just coming to look for stuff about non dominant. I tryed moving to left hand to shave left side and it was just weird. Now here is the strange thing... i have a amazon razor that isnt really sharp or shave worthy, i had planned on using it to aid in learning strop strokes and stuff, i been sitting with it in my hand for about 40 minutes running it over my jogging bottoms and i decided to put it lefty and see if i could find a comfortable angle. Strangest thing is it felt fine shaving the left side of my face with my left hand as long as i couldnt see it, then i looked in the mirror and it was awkward again. I tryed a few times with and without the mirror (the mirror is about 3 meters away, so this has to be some subconscious thing) and i found every time it felt a lot more comfortable without.

I gotta add too, i also shave my head and today was my first straight razor head shave. I expected the back of my head to be a little troublesome but it was fine, also without a mirror..

it seems that if i can practice lefty without a mirror, i will get the muscle memory much faster than if i could see what i was doing.