Thread: Do any of you guys notice you get a better shave on one side of your face??

Originally Posted by ecormier

Ok, so now that I have your attention, lets spin the subject on its head: Does anyone else notice that they shave better with their non-dominant hand? As a right handed person, I always find that I can shave better with my left hand. Here's what I think is happening: I think my dominant hand has more confidence, and therefore tends to use more pressure and I pay attention less, whereas with my left hand I tend to pay a lot of attention to angle, pressure and most importantly: the feedback.

Anyone else see anything similar, or am I just nuts?

This subject has come up heaps of times and the answer is usually that the non dominant hand gives a better shave as you are more cautious with it.
I imagine that as your confidence and technique improve the added caution would diminish though.

for what its worth I have been at this for 3 years now about.

I used to shave with my right hand only and my shaves on the left side of my face used to suffer. Now I use my left hand and it has improved my shaves considerably on that side of my face but it still wont quite match my right side.

Its probably a combination of things but our faces are not actually perfectly symmetrical. I feel my left side is slightly more hollow with a more pronounced cheek bone. I have to compensate by inflating the cheek slightly. I don't need to do this on the right side for some reason.

When I was first starting out I noticed that I was indeed doing better with my non-dominant hand. I am now happy to say that I have corrected that problem and get the same shave on both sides

Originally Posted by ecormier

Ok, so now that I have your attention, lets spin the subject on its head: Does anyone else notice that they shave better with their non-dominant hand? As a right handed person, I always find that I can shave better with my left hand. Here's what I think is happening: I think my dominant hand has more confidence, and therefore tends to use more pressure and I pay attention less, whereas with my left hand I tend to pay a lot of attention to angle, pressure and most importantly: the feedback.

Anyone else see anything similar, or am I just nuts?

LOL - was thinking this the other day, only I took a different approach, can one side of the blade be sharper than the other?

Still to this day, I think it's technique, but if I'm rushed, or not quite in the Zen mode, or I'm using a blade I haven't used in awhile, I'll get the slight stubble on my neck on the left side, which means my dominant hand isn't doing as good a job as my left hand (non-dominant)...but yes, I sometimes get an inconsistent shave, and what's funny is sometimes it's with razors that gave a BBS shave a week or two before...for me, I think it's mood, the position of the stars...but yes, it happens.

I think you might be nuts, but no worries, you're in the right place.

I get a better shave on my right side. While it happens to be my dominant side, I don't believe that's the reason. I just can't get ATG on my left side as close. It's not the angle of the stroked..just weird whiskers on that side..

Originally Posted by WW243

I think you might be nuts, but no worries, you're in the right place.

Ha ha now that's funny right there

Originally Posted by Phrank

LOL - was thinking this the other day, only I took a different approach, can one side of the blade be sharper than the other?

Still to this day, I think it's technique, but if I'm rushed, or not quite in the Zen mode, or I'm using a blade I haven't used in awhile, I'll get the slight stubble on my neck on the left side, which means my dominant hand isn't doing as good a job as my left hand (non-dominant)...but yes, I sometimes get an inconsistent shave, and what's funny is sometimes it's with razors that gave a BBS shave a week or two before...for me, I think it's mood, the position of the stars...but yes, it happens.

I don't think that is the right answer, I use both sides of the blade on both sides of the face LOL