Thread: Can anyone help explain this?

Is your blade sharp enough? Or overhoned? In both cases you might be muscling your way through the shave causing irritation. If you have a very tough beard a stiffer razor might be a solution as well.

If either, wouldn't I have these problems in other areas as well?

I would vote for underhoned. White and gray hairs are chemically different. Stronger and harder than "typical" beard hair. Thats for the cheeks. The neck is probably getting irritated because of the same condition, but not for the same reason. The neck skin has a lot of microfolds that the blade is probably abrading against. I would pull the neck super taut and go lightly. The microfolds are probably getting shaved at too great an angle.

So, hone the razor a little more, and on your neck stretch it out much more and use a very low angle.

Try that.

Will your razor pass the HHT along the entire blade? If you leave hair behind, I don't care what color, your razor is dull. When you shave WTG and after the shave you still feel hair WTG your razor is dull. The only direction you should feel hair on your face when you are done with a pass is in the direction you have not done a pass yet. Stretching skin is another thing that, even with the grain, one should do. I have discovered that ATG is not something I can do on my neck unless almost all the hair is gone and I use a very light touch, I mean very light, and that can only be done with a really sharp razor.

Take Care,
Richard Adams

Originally Posted by riooso

If you leave hair behind, I don't care what color, your razor is dull. When you shave WTG and after the shave you still feel hair WTG your razor is dull. The only direction you should feel hair on your face when you are done with a pass is in the direction you have not done a pass yet.

I disagree with this statement. Technique and angle has as much to do with how much hair is removed as the sharpness of the blade. If the pressure is not even or the stroke is not even, hair can be left behind. Also, on my neck the hair grown in every direction, so never feels BBS until I complete WTG, ATG and XTG. JMHO.

Brad