Thread: What's your most ridiculous shaving injury?

My worst injury was with a safety razor. It was when I first started shaving in high school and I guess I was in a hurry. But I was doing a wtg pass, and ended up slicing off a thin slice of skin. It was about the size of a quarter. It hurt like hell, took forever to stop bleeding, and the best part ... it was picture day.

My silliest injury is the earlobe cut with a straight. I just tell people I tried to pierce my ear the hard way.

And my most consistent injury is atg on my neck just under my right jaw with a straight.

Once I got myself while going XTG near my chin--ended up w/ a 1.5" gash on the right side of my lips! That took almost 4 months to (almost) completely heal!

Once I gave myslef a (deep!) cut above my left cheek--there's still a "depression", but at least it wasn't a scar. Both times I was shaving w/ razors that I knew needed to be rehoned, but I was too lazy to do it. "Just one more shave"...(These new smilies are fun!) The moral of the story: the worst cuts to be had are from dull razors; not sharp ones--too sharp (for me, anyway) is strictly a technique issue.

Originally Posted by jockeys

er, that would be during a "rooster" shave... managed to nick my taint. I'll never use a spike point for that again...

Oooooow!

Originally Posted by Lt.Arclight

Actually,causing a major blood letting with an ELECTRIC razor happened to me. I had one of those "micro-screen" type Braun's. I used the razor strickly at work.

One morning, reporting off-duty working the midnight shift, I proceeded to the locker room for clean up for an early morning court appearance. The "micro-screen" had actually worn through-kind of connecting the dots on the screen. This left a WICKED wire-type edge that I proceeded to rake all over my right cheek, lacerating the S*&T out of it. I'm not talking a little nick either. It was so sharp, I didn't feel it-INITIALLY.

I managed to cut myself with the same type of electric razor, when the screen completety broke down during shaving. Fortunately, the cut and scar that developed is under my ear and not that visible. It's very easy to nick the scar now that I use a straight, if I don't carefully "navigate" around it. I hope I don't manage to get one of those nasty cut mentioned in this thread. I don't want any more shaving obstacles.

My worst was the first shave with a DD dwarf which also happend to be my first shave with a spike. I was shaving my left check with my left hand, same as I always did with my round point Dovo. Well I lost sight of the spike. The razor was so sharp that I didn't even feel the first cut. I pulled the razor away and I had 2 1 inch long racing stripes on my cheak that seemed to bleed forever.

I cut myself pretty good with my Thiers-Issard 5/8 round point razor on my right cheek....I've done this more than once, and I've got a couple of really "good" scars on my right cheek.

Might have to sell my smaller razors...for some reason, those damned 5/8 round points get me about every 10th time I use them.

Silly Rabbit, don’t tell them the nose scar is from shaving, tell them it’s from the sword fight.

Hate to raise an old thread from the dead, but I did a good one yesterday. Was using my index finger to wipe mineral oil on the blade & was going too fast b/c I was getting ready to go out, and what do I suddenly see arcing through the air, to land in my lathering bowl? A teeny little piece of the tip of my index finger.

be careful out there, gents. These things are facking SHARP.

Yeesh,you guys are going to scare the crap out of the new shavers!I've only got a couple months in myself and have had a couple of small nicks,but if I had read this thread earlier I might have been scared off.

Originally Posted by aroliver59

Yeesh,you guys are going to scare the crap out of the new shavers!I've only got a couple months in myself and have had a couple of small nicks,but if I had read this thread earlier I might have been scared off.

No kidding!! I've only been at it for a few months, and had my share of cuts, but nothing that didn't heal in a day or two....nothing like you guys are talking about! I would definitely be deterred from trying the straight if I thought all of those injuries were common place. There should be a "NEWBIE BEWARE" warning at the beginning of the thread.

Dave