Thread: What's your most ridiculous shaving injury?

I have been using a straight razor for about 2 months now and until last friday I haven't experienced any injury that would be worth telling somebody about... But this friday evening after I finished my shave I was checking my face in the mirror and I noticed a couple of hairs growing above my nose just between my eyebrows. I never liked this Lenin - style eyebrows, so I decided do shave it of. It went well, but as I was moving my W&B from the forehead area down to the sink to clean it, I felt some pain in my nose and I noticed a stream of blood falling to the sink. When I looked into the mirror, I realized that I cut myself on the tip of my nose pretty bad, actually it wasn't far from cutting the whole tip of my nose of... It took about 20 minutes to stop the bleeding.

It looks much better now, I am probably only going to have a scar about 1 cm long, but I keep on thinking how would I explain to somebody that I cut the tip of my nose of while shaving...

Did anyone else here get a nice scar while shaving with a straight?
What other shaving injuries have you had?

I cut the side of my nose once, just at the corner above my upper lip. I was doing my XTG pass on the mustache area with my SRP Mastro livi and was just a little too high up and I felt a little slice , not much and you couldn't really see I had cut myself there because of where it was.

I haven't really cut myself very badly since I've been using a straight.

There was one time with my Savage... I was just going to start my WTG pass at my sideburns. I put the razor to my face, and there was a bit more resistance than I was used to. I figured the razor had probably caught in my actual sideburns (with a razor that large it's sometimes hard to tell where it is on certain parts of my face). On moving the razor, I found that I had actually taken off a thin slice of my face. It was small and shallow; no mark is left behind. So now, I don't try to get all that close to my sideburns when going WTG; I deal with that on the ATG or touchup pass, so I can clearly see what I'm doing.

At least now you know your razor is sharp. When you cut yourself but don't notice right when it happens.

My most ridiculous shaving injuries, were from cartridge shavers, that would leave my neck bloody and sore afterward. Yea, who would think you can cut yourself with a cartridge shaver?

Don't tell me straights are dangerous.

My most ridiculous shaving injury was several years ago when I was still using a Norelco electric and somehow managed to cut myself up pretty good while trying to get that last little holdout hair. You have to be pretty talented to cut yourself with an electric!

With a straight I somehow managed to close the blade on my fingers and cut a couple of them pretty deep.

When i was starting i cut myself twice in a row , i was using a spike point doing wtg pass in my sideburns while i noticed something dripping in my elbow...i had actually butchered my earlob...really bad.
I cut myself bad after that one a couple of times also with spike points but it was because the razor was warped towards the tip...since then i had my friend round the points and havent cut myself since.
Good shaving!!

Yeah, you're going to want to pluck those eyebrows rather than shave them or they're always going to be an issue. Get some good German made tweezers.

I learned quickly to watch where the point is when shaving with the heel. While shaving my upper lip I got a good nick on my cheek one of my first couple shaves. Lesson learned.

Nothing serious, just nicked my ear lob once

I managed once to cut my ear lob with a ROUND point... go figure...

Ok everyone, I have been wetshaving for about 6 to 8 months now....I am an avid wetshaver and love everything about it......Here's my injury....I cannot recall whether it was my first time shaving or one of my first times shaving with my straight but here is what happened. First of all, let me start by telling you guys that I shave in the tub quite often so that my hairs are extremely lifted and my face is nice and moist.......So this story takes place in my bathtub.....Well here goes. I was doing a great job shaving and not nicking myself......I was proud and pleased that I hadn't......I am not sure what happened....but maybe I got ****y....or just did not think.......but after every few passes, I would rinse the razor off in the tub by shaking it around......well............one of my shakes was a little to crazy and I nicked my.....I know what everyone is thinking and No, I didn't cut the goods.......but I did put a huge gash into my leg.......so big that I had to go to walmart and get butterfly stitches to hold it together.....I now have a large scar there to remind me to be more careful.............