moles anyone?

i have been straight shaving for about 6months or so, i still new but am getting some pretty good shaves, much better then any cartridge or DE which is great. one thing that always comes up as a problem is the mole on my upper lip. it is positioned in a very similar spot to Cindy Crawfords and is bumped up just slightly. i used to knick it fairly often with cartridge razors and i haven't knicked it yet but it sure is a pain. i haven't been able to do a full ATG on my upper lip yet without discomfort so i just leave it at the XTG but i just can't find a comfortable way to get around the thing.

does anyone have any tips or experience with something like this. because of where it is there isn't much space between my nose and it ( maybe a blade width) so i usually wait til the water touch up at the end to get around it and it is never smooth.

maybe i'm stuck with having a stubble patch there, which isn't the end of the world but it does suck when i get a great shave and the girlfriend says "oh it is so smooth but you missed a spot on your mole" and then tries to tweexe them which is much more painful then you would think.

I've heard guys just shave as though it isn't even there and sometimes, it no longer is! :chop:

X

There may be other choices but the 3 that come to mind are...

1. Shave over/thru it...which may or may not surgically remove it in the process.

2. Shave around it best you can and perhaps go after the remaining hairs one by one after at the end of the shave using water only so you can see what you're doing.

3. Use a razorless cream (depilatory) around the mole to eliminate the hair...or hot wax...or let your girlfriend tweeze them.

This is a question, absolutely NOT a suggestion.

Can facial moles just be sliced off? I had a suspicious one cut off my back, the scar is certainly less prominent than the mole, the one quick slice was virtually painless, and it did not grow back. I'm curious why people don't just have facial moles removed. Is there some reason to avoid having them removed?

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Originally Posted by xman

I've heard guys just shave as though it isn't even there and sometimes, it no longer is! :chop:

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Ha! If there was ever a time for an emoticon...!!!

I had one about the size of a "BB" (BB gun) removed from above my upper lip about 10 years ago and it hasn't grown back. It made for problems when shaving. The health plan I had at the time paid for it rather than it being denied as a purely cosmetic procedure since I would repeatedly cut it with my DE; because of that it was considered medically necessary.

Chris L

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Originally Posted by Utopian

This is a question, absolutely NOT a suggestion.

Can facial moles just be sliced off? I had a suspicious one cut off my back, the scar is certainly less prominent than the mole, the one quick slice was virtually painless, and it did not grow back. I'm curious why people don't just have facial moles removed. Is there some reason to avoid having them removed?

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For most it's considered cosmetic surgery and not covered by insurance (if you have insurance). Since it is surgery it costs a lot. That's one reason.

I have one next to my left ear.. I just go over it. It gets lightly nicked from time to time, but no issues so far. Here in Canada, it's also considered cosmetic and not covered by our public health insurance, but doctors can laser them off for about $20 a pop.

I had one on the side of my cheek. One morning my Dovo Bismarck removed it, free and painless. :D

I had one on my cheek that bled for about an hour and a half when I nicked it with my Mach 3 while on vacation in Paris. As soon as I got back to Canada, I got my family doctor to remove it. A little local anesthetic and 2 stitches later I am good to go. Being Canada, I didn't have to pay for anything.

The only downside is that the hair growth pattern around where the mole used to be is a little messed up now. This only makes sense because a portion of skin was removed then the hole stitched together.

I come right to the base of mine on the first pass and then shave around it. Sometimes it's just a hair by hair thing, but once I got it figured out it didn't slow me down.

About 4 months into DE shaving, I went to a dermatologist and had a few moles removed. I'd never gotten a close enough shave in my whole life for them to bother me prior to learning to shave properly with a DE.

Now that I've switched to straights, I'm even more happy I had it done then. I recommend it. Quick, nearly painless, and not very expensive if there's only a few. Now I just do my stroke, without having to hassle with avoiding moles. Having smooth skin, uninterrupted by either stubble or moles, just matters more to me now than it did before I started this. My 2 cents.

I have a tiny mole located about 1/2 inch below the right corner of my mouth and yes I have to be careful. I've sliced it too many times in the past, first with the mach3, then a shavette and now with a straight.
I have to slow down when I get there and shave around it. Then I make a single pass over it VERY careful and I'm done!

there are some shops that sell ultrasound deterrents - I bought one and all my moles disappeared!


Sorry I couldn't help it............:ziplip:

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Originally Posted by nickyspaghetti

there are some shops that sell ultrasound deterrents - I bought one and all my moles disappeared!

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:gaah:
Sometimes an emoticon is really all you need.

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Originally Posted by Utopian

This is a question, absolutely NOT a suggestion.

Can facial moles just be sliced off? I had a suspicious one cut off my back, the scar is certainly less prominent than the mole, the one quick slice was virtually painless, and it did not grow back. I'm curious why people don't just have facial moles removed. Is there some reason to avoid having them removed?

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Expense, maybe? I don't know for sure and am just guessing here, but I've heard that dermatologists are VERY expensive. Although in this economy, you can no doubt find a deal. A mole deal! Mo' betta mole deal, yepper!

Question:
does anyone know if there's any truth to what I've always heard, that shaving over a mole can cause it to grow and metastize and possibly become malignantly cancerous?

Funny:
Y'all remember Larry the Cable Guy's bit on the Blue Collar Comedy about moles? It went something like this (bear in mind Larry is a low-rent, white-trash redneck-looking guy in a "wife-beater"--a plaid long-sleeved shirt with the sleeves torn off.)

"My sister, she got the moles real bad all over her face. She's always callin' me up and cryin' about all her moles.

Then she went down to the Catholic church and got saved, so we call her "Holy Moley."

Then she married this Meskin ('Mexican') fella, so we started callin' her "Guaca-moley."

I've got 2 on my face I'm considering getting removed, purely because of the pain in shaving. I've resisted to this point because I refuse to remove it for purely cosmetic reasons...dunno, living in LA, I just don't want to be that guy, I guess.
I've had one removed on my back surgically, which was no sweat. Then there was the one time I tried to remove the one on my forehead with a chainlink fence...but that's another story :gaah:
...ah to be young and drunk.

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Originally Posted by Chris L

I had one about the size of a "BB" (BB gun) removed from above my upper lip about 10 years ago and it hasn't grown back. It made for problems when shaving. The health plan I had at the time paid for it rather than it being denied as a purely cosmetic procedure since I would repeatedly cut it with my DE; because of that it was considered medically necessary.

Chris L

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Alright, now I'm confused. Was it the size of a BB or a BB gun? There is a considerable difference.

It's good to know that I wasnt the only one with a hair up my butt about these kids of things. I am kinda moley myself...moley??? izzat right? Anyway, I have home-remedied 3 of them so far on my face. 2 on my cheek and 1 right below the corner of my mouth. The one on my chin was a mach 3 accident when I was about 17, bled for days, but no long term effects or scarring. The 2 on my cheek however were removed on account of a "small chip" in my razor after it was returned by my brother...these ones did not turn out so well. They also bled for days but are very bumpy and tender now, and I catch them almost everytime I shave. Thanks bro!!



And remember, practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

I think it really depends on the mole. I have one about half an inch from the right corner of my mouth, but its very flat and gradual as far as moles go, so it usually does not cause a problem. I do nick it some of the time, but usually I can shave right over it. However, if the mole is more prominent it is probably worth getting removed because if you don't end up chopping it completely off yourself, then you will nick it every time.

I have 2 moles under my chin, about the where it turns to my neck. I just shave over them with a light touch. I put a minor scratch on one (it sticks out just a little farther than the other)when I first started. Since then I just shave right over it with no problem. You might just try light passes over it. I shave with then against the grain over both, with no problems now.

I used to have a couple big ones and a few small ones on my neck that would get nicked every once in a while.

When I was in my family physician's office for an unrelated issue, I expressed 'concern' about them, how they interfered with my shaving and wondered aloud if they could be malignant.

He returned with some liquid nitrogen for some of the smaller ones that didn't look out of the ordinary, and cut out the others right there in the office and sent them off as biopsies to make sure they hadn't turned malignant.

All it cost me was the copay of the initial visit and the followup. Now I'm mole-free.

It can't hurt to ask!

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moles anyone?

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not any more! :rock:

had them removed last winter..
was at my annual checkup and mentioned to the doc that I often nicked my moles ( I had 2, left cheek and above the right upper lip) they were forever getting cut as I say and bleeding for along time, a PITA :rant:
So he sent me off to a surgeon who took one visit to check it out and another to remove and another to remove the sutures.. all healed up can't even tell where they were:)
Should have done that a long time ago!:cool:

I think of them now as I run my razor over where they were.. :tu