Thread: tips please

Everyone will give you what works for them but unfortunately your growth pattern is unique to you so you have to experiment with skin stretching and different angles of attack and different strokes.

personally, I go down my chin and straight around under my chin and then ATG up my neck to the very bottom of my chin while stretching my skin. It works for me.

One good tip is to elevate the chin really stretching underneath it and then take your index finger and feel where the growth remains and in what direction. Use the index finger to emulate the stroke you want to make with the razor and then try to duplicate it with the razor. This might help.

Good luck,

Lynn

Thats probably the true beginnings of the goatee. I have also chosen that route.

Originally Posted by BeBerlin

Three things:

1. Patience
2. Experience (comes basically for free with 1.)
3. This Wiki article: Advanced shaving techniques for the straight razor - Straight Razor Place Wiki

The flat cutting angle for the ATG pass, combined with some suicidal scything motions, works well for me.

++1. it's gonna take time. I'm very cautious when it come to that area....Be careful of your angle.

do you strop just prior to chinning?