Thread: Switching Hands

I started shaving with both hands right from the getgo....I am left handed but use my right hand for some things like: writing on a blackboard...I started shaving my right cheek, then progressed to the jawbone and neck; in about two weeks, I was shaving regularly with both my hands. Good luck.

I think the degree that one can use the non-dominant hand varies among individuals , some may find it easier the others . I'm right handed so I started shaving with a straight using my right hand , only . When I first heard about shaving with both hands , I thought it was a joke . I thought only a fool would try to use a straight razor with both hands . I soon found out that it wasn't a joke , and that many guys used both hands . So , I decided to give it a try . I started with the easy areas first , and pretty soon I was doing the left side with the left hand , and the right side with the right . I can do many things with my left hand , so I found it pretty easy to learn to shave left handed . Some folks may not find it to be easy .

That's true enough, but I am very, very, right handed. When I first started trying to use my left hand to shave it shook like the Waco Kid's hand in Blazing Saddles.

Originally Posted by Rolex1979

Thanks guys been thinking about this my self while waiting on my razor

Told you we'd be learning together lol. Soon........... very soon now ........ Countdown!!!

As I recall when I first started I used my left hand but soon after began using both which I still do now. I'm glad I did because when I use my Japanese razor using both hands is a must.

It's a little tricky at first, but you get used to it. Muscle memory is your friend. Some guys are perfectly happy shaving with only one hand, though.

I'm predominantly right handed, there are some things I can easily pick up with my left hand that I normally do with my right and some things I can do with my left hand that just feel awkward and strange if I tried it with my right hand.

I was hoping shaving would be easy to learn with my left hand, after I had already learned it with my right. So one day I placed the blade on my left side burn with my left hand and thought well that's as far as this is going to go today and it's been a very slow processes since. After four months of left handed shaving practice, I'm only comfortable WTG on the cheek and side burn, soon I will be adding a part of the neck. At this rate it may be a few years before I will be comfortable using my left hand to shave with.


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My beard grows from Adam's apple to ear on my neck. I find it much easier to shave WTG by using my left hand to do under my right jawline and my right hand to do under my left jawline.

I know, seems a bit counterintuitive - almost as thought it would require some contorsion. But it doesn't, and it REALLY made it easier - and greatly reduced irritation - in these areas once I made the discovery.

Originally Posted by Malacoda

My beard grows from Adam's apple to ear on my neck. I find it much easier to shave WTG by using my left hand to do under my right jawline and my right hand to do under my left jawline.

I know, seems a bit counterintuitive - almost as thought it would require some contorsion. But it doesn't, and it REALLY made it easier - and greatly reduced irritation - in these areas once I made the discovery.

I do the same except on my second pass (XTG + ATG).

I've tried a few times using my non dominant left hand and both times I cut myself. I do agree it's easier to get at any angle using both hands but for me, I can get a BBS shave with just my right. I tried brushing my teeth with the left hand but it just feels too weird.