Thread: Shaving the Chin

Hello, DocZombie:

The chin and the area just below it on the neck are trouble for many of us. Here are some suggestions:

1. For the jawline on both sides, pull the skin up from your cheeks to create a relatively smooth path across the jawline and have north to south. You should get much of the stubble here.

2. In the hollow of the neck just below the jawline, if the stubble grows from the chin toward the ears, then you must stretch the skin in such a way to make the hair stand before your blade. You also might have to come in at an angle from the ear toward the Adam's apple. You must be careful here so that you don't cut yourself.

3. The chin area has many hills and valleys and, therefore, quite difficult. Going against the grain on the chin invites trouble, unless a real pro at shaving. Your best bet would be to shave the area both vertically and horizontally. Keep the razor pressure as light as you can and lower the spine, thus lowering the angle.

These suggestions might not work for you, but they do seem to work for me. That's why you can use them as the basis for your approach and from there experiment and improvise. You will eventually get it.

Regards,
Obie