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  • razor alternates between hands

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  • razor stays in dominant hand

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    I'm left handed and I was having trouble shaving with my right hand but after a couple of months, shaving with either hand is no problem. Just keep practicing and it will happen.

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    The only spot I can't really get to with my right hand is the left side of my neck. Sometimes I try with the left hand with different degrees of success.

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    mostly right, only left if its a spot i cant get to on the left side. my left hand is spastic too, lol.

    -micah

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    I shave right handed, but I will use my left hand as assistance to brace the razor in some spots. I find I can do plenty of things just fine ambidextrously, but, I don't grow a dense jungle of facial hair all over my face so my right hand does just fine to cover the needed areas.

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    I started using both hands and am still a strong advocate of it for most men. The off hand never really got comfortable for me frequently leaving red zebra stripes behind and since those areas that normally benefit from an off hand attack, like my cheeks and neck have such light growth that it doesn't benefit the result to switch, I gave it up about 6 months ago. Now I do the whole face with my dominant hand and don't have the red stripes.

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    So far I only have about 6 shaves under my belt with the straight, but I'm
    a switch-hitter. I started life left handed, along with an older brother,but my
    parents forced right handedness on us. This was typical in the 40 & 50 when
    we were infants. Left handed kids were like red-headed stepchildren.

    Then when I was about 9, a family friend lost his right arm in an accident,
    and he right handed. Poor guy was about 63 years old, and couldn't do
    anything left handed. Since I was a Boy Scout, I figured it was time to
    "Be Prepared", buck the system and do most things with either hand.

    So I have always shaved "even-handed" as they say in the south, but
    I will admit, the first time that cold steel came up real close and personal
    was an eye-opener.....in either hand.

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    when I first started using a straight, I shaved only with one hand ,my right,then I found this wonderfull site and watched Lyn`s video on how its done.let me tell you the first time I held the razor in my left hand I was turning it the wrong way when looking in the mirror and other dumb stuff and it just felt very uncomfortable and quite unnatural.
    After about 4 or 5 goes things started to settle down , now I start off with my left hand and shave top to bottom first pass left side then I swap hands and use my right hand to do bottom to top on my left side then top to bottom right side then change and do bottom to top right side with left hand then change to my right again for chin and touch ups. I also re lather in between passes. It is not exactly how Lyn dose it but this way I feel the most comfortable.
    So I guess what I`m saying is that if you persist with using both hands it wont take long to master and you will wonder how in hell you did it before
    Thats my experience with it any way
    Have a good all
    Kind regards Peter

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    I use both hands. However, I read somewhere (maybe in an old barber's manual) that when barbers are (or did) learning to use a str8 razor to give someone a shave, the razor is strictly to be used in the same hand. Maybe that only applies to if you are shaving someone else or the true professionals.

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    Ive started shaving with both hands only recently and i must say for my tremendous amount of facial hair growth the results have been far better. With one hand i could get a glass finsih on the right side and a sandpaper finish on the left, using two hands i can control the razor a lot better on the left of my face allowing me to really get into and around my jawline. Of course i have that terrible problem of left to right neck growth and as such find shaving against the grain in that area nigh on impossible with either hand, shit happens i guess.

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    Right now I am 0-handed because I need to get a blade sharp enough to use. But that is another story. I imagine when I do get a good shaver, I will try to learn the 2-handed shave technique. My problem is I have about as much dexterity in my left hand as a drunken puppy , so we shall see.

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