Thread: Neck shaving

Ive found that to be true with my neck also. I seem to have two hollows on either side of my adams apple and with my one razor that has a smile I can get in there ok but with a straight edge I have to pull my skin sideways there and get it with the toe or heel of razor and thats a bit more tricky for me but learning it.

Glenn C

I have the same issue with weird grain direction on my neck. I am right handed and the beard on the left side of my neck grows left to right. I am simple unable to go across the grain safely. I have tried the skin tautness and scything stroke with some benefit but it is not the same as the rest of the face or right side of the neck. The DE does a better job on the left neck but the straight clearly is better on the rest of the face and neck. Oh well, practice, practice, practice.

I am about 40 shaves into my straight razor routine and my neck is definitely nowhere near as close as I would like but I seem to get a little bit closer shave than say after shave 35. I am becoming a big believer that the first 100 shaves are where the learning curve is steep. Thanks fro all the good information in this thread.

rob

I've pretty much given up on the BBS as I shave in the morning before work and unless I get up before I go to bed I find that I just don't have all that much extra time to get that daily perfect shave. So I do what is essentially a north to south shave first and a south to north shave second on cheek, jowl, and throat with a north-south and east-west, west-east on upper lip and chin. And I use a combo of scale to razor configurations depending on what seems comfortable: some the traditional scales at 90 degrees up from the razor and some 180 degrees out straight ala the Japanese approach.

I still have my ears, lips, and nose so this practice has worked for me. YMMV. I've got a Chevy PU and wish mine would vary up a bunch.

It might be counterproductive, but I decided to do a dual-mode shave for a while; straight on the face, DE on the neck. I was getting tired of massive razor burn on my left side. There's kind of a 'hollow' that I'm just not getting right yet. Anyway, a couple days in on this, I'm noticing improvement in my technique on the face. I might keep this going for a few weeks, or months, then maybe my blade-handling will have improved enough to tackle my neck again.

I use to use the J-Hook move in this areas with the M3 and that was the only thing that made is somewhat useful. It did take a while to learn how to get this area BBS with a straight razor. So it just takes time and experimenting a little.

Pabster

Well I have been triing new ways of stretching. Boy o boy. If you are able to go xtg, which I decided to just go for it, cause there is no sense in not triing. You can get nice and close in that area. I watched some vid on youtube, not sure which one it was but, he is a barber and i noticed that he was only doing a little section at a time, then restretching. I'm getting better at it. Normally I shave 3 times a week but lately I have been shaving everyday just so I can get the hang of it. So my suggestion is to go for the xtg on your cheeks then try neck. And don't be scared.