Thread: Shaving with both hands - is it required?

When I shave I tend to mostly go by feel than using the mirror so the blind spot issue is not an issue for me.

Originally Posted by aramirez626

For the best shave, is it necessary, or required that one shaves with both hands? Is it bad technique?

I do not think that's bad technique. I am both hands shaver with western razors but just one hand shaver with Kamisori and I can say that finally results are the same.

Ive been shaving with one hand mostly for years. I do however use my left hand for the upwared stroke on the right side of my neck. I guess i started doing that a year or so ago and it makes things easier for me. I get great shaves this way. I am not however a mythotical shaver where i spend a half hour shaving. I shower and shave before work at 7 am so i dont really have time for the hot towel stuff except on the weekends sometimes when i feel like spoiling myself. otherwise its a five minute deal. This weekend when i have time i think im going to try switching hands when i have time to spend doing so because shaving is not a good excuse to be late for work. lol

I've developed a highly convoluted and symmetrical 2 hand approach involving multiple grips and contortions. i swear there's a spot on my neck where the hair growth looks like someone set a bomb off in a forest.. i think there's a benefit in using 2 hands in terms of getting your non dominant (submissive?) hand a bit more agile, but that takes second place to doing what works for you.

Anyone manage to slice their thumb while changing hands? i'm suprised all parts of my body are still attached sometimes..

I only use my right hand and always shave with the grain, never against it, though I do sometimes go across. Like others say, it's what works for you.

From what I have learned so far its not necessary to learn to shave with both hands. I can tell you though, that I am glad I did learn to use both hands and wasn't as hard as I thought it would be either.

Originally Posted by tekbow

Anyone manage to slice their thumb while changing hands? i'm suprised all parts of my body are still attached sometimes..

if there is ONE thing i've learned from this forum, its to never shave naked!

Originally Posted by hcintineo

if there is ONE thing i've learned from this forum, its to never shave naked!

Now you have to spill.. you can't build it up like that and not tell

Originally Posted by tekbow

Now you have to spill.. you can't build it up like that and not tell

haha i'm not speaking from experience, thankfully. i'm just saying occasionally my shavette has been bobbled in my hands from slippery lather. no incidents as of yet.

Originally Posted by tekbow

Now you have to spill.. you can't build it up like that and not tell

It's common man-sense!