Thread: help out a noob with shaving neck

I too have trouble with my neck. I've found if I put my chin down against my chest and hold the skin between the collar bones tight and lift my chin back up it streaches differently so I can get different areas easier. Or even just tipping my chin and shaving without streaching. It bunches the skin in that area a little and exposes the areas that normally suck in when I stretch.

I hope this helps.

Alright. had my shave and gave s few things a go. Making faster passes definently helped. Buffing went ok but have irritation mainly to areas of Buffing but that could be a pressure issue. Better than last shave though so will keep at it and sure won't be too long before its sweet. Even with irritation is still a better shave than my fusion cartridges.

I have trouble with my neck also, the hair seems to grow in all directions. If it helps it is getting easier as time goes by and my technique improves. I usually get it pretty smooth after the second pass.

Russell

1. Prepping is not necessarily a good thing. My neck fares better with cold water than warm. With warm temperature I get heat spots. Figure out which type you are.

2. My beard goes from right to left. All over my face. Ah-huh weird lol. From the sound of it, you're like me. That's why in my upwards and downwards strokes, I make them tilted slightly ie razor not horizontal. This way it can a little across or against grain action. Never go totally sideways, that irritates the hell out of my neck.

3. Go very lightly and never add pressure even if you're tempted. Let the razor move around your skin not push it down scrapping it. I have a not very sharp razor and always tempted to do that.

Good luck. Let us know how you progress.

Originally Posted by Steelstubble

My neck hair rebels when I go ATG resulting in serious skin irritation and ingrown hairs so I had to get creative myself. I discovered I could shave from my throat outward at an angle and do a XTG stroke on my neck hair which grows straight down. When going from the throat outward your razor has to be at an angle kind of like this "\" following your jaw line.

That's exactly what I do! It took me a while to figure it out. Hope it works for you.

Great advice above! I have some odd directional growth and found that in addition to stretching, I use the opposite hand to shave. For me it gives a better ATG angle (ear to middle of neck). It requires a bit of contortionism but I've had better results than without. Good luck!

Chris

So I know and try most all of the techniques (prep, scything, perfectly honed blade, hot, cold, mega stropping, stretching, etc.) and some days I really score a close and irritation free neck and others not as much. I, at least, get good results nearly every day in this area. It's the great/fantastic/can't stop touching my neck results that seem intermittent and elusive. The problem is that at this degree of fine tuning I have absolutely no idea what made the better days work over the lesser days.

Originally Posted by 1holegrouper

So I know and try most all of the techniques (prep, scything, perfectly honed blade, hot, cold, mega stropping, stretching, etc.) and some days I really score a close and irritation free neck and others not as much. I, at least, get good results nearly every day in this area. It's the great/fantastic/can't stop touching my neck results that seem intermittent and elusive. The problem is that at this degree of fine tuning I have absolutely no idea what made the better days work over the lesser days.

Probably you, ie tired, hungover, thinking about other things. Maybe not though.

My neck hair is like barbed wire and grows in all kinds of convoluted ways. It also starts nearly at my collar bone. Early on, I tried to figure out all the ways I could go WTG on the first pass. It was so complicated, I just said the heck with it. I now just shave south to north under the jaw on the first pass and north to south on the second. I get a close comfortable shave like this. The key, for me, is to strop the devil out of my razor. I shave at night, and several times during the day, I'll do 50 passes on my SRD's premium strop. Good luck, persevere and you'll develop your own technique.

I find that tilting my head back as far as possible and pointing my chin towards the sky to stretch the max out of my neck works best. I too have sideways-growing neck hair and get a great shave going south to north and touching up a few areas going diagonal in various directions from north to south.

-john