This is more of a rant than a request for suggestions but feel free to give them if you wish. I am cutting my chin almost every single time that I shave. It is getting ridiculous. It is almost always with the XTG and it almost always is dead center. I can't see anything weird about my chin in that area but there must be. It is super frustrating as the chin is the hardest thing to shave that I have as it is but also is shapely and weird. I used to have a cleft when I was lighter and I am worndering if I am hitting that every time that I pass over the dang thing. Ok. That's enough.
Chin
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I know that on my chin right in the middle is a fleshy spot that no matter how I contort my face, I can't make it tighten without manually stretching it with my hands. Most of my face I can tighten or stretch with just my facial muscles, but not my chin.
I almost ALWAYS have stubble in the little grove between my lip and chin. I CANNOT shave that effectively without slicing the skin beneath my lip or on my chin. That said, I almost always end up with a weeper just to the right of my chin, no matter how careful I am. If not, then I find I usually have a bit of stubble there as well. It's odd... always the same spot.
I have a dent in my chin. I think most folks call it a cleft. Everyone on my dad's side of the fam has it. Years ago I would shave it, but I would always end up either nicking the heck out of it or leaving noticeable chin hairs in it. Then I decided to stop shaving my chin altogether. Now I have some people tell me I have a soul patch, and some people tell me I have a goatee. Whatever it is, it looks like Maynard G Krebs. But I haven't bled from my chin in 10 or more years. So grow your chin out and the problem is solved. Or don't grow it out, but then all I can tell you is shave carefully and hope for the best. 
You may need to either stretch the skin on your chin with your other hand, or do like I do, when I get to the tip of my chin, I don't really care too much about going precisely WTG, XTG, or ATG, but rather hit it from different angles, trying to keep as much of the blade as possible as flat as possible against the skin. I think some of the problems could come from not having the blade in contact with enough skin, so you are essentially not spreading the pressure over a large enough area. By allowing the blade to contact your skin along a longer portion of it, you greatly reduce the amount of pressure on any one spot, which should result in less chance to accidentally nick yourself. Similar to a person laying on a bed of nails, one nail would puncture them, but hundreds or thousands of them, support them without issue, as the amount of weight on any one nail is small enough to not puncture the skin.
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I have a dent in my chin. I think most folks call it a cleft. Everyone on my dad's side of the fam has it. Years ago I would shave it, but I would always end up either nicking the heck out of it or leaving noticeable chin hairs in it. Then I decided to stop shaving my chin altogether. Now I have some people tell me I have a soul patch, and some people tell me I have a goatee. Whatever it is, it looks like Maynard G Krebs. But I haven't bled from my chin in 10 or more years. So grow your chin out and the problem is solved. Or don't grow it out, but then all I can tell you is shave carefully and hope for the best.
I would love to do this. Unfortunately I work in a plant and have to wear a gasmask on a fairly regular basis.
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