Hi,
haveing some trouble with those areas I want to ask the professionals here...
I found a couple of threads which address this or similar problems - but those I found where started by gentlemen with a *lot* more
experience as I have yet.
So I think my problems are more likely caused by newbie-mistakes.
The problem:
Used razor: Muehle R89 with ASTRA super platinum / Gillette 7'oclock sharp edge (yellow from India I think, since the writing on the box is not cyrillic).
Normally I do as follows:
Put lather onto my face right after I took a shower.
First pass with the grain
Second pass across the grain
Third pass against the grain
Trying to prevent the skin to move with my other hand.
This works fine on greater areas like the cheeks.
But:
Areas of the jawbones: As long as the movement of the R89 is perpendicular to the jawbone it is find most of the time.
But as soon I move the razor in direction of the jawbone, I will get an burning sensation afterwards.
The other problematic area is the neck and especially the area of the larynx (sorry if this is a somehow awkward expression...I looked up "Kehlkopf"
and only found the anatomical/medical translation...I am no native speaker).
Moving the R89 over the larynx minimizes the contact area to the blade to a very small spot...which give me the already described burning sensation.
In general I seem to do something wrong, since the whole neck areas seems to be in a "alarm situation" after shaveing.
No bleeding, though.
How can I improve the procedure ?
Cheers!
dullhead
haveing some trouble with those areas I want to ask the professionals here...
I found a couple of threads which address this or similar problems - but those I found where started by gentlemen with a *lot* more
experience as I have yet.
So I think my problems are more likely caused by newbie-mistakes.
The problem:
Used razor: Muehle R89 with ASTRA super platinum / Gillette 7'oclock sharp edge (yellow from India I think, since the writing on the box is not cyrillic).
Normally I do as follows:
Put lather onto my face right after I took a shower.
First pass with the grain
Second pass across the grain
Third pass against the grain
Trying to prevent the skin to move with my other hand.
This works fine on greater areas like the cheeks.
But:
Areas of the jawbones: As long as the movement of the R89 is perpendicular to the jawbone it is find most of the time.
But as soon I move the razor in direction of the jawbone, I will get an burning sensation afterwards.
The other problematic area is the neck and especially the area of the larynx (sorry if this is a somehow awkward expression...I looked up "Kehlkopf"
and only found the anatomical/medical translation...I am no native speaker).
Moving the R89 over the larynx minimizes the contact area to the blade to a very small spot...which give me the already described burning sensation.
In general I seem to do something wrong, since the whole neck areas seems to be in a "alarm situation" after shaveing.
No bleeding, though.
How can I improve the procedure ?
Cheers!
dullhead