Do you use an alum block post shave? If not, buy one, Osma is a good one to consider. Alum will help with weepers, nicks, and irritation. Then cold water rinse off and apply a balm. It could improve your issue.I had my first good neck shave today (albeit I've only had 20 DE shaves altogether!). From reading through this thread twice, I got two ideas:
1) At my current level of skill, three passes in any direction gives me hot spots for the rest of the day on my neck. The people who say don't do three passes got through to me.
2) If I don't go ATG, my fuzzies catch on my clothes and drive me crazy. One guy a few pages back said two works for him if he does WTG and then ATG. I figured I can always go back and work more on XTG technique if I savaged myself ATG.
So I did two passes only on my neck, one WTG and one ATG. My whiskers there are not as thick as higher on my face, so if I'm careful enough, ATG works. I got the best shave I've had so far. Close and comfortable all day long.
Tomorrow, I hope to find out whether I was just lucky this morning, or whether I've found a technique that works for me. My shave-to-shave variability is so high right now that one trial doesn't mean so much.
I had my first good neck shave today (albeit I've only had 20 DE shaves altogether!). From reading through this thread twice, I got two ideas:
1) At my current level of skill, three passes in any direction gives me hot spots for the rest of the day on my neck. The people who say don't do three passes got through to me.
2) If I don't go ATG, my fuzzies catch on my clothes and drive me crazy. One guy a few pages back said two works for him if he does WTG and then ATG. I figured I can always go back and work more on XTG technique if I savaged myself ATG.
So I did two passes only on my neck, one WTG and one ATG. My whiskers there are not as thick as higher on my face, so if I'm careful enough, ATG works. I got the best shave I've had so far. Close and comfortable all day long.
Tomorrow, I hope to find out whether I was just lucky this morning, or whether I've found a technique that works for me. My shave-to-shave variability is so high right now that one trial doesn't mean so much.
I had my first good neck shave today (albeit I've only had 20 DE shaves altogether!). From reading through this thread twice, I got two ideas:
1) At my current level of skill, three passes in any direction gives me hot spots for the rest of the day on my neck. The people who say don't do three passes got through to me.
2) If I don't go ATG, my fuzzies catch on my clothes and drive me crazy. One guy a few pages back said two works for him if he does WTG and then ATG. I figured I can always go back and work more on XTG technique if I savaged myself ATG.
So I did two passes only on my neck, one WTG and one ATG. My whiskers there are not as thick as higher on my face, so if I'm careful enough, ATG works. I got the best shave I've had so far. Close and comfortable all day long.
Tomorrow, I hope to find out whether I was just lucky this morning, or whether I've found a technique that works for me. My shave-to-shave variability is so high right now that one trial doesn't mean so much.
I had my first good neck shave today . . .
Tomorrow, I hope to find out whether I was just lucky this morning, or whether I've found a technique that works for me. My shave-to-shave variability is so high right now that one trial doesn't mean so much.
Do you use an alum block post shave? If not, buy one, Osma is a good one to consider. Alum will help with weepers, nicks, and irritation. Then cold water rinse off and apply a balm. It could improve your issue.
Glad I could help.Thanks cytus! Got my Osma alum block and it stings maybe 1000 times less than my cheap styptic pencil and works better to boot. It actually "found" fewer touchy spots than I expected and fixed the ones I knew were there.
great suggestionsFor adams apple area, I just move the skin to either side and shave. It avoids adams apple that way.
Also you could swallow and hold it, then do a pass or two while the ole Adams apple as out of the way. Just another thing to try.great suggestions
Any progress?I had my first good neck shave today (albeit I've only had 20 DE shaves altogether!). From reading through this thread twice, I got two ideas:
1) At my current level of skill, three passes in any direction gives me hot spots for the rest of the day on my neck. The people who say don't do three passes got through to me.
2) If I don't go ATG, my fuzzies catch on my clothes and drive me crazy. One guy a few pages back said two works for him if he does WTG and then ATG. I figured I can always go back and work more on XTG technique if I savaged myself ATG.
So I did two passes only on my neck, one WTG and one ATG. My whiskers there are not as thick as higher on my face, so if I'm careful enough, ATG works. I got the best shave I've had so far. Close and comfortable all day long.
Tomorrow, I hope to find out whether I was just lucky this morning, or whether I've found a technique that works for me. My shave-to-shave variability is so high right now that one trial doesn't mean so much.
Any progress?
So true. It's only been a few months for me but I can't remember how good the shave was with carts. And I certainly didn't do multiple passes or check for stubble with my fingers. Once the pass was done, the shave was done and I moved on with my day. I see DE shaving now more as an art form. An art form that in many ways is unique to each of us. Because everybody's face, hair coarseness, growth patterns, pain tolerance, comfort level, product preferences, scent preferences, etc, etc is different. I'm really enjoying it, but also have that bug to achieve an even better shave each time. I have to remember to not put so much pressure on myself and just enjoy the experience. I'm very happy with the shaves I'm getting on my face, and like many others here my neck is a work in progress. Lately, I've stuck with two passes max on my neck. It's not perfect, but it's irritation-free (most times). On my face, I do the 3 passes and sometimes a BBS, ridding the cap pass on the cheeks (learned from giofatboy on youtube).We're supposed to be clean-shaven for work. A lot of guys don't shave that day at all or just get by with the minimum to the point The Powers That Be are going to start cracking down on it. I don't have to worry about it because I love to shave. I observe these things. If a guy doesn't shave, it's going to be blatant on the cheeks and the chin. Nobody is going to notice a not-so-great shave on the neck. I really can't remember the last time I was cognizant of looking at a co-worker's neck, but the cheeks and chin are kind of hard to miss. In short: nobody is ever going to notice any stubble on your neck. After you shave and realize there's still some stubble there, it might seem like it's a quarter-inch long when you run your fingers over it, but I guarantee you nobody else can see it.
I could do 5 passes with a dull hatchet on my cheeks and be okay. My chin is a little more sensitive but my neck is most sensitive, especially the sides where my shirt collar rubs. The front of my neck is not sensitive: I can shave it any way I want. There are just two "pits" right below my ears on my neck that are very easily aggravated no matter what I do.
I just stopped worrying about the sides of my neck and just do one pass there. Nobody is going to notice it. It doesn't matter what way I go, because the hair pattern is all crazy there, anyway. That seems to be common amongst quite a few of us. I do one pass in the direction of least resistance and let it go at that. I figure it's just a battle I cannot win and I'd rather have some non-naked-eye-visible stubble on my neck than irritated skin
It's not the residual, non-visible stubble on the sides of your neck touching your shirt collar that creates the irritation, it's trying to get it all off and inflaming your skin that causes the problem.
Some people can get away with whatever they want on their neck and some can't. I'm one of those who can't and that's all there is to it.
Back when you were shaving with a cartridge, how many times did you finish your shave and run your hands over your face to gauge the quality of your work? If you're like me, you never did. I can't even compare my old cartridge shaves to my current DE shaves because I just never paid any attention to my cartridge shaves. I never had any complaints with my cartridge shaves, I just started DE shaving because it sounded interesting and have stuck with it because I like it.
Back in my cartridge/disposable days, I shaved and looked in the mirror and if my face looked clean, I was content. I can't remember once every running my hands over my face after shaving with a cartridge and I've always been in a profession where being clean-shaven was mandatory.
I've learned to do the same thing with a DE. It's easy to go too far in search of perfection and start thinking you're not getting A+ results because you're using the wrong razor/blade/cream/brush/technique. The fact is, you just might not ever get what you're after but your shave is most likely still quite great as far as shaves go.