If you still haven’t got the hang of stroking your palms against a smooth cheek each morning, you probably still have a lot to learn, old boy. Take a look at these shaving tips to get the smooth finish.
- Avoid shaving first thing in the morning. Your face would still be puffy due to the fluids that collect in your face tissues over a night’s sleep, and the perfect shave would be hard to get.
- Stubble should be wetted with warm or hot water before shaving. This swells the hair shaft allowing the blade to cut the hair, not your skin.
- Use a sharp blade. A dull blade is responsible for many shaving cuts as it drags over your face and catches your skin along with the hair of your beard.
- Thoroughly massage shave cream into stubble. A vitamin and Aloe Vera based shave cream will provide a close soothing shave and protect against razor rashes and burns.
- Rinse the blade often in hot water when shaving and use slow short strokes. Take your time.
- Shaving with grain means shaving in the direction of how the hair grows on your face. It is always best to shave this way. Shaving against the grain can cause redness, rashes, razor burn and ingrown hairs, which are all painful.
- Use an exfoliate such as a facial cleanser or scrub to eradicate dead skin cells and open up the pores of the skin to prepare it for a close shave.
- After shaving, apply an oil-free moisturizer to soothe and protect the face. If you prefer an after-shave, check the label for alcohol. Dryness and stinging sensations are by-products of most after-shave products whose primary ingredient is alcohol. It may feel good at the time, but alcohol based after-shaves are actually irritating to many complexions.
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I strongly disagree with #6, and in #8 …protect the face from what, exactly?
#6: It is true shaving against the grain causes more ingrown hairs and irritation… That is what you are protecting yourself from…
#8: Once again, you are protecting your face from irritation… Alcohol is hard on your skin; it will only cause it to redder, rashes, etc…
Facial irritation typically causes more acne, temporary swelling, ingrown hair, and cuts when shaving…
I disagree with #6. i’ve never gone with the grain. I go against the grain to get a closer shave. never had irritation or ingrown hairs.
#5 use cold water instead of warm water to rinse the hair off of your blades. Cold water will make the blade contract, keeping the edge sharper.
As for #6 – i shave with the grain first then against it to clean up anything left, i never get irritation and I get a babybutt smooth shave every time.
How come you didn’t put on the list use a razor with a moisturizer strip or multiple blades? You know what does cause irritation – those cheap ass BIC razors.
Alway rinse the blade in COLD water, not hot. This will cause the blade to contract and stiffen slightly maintaining the sharpest edge possible. Hot water will soften and distort the edge.
Gotta say this is a crap list. #1, the picture suggests using a disposable provides an acceptable shave. It does not – either a double edge safety razor or a straight blade provides the best shave.
#2, to get the closet shave you need to shave in several passes. First, go with the grain to get the hair cut off. Second, go across or against the grain, depending on what your face can handle. Third or fourth passes are OK, with the last pass being just for cleanup of the invevitable rough spots (use the back of your finger to rub your face against the grain and find them)
#3, rinse your face in warm water to remove the shaving cream/soap. Then immediately splash it with cold water to close up the pores.
Check out http://www.badgerandblade.com or http://www.shavemyface.com for some very experienced advice on shaving the “right” way. This is a good start.
Shaving cream is a scam. I have been shaving without it since reading the following:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker65.html
Also, the metal used in razor blades does not change hardness between cold and hot water, unless your cold water is ice and your hot water boiling. It’s metal. Not wax.
I’ve found it’s best to shave AFTER you’ve had your morning shower. This allows your beard to soften and swell, and causes much less irritation.
All bollocks.
1 – Throw out the stupid aerosol can of foam and mach3/fusion.
2 – get a traditional DE ’safety’ razor (old gillette safety speed or merkur hd)
3 – get a good shaving cream (like taylors of old bond street)
4 – watch mantic59’s youtube tutorials on making a lather and doing a traditional shave.
If you shave with a cartridge based razor you’ve already lost.
@Scott – Hot water gets the hair out of the blade more easily imo. Plus a warmer sensation on the skin opens the pores and makes shaving a bit easier.
#2 Shave in the shower.
#6 – You will not get a very close shave going with the grain. If you stubble is long go with the grain first. Always finish against the grain to get a close shave.
#9 Look at the ceiling while shaving your neck. Pull up on your skin to shave the areas along your jawline.
#10 Pay special attention to the space just below your nostrils, your upper lip at the corners of your mouth, the spot just below your earlobe.
#11 SHAVE YOUR DAMN NECK! Nothing looks more neanderthal than having an inch of shag growing off the back of your neck. Just reach back with your elbow up in the air and pull the razor up to your hairline. Easiest done in the shower.
I shave in the shower using shampoo as a lubricant. Also rub my face hard with a flannel to exfoliate, soften & raise stubble. Mirrors are for wimps!
This article was clearly written by a pre-pubescent boy with no experience of shaving whatsoever.
Real men shave against the grain.
It is obvious that everybody is different. There is no one common solution to get a good close shave. For some people, cold water is best. For others, hot. For some, single blade, for others, multiple blade. Some shave with, some against. You have to do what is best for you. I think the author is stating come common steps that would work for many people. But nobody would ever be able to post steps that everybody would agree on as being the best.
So stop complaining about the steps, just share what works for you so that others that may not agree with the steps can see what has worked for you.
Take care,
Brenden
Stop being so gay and grow a beard.
Get a proper shaving cream such as taylors of bond street and create a proper lather with a badger hair shaving brush. Just using these two quality products alone will solve 99% of shaving issues.
If you shave you’re hiding something. Your beard.
This post was stupid. why did it get on digg? It just listed way to many steps to shave. damn it put shaving cream on and shave, not against the grain.
Most people never learned how to shave properly. The key is lots of water, decent prep, using decent shave cream or soap with a brush, and–especially–slow beard reduction technique (shave with the grain first, relather then shave across the grain, etc.)…