Paying off a defect
May. 8th, 2007 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The most valuable lesson of my trip to Montreal: I've finally learned to effing shave.
While over at
capfox I used a bit too much shaving cream (to his and
kamalloy's) amusement. I tend to make a bit more of a mess because I'm paranoid about shaving. I'm paranoid about shaving because I was really bad at it and tend to have a terrible shave and/or several nicks.
So, on hearing my explanation
capfox passed on a piece of advice he had gotten from
bannoubunkacoby. Namely, don't press when you shave, just shave the same are repeatedly.
That has done the trick. It took a bit of work In the areas where I had more fuzz it's hard to move the razor at all without pressing. However, the end result was a much closer shave and no nicks.
I assume many people knew this already, but it does make me annoyed at razor commercials which show people using the razor in ways that don't work for me at all. Anyhow, this actually makes my life a bit easier. If I needed a close shave, my general technique was to just do it enough hours before an event that I had time to heal. Nicks don't really hurt, but actively bleeding tends to undercut a professional appearance.
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That has done the trick. It took a bit of work In the areas where I had more fuzz it's hard to move the razor at all without pressing. However, the end result was a much closer shave and no nicks.
I assume many people knew this already, but it does make me annoyed at razor commercials which show people using the razor in ways that don't work for me at all. Anyhow, this actually makes my life a bit easier. If I needed a close shave, my general technique was to just do it enough hours before an event that I had time to heal. Nicks don't really hurt, but actively bleeding tends to undercut a professional appearance.
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Date: 2007-05-08 05:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-08 05:52 pm (UTC)Dad taught me to shave when I was 16 or so. At that point, one or two strokes basically did the job. Simple enough really.
As I got older my chin hair got darker and/or thicker and it got a lot more challenging. That combined with the fact that light strokes are just hard to do when I've got a bit of fuzz.
So it wasn't a matter of trusting the ads so much as the fact that they reinforce the small number of stroke mindset. Many of the ads are transparent BS, I just didn't realize the way they were BS.
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Date: 2007-05-08 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-08 06:28 pm (UTC)I tend to put more emphasis on the light strokes being hard when I had real stubble. That meant that the technique just didn't feel right and so required more systematic experimentation to find.
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Date: 2007-05-08 11:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-05-09 11:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-08 06:43 pm (UTC)You are horribly punny. *attacks with with a QUATTROBLADE (whatever that is)*
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Date: 2007-05-08 06:54 pm (UTC)