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Head Shaving, Grooming & Care => Head Shaving => Topic started by: imrahil on June 30, 2009, 10:47:45 PM

Title: Hard areas to shave?
Post by: imrahil on June 30, 2009, 10:47:45 PM
I suspect this problem may be unique to how my head is shaped, but maybe other people have the same problem?  I have difficulty shaving the top back part of my head.  My skull kind of peaks there I guess, and then slopes down in the surrounding areas  (This is hard to describe, maybe I need pics!).  Basically, if I were to stand up straight with my head level, and then tilt my head slightly downward, it would be the highest point of my head.  I have trouble shaving this area smooth, and it's probably the place I most often cut myself.  Even when I am very careful and working slowly I can still prick myself here. 

Another area where it's sort of the same situation (but more exaggerated) is the adam's apple.
Title: Re: Hard areas to shave?
Post by: Dome of Steele on June 30, 2009, 11:18:24 PM
You're right, anything that sticks out the farthest or is at an edge tends to get caught.  All you can do is make sure your head is properly slicked up and take it slow. 
Title: Re: Hard areas to shave?
Post by: Mikekoz13 on July 01, 2009, 05:15:30 AM
Most of us have hard to shave areas. They get easier and easier to shave with practice.
Title: Re: Hard areas to shave?
Post by: GaryT on July 01, 2009, 07:09:23 AM
If I'm correct you're describing the crown of your head. We all have one and it's commonly very to get it shaved correctly. I have to spend 10 or 15 swipes in every direction to get the dang thing shaved! With me it's there and below and behind my ears. As said it gets much easier with time and practice.
Title: Re: Hard areas to shave?
Post by: Timmay on July 01, 2009, 07:17:04 AM
I have that problem too, in between my knuckles..lol 

No, but seriously, the crown of my head i have to go at it in different angles.  I always save that area for last.  Sometimes I have to re-lube that area to make sure I get the best shave there.  My hair at the crown grows in sorta like a spiral, so I have to go at all angles to keep with the grain.
Title: Re: Hard areas to shave?
Post by: GaryT on July 01, 2009, 09:37:59 AM
Yeah, the same thing with me Timm! The crown part I mean. NOT the knuckles!!  :*))
Title: Re: Hard areas to shave?
Post by: DogStar Guy on July 01, 2009, 12:09:44 PM
The back/side area. My hair is dense in that region and the grain goes all sorts of ways.
Like a patchwork quilt.

Lately I have actually started to shave that area first as it is the hardest, then I work the sides/ear area and finally the easiest area, the front.

I seem to do better working the more difficult areas first.

Eric
Title: Re: Hard areas to shave?
Post by: Ghost1988 on July 01, 2009, 02:11:25 PM
i kind of half ass the hard to shave areas. i used to be obsessed with getting them smooth but i realized that once your head drys you cant really feel em and its not noticeable anyways.
Title: Re: Hard areas to shave?
Post by: Dome of Steele on July 03, 2009, 07:00:32 PM

 My hair at the crown grows in sorta like a spiral, so I have to go at all angles to keep with the grain.
Ditto, I guess it stays that way from the old "haired" days, before I was "The Great Unhair" as I was once called on the sand volleyball court. 
Title: Re: Hard areas to shave?
Post by: ShavedForNow on July 06, 2009, 05:19:55 PM
I'm sure I'll never speak from personal experience on this one, but I would bet that the hardest area to shave is just below the waist...  :o
Title: Re: Hard areas to shave?
Post by: slyatlast on July 06, 2009, 05:33:26 PM
I'm sure I'll never speak from personal experience on this one, but I would bet that the hardest area to shave is just below the waist...  :o

Aaarrggh...TMI!!!
Title: Re: Hard areas to shave?
Post by: Kratos on July 07, 2009, 12:35:55 AM
Most of us have hard to shave areas. They get easier and easier to shave with practice.

Roger that. I have some difficult areas, a couple being in the back center of my head and the lower right hand corner.
Title: Re: Hard areas to shave?
Post by: shaved on August 06, 2009, 11:54:46 PM
Need long arms, as i shave my head with no problem at all, only place i have troubles is getting beard shaved right on both sides of face as i have only one eye and can see one side good but not the other properly.