Shaving Pointers For Men
- Avoid shaving your face the first thing in the morning as the face still remains puffy due to the fluids that collect on your face tissues, over a night’s sleep. which will not allow a perfect shave.
- Stubble should be made moist with warm or hot water before shaving. This swells the hair shaft allowing the blade to cut the hair and not the 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 shaving cream into stubble, A vitamin and Aloe Vera based 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 down strokes. Take your time.
- Shaving with grain means shaving in the direction of the hair growth on the face. It is best to shave this way as shaving against the grain can cause redness, rashes razor burn and ingrown hairs , which are 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 moisturizers, to soothe and protect the face, If you prefer an after shave then check the label for alcohol. Dryness and a stinging sensation are the by-products of most after-shave products, whose primary ingredient is alcohol,it may feel good at the time but alcohol based aftershaves are actually irritating to many.
- A razor should always be held at an 80 degrees angles.
- One should hold the skin over the area which is being shaved, as the skin should be tight, help clear the face without cutting the skin.
- Too much pressure should not be added with a razor which leads to the prevalence of nicks ( very tiny informal cuts ).
- Always use a shaving cream that is contained with moisturizers.
- The Regular use of a face scrub also helps to cast off in-growing hair on the face along with dirt particles.
Short strokes are better than long strokes, as in short strokes, the facial hair comes off a little at a time and leaves the area clear, however with longer strokes, the razor is unable to clear the areas of the faces that it touches later, as the blades get jammed with hair that it cuts off at the beginning of the stroke.- One must shave according to the direction of the growth, however, it is necessary to shave with a re-re-lather against the direction of the growth, which results in stunting the growth of the hair, to an extent, rendering the need to shave less often, which is helpful for the skin of the face.
