Ingrowing hairs :(
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I seem to have had a spate of ingrowing hairs in the last week or so on my face and neck. What causes it? Have I been shaving too much, too little, too close? One of them swelled the whole side of my face up within a day or two. It looked like I'd been in a punch-up! Is there any way of stopping this from occurring?
MikeyT said:
drivin_me_nuts said:
(sorry - no easy answer. It's either this or the blowtorch.)
d thing that chomped through my neck last April in a slight accident I had when doing the fastback. Meaning I don't have to shave over the scar much anymore 
king thing that took a decent piece of my hand away last Autumn in a slight accident I had when I slipped while trying to tidy up the left-over mastic on the brickwork resultant from the removal of an old conservatory.The skin's still a bit tight where it's grown back. Nasty b
d that thing is.outlaw biker said:
What causes it? Have I been shaving too much, too little, too close? One of them swelled the whole side of my face up within a day or two. It looked like I'd been in a punch-up! Is there any way of stopping this from occurring?
shave with the hair not against it - if you do it cuts it too close and the skin seals the porealso try to use as few strokes of the razor as possible with a long action rather than going over the same area with short, stabbing strokes
it also stops rashes on your neck
Mars said:
MikeyT said:
drivin_me_nuts said:
(sorry - no easy answer. It's either this or the blowtorch.)
d thing that chomped through my neck last April in a slight accident I had when doing the fastback. Meaning I don't have to shave over the scar much anymore king thing that took a decent piece of my hand away last Autumn in a slight accident I had when I slipped while trying to tidy up the left-over mastic on the brickwork resultant from the removal of an old conservatory.The skin's still a bit tight where it's grown back. Nasty b
d that thing is.
drivin_me_nuts said:
Mars said:
MikeyT said:
drivin_me_nuts said:
(sorry - no easy answer. It's either this or the blowtorch.)
That's the bd thing that chomped through my neck last April in a slight accident I had when doing the fastback. Meaning I don't have to shave over the scar much anymore king thing that took a decent piece of my hand away last Autumn in a slight accident I had when I slipped while trying to tidy up the left-over mastic on the brickwork resultant from the removal of an old conservatory.The skin's still a bit tight where it's grown back. Nasty b
d that thing is.
I know, but it works! It never clogs up and you could shave a bear with it. Ok, I'll get a new one.sleep envy said:
outlaw biker said:
What causes it? Have I been shaving too much, too little, too close? One of them swelled the whole side of my face up within a day or two. It looked like I'd been in a punch-up! Is there any way of stopping this from occurring?
shave with the hair not against it - if you do it cuts it too close and the skin seals the porealso try to use as few strokes of the razor as possible with a long action rather than going over the same area with short, stabbing strokes
it also stops rashes on your neck
That's what the marketing men would have us believe
If you want to eliminate a shaving rash altogether, trim your beard down with small electric clippers with a no guard, not a normal electric shaver as if you were having a dry shave but clippers you would trim your sideboards with Phillips do a few, the shorther the hairs the less irritation you get when you go to have a wet shave. Took me ages to find out what stops it..
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