(12-12-2022, 07:45 PM)keto Wrote:(12-12-2022, 07:35 PM)jesseix Wrote:So you regularly use both hand for DE?(12-12-2022, 05:13 AM)Tester28 Wrote: I think switching hands with a DE razor (slow and deliberate) has also resulted in me putting unnecessary pressure
on strokes, so I generally avoid doing this....but it's good to be ready in case some problem makes it necessary
to switch hands.
I made myself learn to use my opposite hand a couple years ago to shave that side of my face, and when I was first getting used to it I found that I was doing great with not using pressure and just focusing on angle/technique (cuz I didn’t want to butcher myself).
But I think that now that I’m comfortable with that hand, I’ve gotten lazy and use pressure when I shouldn’t
I do, I was hoping it would be a little more intuitive than it turned out to be but within a month weeks I was feeling pretty good about it. I focused on not using pressure and learning how I wanted to hold the razor with that hand, and I think I started with top-to-bottom passes only for the first week or so. It took a few weeks before I felt comfortable enough to do passes from bottom-to-top, just felt like unnatural motion, but it did get there.
Oddly enough I did feel like I was getting closer shaves on that side of the face for a while with the “new” hand, which I attributed to focusing closely on angle and technique and consciously avoiding pressure.