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Originally Posted by G-Benz
Straight razor yields the best shaving results for me by far...but I only trust a skilled barber to do it properly.
I once had a novice trim my mustache...left some bad cuts just under my nose that took over a week to heal...didn't feel too good after the haircut and shave when the barber applies that stinging tonic!!!
As an African-American, razor bumps are a real problem...the curly hair has a propensity to burrow under the skin and regrow, leaving a bump...you have to extract with tweezers...painful and time-consuming!
I figured out after some years of treacherous skin problems to shave against the grain. But I think my facial skin has toughened up over the years, so no matter what I do, I have very little problems with ingrown hairs these days...
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I noticed that skin thing among African-Amricans when I was in the Navy. It is not universal, I mean I knew lots of guys, black, who had no problem but a smaller number were like you and actually received medical permission NOT to shave (that was needed because of gasket issues with a gasmask seal). Did you see that genetics thing hosted by Cornell West on PBS about African origins of black Americans? That's where all of this comes from. I wonder if this is related to the origin of your ancestors. I'm betting yours were from the central coastal region as (IIRC) they have more body hair than the central and sub-Saharan and Namib blacks.