How to Shave Properly - The Right Way to Shave for Men and Women

The moment you begin to notice hair on your face, if a guy, or on your legs, if a girl, is a good time to begin the hair removal process. It’s important you learn to do it right without making costly mistakes that may affect your complexion or the degree to just how hairy your legs get. 

Ladies, girls and women do not want much if any hair growth encouraged on their legs. Men, boys and gentlemen want to develop an even and shapely beard growth. 

Men, boys and males tend to want to encourage hair growth achieving a nice even beard or five o’clock shadow for the sexy Don. Johnson look.

Who is Don Johnson?

He’s the hot actor who made the five 0’ clock shadow a hot look all men hoped to perfect.

It makes for the perfect close beard women love and men can enjoy on the weekend or other times when they take a day or two off from shaving. It looks good and yet can only be achieved when proper shaving techniques are achieved.

The rugged Don Johnson look must be clean and free of break outs and harsh lines.

Start by collecting the tools and accessories needed for the perfect shave.

Tools Required for the Perfect Shave

1. A Shaving Facial Towel or Barber Towel
2. Pre-Shave Oil Softeners
3. Shaving Cream
4. After Shave

First and foremost you should steam your face by laying a hot towel on your face. Steep or dunk a clean dry barber towel into a sink of hot water, comfortable to touch, wring out and lay over face relaxing a few seconds, up to 30 seconds or longer but don’t allow the towel to cool on your face.

The warm towel on the face opens pores allowing the hair to swell rising from the pores for a better closer clean shave. This can be done while in the shower adding a shower mirror for shaving.

No one, man nor women for that matter, should shave in an aggressive manner regardless of how much hair you have or the degree to which it is course or rough. 

The amazing pre-shave oils or creams available for shaving soften beards making it easy to shave the coarsest of beards or facial hair. 

• Begin by steaming face with a barber towel either in or out of shower.
• Apply Shaving Cream in a Downward Motion. (after shaving oil or cream)
• Shave in the direction the hair grows typically downward. Shave with the grain of hair as it changes around the face and along the neck. Determine the grain or direction of beard or facial hair growth by running hand along face and neck if it feels prickly or resistant you are going against the grain if smooth and lying down while running hand along hair it is the grain or in the direction of hair growth, shave in this direction.

Young ladies who begin to shave their legs tend to be overly excited making sure to shave and shave well only leading to the common mistake. Women should only shave their legs from the knee down. Most women don’t grow anything other than downy type hair above the knee and you want to keep it that way.

Girls you do not want to replace that hair with more work or damage cut and dry your upper leg area. If it feels soft and barely there don’t shave.

Step by Step Shaving for Legs

• Warm legs in warm water or with a hot towel, this softens and raises hair making it easiest to get a close shave.
• Apply shaving cream to one leg at a time, so it doesn't dry.
• Run the razor against the grain of hair growth typically down, run hand along hair if it feels soft it’s the grain if the hair feels prickly it is not.
• Once all hair is removed rinse and move on to next leg repeating the process.
• Finally once you've removed all appropriate hair, rinse well, and while legs are still damp apply moisturizing after shave lotion for soft supple legs.  This locks in more moisture for soft sexy legs.