Hi guys. I, [17F] have literally never ever ever shaved before just recently and I really need help please!! Nobody in my family has, either. Or at least nobody that I’m close enough to talk to. I’ve been waxing since I was about eleven or twelve, and my mum has always been adamantly against me shaving because the hair grows back thicker or whatever else she said. Recently, I started laser. Of course, I can’t wax or thread when getting laser hair removal. Or reduction. Whatever it is! Therefore, I have to shave the areas I’m getting lasered (full arms, underarms, face). My mum says I’m meant to shave dry. No wetting the skin, no creams, no nothing. But my skin is always so dry and I remember being about thirteen/fourteen and my friends would always talk about how smooth their skin would be after shaving (which of course I didn’t get since I was always waxing). My skin is absolutely not smooth. It burns slightly after I’m done with shaving, and it’s like it’s can still feel the blade going over it even when it’s not. It’s bumpy and I swear I’m shaving skin off and not just hair. It’s like there are a bunch of tiny cuts in my skin, especially when I’m shaving my hands. It makes it seem really dry when it’s just the cuts that ended up getting caused. I use the disposable ones, because I asked my mum and she said to just get those. She was no help, really. She said just pick whatever and hadn’t even been there with me 😞 Then again, she has very fine and thin hair and barely has hair growth. Plus, her hair is light. She only waxes. If it helps, I’m Pakistani. So my hair growth is astronomical. She also not to wet the blade or wash it out so I literally use tissue paper to try and clean out the blades when it stops shaving off my hair mid-way through doing an arm. I really feel like I’m doing it wrong because surely it shouldn’t sting this badly??? And the fact that my mum has never shaved and never been near and razor a day in her life makes me thing maybe she’s not right. But even when I show her videos of other people she says that it’s different for them because they’ve got thinner hair or that they aren’t doing it right?? And then I’m embarrassed to ask my friends and ask them for help because if there even if anything extra I need to buy like shaving cream like I’ve seen online, I can’t because my purchases are monitored and I’m basically not allowed out unless it’s for school and I am stuck basically. How do I shave? Is the main and final question. In particular, how do I shave my arms and my face correctly? submitted by /u/iq_dk
Originally posted by u/iq_dk on r/AskGirls