Thread: What if i have acne?

yea, im goin to look into maybe an exfoiliating brush/comb to lightly scrub and break them free from their horrible tombs ;P

that should help i think. my situation isnt normally this bad, at all. the barber would shave an area several times quickly, so... that worked it pretty bad. and i felt the carnage as he was doin it, goin against he grain.

but to be honest, i dont know. i always though u should shave against hte grain because if i would go WTG, then ATG, id get razor burn from hell. so.. i always just went ATG once and hoped for the best with my mach3. also, if its too short (which, i was pretty fresh before my shave) ill get a good bit of irritation. so... imma let it grow out.. maybe buy some pointed tweezers to get t he obvious ones, but i just cant see what i need when lookin at a mirror -- possibly a magnifying mirror?

let it grow up and go from there

I used to have problems with ingrowns. I still get them....sometimes...but it is a constant battle.

1) let the ones you have grow out. Help them if you have to using a needle or tweezers.

2) though I have been known to pull them out, it is considerd better to just make sure they are not burried under your skin. Dermitologists seem to disagree here....

3) Wait untill they are healed to shave that area again if possible. As this helps to stop repeats, remember I said helps.

4) When healed shave with the grain as much as possible where you have problems. Try just one pass the first time, and then work up from there. The overall solution is that you cannot give yourself a BBS where ever you get shave induced ingrowns. Like me you most likely have a curly, wiry beard, which grows right along the skin. If you shave too close the hair ends up under your skin and remains there. I hope this may be of some help as it has helped me....oh, the sharper the blade the better off you should be....cleaner cut.

5) Hot water rise followed by a COLD water rinse. On days were I think I may have shaved too close or abraided my skin I avoid balms as it seems to cause problems then...odd eh, just when you think I would want to use the stuff. I use a alchohol base AS then and in fact most of the time. Fire yes, but it also disinfects. Which is just what you need when you have a wound and you just peeled off a layer of skin so.....

Originally Posted by Belegnole

2) though I have been known to pull them out, it is considerd better to just make sure they are not burried under your skin. Dermitologists seem to disagree here....

I used to relish finding the occasional uber whisker; you know, the ones that are freakishly thick and seem to be many whiskers fused together longitudinally? Through the years I've had them as thick as the diameter of a paper clip or larger. They would pull out too easily to resist. The problem was on rare occasion when they'd grow back the would want to grow at an angle deeply under the skin. Think painful boil or a deep monster zit you'd almost need to squeeze with a pliers (pain pain painful). So, I don't pluck any whiskers now.

Chris L

Originally Posted by Viola

IMHO, I'd lay off shaving for as long as you can while you start treating it. That way you aren't constantly irritating your skin in the same spot over and over.

Just to add one more conflicting opinion to this thread, I have been told this advice in the past, but I find that I get more acne when i don't shave. My theory is that when you have longer whiskers, it holds oils against your skin.

it makes sense, but also, i find that if i have some actual acne on my face where ishave if i let it grow out it clears up a good bit lol. i guess it varies? dunno... last night i used some apricot scrub in the showeron my face on my two bottom corners where the mob of ingrowns are and it helps a little -- hurt like a buzzard but... helped. exfoliated some of the skin and what not.

gonna let it clear up and then buy some tweezers and try to break the seal of any other ingrowns. go from there. maybe buy some cleaners u guys have been talkin bout