i got a INGROWN !!!! first one in yyeeaarrss...

marsos52 · Post by **marsos52** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:16 pm

i knew something was going on over this past week. i could feel something on my neck,,,but saw nothing.

two days back i noticed while and after my shave a small bump and with a closer look i see a hair.. and it wouldnt shave off...

damnnnnn. yesterday i sat down with a tweezer and a 5X mirror and snagged the b*****d...haha gotcha...it was a good 1/4 inch at least

if couldnt believe it.. before i started de shaving it was like i was farming them... since i was introduced to de shaving they totally disappeared
after 40 years my streak is broken

its embarassing

marc

druphus · Post by **druphus** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:36 pm

Well Marc, this may be little consolation; but, one ingrown in 40 years ain't bad!

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 5:07 pm

Marc, since this is only your first transgression, we shan't consider rescinding your membership of SMF yet, but please be aware that the Mods and Admins are are watching your situation VERY closely.......

Gareth - Chuckling in a Gordonesque sort of way..

95% · Post by **95%** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 5:41 pm

Marc, I appreciate your post, because now I know what an ingown is. Never had one in 55 years of shaving.

gsgo · Post by **gsgo** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:01 pm

It happens!

marsos52 · Post by **marsos52** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:02 pm

i know no matter what you do a ingrown can happen..

i was so surprised finding one after so many years and it was in a area that i never had a ingrown before

actually i have had ingrowns start but my razor always (almost always)
makes them pop out from under the skin and the next pass does away with it.

just not this one. im lucky in this respect ..almost all my ingrowns grow so close to my skin line i can see them.. generally my razor will shave just enough skin to make the ingrown hair pop out

and probably if my ikon was in use this week i could have forgot about it
years ago my hoffritz slant was a ingrown killer

so i wa just sharing my experience

marc

Squire · Post by **Squire** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 2:59 am

Good share marc.

brothers · Post by **brothers** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 5:50 am

My one and only appeared about 18 months ago right after I'd started using a Trac II, as a part of my awakening to the variety of razors there are to choose from. Fortunately I had been reading SMF regularly, I think, and was somehow aware that this was one danger of using the multi blade carts, so I stopped and that was the end of the problem.