How do you shave your balls? Every time I’ve tried with my trimmer it pinches and tears my sack and I’m too traumatized to try it again unless there’s a full proof bloodless method. Usually I just pluck as many as I can tolerate while I’m sitting around watching YouTube or somethin. But it’s such a pain (literally). Pic unrelated
I’ve done them with a straight razor and it all comes down to technique and sharp blades. Sharp blades are most likely to cut hair than skin on a flat surface. Make sure to either use a new blade or strop your SR
Firstly cook your nuts, really steam your boys. You want them very warm and relaxed so you can gently pinch, stretch and wrap the loose skin around your finger. At that point it becomes much more accessible. I recommend doing this sitting. If using a straight razor use a steep, less aggressive angle.
For weed wacking around a post, pull it tight and if its too slippery, use a single slip of toilet paper to hold on. Once everything is in tension you may tread carefully with your razor(s). You may need to pull it in many directions to reach every spot.
That will get 50-70% of hair. For the rest I recommend squatting over a mirror. Again, make sure to pull everything in tension before hand and get everything very hot and steamy. Pubes are like spaghetti, they’re softer when cooked.
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Indeed “really steam your boys” is what I needed to hear today.
Babe wake up, new copypasta just dropped.
All these replies and nobody mentioned a kitchen blowtorch?
Do your nuts and a creme brûlée at the same time
Overkill. Just run a Bic lighter over your sac 30-40 times.
grab and handful of hair and rip them out of your ballsack 👍
fuck u, that hurt. I shouldn’t have listened to you
Hand size may vary.
I didnt think that my balls would just detach like crayfish arms. fucked up.
You used the wrong hand dude…try again with the other…it should work.
now my fucking arm is dislocated. thanks 196 lemmy 🙄😒🤕
…need your mom for anything?
yes 🤕
i do this with my ass hair
I trim things with an electric trimmer, but to actually shave I use a double edged razor. Some people are scared of them, and even a lot of the people who use them on their face are scared to shave their pubes with them. It’s really not that hard though. I also don’t see why you’d want more blades (which I think every disposable is like 5+), because that means if you fuck up and move your blade sideways your cut will be that many times worse.
The key thing, and this applies to all methods, is you have to keep the skin taut. You have to pull the skin that is being shaved, not just drag a blade across the loose skin. If you don’t, you’ll likely cut yourself. Along with applying to all blades, this applies to all skin also.
I’ve shaved my balls for decades at this point. Take a good hot shower for at least 10 minutes, or even better soak in a hot tub for 30-60 minutes. This softens the hair. Shampoo is the best shaving cream as it doesn’t dull the razor blades as much as actual shaving cream. I pull the skin tight and go one pass with the grain, and one pass against. As others have said, that is delicate skin, and it cuts easily, so be careful. Personally I have yet to get better results with any of the various razors I’ve tried, so I just stick with my Mach 3
You shouldn’t need to shave in multiple directions… Each bit of skin has 1 ideal direction to shave it, unless your hair grows in a spiral or something.
I won’t downvote you, but if you are only shaving in one direction, you either aren’t getting totally smooth, or you are needlessly torturing yourself by only shaving against the grain of your hair.
From experience, your beard, or any other patch of body hair, can literally grow in multiple different directions in the same patch. Regardless, the only way you can get baby smooth is to shave against the grain, which I really don’t recommend as your first pass, unless you shave literally every day, and for some guys it would be twice a day.
I can’t shave more frequently than once every 2 days. The USN literally gave me a “shaving chit” for that in boot.
I shave with, not against. Shaving against causes irritation.
You changed the subject to beards. This thread is about pubic hair.
I told you my routine with my balls, not my beard. I shave 4 to 8 ways on my face.
Sack trimming is what ultimately converted me from electric trimmers to safety razors. Night and day. Even if I nick myself, the closest thing to a problem is NOT pain.
Not much to share, I only did it once.
Just made sure the skin is stretched where shaving, and that was it. No cuts.
But I don’t plan on trying again. The first 2 days were fine. Nice breeze. But then the stubble feels awful. It’s like wearing underwear with coarse sandpaper, or better yet, steel brushes. Every, single, step,…Considering that nobody sees it anyway, I am not trying again.
Good luck to you though.
My brother did it once and ended up in hospital because he got a infection from a wound. Swore to never do it again and he complained for weeks of being in pain.
I’ve used a safety razor whilst sat in the bath before and it gets great results. Don’t forget to make sure to tense the skin to get a flat surface to shave down or the results could be horrific.
I don’t have a bath anymore so now I use Veet Men Intimate Hair Removal from Amazon - https://amzn.eu/d/5yPVyqb
Works pretty well.
Thank y’all I feel so cute now!!
why doesn’t my bussy look this good :/
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In case you arent- never use an electric razor on your balls without a guard. And even then, I don’t try to get it too close to the skin, just to shorten the hairs a lot.
Then if I want to go further, shaving cream and a safety razor is the way to go. Just try to smooth out the scrotum with your other hand to make it as flat a surface as possible.
Word of warning, DO NOT use regular Nair down there unless you are fine with potential chemical burns on your nuts for a week. It’s not fun, really really not fun. I’m not even sure I would use sensitive area Nair anymore, it just doesn’t seem designed for coarse pubic hair. I use a Philips Oneblade now with the body groom attachment, I’ve caught the skin once or twice but I’ve found it’s way better than any other electric razor I’ve tried in the past and does a good job. The gap inbetween the blade and stationary bit of the razor is smaller and harder to pinch your skin in.
Just gotta wash it off thoroughly after 5 minutes
You could ask the manufacturer of shaving products:
https://www.gillette.co.uk/blog/body-grooming-tips/how-to-shave-your-balls/
There’s just something great about a corporation having a guide on their website with the word balls.
It’s a surprisingly well written guide that doesn’t beat around the bush.
It even suggests “stimulating an erection” for an easier shave.
Based.
Don’t use an electric trimmer. Use one you can have careful control over. Safety razors give a better shave anyways.
I have created the perfect cicle, I use the same razor but I have separate blades, one for my face and on for genitals. New blades are dangerous for the balls so whenever I change my face blade, the used one becomes my new balls razor. It works pretty good. Trimmer on the balls is a dangerous game unless you buy one of those machines that are actually made for that.
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I second using the safe razor, albeit I would recommend using different ones for face and balls. The reason is that I assume that an ideal and universal razor may not exist, the ones I tried are usually either better suited for the body, or more comfortable to apply to the face, that is if we exclude those that are equally bad for everything.
Regarding the dulling of the blade, it may greatly depend on the brand and quality, so some experiments are required ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Phillips Oneblade.
No shit, it’s an amazing razor for the pubes. Obviously doesn’t cut down to 0 like a wet shave, but it’s so much easier and comes really close. And I get ingrown hairs easily if I wet shave down there so it’s perfect for me.
It’s fast, it’s reliably, easy and painless. 100% recommend for ball shaving action!
