Exfoliate before, and then the days after. Tends to really help.
Yeah I’ve bought one of those silicone scrubber things to see if it helps. Never had a major problem but my neck hair seems to have descended in terms of how far down it’ll grow and is growing quicker so I’m shaving it more and even going with the grain and doing all the pre-shave prep I seem to be getting loads of in-growns which don’t look great.
I’ll see how the exfoliating scrubber thing goes. Seem to be getting more hirsute in my late 20s which I could do without as it’s more time spent grooming. I suppose the trade off is I still have a good head of hair which I could do with keeping, reckon I’d look odd as a bald man.
With facial hair, I couldn’t grow much at all until I was about 22, then essentially woke up overnight seemingly able to sprout a good thick beard. A previous job I had you had to be clean-shaven and one time I had to get up at 4am to be at a far-away site for 6. I shaved when I got up, as I did, then went to work. It was an awful day and by 5pm I was still there, I remember the area manager striding over to me and having a go at me for being ‘unkempt’ having not shaved. I explained I had shaved and that you could just start to see some shadow as it was half a day later. She wasn’t having it and demanded I go to a shop there and then and shave. I backed down then as I was going just starting my career but it’s one of those moments where I think ‘if someone spoke to me like that now’ or ‘if I’d have been at 22 as I am at 29…’ etc etc