I hear all this about it applying more pressure due to its weight, but the majority of the neck portion of your face is shaved with the razor inverted.
Additionally, while shaving against the grain, nearly ALL of the shaving happens with an inverted razor.
In both these situations, the weight of the razor is pulling away from your face due to gravity.
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This conversation usually comes up when you are dealing with safety razors – cartage razors are much easier to shave with and require very little technique.
Shaving with a safety razor (or a straight edge) requires pressure control. If you push to hard on the skin, you will cause cuts and irritation. A heavy razor will allow you to put virtually no pressure on the skin during the shave, letting gravity apply the right amount of pressure to cut hair. This leads to a better shave.
Now, you are right in that this doesn’t work for against the grain shaving, but that is something that usually isn’t recommended for safety/straight shaving until you have pressure control down and can replicate light pressure on the strokes where gravity can’t do the work for you.
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