Leg-shaving pro-tip

Recently I figured out a way to make shaving my legs quicker, easier, less-harmful, and cheaper! Sounds too good to be believed, but it is for real! And it only requires a few things:

1) Buy some new razors. Not anything fancy. In fact, what you want a dollar-store double-bladed razors. They are the key to this working, this is the main step. They look something like the razor on the left, the razor on the right is what you want to avoid:

(Click pictures to embiggen for more detail - left razor has two widely spaced blade, right razor has three narrowly-space blades, apologies for not having sharper pictures)

Why the cheaper razor? Because widely-spaced blades don't really clog with hairs like the closely-spaced blades do. This makes shaving much quicker.

2) Shave with the grain of your leg hair. This prevents getting too close of a shave and avoids pushing your hair follicles under your skin, avoiding in-grown hairs.

3) Bonus tip: to release hairs from your razor when it finally does get somewhat cloggy, push the razor along an unshaved (so as not to push the follicles in, though this is less of a concern) but relatively hairless area of your arm/stomach/leg. Your skin will grab the hair wad from between the blades and then you may continue shaving.

Picture shows handle of razor facing right, with the head of the razor flat against my skin. You want to push the razor to the right in this orientation, away from as opposed to into the blades

That's all there is to it! I hope this helps make shaving your legs quicker, easier, less-harmful, and cheaper too!