Shaving.

Obviously your whole body has to be hairless, any way to stop breaking out from shaving?    Specifically right around the inside of the elbow.

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Holy crap! Yet, how have you been man. It has been a while. I found that you just gotta keep shaving until you get used to it. Do you use shaving cream at all when you are shaving? This seemed to help out when my forearms were breaking out after I shaved.

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Holy crap! Yet, how have you been man. It has been a while. I found that you just gotta keep shaving until you get used to it. Do you use shaving cream at all when you are shaving? This seemed to help out when my forearms were breaking out after I shaved.

All is well my man, how you been?  I don't use shaving cream since I shave my arms in the shower, I use soap.  Maybe I'll try out shaving cream.  I was thinking about using nair also. 

You ever used it before?  I want to get it mainly for my quads and upper legs because that's a pain to shave.

You're looking pretty ripped in your avatar, you competing at all?

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That is good to hear man. I am doing pretty good. I am about to start a year long bulk so I can put on some size and have a chance at winning my pro card next time I compete.

Yeah, I have tried nair out before. It works pretty good, but irritated the crap out of the skin on my chest. It also would leave some random hairs that didn't come off that you will still have to shave. You should give it a shot and see how it does on your skin though.

Thanks man. Yeah, I just got done with my first two competitions. I won the Teen class in both of them and I took the Novice class in my first one and came in 4th in the MW novice in the second. The second one had a lot better competition in it. I was the youngest in my class by about 6-7 years. The second one had 9 guys in my novice class too, where the first one had 3 total and one of them was one of the kids in the teen class. Keep checking my journal, I will get some pics posted up as soon as the SNBF site posts them.

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i have not done a full body shave yet. but i found out that using a decent shaving cream with moisturizers followed by a moisturizing cream reduces the irritation by 90%. also it is easier to spot an area where u have not shaved if the cream is still present there. not to mention u get a closer shave and skin feels softer. i would recommend that u do the shower then do not wipe the water off the body, instead put  on the cream and shave away.

good luck!

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It can be expensive depending on what type you buy, but I find that using an over-the-counter acne medication with those exfoliation beads after shaving and then every time you shower helps a lot.

Also, make sure you always use a fresh blade, and never shave without a shaving cream or lotion of some sort.

Finally, to reduce irritation, make sure you do a quick swipe in the direction the hair originally grew.  If you don't do this last step, you can "confuse" some of your hair, and it can become ingrown.