6 surprising mistakes you're making when you're shaving

The thing about hair removal is that unlike other normal rites of passage, such as riding a bike or learning how to parallel park, no one ever actually teaches you how to shave. Even once you narrow that down to the beauty world, there are few YouTube beauty influencers posting videos about how to shave your body hair. (Tutorials about shaving your legs do technically exist, but those making them aren't exactly experts.)

If we were to take a wild guess, most of us probably bought a razor, loaded our legs up with shaving cream, and got to shaving—that's it. But if you're constantly dealing with itchy legs and chasing body hair that seems to grow back in 10 minutes, you might be doing it wrong. That's why we've asked top derms to tell us where we're making mistakes—and exactly how to fix them.

Scroll through to see the mistakes you're making:

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