Pulling the skin with a DE

I've been shavign with just the weight of the DE on all my passes, from down to diagonal, to up.

Des anyone pull their skin taught before diagonal passes, or S-N passes? Would this cause ingrown hairs?

It appears in the 4-pass shave (http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=24562)
pulling skin is recommended.

Thanks,

I used to try using my hand to pull the skin, but I did get several ingrown hairs under my jaw line (which I never got even when using multi-blade disposables). I've found that turning my head far in one direction and looking upward, to move the skin over the jaw line upward over the jaw bone, is enough stretching. I no longer get ingrowns when I do this. I also turn my head to get the skin on my neck to stretch a little, which seems to work fine.

I do this for each pass. I think keeping the skin taut allows the blade to be kept at the optimum cutting angle, without the skin bunching up in front of the blade.

I just make lots of funny faces and always get BBS...I only pull skin when using a str8..

I do not pull my skin when using a DE. It causes ingrown hairs when I do it.

The only skin pulling I do is of the "funny faces" variety. It seems to work well, no ingrown hairs or other problems.
Edit: Except for the Adam's apple: I pull the skin which is on top of the Adam's apple to the side of it to shave it.

SMOKE said:

I just make lots of funny faces and always get BBS...

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+1

The only skin pulling/tugging I do is to get around the adams apple. To much skin strecthing for me will cause ingrowns.

Ok,

I make funny faces too, thanks guys. I tried pulling a little when I did diagonal jawl ine pass today, worked fine.