a curvilinear deflection around about 1 4 34 to a 3 8 34 radius of curvature provides a most acceptable shave and provides an even shave for all normally contoured surfaces to be shaved without requiring the use of a guard in front of the cutting edge 16 other than its normal spacing away from surface 18 when twisted into a spiral form a 0 004 34 blade 0 10 34 long and about 11 2 34 wide can be turned so that its opposite ends are rotated at 90 one with respect to the other an even more flexible blade is shown in fig3 wherein a blade 20 may be provided with a series of longitudinal or horizontal slots that are parallel to or at 90 with respect to the cutting edge while a conventional procedure makes use of a series of successive pulling strokes to complete a shave when a razor with two shaving edges as shown in fig2 is used a desired shaving action can be performed in one half the time as the razor is both pushed and pulled over the surface to be shaved when used in this manner a series of quick reciprocating shaving strokes are used to speed up the shaving process this procedure can be followed because the blade 10 is pressed flat against the skin being shaved and is bent by the fingertips or thumb disposed along the support behind the back side of the blade 10 to press first one and then the other one of the two shaving edges.