How it's hurting: If you're rushing your shaving routine (it's annoying, we get it), holding onto your razors too long or nonchalantly running them over your legs without prepping your skin first, you're setting yourself up for ingrown hairs, itchy skin and nicks galore.

The fix: The cardinal rule of shaving? "Always use a sharp razor," say Dawn Gardner-Kasper and Sara Sortino, the founders of DermGirls. That means replacing those blades after every five to seven shaves and never storing them in your shower where they stay wet and rust. "If you're prone to ingrown hair, use a single or double blade and shave with the hair growth." Also key: how well you prep your skin in the shower.

According to Gardner-Kasper and Sortino, exfoliating before shaving helps release any ingrown hairs that may be trapped under dead skin, allowing your razor to cut further down the hair shaft for a closer shave. To help lock in moisture, use a moisturizing shaving cream in lieu of a body cleanser, and simply rinse your skin with warm water. And while we all live on different shave schedules, according to the DermGirls, the best time to shave is at night. While you sleep, growth hormones are hard at work regenerating and multiplying cells to compensate for the ones you damaged by running a sharp blade over them multiple times.

How it's hurting: Leaving a soothing shower is painful enough, but drying off as fast as humanly possible to avoid your hallway's wind chill can take you back to square one. Rubbing yourself roughly with a towel further aggravates delicate skin while air drying can lead to chapping. Likewise, rubbing a towel all over your freshly washed strands or throwing your hair up into a towel turban can lead to breakage when your hair is at its most fragile.

The fix: You've made it this far -- it'd be tragic to sabotage your entire shower by getting sloppy once you step out onto the bathroom mat. Use a fluffy towel to lightly pat, not scrub or rub, your body. Then, lock in moisture by applying oils and lotions within five minutes of exiting the shower and before opening the bathroom door to take advantage of the humidity, damp skin and open pores.

As for your hair: "Gently squeeze excess water with a towel and never wring your hair," says Mitgang. "It's fine to wrap it up in a towel if it's only up there for a few minutes. Really, you want to let it breathe and start drying right away to get all that moisture off of your scalp."