I was about to say the same thing.More pressure being applied maybe with the more experience gained. Therefore not being as careful you were initially.
@Jarick As others have suggested, perhaps you need one more beard reduction pass.
However, I'd suggest a few things as well:
- Try shaving with the razor as if it were your first time and you were using an aggressive razor so you'd pay attention to the shaving angle more. Don't shave any area that doesn't have soap on it.
- To help with pressure control, you could also try focusing on removing the lather, rather than on hair removal. I find this helps me keep a lighter touch.
- Light skin stretching (to flatten the skin) might be your friend here, especially if you've either lost or gained weight, or your face had become a bit wrinkly.
- Check your lather - does it really feel slick, even between your fingers? Does the razor ever feel like it might've skipped on your skin?
- Check whether it isn't the soap - lather up, leave the soap on for as long as your usual shaves take. You can also try simulating a shave without a blade loaded in the razor. Then feel your face and see if there are bumps where there were none before.
- To check whether your face doesn't prefer a more rigid blade, you could try loading the razor with a shim sandwich (put the blade between two shims). You could also try loading the DE89 with two injector blades (one per side) - might be a little fiddly to get them to align, but shouldn't take long.
- Try an oil shave where you'd apply water to your face and then spread a few drops of oil over it. Pretty much any slick oil should do, but you'd want to use something safe - even e.g. sunflower oil for frying should do.
I wonder whether trying a shavette (a Parker SRX is inexpensive and mild, but efficient as all shavettes are) might be sensible - it would help get your technique in line in case it had become wonky.