Hi everybody,
i'm Paolo from Italy and I've been lurking this forum for a month...a forum that I discovered almost by accident.
It's 3 months now that I began shaving not only my face, but also my head
and while I was surfing the web in order to learn something about head-shaving related items (looking for something cheaper than my Mach3)/tecniques, I stumbled on a post of a guy who said he's been using a DE razor for his daily head shaving.
DE Razor???
After 30 seconds thanks google, I was watching mantic59 videos and reading B&B forum...
After 2hr I was looking at my granpa's old Omega 48 brush...
After 48 hrs, I bought a Merkur 11c, 10 dovo/shavette blades, Vulfix Mixed Grosvernor and a bowl of Tabac...
After a 10 days, i'm finally here asking for help.
I'm 34 and been wet shaving since my first shave but never dived into DE shaving. I always used Gilette products (Blue, BlueII, Sensor, Mach3...) and Proraso/Gilette shaving cream. I'm a son of the 90s...
I have to admit that I always had good results, no razor burns/nicks (hell....it's impossibile to nick yourself with a Mach3...). WTG/ATG..that was my routine in order to have no shade on my face (this is what I aim at when shaving...).
But...
The problem arrived 4 days ago, when I attempted a complete shave with the DE. I lathered in a bowl, then went lather/WTG, lather/XTG, lather/XTG.
Result: shave was close (finally), but for the first time in my life I got a lot of razor burns on the jaw line and chin.
Yesterday (waited 48 hrs to let my skin recover a little) I tried again, but only ATG. My face was still butcherd by the previous shave, but it seems that the situation didn't got worse... The problem is that with 1 pass only, it doesn't even seem that I shaved
Maybe it's only the fact that I'm new to this way of shaving, but I've got a couple of doubts and maybe someone can help me...
- I can't stand lathering on my face since the brush scratches my face in an unpleasant way and to avoid any unpleasant sensation I have to use it on my face only in a "painter" way. Is it normal?
- The merkur 11c is an open comb (hard beard...I ruin shirts and scarfs on a regular basis...), maybe it is too aggressive for a newbie? Is there such a difference between an open and a closed comb (using the same blade)?
- My beard, I realized,is growing almost parallel to my cheeks and when I shaved with the M3 I didn't pay any attention to this, going simply up/down (what I thought was WTG) and down/up (what I thought was ATG). Now that I'm more careful at the angles, I get worst results....maybe I should try my old tecnique?
It's just that I really like the "zen sensation" that a DE shaving routine is giving me and I don't want to give up...but in the end, is the result that matters and a butchered face is a butchered face, even if I butchered it with style.
Well, thanks for reading all this wall of text.
Any advice will be appreciated!
i'm Paolo from Italy and I've been lurking this forum for a month...a forum that I discovered almost by accident.
It's 3 months now that I began shaving not only my face, but also my head
and while I was surfing the web in order to learn something about head-shaving related items (looking for something cheaper than my Mach3)/tecniques, I stumbled on a post of a guy who said he's been using a DE razor for his daily head shaving.
DE Razor???
After 30 seconds thanks google, I was watching mantic59 videos and reading B&B forum...
After 2hr I was looking at my granpa's old Omega 48 brush...
After 48 hrs, I bought a Merkur 11c, 10 dovo/shavette blades, Vulfix Mixed Grosvernor and a bowl of Tabac...
After a 10 days, i'm finally here asking for help.
I'm 34 and been wet shaving since my first shave but never dived into DE shaving. I always used Gilette products (Blue, BlueII, Sensor, Mach3...) and Proraso/Gilette shaving cream. I'm a son of the 90s...
I have to admit that I always had good results, no razor burns/nicks (hell....it's impossibile to nick yourself with a Mach3...). WTG/ATG..that was my routine in order to have no shade on my face (this is what I aim at when shaving...).
But...
- ...shaving my face AND my head with a mach3 means that after 2 shaves I have to replace the blade and I think it's going to be way too exensive on the long run. Using a DE for my face, keeping the M3 just for my head it's the way to go...
- ...I goot hooked by the idea of going slow, to take my time and relax while shaving.
- ...I also appreciated the idea of "going green".
The problem arrived 4 days ago, when I attempted a complete shave with the DE. I lathered in a bowl, then went lather/WTG, lather/XTG, lather/XTG.
Result: shave was close (finally), but for the first time in my life I got a lot of razor burns on the jaw line and chin.
Yesterday (waited 48 hrs to let my skin recover a little) I tried again, but only ATG. My face was still butcherd by the previous shave, but it seems that the situation didn't got worse... The problem is that with 1 pass only, it doesn't even seem that I shaved
Maybe it's only the fact that I'm new to this way of shaving, but I've got a couple of doubts and maybe someone can help me...
- I can't stand lathering on my face since the brush scratches my face in an unpleasant way and to avoid any unpleasant sensation I have to use it on my face only in a "painter" way. Is it normal?
- The merkur 11c is an open comb (hard beard...I ruin shirts and scarfs on a regular basis...), maybe it is too aggressive for a newbie? Is there such a difference between an open and a closed comb (using the same blade)?
- My beard, I realized,is growing almost parallel to my cheeks and when I shaved with the M3 I didn't pay any attention to this, going simply up/down (what I thought was WTG) and down/up (what I thought was ATG). Now that I'm more careful at the angles, I get worst results....maybe I should try my old tecnique?
It's just that I really like the "zen sensation" that a DE shaving routine is giving me and I don't want to give up...but in the end, is the result that matters and a butchered face is a butchered face, even if I butchered it with style.
Well, thanks for reading all this wall of text.
Any advice will be appreciated!
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