OldSaw
The wife's investment
Coming off of one of my best shaves ever, the other day, I had a pretty subpar one today.
I blame it on prep failure. One would think an old guy like me would know better. I’m going to blame the lather a little bit, because this is a technique that has worked well for me with Santa Maria Novella.
My normal prep technique lately is just a simple shower. However, after spending many months using SMN, I was able to cheat my prep for an evening shave before going out by simply face lathering for a longer time and everything was great.
With a different lathering product of similar style I thought I could do the same while Mrs. OldSaw was occupying the shower. I loaded the brush and worked up a beautiful lather on my face. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the lather. While it was resting on my face I loaded a new Feather blade and commenced to shaving. Usually, if I’m not using SMN, I rinse this off and re-lather. I skipped this step.
All seemed fine doing WTG and I didn’t even notice much discomfort during ATG either, but after my final rinse I noticed a few weepers and a little razor burn. This was disappointing, as this hasn’t happened to me in a long time.
I applied a generous splash of Speick aftershave, which felt very soothing. This certainly wasn’t my worst shave, but it wasn’t great.
I got into my evening clothes and checked with Mrs. OldSaw and she said I looked fine and didn’t notice anything bad like nicks or burn.
So now I’m ready to head out but if I could do it over I would have taken the extra minute or two to rinse off that first lather with a washcloth and reapplied from scratch.
Lesson learned on my part and just passing on my experience.
I blame it on prep failure. One would think an old guy like me would know better. I’m going to blame the lather a little bit, because this is a technique that has worked well for me with Santa Maria Novella.
My normal prep technique lately is just a simple shower. However, after spending many months using SMN, I was able to cheat my prep for an evening shave before going out by simply face lathering for a longer time and everything was great.
With a different lathering product of similar style I thought I could do the same while Mrs. OldSaw was occupying the shower. I loaded the brush and worked up a beautiful lather on my face. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the lather. While it was resting on my face I loaded a new Feather blade and commenced to shaving. Usually, if I’m not using SMN, I rinse this off and re-lather. I skipped this step.
All seemed fine doing WTG and I didn’t even notice much discomfort during ATG either, but after my final rinse I noticed a few weepers and a little razor burn. This was disappointing, as this hasn’t happened to me in a long time.
I applied a generous splash of Speick aftershave, which felt very soothing. This certainly wasn’t my worst shave, but it wasn’t great.
I got into my evening clothes and checked with Mrs. OldSaw and she said I looked fine and didn’t notice anything bad like nicks or burn.
So now I’m ready to head out but if I could do it over I would have taken the extra minute or two to rinse off that first lather with a washcloth and reapplied from scratch.
Lesson learned on my part and just passing on my experience.