Hello gents,
First time DE shaver and poster, long time lurker. So I finnaly took the plunge and purchased a DE razor last week. The 1904 Merkur took my fancy and a vulfix badger brush was my choice to go with it. After reading a few newbie threads and what the experienced fellas on here had to say I purchased a sample razor pack, proraso pre/post shave cream, proraso shave cream and Taylor of Old Bond Street Almond Shaving Cream.
So my first shave was ok, going from a M3 to the DE with merkur blades was always going to be a better shave. Quite impressed I waited 2 days and had another shave this time my technique was much better and followed Mantics method shaving technique which produced brilliant results. The shave was BBS and the swirl of hair on part of my chin was finnaly removed after never being able too with the M3.
So first time round I:
-Shower
-pre shave cream
-ToOBS
-Post
This produced a mild irritation but was gone within 24 hrs. I put it down too the skin getting used to the DE razor and my below average technique.
2nd time round I swapped the ToOBS for the proraso shave cream and maybe got a bit excited and shaved against the grain to get the BBS effect. It's been a day and my face has broken out in a sort of red rash which is quite itchy and round the lower lip and chin I've gotten quite a bad pimple break out.
I'm also thinking of changing blades, should I wait until I figure out whats causing the break out?
Learn from my mistake and just go with the grain see if it happens again?
My job doesn't require me to be clean shaven so just wait for the redness to go away?
Cheers,
B&B_ginger
First time DE shaver and poster, long time lurker. So I finnaly took the plunge and purchased a DE razor last week. The 1904 Merkur took my fancy and a vulfix badger brush was my choice to go with it. After reading a few newbie threads and what the experienced fellas on here had to say I purchased a sample razor pack, proraso pre/post shave cream, proraso shave cream and Taylor of Old Bond Street Almond Shaving Cream.
So my first shave was ok, going from a M3 to the DE with merkur blades was always going to be a better shave. Quite impressed I waited 2 days and had another shave this time my technique was much better and followed Mantics method shaving technique which produced brilliant results. The shave was BBS and the swirl of hair on part of my chin was finnaly removed after never being able too with the M3.
So first time round I:
-Shower
-pre shave cream
-ToOBS
-Post
This produced a mild irritation but was gone within 24 hrs. I put it down too the skin getting used to the DE razor and my below average technique.
2nd time round I swapped the ToOBS for the proraso shave cream and maybe got a bit excited and shaved against the grain to get the BBS effect. It's been a day and my face has broken out in a sort of red rash which is quite itchy and round the lower lip and chin I've gotten quite a bad pimple break out.
I'm also thinking of changing blades, should I wait until I figure out whats causing the break out?
Learn from my mistake and just go with the grain see if it happens again?
My job doesn't require me to be clean shaven so just wait for the redness to go away?
Cheers,
B&B_ginger
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