Hey there... First time, long time.
After years of shaving with Mach 3's, randomly growing beards out and then just using a beard trimmer to clean up my face when I grew tired of the beard, SWMBO picked up on me saying I'd like to try an old timey shave.
This lead to her getting me a gift cert to a straight razor shave for my birthday last summer, a AOS brush for christmas, and then a Merkur HD for valentines (I got to help pick it out).
Shaving was such a chore before, but now I look forward to it each time (even though by my count it's only been 7 times so far). So far I've tried bladewise: Derby, Dorco 301's, and just put on a Shark blade last shave.
Creamwise... switching back and forth between co bigelow and some lavender AOS stuff.
I had a lot of problems with ingrown hair on my neck which have really cleared up already, so that is greatly appreciated. My technique has improved drastically, but XTG still poses challenges for me for some reason with getting all the angles lined up right, but i assume thats from never doing XTG with the mach 3.
So thats my story for now.
After years of shaving with Mach 3's, randomly growing beards out and then just using a beard trimmer to clean up my face when I grew tired of the beard, SWMBO picked up on me saying I'd like to try an old timey shave.
This lead to her getting me a gift cert to a straight razor shave for my birthday last summer, a AOS brush for christmas, and then a Merkur HD for valentines (I got to help pick it out).
Shaving was such a chore before, but now I look forward to it each time (even though by my count it's only been 7 times so far). So far I've tried bladewise: Derby, Dorco 301's, and just put on a Shark blade last shave.
Creamwise... switching back and forth between co bigelow and some lavender AOS stuff.
I had a lot of problems with ingrown hair on my neck which have really cleared up already, so that is greatly appreciated. My technique has improved drastically, but XTG still poses challenges for me for some reason with getting all the angles lined up right, but i assume thats from never doing XTG with the mach 3.
So thats my story for now.