Hey guys, I promised after a day of resting up and healing, I'd post a video of my progress. For those that missed it, and want to see the damage, this was my shave yesterday:
The Slaughtering
It has been one day, full of witch hazel, after shave, healing balm, and rest for my face. While irritation is still everywhere (Again, my face is naturally acne free), the cuts don't look as bad as they did. And this is only 24 hours after the shave, so I feel in a week I will have made serious progress.
24 Hours After The Slaughter
I think I may hold off on shaving until every bit of irritation disappears (I've had it since I started DE, probably my skin just wasn't used to it at first. It slowly was improving until my recent disaster shave, and now its worse than ever.). Once it completely disappears, I'm going to take the most slow, analytical shaves ever to try and isolate the cause of irritation. This means:
- No ATG passes anywhere on the face.
- No fast shaving, slow medium sized passes.
- Paranoid Angle Practice: I'm going to try whatever it takes to keep it at 30 Degrees. (Right now, I have the Merkur HD without a blade in it, trying to practice what 30 degrees is.)
- Being insanely careful over sensitive areas (Neck, Chin).
- NEW SHAVING CREAM. The Neutrogena for men cream as it turns out, was non-lathering, so it now sits in blown up pieces in my dumpster.
I'm hoping I'll be able to isolate, and then get rid of the irritation. I can't thank you all enough for the support. Like I said, it has to be difficult to sympathize with someone who looks like they just took a hacksaw to their own face. However, you all have been really really helpful with everything. Any advice from this point forward is still greatly appreciated, as I have (at minimum) a week to rest up and review my technique.
Thanks Again!
The Slaughtering
It has been one day, full of witch hazel, after shave, healing balm, and rest for my face. While irritation is still everywhere (Again, my face is naturally acne free), the cuts don't look as bad as they did. And this is only 24 hours after the shave, so I feel in a week I will have made serious progress.
24 Hours After The Slaughter
I think I may hold off on shaving until every bit of irritation disappears (I've had it since I started DE, probably my skin just wasn't used to it at first. It slowly was improving until my recent disaster shave, and now its worse than ever.). Once it completely disappears, I'm going to take the most slow, analytical shaves ever to try and isolate the cause of irritation. This means:
- No ATG passes anywhere on the face.
- No fast shaving, slow medium sized passes.
- Paranoid Angle Practice: I'm going to try whatever it takes to keep it at 30 Degrees. (Right now, I have the Merkur HD without a blade in it, trying to practice what 30 degrees is.)
- Being insanely careful over sensitive areas (Neck, Chin).
- NEW SHAVING CREAM. The Neutrogena for men cream as it turns out, was non-lathering, so it now sits in blown up pieces in my dumpster.
I'm hoping I'll be able to isolate, and then get rid of the irritation. I can't thank you all enough for the support. Like I said, it has to be difficult to sympathize with someone who looks like they just took a hacksaw to their own face. However, you all have been really really helpful with everything. Any advice from this point forward is still greatly appreciated, as I have (at minimum) a week to rest up and review my technique.
Thanks Again!