What did you learn from your last shave?

Take care around the chin!

My hand is still a bit unsteady with a shavette, but no knicks, weepers, or irritation so I must have come along in my technique.

I've been back to DE shaving for a couple weeks now and it's not exactly what I learned from my last shave but what I have to practice every shave . . . CATION: Those ASTRA SP's in my Merkur 34c are dang sharp compared to my old electric! First pass I am almost tempted to take at least one step back! but man o' man, what a shave! If I shave every day I can maintain perfection, a first in this lifetime.

Truth is I am learning not beard mapping but nick mapping. I have learned great caution around the corners of my mouth. Now I am working on my jaw line. I have lost 100 pounds over the last three years shaving with an electric. My jaw has angles I never dreamed of and it's tricky getting the razor just so to get a great shave and leave the blood where it belongs. Practice WILL make perfect, it may take a transfusion or two but I make progress with every shave. Yesterday was first no nick day!


Blair

2 passes is quite enough for a DFS. Oh, and B&M soaps just need a little more water and they become fantastic!

No pressure! Let the weight of the razor do the work.

Sharp Star blades are keepers - shave #3 and still going strong

As the blade smoothes with use I mus resist the temptation to apply more pressure.

When my face is feeling a little abused, a little jojoba oil in the shower before my shave makes all the difference in the world.

Afta goes on pretty smooth. My faceless nice and Soft.

When using my Rocnel model P, I need to stretch the skin on my neck. The exposed corners of the half DE blade like to bite.

That my face and I just don't get along with Voskhod blades.

Lat shave took a tube of Speick Shave Cream I haven't used in about a year, remembered how well it performed. This time it burned. It burned when I first put brush to face, and burned all through the shave - of course I was too stubborn to just rinse off and use something else - and left me red faced, my skin dry and tender for most of the day. I wonder if it was the open tube sitting for a year or if my skin has changed? Anyone else have a similar experience with Speick or any other cream or soap? Of course it still performed great, slick cushioned lather.

A nearly empty 20 year old tub of Crabtree & Evelyn "Sienna" cream, reduced to a thin ring of hard soap-like consistency can still give a DFS with good lather and no razor burn.

Even after a 10 minute pre-soak, it still looked like a soap, but I had one of my better shaves using it, face-lathering with a Wee Scot, and a 2nd-use Astra. The post-shave sting from the alum stick was much less than any other shave since I got the alum stick a few weeks ago.
A pity it was discontinued a few years ago, but it will encourage me to try other C&E creams or soaps.

It's not worth pushing blades past their limit.....
After a 3rd perfect shave yesterday up to the 3rd pass, I decided to try for a 4th with a Sharp Star blade
Not a bad shave, but not much fun
If there's no fun in DE shaving - there's no point DE shaving

Blades can be unpredictable. My first experience with Merkurs was not great, but after giving them another go I was hugely impressed. Then I went back to a Rapira Platinum Lux, a blade I've raved about in the past, and this one was an absolute dud.

Even the most forgiving slant can bite if proper technique is not observed

More product results in a better lather!

J Hooking works for me, cruises through my trouble spots on my neck

Tallow & Steel is a top shelf soap

That stirling soap is my soap of the gods and bergamot and lavender is another favorite.