It's happened with pretty much all the different blades I've tried (dorco, personna super, wilkinson sword and bic chrome platinum) so I don't think the blades can be at fault which leaves;
1. Razor - Cheap ebay razor, looks like a tech clone, I am waiting for a gillette new short comb that I bought to arrive, maybe this will help?
2. Technique/Angle - I've only been de shaving for a couple of weeks or so but I'm getting better and I am pretty good at using little/no pressure I think (I have significantly reduced my irritation in recent shaves).
3. Pre-shave - I shave after a shower, this morning I shaved with cold water as I was pretty tired and a little hung over and I thought the cold would help me wake up a bit, also I find I get less irritation shaving cold. Is it possible that shaving cold meant the whiskers were a bit stiffer due to the cold rather than hot shave and this caused the tugging? But even then I have had tugging with the personna blade I used before the bic (first shave with the bic this morning) with hot/warm shaves. I have proraso green cream, body shop macca root cream and another shave cream just called "shave" that I use. I sometimes also use Oscar shave oil but I don't notice any appreciable difference. I think when I first started de shaving I was making my lather a but dry so I'm making it a bit wetter (and hopefully slicker) at the moment but still getting tugging.
It seems counter intuitive to me that a brand new blade (especially the bic which I have read is considered on the sharper side, not feather sharp but above average sharp) should be tugging my hair. Any help or advise is appreciated!
tl;dr - Getting tugging even when using a brand new blade, tried four different blades, is it my cheap razor, poor technique or poor preshave? Do I need a more aggressive razor? Maybe a fatip or a parker 99r?
Edit: it'd be a 94r not a 99r.
1. Razor - Cheap ebay razor, looks like a tech clone, I am waiting for a gillette new short comb that I bought to arrive, maybe this will help?
2. Technique/Angle - I've only been de shaving for a couple of weeks or so but I'm getting better and I am pretty good at using little/no pressure I think (I have significantly reduced my irritation in recent shaves).
3. Pre-shave - I shave after a shower, this morning I shaved with cold water as I was pretty tired and a little hung over and I thought the cold would help me wake up a bit, also I find I get less irritation shaving cold. Is it possible that shaving cold meant the whiskers were a bit stiffer due to the cold rather than hot shave and this caused the tugging? But even then I have had tugging with the personna blade I used before the bic (first shave with the bic this morning) with hot/warm shaves. I have proraso green cream, body shop macca root cream and another shave cream just called "shave" that I use. I sometimes also use Oscar shave oil but I don't notice any appreciable difference. I think when I first started de shaving I was making my lather a but dry so I'm making it a bit wetter (and hopefully slicker) at the moment but still getting tugging.
It seems counter intuitive to me that a brand new blade (especially the bic which I have read is considered on the sharper side, not feather sharp but above average sharp) should be tugging my hair. Any help or advise is appreciated!
tl;dr - Getting tugging even when using a brand new blade, tried four different blades, is it my cheap razor, poor technique or poor preshave? Do I need a more aggressive razor? Maybe a fatip or a parker 99r?
Edit: it'd be a 94r not a 99r.
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