I will say I had intentions to shave for the first time last night, that said I had to readjust my plan and I woke up a bit earlier this morning to put some steel to skin!
I got up, cracked open an XS energy drink to help me get moving and jumped into the shower to get my face ready. While I showered I had my new 620 boar brush in some warm water.
My equipment:
I ringed out the brush and got a little lather going on the tips; finishing up the lathering on my face, actually the brush felt nice and it was relaxing (shortly after that I was not relaxed but I do agree, a blade to your throat does wake you up .
I had about 2 to 3 days of growth with some irritation from my modern razor which was still healing.
I ended up with a small cut on my right upper cheek and irritating some old razor burn which one spot did get nicked bleeding for about a second and then stopped so the Styptic pen wasn't used at all. Afterward my skin was red which I can only guess meant I needed my lather.
You will also see I irritated the old razor burn on my neck which doesn't surprise me, its very sensitive. I know with a modern razor I can only go with grain once, anything more and my neck is toast so its not the cleanest of neck shaves but being my first time I didn't go over the area a lot. The next picture is my face an hour later; alot better with noticeably less redness.
Now there's no redness other than the burn that was healing from 3 or 4 days ago.
I did experiment a little; right side on my cheek I only went with the gain and left side with the gain, side ways and then against the gain. My right side I even try to even out the beard line with the tip and took off more than I wanted (USER ERROR
). I don't have my left side pictured but that cheek has no noticeable hair when moving my hand over it and really is just as good with less irritation than a modern razor. I feel some stubble on my right check but that is to be expected... I did less on purpose. My neck, well that will be a lot more practice but all in all I think I did ok. The shave took just under 30 minutes and after doing one cheek I was put at ease. Holding the razor and keeping the right angle on my neck was challenging.
It was different / weird to hear and feel each hair being cut but it was so easy to tell when some effect was being applied so I knew when to reapply lather.
I can't wait for my poor mans strop to come in to complete the SR maintenance and go another round. I do thank everyone here for recommendations and tips.
A special thanks to Tim who not only helped me find a SR but honed it as well.
Round two...
I got up, cracked open an XS energy drink to help me get moving and jumped into the shower to get my face ready. While I showered I had my new 620 boar brush in some warm water.
My equipment:
I ringed out the brush and got a little lather going on the tips; finishing up the lathering on my face, actually the brush felt nice and it was relaxing (shortly after that I was not relaxed but I do agree, a blade to your throat does wake you up .
I had about 2 to 3 days of growth with some irritation from my modern razor which was still healing.
I ended up with a small cut on my right upper cheek and irritating some old razor burn which one spot did get nicked bleeding for about a second and then stopped so the Styptic pen wasn't used at all. Afterward my skin was red which I can only guess meant I needed my lather.
You will also see I irritated the old razor burn on my neck which doesn't surprise me, its very sensitive. I know with a modern razor I can only go with grain once, anything more and my neck is toast so its not the cleanest of neck shaves but being my first time I didn't go over the area a lot. The next picture is my face an hour later; alot better with noticeably less redness.
Now there's no redness other than the burn that was healing from 3 or 4 days ago.
I did experiment a little; right side on my cheek I only went with the gain and left side with the gain, side ways and then against the gain. My right side I even try to even out the beard line with the tip and took off more than I wanted (USER ERROR
). I don't have my left side pictured but that cheek has no noticeable hair when moving my hand over it and really is just as good with less irritation than a modern razor. I feel some stubble on my right check but that is to be expected... I did less on purpose. My neck, well that will be a lot more practice but all in all I think I did ok. The shave took just under 30 minutes and after doing one cheek I was put at ease. Holding the razor and keeping the right angle on my neck was challenging.It was different / weird to hear and feel each hair being cut but it was so easy to tell when some effect was being applied so I knew when to reapply lather.
I can't wait for my poor mans strop to come in to complete the SR maintenance and go another round. I do thank everyone here for recommendations and tips.
A special thanks to Tim who not only helped me find a SR but honed it as well.
Round two...
