Hi everyone!
I'm new to the forum and this will be my first post. Today I received my first two DE razors in the mail, purchased used on Facebook Marketplace, and loaded each up with an Astra Superior blade. One was a more mild Muhle D89 Grande, and the other a more addressive Muhle R41 with the tortoise shell handle. I'm ~6'1", ~193 lbs, right handed and started with around one week of growth which is just enough to make me look patchy and scruffy. I reserved the right side of my face for the D89, and the left side for the R41.
After lathering up my face by hand (brush hasn't arrived yet) with some Trader Joe's shave cream, I was surprised to find that I much preferred the feel and efficiency of the more aggressive R41!
It might just be my poor technique, but I found the D89 to be relatively unwieldly and difficult to maintain cutting action throughout my strokes. I cut myself once or twice on this side, and experienced more razor burn which I attribute to my tendency to apply more pressure and/or strokes with this more mild R89. In contrast, the R41 was easy to maneuver due to it's smaller size, and quick to remove more whiskers with fewer strokes. I cut myself zero times on the R41 side. After giving the razor burn some time to show, for scientific purposes, I finished off with some trader joes facial moisturizer.
If anyone has questions or recommendations for how I might make better use of my D89, please chime in! And thanks, all, for reading!
I'm new to the forum and this will be my first post. Today I received my first two DE razors in the mail, purchased used on Facebook Marketplace, and loaded each up with an Astra Superior blade. One was a more mild Muhle D89 Grande, and the other a more addressive Muhle R41 with the tortoise shell handle. I'm ~6'1", ~193 lbs, right handed and started with around one week of growth which is just enough to make me look patchy and scruffy. I reserved the right side of my face for the D89, and the left side for the R41.
After lathering up my face by hand (brush hasn't arrived yet) with some Trader Joe's shave cream, I was surprised to find that I much preferred the feel and efficiency of the more aggressive R41!
It might just be my poor technique, but I found the D89 to be relatively unwieldly and difficult to maintain cutting action throughout my strokes. I cut myself once or twice on this side, and experienced more razor burn which I attribute to my tendency to apply more pressure and/or strokes with this more mild R89. In contrast, the R41 was easy to maneuver due to it's smaller size, and quick to remove more whiskers with fewer strokes. I cut myself zero times on the R41 side. After giving the razor burn some time to show, for scientific purposes, I finished off with some trader joes facial moisturizer.
If anyone has questions or recommendations for how I might make better use of my D89, please chime in! And thanks, all, for reading!