One thing I've noticed after switching to DE from cartridge is that I have to be very careful around saggy skin areas. Besides sagging under the chin, you can also get skin "anomalies" that just show up after years and years of walking around in the sun, playing tennis, etc.
So with the old Atra2, I could just pretty much ignore all of that--it didn't really shave you as give you a mild trim until the next day. And this was probably the target market: men going to work, with a daily shave as just one more chore, like making up lunch. You could pretty much shave any old way and go out the door. And really, you didn't much care so long as your co-workers could see that you had, indeed, conformed to societal exprectancies.
...at least for Boomer sensibilities.
But now I find that using that little Vikings Blade butterfly, I can shave my cheeks (jowls?) downward with impunity, even pressing a bit (don't need to, but it's 40 years of cartridge habit). But around the chin I have to come at it from all directions, taking a bit of care. And down below the chin, on the neck, I've got to be really careful on one side, WTG on one part, then flipping to ATG for a part that has some kind of skin anomaly. The other side of the neck is pretty much WTG all the way.
Pretty much I'm shaving every other day, just out of laziness (been retired for maybe 10 years, and my wife is a pleasure to get along with, that's for sure), but may soon go back to every day, just for the challenge of it. I have to do it after a shower, or else it's twice as difficult (and risky), and have never done skin prep and likely never will. I use cheap shaving foam, and I just don't think it's in me to do much more--although it can clearly see how all of it would help.
Silly as it sounds, ideally I would like to shave with just a wet face, so that I could get a kick out of clearly seeing the progress with each pass. As it is, the ol' Barbasol masks it. But any time I tried that, it was a BIG mistake. I think I only did it twice, when I was a lot younger and braver.
Oh, well!
Any observations on shaving issues/techniques for >70 would be appreciated, of course.
I've already learned a lot, and whoever first suggested that I look at used Gillettes, to which I haughtily replied "Not for me, my good man!", I owe that person an apology. <:^(
So with the old Atra2, I could just pretty much ignore all of that--it didn't really shave you as give you a mild trim until the next day. And this was probably the target market: men going to work, with a daily shave as just one more chore, like making up lunch. You could pretty much shave any old way and go out the door. And really, you didn't much care so long as your co-workers could see that you had, indeed, conformed to societal exprectancies.
...at least for Boomer sensibilities.
But now I find that using that little Vikings Blade butterfly, I can shave my cheeks (jowls?) downward with impunity, even pressing a bit (don't need to, but it's 40 years of cartridge habit). But around the chin I have to come at it from all directions, taking a bit of care. And down below the chin, on the neck, I've got to be really careful on one side, WTG on one part, then flipping to ATG for a part that has some kind of skin anomaly. The other side of the neck is pretty much WTG all the way.
Pretty much I'm shaving every other day, just out of laziness (been retired for maybe 10 years, and my wife is a pleasure to get along with, that's for sure), but may soon go back to every day, just for the challenge of it. I have to do it after a shower, or else it's twice as difficult (and risky), and have never done skin prep and likely never will. I use cheap shaving foam, and I just don't think it's in me to do much more--although it can clearly see how all of it would help.
Silly as it sounds, ideally I would like to shave with just a wet face, so that I could get a kick out of clearly seeing the progress with each pass. As it is, the ol' Barbasol masks it. But any time I tried that, it was a BIG mistake. I think I only did it twice, when I was a lot younger and braver.
Oh, well!
Any observations on shaving issues/techniques for >70 would be appreciated, of course.
I've already learned a lot, and whoever first suggested that I look at used Gillettes, to which I haughtily replied "Not for me, my good man!", I owe that person an apology. <:^(
Fortunately it's not too much of a problem until you start finding yourself shopping for three packs of plastic tackle boxes to store them in...speaking from experience!
