Hi fellow shavers!
My name is Marc, I'm from the Netherlands and I am new here. I've been welcomed already and I wanted to introduce myself some more over here. Please excuse me if my English is not perfect, I'm trying
I've been shaving my whole adult life and although I never hated it, it was something you had to do. Or when there was a party or something, then I really liked to shave. It was mostly wetshaving and only sometimes with my electric shaver. But I always liked wetshaving more! Anyway, long story long... Years went by and it was September 2017 when since ages I wanted to shave BBS again, although I had no idea yet that it was called BBS . The last time I did that, I was about 17 years old. I remember that I really liked the super smooth skin! Back then I loved the Davidoff Cool Water AS, the sting it gave me and of course the smell of it. Back to the past future, so I wanted to recreate that feeling again. My razor of choice as always was the Mach3 and some canned goo and off I went. Long story short, the post shave irritation was out of this world! Remember, I had no idea yet at I was doing. I went WTG, XTG, ATG over and over again, until I achieved a sort of bbs. It was way harder then in the past. Sting all over, bumps, burn, the real deal! And my Cool Water AS wasn't helping either So I thought it wasn't for me anymore. Or were my cartridges dull? That's it! But I didn't want to spent that ridiculous amount of money on just a few cartridges anymore. So I went on the internet and did some research and very soon I read about DE shaving! Now that seemed interesting! Ok, I'll go for that. I searched the internet for a real store were I can go to, to touch and smell all the stuff I needed. Finally I found one not too far away and the next day I went there, this new playground for me! Wow! All those shining razors and lovely, classic smelling soaps and aftershaves! This is it for me! So I bought a E&J DE89, an E&J brush, a samplepack of blades, some soaps and balm, got some advise of the owner and I went home a happy man. But it wasn't as easy as i thought. There was blood, pain, although a lot less pain... Must be something wrong with my technique. So I went on the internet again and before long I came to this forum. So much info here and so many tutorials and nice people, great! I also watched lots of videos, but somehow I lost my interest for this way of shaving. I knew I loved it, but maybe later. Then, months later while summer fishing with a friend of mine, he asked me about that specific way of classic shaving I raved about earlier and like that my enthusiasm was back! I told him all about it, we went shopping a little later and he was hooked immediately. I got more advise wich mainly was 'do not use pressure!' Yeah, I know. But apparently I didn't. I had another idea of no pressure. And slowly but surely I became better at it, way less blood was spilled and here I am, incredibly hooked to this way of grooming, shaving or whatever you call it. I take care of my skin like never before, every day or every other day I pick the soap that suits me that day and I mainly use Feathers in my DE89. I think I suffer from multiple ADs, mainly soaps or creams and aftershaves! Fragrances, actually. My wife to be thinks I'm crazy, but she still loves me! I learned so much from you guys and it's great to be part of this community! So thnx again!
Marc
My name is Marc, I'm from the Netherlands and I am new here. I've been welcomed already and I wanted to introduce myself some more over here. Please excuse me if my English is not perfect, I'm trying
I've been shaving my whole adult life and although I never hated it, it was something you had to do. Or when there was a party or something, then I really liked to shave. It was mostly wetshaving and only sometimes with my electric shaver. But I always liked wetshaving more! Anyway, long story long... Years went by and it was September 2017 when since ages I wanted to shave BBS again, although I had no idea yet that it was called BBS . The last time I did that, I was about 17 years old. I remember that I really liked the super smooth skin! Back then I loved the Davidoff Cool Water AS, the sting it gave me and of course the smell of it. Back to the past future, so I wanted to recreate that feeling again. My razor of choice as always was the Mach3 and some canned goo and off I went. Long story short, the post shave irritation was out of this world! Remember, I had no idea yet at I was doing. I went WTG, XTG, ATG over and over again, until I achieved a sort of bbs. It was way harder then in the past. Sting all over, bumps, burn, the real deal! And my Cool Water AS wasn't helping either So I thought it wasn't for me anymore. Or were my cartridges dull? That's it! But I didn't want to spent that ridiculous amount of money on just a few cartridges anymore. So I went on the internet and did some research and very soon I read about DE shaving! Now that seemed interesting! Ok, I'll go for that. I searched the internet for a real store were I can go to, to touch and smell all the stuff I needed. Finally I found one not too far away and the next day I went there, this new playground for me! Wow! All those shining razors and lovely, classic smelling soaps and aftershaves! This is it for me! So I bought a E&J DE89, an E&J brush, a samplepack of blades, some soaps and balm, got some advise of the owner and I went home a happy man. But it wasn't as easy as i thought. There was blood, pain, although a lot less pain... Must be something wrong with my technique. So I went on the internet again and before long I came to this forum. So much info here and so many tutorials and nice people, great! I also watched lots of videos, but somehow I lost my interest for this way of shaving. I knew I loved it, but maybe later. Then, months later while summer fishing with a friend of mine, he asked me about that specific way of classic shaving I raved about earlier and like that my enthusiasm was back! I told him all about it, we went shopping a little later and he was hooked immediately. I got more advise wich mainly was 'do not use pressure!' Yeah, I know. But apparently I didn't. I had another idea of no pressure. And slowly but surely I became better at it, way less blood was spilled and here I am, incredibly hooked to this way of grooming, shaving or whatever you call it. I take care of my skin like never before, every day or every other day I pick the soap that suits me that day and I mainly use Feathers in my DE89. I think I suffer from multiple ADs, mainly soaps or creams and aftershaves! Fragrances, actually. My wife to be thinks I'm crazy, but she still loves me! I learned so much from you guys and it's great to be part of this community! So thnx again!
Marc
