Little background, so I recently got my first DE razor coming from cartridges and electrics. I felt like I tried everything from prep, varying pressure, and techniques, but no matter what, I either ended up with nicks and irritation, or not a close enough shave. It didn't matter how careful and slow I went, I always got a bad result. After a month, I decided, hey maybe I will also try a straight razor, so I started researching on this forum.
Well I ended up buying a Ralf Aust from the research I did on this forum. Today, I gave it a go, and that first couple of strokes was scary, I can tell, if I get complacent, I'm going to end up with a way more serious cut than a DE razor, but, at the same time, I felt like I had so much more control over whether or not I would get cut or not and as long as I was careful and slow, I could get a really close shave while not getting nicks.
I only have one shave to go by, but it almost feels way more dangerous, but way more safe than a DE razor. I think with more practice I am really going to prefer the straight razor. I am hooked. I only had 1 tiny small nick for my first straight razor shave, but the rest of my face had a super tight shave with almost no irritation. A month with the DE razor, I always ended up with lotta irritation and nicks OR Not close shave. Totally shocked and amazed at my result with the straight, a close shave AND 1 tiny nick only. Kinda proud of myself, and thankful to this forum because everything I did with the prep and technique is what I gathered from all of you guys here.
side notes:
*maggardrazors FEDEX option got this to my house FAST! I am in Asia, ordered on the 14th and got to my door today on the 18th!
*ordered a belgium coticule and a small coticule slurry in hopes that itll be all I need to maintain the edge. I am poor but I heard this stone is a pretty versatile stone if you can get it to work for you.
*Got a strop from Razoremporium. Anyone have one from them? any thoughts on the quality, mine comes tomorrow, kinda excited to strop on it.
Well I ended up buying a Ralf Aust from the research I did on this forum. Today, I gave it a go, and that first couple of strokes was scary, I can tell, if I get complacent, I'm going to end up with a way more serious cut than a DE razor, but, at the same time, I felt like I had so much more control over whether or not I would get cut or not and as long as I was careful and slow, I could get a really close shave while not getting nicks.
I only have one shave to go by, but it almost feels way more dangerous, but way more safe than a DE razor. I think with more practice I am really going to prefer the straight razor. I am hooked. I only had 1 tiny small nick for my first straight razor shave, but the rest of my face had a super tight shave with almost no irritation. A month with the DE razor, I always ended up with lotta irritation and nicks OR Not close shave. Totally shocked and amazed at my result with the straight, a close shave AND 1 tiny nick only. Kinda proud of myself, and thankful to this forum because everything I did with the prep and technique is what I gathered from all of you guys here.
side notes:
*maggardrazors FEDEX option got this to my house FAST! I am in Asia, ordered on the 14th and got to my door today on the 18th!
*ordered a belgium coticule and a small coticule slurry in hopes that itll be all I need to maintain the edge. I am poor but I heard this stone is a pretty versatile stone if you can get it to work for you.
*Got a strop from Razoremporium. Anyone have one from them? any thoughts on the quality, mine comes tomorrow, kinda excited to strop on it.