Hello people of B&B!
The title may sound a bit wrong, but hang in there i swear is something innocent. Since there are people in here that don't like to read walls of text(I am guilty of that too, I like to write but not read
) i will just post the main question first and if you want you can just skip the wall of text.
**How was your first time with a safety razor? Did you bleed to death
or was perhaps a amazing feeling that open your third eye
?**
I will go first.
Initially, when I decided to start this journey, I was set back by the fact that I didn't know where to get a safety razor. I didn't have many options since buying a razor online wasn't feasible due to the import duty fees in my country, and the various shops around me didn't sell any safety razors. There was an option to buy from AliExpress, but at the time, I was dubious about Yaqi and the other brands available there. Since then, I have learned how good those brands are. Then, my grandpa came to the rescue. He had a vintage safety razor made in Shanghai. I don't know when it was made, and to be honest, I don't really know much about that razor at all. Maybe in the future, I will make a thread to see if there is someone who can help me identify it.
He give it to me since now he uses a Gillette fusion 5 to shave and had no need for it. At first i was scared to use it since i though i was gonna cut myself, I even head a bad dream about getting cut by a razor a day or two before, probably the fear was triggering my brain. But when the moment came and i made the first stroke a feeling of awe passed thru my body. It was amazing, it felt like a revelation to me, the smoothness and the efficiency was amazing. Before that i used a Gillette Fusion 5 like my grandfather, and it had that feeling of dragging on my head(i have to mention that i head shave primarily)whenever i shaved with it. Also i was surprised that a single Astra SP was so much sharper and smother on my head that the Gillette razor. The shaven ended without cuts and overall was pleasant. I was impressed that i didn't massacre myself that day, i guess that goes to show that i head a good intuition on how to use a safety razor from the start. I know that from that day onwards there was no way back for me. I just wish to feel again that magical first stroke which filled me with awe, the technique and gear has got better but i will never be able to feel the magic of the first time ever again.
The title may sound a bit wrong, but hang in there i swear is something innocent. Since there are people in here that don't like to read walls of text(I am guilty of that too, I like to write but not read
) i will just post the main question first and if you want you can just skip the wall of text.**How was your first time with a safety razor? Did you bleed to death
or was perhaps a amazing feeling that open your third eye?**I will go first.
Initially, when I decided to start this journey, I was set back by the fact that I didn't know where to get a safety razor. I didn't have many options since buying a razor online wasn't feasible due to the import duty fees in my country, and the various shops around me didn't sell any safety razors. There was an option to buy from AliExpress, but at the time, I was dubious about Yaqi and the other brands available there. Since then, I have learned how good those brands are. Then, my grandpa came to the rescue. He had a vintage safety razor made in Shanghai. I don't know when it was made, and to be honest, I don't really know much about that razor at all. Maybe in the future, I will make a thread to see if there is someone who can help me identify it.
He give it to me since now he uses a Gillette fusion 5 to shave and had no need for it. At first i was scared to use it since i though i was gonna cut myself, I even head a bad dream about getting cut by a razor a day or two before, probably the fear was triggering my brain. But when the moment came and i made the first stroke a feeling of awe passed thru my body. It was amazing, it felt like a revelation to me, the smoothness and the efficiency was amazing. Before that i used a Gillette Fusion 5 like my grandfather, and it had that feeling of dragging on my head(i have to mention that i head shave primarily)whenever i shaved with it. Also i was surprised that a single Astra SP was so much sharper and smother on my head that the Gillette razor. The shaven ended without cuts and overall was pleasant. I was impressed that i didn't massacre myself that day, i guess that goes to show that i head a good intuition on how to use a safety razor from the start. I know that from that day onwards there was no way back for me. I just wish to feel again that magical first stroke which filled me with awe, the technique and gear has got better but i will never be able to feel the magic of the first time ever again.
