Hi everyone!
Yet another post from a newbie shaver
Started wet shaving with DE at the end of January, before all I have ever used was cartridges and canned goo...
First few shaves were with cheap and cheerful wilkinson sword classic and personna platinum blades - then quickly started venturing down the rabbit hole and subsequently splurged money on blackland blackbird (both SB and OC versions), then on Rockwell 6S. Both are amazing razors in my opinion, however for past month I was using mainly the Rockwell 6S R4. For past 3 shaves I went back to blackbird - and it demanded more respect this time. Somehow my technique improving, made it so the blackbird is more agressive to me than it was just as I started wet shaving (or maybe I'm just more confident in moving razor across the face, and scaredy movements during first shaves didn't give it much to go on).
Got few nice soaps and exploring various scents at the moment - trying to find my preferences. So far some of my favourite (had to actually order from American supplier) are: B&M Terror, Chiseled Face Cryogen, southern witchcrafts Necromantic (definitely want to try more of their smells!)
Thanks to all this - both my skin has already improved a lot (I'm diabetic, so do tend to have dry skin), as well as I started enjoying the shaves and can't wait until the next one! Where when I was using cartridges, it was a chore that I was doing once a week!
Anyway - glad to be here amongst other wet shavers! Time to go and have a look through this big compendium of knowledge!
All the best and Stay safe!
Simon
Yet another post from a newbie shaver
Started wet shaving with DE at the end of January, before all I have ever used was cartridges and canned goo...
First few shaves were with cheap and cheerful wilkinson sword classic and personna platinum blades - then quickly started venturing down the rabbit hole and subsequently splurged money on blackland blackbird (both SB and OC versions), then on Rockwell 6S. Both are amazing razors in my opinion, however for past month I was using mainly the Rockwell 6S R4. For past 3 shaves I went back to blackbird - and it demanded more respect this time. Somehow my technique improving, made it so the blackbird is more agressive to me than it was just as I started wet shaving (or maybe I'm just more confident in moving razor across the face, and scaredy movements during first shaves didn't give it much to go on).
Got few nice soaps and exploring various scents at the moment - trying to find my preferences. So far some of my favourite (had to actually order from American supplier) are: B&M Terror, Chiseled Face Cryogen, southern witchcrafts Necromantic (definitely want to try more of their smells!)
Thanks to all this - both my skin has already improved a lot (I'm diabetic, so do tend to have dry skin), as well as I started enjoying the shaves and can't wait until the next one! Where when I was using cartridges, it was a chore that I was doing once a week!
Anyway - glad to be here amongst other wet shavers! Time to go and have a look through this big compendium of knowledge!
All the best and Stay safe!
Simon