Hi all, just registered more so to be able to view pics at full size in threads than anything else.
i have been trying out de shaving for a couple of months now. Having gone from schick Quattro and several phillips electrics. I am finding it an interesting if not totally satisfying journey. I am very much on the cheap side even if it may cost me more in the long run learning from mistakes. (E.g. I now have 4 budget razors which could have afforded me a far better single razor)
I started with a cheap remei razor, with the coloured handle, I got some arko and a couple of brands of blades but not a full sample pack. After several weeks I settled on shark stainless as my preference and was getting decent shaves except when I made stupid mistakes. (Don't laugh while you are shaving). I read about a few other brands of razors to try as I actually preferred the idea of slightly milder and wanted some options. I had been reading a lot about gillette techs but they are expensive round here. I ordered a weishi, a yingjili and a blue card backed gillette (similar to the 7'oclock that is all over ebay - I don't know if they are identical or not).
For some reason at this point I started getting far worse shaves with the same equipment, for a good week or 10 days. I did not change anything else and the blades were changed and from the same batch. At that point the weishi arrived and I got some decent shaves from that. Then the gillette plastic handled tech clone arrived and while it is incredibly light it gives really good shaves. It is my current go-to. The yingjili looks almost identical to the gillette and weighs twice as much but it doesn't give as good a shave. The gillette pretty much gives me decent results with no cuts every time.
i am still experimenting. I have all four loaded with the same blades and have been trying all at different times?
i have been trying out de shaving for a couple of months now. Having gone from schick Quattro and several phillips electrics. I am finding it an interesting if not totally satisfying journey. I am very much on the cheap side even if it may cost me more in the long run learning from mistakes. (E.g. I now have 4 budget razors which could have afforded me a far better single razor)
I started with a cheap remei razor, with the coloured handle, I got some arko and a couple of brands of blades but not a full sample pack. After several weeks I settled on shark stainless as my preference and was getting decent shaves except when I made stupid mistakes. (Don't laugh while you are shaving). I read about a few other brands of razors to try as I actually preferred the idea of slightly milder and wanted some options. I had been reading a lot about gillette techs but they are expensive round here. I ordered a weishi, a yingjili and a blue card backed gillette (similar to the 7'oclock that is all over ebay - I don't know if they are identical or not).
For some reason at this point I started getting far worse shaves with the same equipment, for a good week or 10 days. I did not change anything else and the blades were changed and from the same batch. At that point the weishi arrived and I got some decent shaves from that. Then the gillette plastic handled tech clone arrived and while it is incredibly light it gives really good shaves. It is my current go-to. The yingjili looks almost identical to the gillette and weighs twice as much but it doesn't give as good a shave. The gillette pretty much gives me decent results with no cuts every time.
i am still experimenting. I have all four loaded with the same blades and have been trying all at different times?
_/¯. You've got a lot of variables going on there with gear, technique and skin/grain problems. I'm currently working through a sample of 20 different blades using the same prep, brush, soap and razor every day giving each blade 2 shaves each (more if I like them).
