As I confessed in another thread in the Women Shavers group on here I recently caved and bought myself a new Gillette Venus (with wierd soap strips on either side of the blades so you don't need to use lather?!?). I don't own a bath and wanted to get one for the times when I didn't have time to create a big lather and take the care needed with my DE. With my old Venus I could just run it over my legs without looking, go super fast and away I'd go.
I am now paying the price for straying away from the DE and back to the enemy. Thinking I could do a devil-may-care fast shave I whipped it over my knee and began bleeding like crazy. I literally carved off a piece of skin about the size of my fingernail off my knee. I just let the blood run until the water stopped it a bit and then stuck a plaster on it. It's been stinging like crazy all day.
Also, the "soap strip" things are GROSS. It gets all wierd and stringy and honestly looks like a snail has crawled over you and/or coughed up a load of phlegm. *gag* Seriously, it's like horrible tacky phlegmy saliva.
Now you'd think the lesson learnt would be to bin it and return to a strict DE only method but I still can't bring myself quite to do it. It's too messy to shave your legs outside of the shower and while in the shower I don't like to waste water. So sometimes I need a quick shave, not a nice shave. Still though, you'll all be happy to know that I don't enjoy them.
I am now paying the price for straying away from the DE and back to the enemy. Thinking I could do a devil-may-care fast shave I whipped it over my knee and began bleeding like crazy. I literally carved off a piece of skin about the size of my fingernail off my knee. I just let the blood run until the water stopped it a bit and then stuck a plaster on it. It's been stinging like crazy all day.
Also, the "soap strip" things are GROSS. It gets all wierd and stringy and honestly looks like a snail has crawled over you and/or coughed up a load of phlegm. *gag* Seriously, it's like horrible tacky phlegmy saliva.
Now you'd think the lesson learnt would be to bin it and return to a strict DE only method but I still can't bring myself quite to do it. It's too messy to shave your legs outside of the shower and while in the shower I don't like to waste water. So sometimes I need a quick shave, not a nice shave. Still though, you'll all be happy to know that I don't enjoy them.
Take care of that knee, sounds painful.
That sounds like was really painful! Hope it heals up soon and that you aren't left with any unsightly scars or anything.
