Hi All, I'm Gabor, and I was reading this site for a few weeks before I decided to sign up.
After more than a decade I was a bearded man but in the last few months I was toying with the idea to get rid of that and go back to wetshaving, where I started when I was a teen. In the pre-beard years I was playing the cartridge game with canned foam and never enjoyed shaving, hence the beard. Now I jumped the gun and walked in a nearby shaving store (yet another rabbit hole, eh?) and purchased a razor. (EJ DE89L) In the last few weeks I am relearning the wetshaving process and during this time I have acquired a synthetic brus, soaps and a bnig selection of blades to get on the mission to find what's best for me.
The main thing, I started to enjoy whipping up lather, getting feedback from an alum block and working on my shaving techniqe - and having a dedicated "me time". I'm not quite there yet, but improving with every shave. (my only disappointment so far that somehow, under the gentle foliage of my beard, a second chin started to show up unnoticed... but hey, nobody's perfect and life is not a beauty contest, right?)
Thanks for the wiki, I studied it and will do further and thanks for all the info you shared here, heaps of help for a newbie, like me.
(and yes, I bought an ARKO stick, just for the sake of it!)
cheers, G
After more than a decade I was a bearded man but in the last few months I was toying with the idea to get rid of that and go back to wetshaving, where I started when I was a teen. In the pre-beard years I was playing the cartridge game with canned foam and never enjoyed shaving, hence the beard. Now I jumped the gun and walked in a nearby shaving store (yet another rabbit hole, eh?) and purchased a razor. (EJ DE89L) In the last few weeks I am relearning the wetshaving process and during this time I have acquired a synthetic brus, soaps and a bnig selection of blades to get on the mission to find what's best for me.
The main thing, I started to enjoy whipping up lather, getting feedback from an alum block and working on my shaving techniqe - and having a dedicated "me time". I'm not quite there yet, but improving with every shave. (my only disappointment so far that somehow, under the gentle foliage of my beard, a second chin started to show up unnoticed... but hey, nobody's perfect and life is not a beauty contest, right?)
Thanks for the wiki, I studied it and will do further and thanks for all the info you shared here, heaps of help for a newbie, like me.
(and yes, I bought an ARKO stick, just for the sake of it!)
cheers, G
