Have shaved with a straight four times only, doing two passes with the straight (and finishing up with Mach 3).
Main observation from the log below is that the first shave (with factory hone or with professional hone) was not good at all -- especially in terms of pain after the shave (delayed by one day for the factory hone, and delayed to the splashing of water with the professional hone), but the second shave (with either hone) was quite good (given my technique).
Questions:
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| Region | Motions |
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| Cheeks | Essentially downwards |
| Jaw line | Horizontal (both directions, left-right) |
| Below jaw | Both downwards and upwards |
+-----------+------------------------------------------+Main observation from the log below is that the first shave (with factory hone or with professional hone) was not good at all -- especially in terms of pain after the shave (delayed by one day for the factory hone, and delayed to the splashing of water with the professional hone), but the second shave (with either hone) was quite good (given my technique).
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| Date | Result |
| (hone) | (lowlights/highlights of experiene) |
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| First shave with out-of-the-box Dovo factory hone |
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| July 8, 2018 | - On the next day, it hurt when moving a towel |
|(dovo factory) | over my face during drying -- as though a |
| | thin layer of skin has been removed and not |
| | yet grown back. |
| | - Could not believe that anyone could ever |
| | shave with a straight! |
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| Second shave with out-of-the-box Dovo factory hone |
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| May 10, 2019 | - Quiet shave. |
| | - Razor moved smoothly over skin. |
| | - The central part of the razor provided a |
| | close shave. The part of the razor at the |
| | two ends did not cut as well as the central |
| | part. |
| | - After the shave, I could splash water and |
| | feel no pain. |
| | - Most of the face ended up with a fairly |
| | close/smooth shave |
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| First shave with professional hone |
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| June 18, 2019 | - Noisy -- razor did not glide silently. |
| (professional) | - Razor had a jerky, stop-and-go type, |
| | grabby/scratchy motion. |
| | - After the shave, when I splashed water on my |
| | face, I experienced millions of tiny pin |
| | pricks all over the places where the razor |
| | had moved. |
| | - The shave was not at all close -- there |
| | still was stubble on places where the razor |
| | had moved. |
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| June 20, 2019 | In the afternoon, experimented with shaving |
| | the cheeks |
| | - No lather, not even water -- just on dry |
| | face with stuble from previous shave |
| | - Moving razor with very light pressure and |
| | minimal contact, no stretching of skin, |
| | strokes with varying blade-to-skin angles |
| | - No discomfort at all! Small regions did get |
| | a good shave. |
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| Second shave with professional hone |
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| June 23, 2019 | - Quiet shave. |
| | - Razor moved smoothly over skin. Once during |
| | the second pass, razor got stuck to cheek; I |
| | loosened it and was able to move it down a |
| | bit -- and it got stuck again! |
| | - Once during first pass and thrice during |
| | second pass neglected to maintain the angle |
| | with the skin, and nicked myself. However, |
| | no blood. |
| | - After the shave, I could splash water, |
| | feeling pain only along the 4 lines I had |
| | nicked myself at. |
| | feel no pain. |
| | - Most of the face ended up with a fairly |
| | close/smooth shave |
+----------------+------------------------------------------------+Questions:
- In the latest shave, why did the razor stick to my face?
- I notice that people stretch by pulling from behind the razor, away from the razor's motion -- I have a tendency to pull from the front of the razor, in the direction of motion. The danger in pulling from the front of the razor is that the razor might slip and cut the pulling hand. But from the point of view of the benefit from the stretch, how does pulling from behind compare with pulling from front?
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