If I could go back in time and meet myself when I first started wet shaving, I would slap my young self and say don't act macho and shave on the highest setting on the adjustable DE and the quicker you learn about angles on your face, the less cuts and blood spill you would have.
What is one thing you wish you knew when you first started wet shaving?
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Use less water when lathering. Creep up on the correct hydration with small incremental water additions. And stay away from Feather blades until you get the hang of correct angles and pressure.
Don’t be cheap when loading the brush
Buy ALL the Filarmonica/Palmera 14s. 
Having recently returned to the art (oh, it is an art) I would tell that kid the same thing I am telling myself now.
Do it slowly, with intention, and enjoy it. The rest will come.
Do it slowly, with intention, and enjoy it. The rest will come.
How much money I was going to spend!
Rabbit holes do indeed exist!
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Two things:
Six tubs of soap is way enough at a time!
Beard mapping will help to improve the shave!
Six tubs of soap is way enough at a time!
Beard mapping will help to improve the shave!
How much money I was going to spend!
I didn’t get the little note under my SN by being frugal. <eg>Rabbit holes do indeed exist!
Thankfully, I didn’t get into traditional wet shaving to save money.
Started shaving at 16 with a straight, taught by dad. He also helped me with DEs also, later ..once a was efficient and consistent with my shaves.
I should known this was coming, when I saw he had a bedroom chest filled with razors.
Now, to answer the question:
I wish I started a specific shaving saving account (SSA) for my evolving razor addiction..years, years, back.....
So in short, a long term SSA for my long term RAD.
Luckily my amazing wife is great with the finances. She helps the shave budget.
Also I try to stay self funded by sometimes selling off dust collectors and trying new.
Tough because I also support my brother and my dad with loaners ( or I buy them one) that sometimes never come back...
By hey, they are great and I would not have it any other way....
It is a family thing....
Cheers
BFX
I should known this was coming, when I saw he had a bedroom chest filled with razors.
Now, to answer the question:
I wish I started a specific shaving saving account (SSA) for my evolving razor addiction..years, years, back.....
So in short, a long term SSA for my long term RAD.
Luckily my amazing wife is great with the finances. She helps the shave budget.
Also I try to stay self funded by sometimes selling off dust collectors and trying new.
Tough because I also support my brother and my dad with loaners ( or I buy them one) that sometimes never come back...
By hey, they are great and I would not have it any other way....
It is a family thing....
Cheers
BFX
Take your time!!
Do not rush the shave. And learn to your current kit properly before rushing to buy more and more.
Do not rush the shave. And learn to your current kit properly before rushing to buy more and more.
Too long ago to remember.
Like I’d ever listen to me about anything…
But if I did…
Know that you’ll always have that Fear of Missing Out no matter what you have or do. There just isn’t enough time, enough money, and enough space.
But if I did…
Know that you’ll always have that Fear of Missing Out no matter what you have or do. There just isn’t enough time, enough money, and enough space.
I'd tell my teenage self don't start using cartridges and stay with a safety razor.
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After a few years with a Braun electric razor I started with a flip-top Wilkinson DE in my college days back in the Eighties - so the one thing I wish I'd known would probably have been Carol Vorderman's phone number.
Advice for myself? Stick with the DE and/or get a straight razor. Thirty years spent with cartridges now looks like lost time.
Advice for myself? Stick with the DE and/or get a straight razor. Thirty years spent with cartridges now looks like lost time.
I have definite preferences now for brush and razor choice. I could have saved a lot of money if I knew them from the start, but there is only one way to gain that information - buy a bunch of stuff and use it for a while. It's part of the journey.
Proper angle. Shave neutral or shallow, not steep.
Ah, yessss! I rode the cap religiously for way too many years, until I got a razor that required a steep angle.
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