I've always hated my Mach 3 shave. I'm always still prickly all over. Then I got a professional shave from a Colombian barber with a straight-edge for $5 and my face was baby-butt smooth. A girl who was traveling with me felt my face and was pretty much ready for sex right there.
So now I want to learn how to do that myself.
I wasn't ready to jump to cutthroat, so I read this fine tutorial and bought myself a Merkur HD double-edge razor, a chrome-handled pure badger shave brush, and some Proraso pre & post shaving cream from MenEssentials.
My first wet shave was, of course, a disaster.
I couldn't build up a lather at all, so eventually I just put some Proraso in my brush, added water, and rubbed it on my face. It was so thin I could barely see it. Then I held the Merkur blade at a 30-degree angle (or was it a 150-degree angle?) to my face, and did with-the-grain swipes across my face. I went easy on the pressure. Then I reapplied my non-lather and did against-the-grain passes.
I felt my face. It felt no better than a Mach 3 shave, was still scratchy in most places, burned more than usual, and I had cut myself three times and spent $100.
Yay.
But hey. "Michael Jordon got cut from his high school basketball team" and all that.
Now I'm watching every YouTube video on wet-shaving I can find.
Anyway, "Howdy" to everybody here and thanks for collectively providing such a great community of resources. Hopefully one day I'll be giving tips to newbs.
So now I want to learn how to do that myself.
I wasn't ready to jump to cutthroat, so I read this fine tutorial and bought myself a Merkur HD double-edge razor, a chrome-handled pure badger shave brush, and some Proraso pre & post shaving cream from MenEssentials.
My first wet shave was, of course, a disaster.
I couldn't build up a lather at all, so eventually I just put some Proraso in my brush, added water, and rubbed it on my face. It was so thin I could barely see it. Then I held the Merkur blade at a 30-degree angle (or was it a 150-degree angle?) to my face, and did with-the-grain swipes across my face. I went easy on the pressure. Then I reapplied my non-lather and did against-the-grain passes.
I felt my face. It felt no better than a Mach 3 shave, was still scratchy in most places, burned more than usual, and I had cut myself three times and spent $100.
Yay.
But hey. "Michael Jordon got cut from his high school basketball team" and all that.
Now I'm watching every YouTube video on wet-shaving I can find.
Anyway, "Howdy" to everybody here and thanks for collectively providing such a great community of resources. Hopefully one day I'll be giving tips to newbs.