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- Wednesday April 17, 2013
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Hi all, I'm new to the forum and thought I would share my first ever wet shaving experience. Having only used electric shavers and going through three expensive shavers in the last eight months I decided to purchase an ej de89
I have a thick coarse beard type so jumped in the shower and used a facial scrub to exfoliate the skin and then loaded an astra sp blade into the razor. I used a badger hair brush to lather up proraso menthol shave cream and applied To my face in a circular motion making sure I covered all my beard area......................now for the shave, I used short strokes and the blade sounded like it was cutting through my whiskers a treat, I wasn't using a lot of pressure and shaved in a downward direction for the first pass. I rinsed and relathered and kinda feel this is where my problems began
I started the second pass from ear to nose and started to nick myself quite a lot but undetered I continued and got through it, I rinsed and lathered up for a third and final pass this time shaving from nose to ear.......................final pass over I rinsed my face in warm water to get rid of the pint of blood my skin was secreting and felt my skin and WTF!!!!!!!! It felt like I have never shaved and my neck was as red as a baboons arse :icon_sad: I then proceeded with a rub of the alum block, needless to say I'm still recovering from that experience...............please please please is there anyone on this excellent forum that could give me some tips so I can turn this into a pleasurable experience :icon_razz:
I have a thick coarse beard type so jumped in the shower and used a facial scrub to exfoliate the skin and then loaded an astra sp blade into the razor. I used a badger hair brush to lather up proraso menthol shave cream and applied To my face in a circular motion making sure I covered all my beard area......................now for the shave, I used short strokes and the blade sounded like it was cutting through my whiskers a treat, I wasn't using a lot of pressure and shaved in a downward direction for the first pass. I rinsed and relathered and kinda feel this is where my problems began
I started the second pass from ear to nose and started to nick myself quite a lot but undetered I continued and got through it, I rinsed and lathered up for a third and final pass this time shaving from nose to ear.......................final pass over I rinsed my face in warm water to get rid of the pint of blood my skin was secreting and felt my skin and WTF!!!!!!!! It felt like I have never shaved and my neck was as red as a baboons arse :icon_sad: I then proceeded with a rub of the alum block, needless to say I'm still recovering from that experience...............please please please is there anyone on this excellent forum that could give me some tips so I can turn this into a pleasurable experience :icon_razz: