Thread: Sensitive skin issues.

Dude you got it bad - says captain obvious!!

When I started wet shaving, I went from DE to Straight. When I took that DE to my face that first week, I got it bad too. Though maybe not as bad as you. I posted about it, and was told to lighten up on the pressure. You are going to hear that here a lot me thinks.

Anyway, as time went on - a week or two, my face got used to the DE and Bob was as they say, my uncle.

When I got to using my straight my face lit up!! Maybe as bad as you. Again I was told to lighten up. I was convinced it was going to be just like my DE where I just needed to condition my face to the blade. That and learn to hone better.

Time went by and it did settle down. But it took longer to get my face used to the straight vs the DE.

So having said that, I bet you think I'll say let your face get used to it. Nope lol! I'll tell you what everyone told me - lighten up!

Its just huge and in retrospect, my face wasn't getting used to the blade, I really was simply relaxing a bit and lightening up.

I notice that now I use such light pressure on my shaves, one could wonder how it could possibly be effective - but I know that this is about reducing on each pass, and three crazy light passes gives me great and smooth shaves with absolutely no burn.

Trust the reduction method! Three really light passes is way more comfortable than two with moderate pressure.

Light... Very light passes is key! Your not going to drop your razor. That's my $0.03.