Continuing with my master plan:
http://straightrazorpalace.com/begin...lan-check.html


I did a single pass, only the sides of my face from sideburns down. I didn't touch upper or lower lip.
It went pretty smoothly and no nicks. I wanted to push it a little more and do the flat parts of my neck. Right when I started though, it felt like it was tugging, as if the chin/neck hairs in that area were dry and not lathered or something and to get through I would have to apply some pressure. I just stopped there and finished up with a DE.

In retrospect, I probably did a couple no-no's, but it didn't seem to affect the DE shave, so not sure what happened. (I was trying a pre-shave and soap for the first time as well)


Here is a checklist of my preparation and please let me know where I might have gone wrong.


- Razors honed by Mr Bayamontate and received instruction to not strop on the first shave
- showered and washed face thoroughly
- rinsed face and put in the HTGAM/razorock lime pre-shave ATG as directed by the nick shaves video
- Lathered up with Mike’s natural barber shop.
- Started shaving. I used a very small angle. I think one of the videos recommended keeping the spine only one-spines-width away from the flat part of your face. Maybe only 15-20 degrees or so.


I think next time, I’m going back to a pre-shave/soap that I’m familiar with just to eliminate that from the equation. But unfortunately then I will be adding the stropping variable in there.

obligatory razor photo:
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