Quote Originally Posted by RezDog View Post
The secret to nice slick lather is good soap with the right amount of water. It's not as easy as it sounds. The soap of course is the first challenge. Are you bowl lathering or face lathering. Lathering on the face after you load your brush and start to apply it to your face if it is too dry introduce more water by dipping just the tips of the bristles in a bowl of water. I think mst people use the whole blade, just not always at the same time. Parts of my face I use a section of the the blade, say the tip while doing my side burns and more the middle of the blade on my cheeks. I think maybe you are putting too much pressure on the tip or leading the tip too far forward in your stroke. It's a tough one to say for sure. I used to spend a lot of time looking in the mirror running my finger over my face trying to imagine what the blade angle etc would look like at this angle or that in an attempt to map my beard and figure out the best shave. I am going to say it took about two months of daily shaving to get pretty good at it and still quite a few aha moments over the next month.
I may be trying too many soaps all at once, I have just purchased a tub of Caties Bubbles, I think I may make that my everyday soap for a while. At least until I can get the lather I want on a consistent basis. I think my issue is not enough water. Should the lather have larger bubbles when I bring it to my face, or in the bowl should I take care of those and make it thicker, then go to my face.

BTW, I tried face lathering, but I think my boar isn't broken in enough just yet and it irritated my face.