Thread: $300. Spent And I Still Can't Achieve a Comfortable Shave

Agree let your face rest and moisturize it every day to help it heal

Get your razor honed. Prep is key. Use hot water and bar soap and wash your face rubbing the soap in for a minute or two, rinse then lather up. Also 30 degrees sounds steep. Almost like you are scraping more than shaving. Try a shallower angle with the straight, almost flat to the face

So sorry to see and gear, it appears to me that it to much ptessure on your skun lighten up , and when I was starting out I found feather to be to sharp, and decided to try Astra, so when I must shave with a DE Astra is my blade of choice. There may also be an issue with your lather to as well as prep that can make a shave look like the picture you have posted.
If you can't get a grip to stretch your skin, try different face expeditions, also u could put dome presure on different parts of the neck to help you stretch the skin..

Also as Crewler stated, coud you post, a prep, lather, shave vid.

A few months ago I abandoned cartridges and started DE shaving, with an Edwin Jagger DE 89 and large assortment of blades. I had red spots on my neck for about 2 weeks, much like the ones in your pictures. I reviewed all the advice etc, and I thought I was using light pressure, but it turned out the pressure was the problem. I started truly letting the weight of the razor do the work, knowing that anything I missed on the first pass would get picked up on the second or third. I feels weird at first, as if you're not really shaving. But since doing that, I have no more irritation and very close shaves. My advice would be, if you think you're using light pressure, try using even lighter.
I've also started straight razor shaving (or rather started over, because I used to do it about 30 years ago), and found the same thing - light pressure is essential. The other fundamental thing did wrong with the straight was too much angle, about 30 degrees. I watched Lynn's basic shave video last week and understood the real angle is a lot less, a spine thickness or two. No more nicks since then.
Hope you work out the problems.