Thread: First shave is in the books!

Well, today was like christmas. My razor that AL (Blackstangal) sent me showed up along with a strop, brush, mug, soap that I had ordered from Classicshaving. I counted the hours down until work was over and I could rush home.

4'oclock rolls around I rush home, take a nice long hot shower and then proceed to get my shave on. Everything went absolutly great. I've been reading all I can while I was waiting on stuff to show up. I have also ordered Lyn's DVD but it hasn't come in just yet. I decided I would go ahead and give it a go, worse that could happen is I get some new "battle scars". Needless to say all went well and it felt amazing. I only got two tiny tiny little nicks around my adams apple area where I was pulling skin and trying to find a good angle to get the hair. These barly showed a trace of blood and by the time I cold water rinsed and spashed some aftershave on you can't even see there was a nick to begin with.

Hardest part was finding a way to get the direction I wanted without feeling akward. I took my time through the shave, two passes took me somewhere around 30 mins but it was so worth it. I have never (an neither has my wife) ever felt my face this smooth. I did have a little handicap as I have a goatee so I missed out on trying to get the harder angles around the chin and upper lip that people mention.

Anyway just thought I would share my experiance as I am hooked from the first shave. I am just waiting now to see if I will experiance much if any razor burn which has always been a problem when using cartrige style razors.

Jonathan

Hey Jonathan, congrats on the first shave! Welcome to the community...with a bit of time and reading you will learn a lot, and there are plenty of great members to help you out if you ever have questions. I'm having a drink right now, so here's to more great shaves in your future

Allen

Congrats on the shave! Nothing like getting that first one out the way. Also, it's probably okay that you didn't get to shave your chin! Many members here suggest completely skipping this area until a couple shaves down the road, when you've had time to adjust to the angles and holding the blade. I had a goatee as well, and didn't get to this area until my 6th or 7th shave, but the practice sure helped.

Good luck!!

~Chris