Quote Originally Posted by shaviar View Post
Hi All,

I have been interested in a straight razor shave for a long time, so I decided to get my first one at the barber's
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when my wife noticed redness on my face and I felt that my skin had become very sentistivie . The situation got even worst the next day.

So my quetion is , did the barber do something wrong or would it be normal for me to get a burn with my first shave? I must say that I predominately use an electric shaver , I know what you are thinking but I occasionaly do a wet shave with a cardrige shaver and this has never been a problem before. My skin is not that sensitive and I find it curios that only one part of my skin showed the reaction.

I have now become a little worried to do a switch, so I appreciate any feedback on this matter.

Cheers.
Switching from or to an electric can give you a rash.
Plain and simple switching takes a while to adjust.

The skin does seem to change and adapt to the method
and products.

My guess is that the part of your neck that developed a
rash is different. One side of my neck grows up and
the other side grows down with some swirled bits to complicate
any transition...

To ease into the switch get some wet saving soap or cream
a boar brush and spend five bucks on a dozen BiC single edge tossables.
They are the yellow ones for Sensitive skin. SKIP the double, triple
and quad tossables.

Start with a systematic north south shave (normally with the grain).
Follow with a light one time touch up to catch the omissions. BBS
is not the goal. If your face flairs up red skip shaving that bit for
a day.

Give each tossable no more than three days of use and
about half way through the bag add some cross the grain
and rare against the grain touch ups. Half way through
the bag (12/bag) you can try for more days per blade and
even try for a BBS a couple times.

In a month you will have practiced pre-shave, lathering
and post shave. Try Nivea Sensitive Post shave balm *works
well for me*.

A one bag of 12 should take you past one month and should
let you discover if WET shaving is a good or bad thing for you.

Then go back to the barber, or graduate to better wet shaving tools: str8, DE,
better brush different soaps different shave creams.

I am a FAN of wet shaving with a sharp blade, any blade.