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07-22-2010, 09:25 PM #1
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Thanked: 0Please help with first shave!
I recently purchased a Boker King Cutter bundle with the red latigo strop from SRD and attempted to use it today. I spent several weeks before receiving it watching tutorial vids and reading these forums, so I thought I knew what I was getting into. My blade didn't pass the hanging hair test so I stropped it as per all the tutorials I've watched, and the edge looks great, but still doesn't pass the hht. So I attempted to shave anyways. I took a long hot shower and did all the preparation, but had a couple issues. First of all my soap lather, even though it looked good in the cup, didn't seem to lubricate very well. I'm using the SRD bay rum soap. Then I attempted shaving. It didn't really pull the hair on the side of my face, but it barely took any off as I shaved it. When I got to my chin, it really started to pull the hair so I quit and reapplied the soap. Same issue. I finally gave up and washed my face, and it looked like one side of my face was kind of shaved but really spotty. The rest of my face didn't look shaven at all. A few minutes later, the side that was shaven the most looked really red and blemeshy, like razor burn. What am I doing wrong? I even tried watching the DVD from SRD and it seems like I'm following all the steps correctly.