Hello Gents,
Had a bit of a strange experience and was wondering if anyone could shed some light unto what might be happening. So here's the scenario:
I normally shave at night so that I have time to work a couple passes with the straight without looking at the clock, but last night was a long on at work so I woke up looking at 2-3 days growth. I took a hot shower, oiled and lathered (rubbing in one helping of lather with my hands before anything else) and went at it for a WTG pass. Nothing out of the ordinary, got a nick below the nose where my angle was "aggressive". I finished up with an ATG pass using my DE and it was all good. Looking and feeling smooth I rinsed with ice cold water and applied some witch hazel. After I dried I gave the Nivea sensitive skin AS a try and called it a shaving success. Here comes the strange part....after breakfast I went back to shave den, still feeling good, and applied some Nivea sensitive skin face lotion (its cold in Boston). Almost immediately I started bleeding from just about every pore on me left cheek and a large are of my neck...not ER worthy bu enough to freak out just a little. Another rinse with cold water, more witch hazel and some styptic later and everything was back to normal (except for some redness).
What happened there? I didn't cut myself certainly not in every spot that was bleeding....and the lotion application was at least 30 minutes removed from the shave...
Should I call a priest?
-Ben