Just had my fifth shave with my shavette. Used the green holder with single edge Personna blade for the first time. I wanted my gf to see part of the process before she left. I ended up rushing the hot towel treatment a bit and making a lather that ended up being just a tad too dry. That coupled with the using the longer blade for the first time ended up as a bad combination. I think...

At first I thought it was the blade not being sharp enough, but it passed the HHT, not perfectly(it pulled the hair just a teenie bit before cutting it) but it passed it. And it was cutting the hairs just fine, unlike the Dovo DE blade I used last time which were pretty bad. It wasn't as sharp as the Feather blades, but only by a fraction. The blade is a little thicker than DEs too.

The first pass went fine, but as soon as I started the second pass after rinsing and re-lathering, I the right side of my neck area stinging bit(this is my most sensitive area). And I saw two dots of blood on two different spots which I hadn't even felt or seen during the first pass. Weird. By the time I finished this pass the aforementioned area was red and stinging quite a bit, especially after I applied the styptic pencil(I had a couple of nicks). Now most of my neck area is a little irritated, right side still a little red, even after applying aftershave balm(Nivea) and a little lotion.

I'm not sure what went wrong. It might be the blade but I doubt it, it was sharp enough to make a really clean, shallow, almost blood free cut on my left cheek by only resting the blade for a half a millisecond. That and it passing the HHT make me think it wasn't the sharpness, but maybe I'm wrong? The lather wasn't my best, but it was better than my first one, and on my first shave I didn't get this irritation. I want to think it was my lousy shave prep. I only did a hot towel treatment without lather, and no shower.

I'm gonna try again in a couple of days. DO a better shave prep, maybe use some Extra Virgin Olive Oil(EVOO as Rachel Ray would say :P) as a pre-shave oil, been considering that.

What do you guys think it was?