Greetings all! Beginner here with just under a month worth of practice, so I'm sure my technique still needs a lot of work but here's my situation...

I received my Dovo Best Quality and everything else that came with the kit from SRD. I started slow and was very confident with my sideburns/cheeks. I moved on to my problem areas, chin and mustache and I really tore them up with what felt like a lot of tugging. After reading through more of the beginner forums, this seemed to be the norm so I went back at it.

Things didn't get much better until I received a Dovo shavette that I had also purchased for traveling. I decided to give it a try and to my surprise it seemed to glide right through all my whiskers. After using it, I realized that my cheeks/sideburns weren't really as close or as problem free as I had thought. After about 5 days worth of added confidence from the shavette I went back to the straight, only to come back to my original results.

My question is, is there a difference in the sharpness of the blade between a shavette and a straight? Do my issues even stem from sharpness? I feel like I am using the same technique with both blades, one just seems to go through the hair much easier. Any help is appreciated.