Thread: First shave with my new Boker!

I've been at this for about 10 weeks now, and it was just last week that my wife stopped asking me if there wasn't something I could do so that I didn't always look like I'd just been in a bar fight. I've learned how to cut every place on my face (try not to cut your ear lobes--they don't like to stop bleeding once they start), and then, consequently how not to do that to every place on my face, though there was a bit of a learning curve involved.

Just keep trying--you'll get the hang of it. For a while you will probably want to finish up with a "normal" razor. As you get confidence and experience, you'll find that it gradually starts to fall together. For me, the last place I got to work was straight down from the corners of my mouth, just around under the curve of my jaw, and that finally came together last week. Don't get impatient--just concentrate on getting comfortable using it first, and don't worry about getting every last bit with the straight.

As little as a week ago I was still wondering if I'd made a mistake going to a straight, so don't let yourself get discouraged.

My first bad cut was on my second day, right ahead of my ear where yours is. I put the thing in place, heading towards the front, and my cheek immediately sucked it right in when I started moving. I swear it wasn't my fault at all--it was all my cheek's doing. Try to remember that it's more like a scraping stroke--you're not trying to cut down into meat following the edge in; you're trying to drag the edge forward over everything, like plowing snow.