Thread: Keep at it

A couple of months in to straight shaving and it's going slowly but surely. I'm having to do a fair few passes and stop and strop about 2/3 of the way through. The left hand is becoming more dextrous going up the right side, skin pulling is the key here.I am still using a Mach 3 to finish off the contours under the jaw bone, my stubble here just grows in crazy directions and i can't get the angle i want with the straight.
Luckily I have a goatee so i don't have to do my chin but i use a shavette to final trim around the beard and moustache as it's just smaller,sharper and more manoeuvrable.I use the Mach3 for my head also. I can do it with a shavette, I tried it just to prove it to myself but it's a long order and i would be hogging the bathroom all day.
I don't cut myself anymore and with good preparation, soap and brush I am having the best shaves I've ever had in my life. You know the ones that make you sing little songs as you splash on your cologne and exit the bathroom.

sounds good...

Originally Posted by rockybalboa

A couple of months in to straight shaving and it's going slowly but surely. I'm having to do a fair few passes and stop and strop about 2/3 of the way through. The left hand is becoming more dextrous going up the right side, skin pulling is the key here.I am still using a Mach 3 to finish off the contours under the jaw bone, my stubble here just grows in crazy directions and i can't get the angle i want with the straight.
Luckily I have a goatee so i don't have to do my chin but i use a shavette to final trim around the beard and moustache as it's just smaller,sharper and more manoeuvrable.I use the Mach3 for my head also. I can do it with a shavette, I tried it just to prove it to myself but it's a long order and i would be hogging the bathroom all day.
I don't cut myself anymore and with good preparation, soap and brush I am having the best shaves I've ever had in my life. You know the ones that make you sing little songs as you splash on your cologne and exit the bathroom.

May I add the reason for multiple passes is that being a rufty tufty builder type I will probably only shave every 4/5 days so I have a lot of brush to cut through.