I posted a thread in the New Members area, before I saw this fancy little place! I'll paste it here:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/membe...ns-denver.html

Hello all,

My name is Melinda and I'm one of the (apparently? [Apparently not by this subforum, yay!]) rare women interested in getting going with straight razor shaving. I'm still in the research phase right now and I'm completely ignorant as to the whole process. My reasons for getting into the notion are: tired of the boyfriend stealing my Mach3 blades, ladies razors are laughable, and I really dig the notion of the style behind a straight edge blade.

So if anyone reads this, I'll lob a few questions to the Etherverse and see what comes of it:

Is there a good resource for finding straight edge razors that are a bit more swanky looking? I've tried Etsy with no luck, although there are so many options for brushes it's downright silly by comparison. I've seen some nifty ones out there, but never for sale.

I'm not in need of face shaving or anything, but as a lady I would like to shave my legs and other less-easy bits as well such as underarms and bikini areas - should I have multiple blades? I saw mention of differing numbers for blades in another thread, so I'm assuming that's for blade length...?

In conjunction with that question, what are some recommended shaving creams and moisturizers for sensitive skin, and how do people cope with shaving knicks when they're starting out? I can't imagine everyone uses the TP method as much with all the fancy things out these days....