Hi guys,
I thought this was a very nice video, with lovely music, that i wanted to share! Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BZQ2...eature=related
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Hi guys,
I thought this was a very nice video, with lovely music, that i wanted to share! Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BZQ2...eature=related
Ouch! Some of those angles towards the end would play havoc with my skin! I know he's not using any pressure but that's still pretty much scraping rather than shaving, and with a fresh Feather Super Pro blade, quite unnecessary in my book but then it does work for this gent so there you go. I'd just hate to have someone trying a Feather for the first time attempt to duplicate the angles this fellow is using without sneaking up on them first.
For the record, the razor is the Feather AC RG and if he's getting 10+ shaves out of a single blade, they would have to be the Super Professional ones.
Regards
Christian
That was a really cool video. I have to stretch my skin much more than he did to avoid irritation. Does he not have to stretch his skin as much because he's using such an ultra sharp blade? I've never used a feather of any kind. Facial contortions alone don't get me where I need to be.
I've always done my XTG cheek passes from mouth to ear, the reverse of what he does. More dangerous the way I do it? Probably; if I slipped I could cut my ear, but I stop about 1/2" before I get there. It gets me closer than when I go ear towards mouth with my whiskers.
Chris L
Perhaps he was using the pro guard blades. :shrug: Definitely that angle on his neck ATG would have left my skin burning raw.
But then I have heard the super pro ones are meant to be more forgiving, so who knows. I was using pro blades, they certainly never make it past 5 shaves, well they do but its no longer comfortable.
Chris, I can slack skin shave with a Feather AC, no need to stretch at all for me unless there's a skin crease the blade can get caught in. For some peculiar reason, I seem to be developing more and more creases in my :cen face......<sigh>. For me, stretching the skin other than just tilting my head one way or the other would cause skin thinning, ingrown hairs, weepers and all sorts of grief. The Feather blades just glide across your skin... it's like wiping away your stubble with a..... uhmmm..... feather?!?!?! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Chrisl
Regards
Kaptain "AC only, hold the DC." Zero
:roflmao Thats great stuff there^^^.Quote:
Originally Posted by kaptain_zero
I usually stretch the skin with the feather, and I'm not developing extra creases....... Rather my skin has become quite loose/thin.
What does this means, as English isn't my first language.Quote:
Originally Posted by kaptain_zero
Do you get scars from it?
Do you mean, that by stretching the skin, you get a looser skin as in wrinkles? Because maybe it also has something to do with age (don't know how old you are and no pun intended), but i know my grandfathers had a looser and thinner skin, when the were getting older.Quote:
Originally Posted by OLD_SCHOOL
What is "skin thinning"? I've heard this term mentioned before.Quote:
Originally Posted by kaptain_zero
Chris L
No I mean in the past 6mths or so since using a straight, it has loosened considerably.Quote:
Originally Posted by gentleman
Sorry for this dumb question, but is this a good thing or a bad thing?:hmmm: As i can't envision what this means.Quote:
Originally Posted by OLD_SCHOOL
Well to me its a very bad thing, because I was to understand stretching the skin whilst shaving actually causes the skin to tighten and perhaps make you appear young again. But it seems to be having an adverse affect on me. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by gentleman
Well, this was a topic that i was worried about. I thought that when you would stretch your skin for the straight, that it would get loose faster than with normal shaving methods. :shrug: And i don't know if i want that! :nono:Quote:
Originally Posted by OLD_SCHOOL
You don't need to worry about skin stretching loosening your skin too much, you'll be fine. You just need to stop getting older at the same time.
Skin thinning is caused by using a Feather razor, because of its sharpness level it removes several layers of skin cells with each shave. Shave everyday for a week or two and you have very little skin left. Your shaving it off faster than it can grow back. After a while you can even feel like your skin is thinner. Its a very uncomfortable feeling.
I think it might all be in our heads though and not actually happening, although it sure feels like your turning your face into a medical experiment.
I was wondering about some of those angles that the gentleman was using too. If I had used my feather in that way, then I am afraid I would have some scar tissue in the end. I was actually beginning to wonder if he even had a blade in the razor...
How do i do that, teach me! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by AFDavis11
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Originally Posted by Chrisl
Chris, the Feather Pro blades are so sharp that they actually remove layers off your skin without you noticing. Eventually, if you shave with them every day (well, for some of us anyway) you skin becomes glossy, smooth and becomes prone to nicks and cuts that would not have happened earlier. I particularly remember one of the last times I used a Pro blade that an otherwise oily aftershave product that would sit on my skin making it tacky suddenly absorbed virtually instantly.... I could almost hear a sucking sound as it went right into my skin.... :eek: Unlike the many times before there was no trace of it after application... that's when I decided to save the rest of my Pro blades... my skin felt quite literally like white onion skin... papery thin and very smooth, however it was the inability to shave without nicks that was the most annoying part. Switching to the Pro Super blades brought everything under control, those blades are fantastic once you learn to use them. You can shave right over a nick from the day before and not disturb it while still getting a nice close shave. The secret of those Pro Super blades are much like the diagram shown in this page from Shick in Japan, just scroll down to the bottom where they show drawings of the way they build the edge on their brand of straight razor blades. That clamshell edge lets you lift the very edge ever so slightly when needed by simply bringing the spine a touch closer to your face and it skims over the skin surface, floating on a micro thin layer of lather but still lopping the stubble off with no tugging.
While I'm very happy with the fact that I've made the switch to traditional straights, I'll never dispute that the Feather AC isn't suitable for daily shaving... as long as you pick the blade that is right for you. I think the part I didn't like the most was the lack of variety... Same razor, same effortless shave, same treading on eggshells as it's so damn sharp....... it gets boring after a while. :D
Regards
Christian
Those 90 degree angles he was using with that razor made me cringe a bit. But he seemed to get a good shave. . .
As always, thanks for the into, Christian. I do want to try a feather shave or two sometime just for the experience to have as a sharpness reference point, but am not interested enough to actually buy one of the shaving units and blades.Quote:
Originally Posted by kaptain_zero
Chris L