Thread: I read up Razors for my BF and got jealous so I brought my self in.

Learning together is a great way to build a stronger bond between you and your SO. I would recomment learning to shave on yourself before you start shaving your SO. And once he gets the basics down he can shave your legs also. Give you both a goal to work towards, Learn together now and maybe for Christmas shave each other.

For xmas there's always a nice new TI, bar of shave soap, new strop or whatever else. Don't wait just because it isn't xmas yet.

hahah! you guys are great.

The only reason why I wanted it to wait because last x-mas and B-day was so hard to get him something, but this will open up those options.

I have also looked at the members map and sad there are only three of us here in the city. My next question was any one around here willing to give a hone lesson or two? i have looked at youtubes, guides ect, but i just really dont want to mess up the razor and then learn to fix it or worse.

Well before being introduced to this wonderful place i was getting to the idea that might I dare try this man's razor on my self to possibly practice??? I must tell you that the first person I talked to about this was a barber I called who was top on yelp and he was extremely negative about learning. I then felt like I was in on this thing alone.

This has been really helpful

thanks!




Just Checked out the Straight Razor Wet Shaving Sets link. yes I was trying "cost effective" but that also ment running around getting every thing from diffrent places. this is sooo much better especially now that I am looking in to getting two sets.


Awesome!

Barbers dont learn these skills anymore, so dont let his opinion inhibit you. You will find all the help you need here @ SRP. Have fun!

+1 on Nun2Sharp's post. I found Barber's to be a bit of a hinderance in the learning process.

What I would recommend, it helped me a great deal, is to purchase Lynn's DVD which covers shaving, honing and a variety of other things. Great piece of info that you can refer back to at any time. Apologies if this has already been mentioned and I missed it.

Enjoy and good luck.

Joe

Welcome to SRP! I vote learn together as well.

My hubby got the jump on learning (by 2 weeks) but we are in it together now. I find it fun to watch him and learn how he conquers the challenging parts of his face and try to incorporate that to my shave.

Ohhh the fun you will have! Learning together, yeah, I agree with that. Might wanna shave the balloons outside. Shave cream splatters when the balloon pops. (never mind how I know that)

Originally Posted by MsBlackwolf

Ohhh the fun you will have! Learning together, yeah, I agree with that. Might wanna shave the balloons outside. Shave cream splatters when the balloon pops. (never mind how I know that)

I wanna hear that story.

it was the least offensive thing I could come up with

welcome
as far as YOU using one?
this smile is here for a reason

You're already a million steps ahead of SOME of our SO's (I'm looking over my shoulders). If your dude turns out to enjoy this as much as we all do, you have carte blanche for a while! If my GF showed up with a new razor for me, picked out by her after consulting with an entire forum of experts, I'd probably go into cardiac arrest.

In all seriousness... go for it. If he doesn't like it you can try it yourself. The ladies here seem to love it just as much as the men do, and if neither of you like it, the resale on those DOVO's from SRD would be pretty close to what you got it for if you list here in the classifieds.

So, read up on the wiki, ask lots of questions, get recommendations, and have fun.

Cheers,

Ogie