Hey,

So, I've been looking through a lot of this stuff for the past day or two, and to start off, I'm 20 and currently using a Gillette cartridge 4-5ish blade shaving thing, and was looking into either double edge or straight razor stuff.

In all honesty, I am somewhat pleased with what I have at the moment, but of course, the blades do dull out faster than I would like them to, and if there's a better way that I can "switch to and never look back!," that would be amazing since I love things like that. I do love shaving in general, but I only shave about ~2 times a week at the moment, being younger and all that perhaps.

My questions I guess would be, what is the true investment of everything, since I'm looking through, and here's what I'm getting:
Shaving brush= ~13 by what I'm seeing on Amazon with good reviews etc.
Strop= ~30 by what I'm seeing on Amazon as well
Shaving soap, vs the foam I have right now = ~10, but haven't looked at this as much as I should yet. Not sure if I even need to switch, since people say that shaving soap or shaving cream is a lot better but at the moment I'm able to shave comfortably with even just water and nothing else, but shaving cream+brush does sound nice.

Straight razor= ~this is what I want to know more than anything
Unfortunately, I'm not 100 percent sure if I'm going to be falling for this as much as I think I am so I'm not going to be dropping 200-300 dollars at the moment on one. Some questions would be here would be whether you guys are still cutting yourselves years later, even by accident, and how long a shave takes for you guys who have years of experience. I'm sure it would be a lot more fun to shave with a straight razor all the time, but I wonder whether if I had five minutes to shave when running somewhere years from now, whether I'd be able to do it as effectively as I might be able to do now. As you can see, Amazon has been amazing to be in the past years with just pointing to one item at the top with its 10000 4.9 star reviews but I understand this is one of those items that I need to find to see what works with myself.