Welcome! Oh wait that's not what I meant..
Haha I meant, Hi!!!!!
New here :D I've been DE Wetshaving since I was 20 (didn't have much of a choice, those "Mach 9000s"(lol) whatever they are nowadays, would give me so much irritation, ingrown hairs, and worst of all.. razor burn! (Looked so gross!). Well after a good while (and of course I still DE with my trusty lovely Merkur), I bought a Shavette (Dovo) earlier this year and use it very very often. (I'm 23 now btw).
However, as I love "pretending" to Straight Shave with my Shavette, I really hope to get into the passion of real straight shaving. With a Shavette, all I do is put a new half DE blade and I'm all set. But I'm a hobbyist and passionist(<---totally made up that word!) so I would love to really learn the art of straight shaving as well as not have to worry so much about buying blades.
The main thing is, I ran out of DE blades the other day and the three stores I usually go to were all sold out. For two days I didn't get to shave (my mustache grows very quick!) so not having DE blades rendered both my Merkur and my Shavette both useless. I shouldn't have to and do not want to worry about that again! :D
Now that I wrote a huge book of a thread, I hope I am welcomed and hopefully yall (I'm from Texas, shushh) will say "hey!"when yall see me in a forum! As far as straight shaving starts with me, I have most utensils (I have to, I've been wetshaving lol) so I have my lovely badger brush, two creams, a soap, my styptic (which I hardly use ;3 ) um oh my pre-shave oil - yet I make and use my own oil most of the time and my after shave oil (which is essential because of my super super sensitive skin.
I will be purchasing a Filly strop and a barbering hone today. If anyone has a straight razor for cheap...and I'm talkin' Texas dirt cheap they want to sell, pretty much get rid of, please let me know! Thank you all for your wonderful time, sorry I wrote so much, and I hope to be a welcomed, very active member!
-Angel E.
