Thread: Hello from So. Cal!

Good afternoon everyone!

First off, I'll tell you a story about where I was in the world of shaving and work myself up to the present.

From when I was old enough to shave (15 years old) I looked at those Mach 3 commercials and thought "Three blades? And here I am using a cheap BIC disposable. I'll definitely get a better shave with three blades! So I bought one and for a time I was pretty content with my shaves, until it started to become a chore over time, then finally it became a pain in the ass. I then switched to the Gillette Fusion when I was in the Coast Guard. Shaving still pretty much sucked since I would get a good case of razor burn and acne. So instead I just grew my beard out when I got out of the military. For the longest time I wore my lumberjack beard, but then straight razor shaving entered my mind. I became interested enough to where I played around with the idea, but then decided to do some research.

In late 2011 I decided that I wanted to change a lot of things about myself, sort of a self-improvement project to change a lot of bad habits and my image for the better. By this time I was looking very deeply into straight razor shaving, and in Mar 2012 I bought my very first razor from classicshaving.com; a professionally honed Thiers-Issard 5/8 razor, a super badger brush, and a 3" wide strop, and the anticipation was killing me. While waiting for my razor I researched how to use it properly by watching numerous Youtube videos made by Geofatboy