New to DE and having problems
Hello everyone!
Last week I decided to ditch my Mach 3 and bought a Merkur DE (a barber pole HD) along with a decent badger hair brush and some shave soap. I've had 7 or 8 DE shaves now and I'm just not getting good results.
I typically do one WTG and one XTG pass with relathering between. I have no real issues on the WTG but it just doesn't remove much of my very tough beard. After the XTG pass it is better but I still am fairly scruffy. I stop there because typically after my XTG pass I have a half dozen nicks. On my attempts for a better shave by going ATG I always seem to nick myself pretty bad.
Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?
-d