Man i use my safety razor when i don't have time to get a nice long drawn out shave from my straights. But is is still way nicer then those darn throw away razors. From my limited experience with DE, the CVS or Walgreens blades just eat up my face, and just seems like i only get 1 decent shave out of them so i just bought some Feather blades and it is like night and day try those out they do a real nice job on the face.