Originally Posted by
misterelie
Had my first DE shave last night. Like my first straight shave, I got a bad first shave out of the DE as well, but with no blood :) . The interesting thing is, after using a straight for a year and a half, I'd apparently already learned to take the pressure away, and so I needed to actually put a little pressure back on! I went through a complete circuit on my face and it hardly cut anywhere. Some had to do with the angle, which I'm still learning, but it looks like a lot of the bad habits I learned from modern razors I've already lost.