Thread: Should I supplement my dtraight shave with a DE?

It will get better. I used to hate shaving, now with the DE, I look foward to it. When I don't have time to shave I get bummed out. It's a time to relax and enjoy a great shave. My fiancée even has me shave her legs with it. I'll probably have to buy her one soon. She loves it.

I'm the same way. I used to shave only a couple days a week because my face would be so painful afterwords. Since moving to a straight, I am almost always clean shaven. Hoping I can keep that trend going with the DE. I like being clean-shaven.

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.

What DE razor, and what blade? In my experience, a sharp DE blade is pretty close to (or equal to) a straight razor.

Yes, it could have been the angle . . .

Charles

I can't date 4 out of 5 of the razors I got. The first one I've been trying out is a gold three piece with the word Gillette stamped on the top. This is the one without the combed sides. Don't quite know how else to identify it. As far as the blade, I was really unprepared to get a razor this quickly, let alone 5 of them, so I went to Kroger (local supermarket) and picked up a generic 10 pack of blades. I've got a sampler pack ordered from one of the supply shops that has something like 100 branded blades for me to try out, but I won't get that until about Friday.