The progress continues.

I've just had another shave and prepped pretty well, I had a hot shower, put conditioner on my face for a while etc. etc. then shave time.

I put the foam on my face (I don't have a brush or soap yet, I'm still looking).

To cut a long story short I completed a full shave with the grain and cross the grain without slicing myself. The finish wasn't great and I still did a once over with the cartridge razor but I have a couple of thoughts:

I definitely think the blade isn't long enough on the shavette, the reason being is I ended up with around 7 or 8 nicks again from the ends of the blade.

Then I think because I know this I'm not 100% confident in using the shavette to give myself a close enough shave with it. The areas of my face that are easy, i.e. from the sideburns down to my jaw line, are smooth as a baby's bum however I'm weary of shaving the other parts of my face in case the edge of the blade catches and slices me, which inevitably ends up in a nick anyway.

The bottom line is I think I need a SR pretty sharpish, or at least a barbers shavette with round edged blades