Thread: Newbie's progress to date

Hi Strops,

Seems you're making progress. Every shave is great practice. One thing that really helped me was not shaving for a day and then looking and feeling which way your facial hair grows, this really will help with your shaving plan. Its good to avoid the ATG until your confident. The angle is all important to, so take your time and it will come, keep avoiding the difficult areas until you have a brush and lather not foam.

A good shaving soap and brush will really help as a good shaving lather will cushion the blade and create more glide. That will help lots, far less cuts and irritations for sure. Your local drug store will sell a cheap shaving stick and brush for very little and even these cheap items will be vastly superior to foam. Face lathering for me was the way to go as I found in the beginning it gave me more glide for sure.

The other thing is to use very little pressure. At the moment the corners will be catching you as your not familiar with your tool yet and you'll be pushing too much causing the corners to dig in and cut. A light touch, just try to remove the foam and not the hair, the hair will follow believe me with no pressure. A good practice is to remove the blade and practice removing the foam as lightly as you can. Sounds crazy but it will help with your muscle memory.

Also stretch your skin. I use alum on my finger tips which helps get traction on slippery skin. The stretch is as important as the blade. Your trying to create flat spots to shave, the flatter the area the closer the shave.

It's a big learning curve right now mate, there is a lot to learn, but you'll soon find what suits and doesn't and great shaves will follow.

Remember confidence will come with practice.