Hi guys,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this so if admin could move it if I have knocked on the wrong door please

I've had a shavette now for a few weeks and as mentioned in my introduction post my thinking is to get the skills with this so I can go through as many blades as necessary to learn the skills to use a SR without ruining the blade and obviously with the shavette I don't have to learn how to strop etc. so can purely concentrate on the shaving part thus far.

I've now had approx 4 shaves with the shavette now, so far I've had to finish all of them with the cartridge razor for the awkward parts of my face however the areas I'm touching up are getting less and less.

1 - The first shave I had with it I sliced my face in 3 places and had no ends of nicks and cuts. I think this was due to me thinking "how hard can it be" and not treating the razor with respect. I had to wait a week or so for the slices to heal before I had another go which changed my attitude.

2 - The second shave was a bit better, I managed to get half a shave in this time with only 1 slice, I then stopped so not to cut my face up any more.

3 - This third shave again I took the scab off the last slice and was successful in shaving most of my face, but again with a lot of nicks

4 - My last shave was last night and I'm pleased to say I managed to shave my whole face without slicing myself I had to touch up the awkward bits with my cartridge razor but no slices I'm pleased to say. However I'm still getting lots of little nicks.

For anyone interested that is the brief background into my short career shaving with a shavette. My own comments/questions I suppose are as follows:

I think I maybe nicking myself all the time for one or both of the following reasons:

1, I'm using a shavette that takes the DE blades that you snap in half, I'm thinking the blades are too narrow and the sharp corners are catching my face and nicking it

2, I'm not giving the correct preparation to my face. As I've only had the shavette a few weeks it is all I've bought, I've been prepping my face like I would to shave with a cartridge razor (shower, clinique pre-shave exfoliator, shaving gel and then shave). I'm thinking that just slapping the having cream on and starting is not softening the facial hair enough causing the blade to catch and jump which happened a few times last night especially on the against the grain passes.

I know there's a wealth of information on this site and I'm gradually working my way through but any quick fix personal help would be grateful into any of the above and also what the best soap and brush would be as I'm going to take the plunge shortly and invest in those 2 and probably a SR razor.

Thanks,