Thread: How was you first shave with a straight?

Your first Straight shave is like your first sexual encounter.

You are highly impressed with yourself. Want to brag about it, you feel it was the best thing ever.

In hind sight you realize that you were awkward, your Technique sucked, the results while enjoyable were far from perfect. And then finally you realize that only person who really truely cares about skill is you and maybe the other person touching you.

My first straight shave was the best of my life, simply because I didn't do it, a professional barber did! The first time I did it myself, I recall being so nervous that my hands were shaking. Like you're not supposed to, I shaved (more like scrapped) my whole face. It was not a great shave at all. About 10 shaves in, I could get a mediocre shave without blood loss. About every 10-15 shaves I would have a breakthrough in my technique. Anyone that claims the first time they shaved with a straight was their best shave, is definitely "padding their resume" !

In a very very brief story, my first shave with a str8 razor was: very very bad (to be polite). Now i can have a good ok shave, but far away to be perfect.

My very first shave was in 1985/86 i think and i don't remember how it was.