Thread: A personal triumph

Originally Posted by JoshEarl

- Lowering my standards by not going for BBS, or even necessarily smooth, is helping my face heal. Healed skin is easier to shave, I'm finding. Which also means the shaves are getting smoother as I go.

I found the same thing when I first started shaving with a DE. The skin on my neck was pretty well wrecked from the Fusion. Trying to get it smooth was a guarantee for discomfort (or worse). Months later I've finally got to the point where all the bumps/ingrown hairs/etc. have healed up and I can get pretty close.

Congrats on the improvements.

Ant

This is great--I'm going on 11 days with this barber hone edge, and the razor seems as sharp as when I first honed it. I want to see how long I can keep it going without a refresh.

I am approaching shaving Nirvana... My face feels better than it has in months.

Josh

This was true both when I was learning the DE and the straight - I got better results when I stopped worrying about being BBS and just worked on getting a comfortable shave every day. The closeness happened eventually with experience.