Thread: First straight shave ever!

Congrats and welcome to an addiction that now has you drawn in! It gets better.....much better if you read and learn from those who have been doing this many years. You will more than likely get to a 3 pass shave (stroke down; stroke up; then ATG pass) which will hopefully give you a BBS.

Enjoy!

Originally Posted by Guidry

Yah the shave went much better than I thought it would but when I started to shave the blade was comfortable in my hand for the most part the upper lip bit was really tricky lol but I think reading all that I have on here and watching a lot of the videos linked here has helped me a lot
I will definitely be around a lot more asking questions lol

Use the "fools pass" to accomplish this. It works and will save you alot of blood letting!!!!

Just looked at the thread "fools pass" that sounds a little tricky lol sounds like a shave 4 or 5 thing to try

Congrats on the first shave!
Take your time and you'll figure out what will work best for you.
Everyone's face is different. Improvise on strokes and stretching techniques.
What works for others might not be the best for your face.
Slow and easy wins the race...... If something does not feel right .........STOP....back up and rethink it.....
Trust me on that one...... lol

I had to do the stop....wait how the....ooohhh so if I go like this....that was my entire shave lol

Nice job! I was not brave enough to try a complete shave for about a week, so well done! Just remember to pay attention while you are shaving and don't get too cocky about how good you are getting or you will pay.... I learned this the hard way
Have fun!

Well I finally cut myself good

It will happen! That one is not the worst I have seen.

It has happened to everyone at one point or another. Do a "post mortem"...In other words, try to figure what went wrong so you can make the appropriate adjustments in future shaves. That particular spot has been the hardest for me even after 3 years of SR shaving, so don't feel bad.

Yah I still think I'm doing good that is the first cut I have had yet ..... Have not really had any small cuts yet ....so just have to not do that again XD