Had a bit of a revelation this morning

[JoeS]

Well, this was only about my 6th SR shave, but a few things FINALLY hit me this morning as I was having the most success to date, and they may sound like common sense to the vets, but not necessasarily to newbies:

- If you look at the process of shaving as running a blade over your face and have the "get it done" type attitude, you're never going to have great success and probably nick or cut yourself most of the time. It took me longer to shave today, but I had the most success to date. Even got under the nose and worked a bit around the chin with only one small nick that I can't even tell where it is now.

- If you use the same concentration to shave as say cutting out a pattern on a piece of paper (cutting along the lines), you're going to do well, not get any nicks or cuts, and be able to shave in the hardest places on your face with success.

- When using those harder type "paste" shaving creams line Castle Forbes, flatten it out on the bottom of the mug and heat it/moisten it while you're in the shower.

- When a newbie at stropping, when they say strop 20 times, you should strop 30 because 10 of them will suck.


This may only be the first revelation in learning to use a SR, but I certainly understand a bit more now.