Originally Posted by
Quick Orange
For someone who hasn't had good instruction on how to do this, he does decent.
The main thing that any newbie should pick up from this is at the end where he says that you "put on after shave balm and feel better in a couple hours." I have some of the most sensitive facial skin of anyone on this board, and were I to shave like that, with weak lather and regular balm, my face would be one big seeping zit (not to mention on fire). You know you have gotten a genuinely good shave when you don't need balm and your face feels no different than before you shaved, with the exception of being hairless. I shaved right before posting this and feel nothing but exceptionally smooth skin.
The best way to find out if your blade and technique are spot on is to rub some rubbing alcohol on your face after you clean off the lather. If you did a good job, you won't feel a thing. If you didn't, well, you'll feel the burn. The best part of this method is you can feel where you did better and where you did worse. Typically, you'll feel almost no burning around your side burns, and progressively more burning as you get to your chin. The more it burns, the more you need to work on your technique in that area.