Managed to shave almost all of my face with a straight razor today with no nicks or cuts. (I say almost because I'm sure I left a few patches around the chin not really shaven). It was certainly far from a particularly close shave, but I definitely managed to take off some beard. For now I'll probably relegate using the straight to once or twice on weekends, because I can't usually take this much time to shave before work.
Still need major work to get the chin area easily without tugging, but it wasn't nearly as scary as I had anticipated. And even with the tugging I ended up with almost zero skin irritation, which I was shocked at given how sensitive/dry my chin area tends to be. I'd used a CJB Kamisori + dorco blades several times before this, but despite being wicked sharp I found it nearly impossible to develop chin technique. The straight, while substantially less effective on one pass, actually manged to let me get all the areas I could not previously, aside from those pesky right under the nose hairs. People aren't kidding when they say straights are easier to learn on than shavettes!
Of course, I'm still doing the second pass with a DE for now, because I like to actually look shaven :laugh:
Still need major work to get the chin area easily without tugging, but it wasn't nearly as scary as I had anticipated. And even with the tugging I ended up with almost zero skin irritation, which I was shocked at given how sensitive/dry my chin area tends to be. I'd used a CJB Kamisori + dorco blades several times before this, but despite being wicked sharp I found it nearly impossible to develop chin technique. The straight, while substantially less effective on one pass, actually manged to let me get all the areas I could not previously, aside from those pesky right under the nose hairs. People aren't kidding when they say straights are easier to learn on than shavettes!
Of course, I'm still doing the second pass with a DE for now, because I like to actually look shaven :laugh:
Shave 1. complete
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