Good evening gents, I just wanted to register after lurking for about two years and say hello. I've always shaved with cartridge razors, started in my teens and now I'm 33. And for 20 years I was just never happy with the results. Never really cut myself, but my skin felt like crap, the shave never got as close as I felt it should, and it just seemed like a waste of time. I basically gave up for a couple of years, resigned myself to perpetual stubble and ran and electric trimmer with the guard off over my face every couple of days.
A couple of years back I stumbled on the this site, and it looked interesting, but I've was intimidated. If this system worked, why wasn't everyone using it? Every couple of months I'd float back by, and for Christmas I got myself the Art of Shaving Sandalwood kit and started wet shaving with a Mach3, but at least I was using a brush, learning how to lather, treating my face well, etc. There was an improvement! I had fun shaving, I felt like a classy gent (at least for a few minutes out of my day) and I looked better. No irritation, but I still didn't feel smooth.
For Valentine's day my wife gave me this push I needed and got me a DE razor. It's the one the Pawn stars guy hawks, I know it's a knock off of a knock off but I'm thrilled to be trying it out.
This is the result of the first shave:
What I thought I did was one North to south WTG pass, one West to East XTG pass, and one South to North ATG pass. Overall it was the closet shave I've ever had, I'd say 90-95% of my face was smooth as hell, and it stayed smooth way longer in the day than it used to.
The problem was if you looked at the pictures there are some red bumps under my chin going down my neck, and I've never had that problem before. I tried again two days later, and this time cut the hell out of my neck around the adams apple.
I think I found the problem, but I would like some advice. I wasn't paying attention to changes in the bear grain. The hair on my cheeks pretty much goes straight north to south, same with my moustache, chin, and about a inch to inch and a half wide strip leading straight down from my chin to my adams apple. On the rest of my neck though, the hairs grow almost horizontally facing from the middle of my throat to my ear, from East to West
So, when I thought I was doing a WTG pass going N to S, I was really going XTG. The XTG pass going West to East was really ATG, and the ATG pass going S to N was really XTG as well. On my neck at no point did I ever do a true WTG pass.
Is that the probable cause of the irritation? I'm letting my skin heal a few days, I changed the razor out to make sure next time I won't have a dull razor, and I'm going to pay more attention to the way my hair grows for my shave tomorrow.
If I do have razor bumps again afterwards, is alum followed by witch hazel followed by a balm a good system to minimize them?
Thank you for reading all of this!
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