Hi there everyone, I'm Ratty from Chester and thought I'd introduce myself after some lurking over the last few weeks.
I got into wet shaving a couple of months ago after being laid off from work - the primary reason was I'd never really had time for it before but now I do - plus there's the discipline and 'taking care of appearance' which will help me to not turn into a slob while I'm between jobs.
My choice of razor probably wasn't the best for a novice - the Vision 2000 - the reason being I don't really know what sort of skin I have (I do now - sensitive) and the Merkur looked so groovy too. My first shaves were, well, an utter massacre - one of which stopped me going to the pub on a Friday as my chin and neck looked like a shrapnel bomb had gone off nearby. I realised I needed to learn everything to get this to work. For that, God bless you YouTube. Long story short - I can now lather properly, understand blade aggressiveness, work my strokes efficiently so I'm not shaving areas repeatedly by accident. And generally have a better process to everything, which is still evolving on a weekly basis as I learn more.
Made some poor purchases innocently along the way but when I nail it OMG I would have thought shaves this good were impossible. Plus, its real 'me' time and I literally look forward to shaving. Reading posts here has enabled me to sidestep so many errors that I would have made myself and taken me forward with wet shaving a lot quicker. I'll be asking questions here first then hopefully contributing when my DE schizzle is totally worked out.
RAD is in early stages too - Mint Fatboy in the post from US as I type.
Ratty
I got into wet shaving a couple of months ago after being laid off from work - the primary reason was I'd never really had time for it before but now I do - plus there's the discipline and 'taking care of appearance' which will help me to not turn into a slob while I'm between jobs.
My choice of razor probably wasn't the best for a novice - the Vision 2000 - the reason being I don't really know what sort of skin I have (I do now - sensitive) and the Merkur looked so groovy too. My first shaves were, well, an utter massacre - one of which stopped me going to the pub on a Friday as my chin and neck looked like a shrapnel bomb had gone off nearby. I realised I needed to learn everything to get this to work. For that, God bless you YouTube. Long story short - I can now lather properly, understand blade aggressiveness, work my strokes efficiently so I'm not shaving areas repeatedly by accident. And generally have a better process to everything, which is still evolving on a weekly basis as I learn more.
Made some poor purchases innocently along the way but when I nail it OMG I would have thought shaves this good were impossible. Plus, its real 'me' time and I literally look forward to shaving. Reading posts here has enabled me to sidestep so many errors that I would have made myself and taken me forward with wet shaving a lot quicker. I'll be asking questions here first then hopefully contributing when my DE schizzle is totally worked out.
RAD is in early stages too - Mint Fatboy in the post from US as I type.
Ratty