27/5/17
Within a matter of days of joining this great forum, I was very kindly given an assortment of different blades by two users.
Of the selection of blades
@Digimonkey provided (a great thank you for those), there was a Rapira Platinum Lux. A blade I was well familiar with which I used almost exclusively at the start of my journey into DE shaving and I truly despised them as I'd end up with lots of cuts and ingrowing hairs. So it was with some intrepidation I'd consider using one again, but I thought if the blade is considered so highly by many others it was worth giving it a second chance.
So for today's shave I used
Pre Shave - Pears
Brush - Omega 80265
Soap - Palmolive Stick
Razor - Jingjili Tech
Blade - Rapira Platinum Lux
Post Shave - Alum/Witch Hazel
After Shave - Superdrug Sierra
And the results were...
Great!
I now imagine the poor shaves I had using the RPL were down to my technique which at the time lead to the unsatisfactory shaves and my fear of the RPL was definitely irrational. In use I found it to be not too dissimilar to the Voskhod of sorts - one of my favourite blades.
Have a great weekend all!