Proinsias said:spandexcodpiece said:..Yeah, me too! DFS with my Fusion gear was par for the course, even though still half asleep! Time taken for entire shave was never more than 5 minutes, an extra minute would almost always produce a BBS! If that is all I required from shaving, I too would still be there - stuck in a shaving nightmare !! I do not think it likely I shall ever go back to that state of affairs ! The more I learn about the craft, a relapse becomes more remote. :shave
I never relapse. I do, from time to time, take out the mach 3, the Quattro or the Azor and have a most excellent, long, slow shave. I also enjoy binning the cartridge after maybe five or six uses over a six month period as opposed to dragging one out several times a week over the course of a month because I refused to pay Gillette stupid amounts of cash to do something I didn't enjoy.
These days a tenner or so a year on cartridges isn't a large part of my rather small shaving budget. It's a tenner well spent though, especially if you only buy them when they're on a good deal - which I can these days as I no longer 'need' them.
Smell The Glove said:2 passes. With then across the grain. Finito.
sonny said:ps. is there anyone who's cartridge only gave them a few shaves? I can only get 3-4 shaves out of a sensor excel, and that's supposed to be sharper than most cartdiges. Also, that's WTG only. XTG or ATG with a cartridge, forget about it !
simmo3801 said:As a newcomer to DE shaving I was amazed at my first shave last week - WTG, ATG which resulted in almost a BBS. I niavely thought this was what I was supposed to be aiming for with a DE. Not surprisingly after 2 further days of this my neck was a mess. I have now sat down and reread most of the instructional posts on here. I have spent a few minutes today mapping my face, amazed that what I thought was WTG from my jawline to top of neck is actually ATG! I am waiting 2 days for my neck to calm down before shaving again tomorrow but will not be trying for anywhere near as close!
I think this thread is an excellent reminder for all us newbies that BBS is not necessary every time.
Too flamin' right. I used to get a week out of my cartridges... until I found...sonny said:ps. is there anyone who's cartridge only gave them a few shaves? I can only get 3-4 shaves out of a sensor excel, and that's supposed to be sharper than most cartdiges.
sonny said:ps. is there anyone who's cartridge only gave them a few shaves? I can only get 3-4 shaves out of a sensor excel, and that's supposed to be sharper than most cartdiges. Also, that's WTG only. XTG or ATG with a cartridge, forget about it !
sonny said:ps. is there anyone who's cartridge only gave them a few shaves? I can only get 3-4 shaves out of a sensor excel, and that's supposed to be sharper than most cartdiges. Also, that's WTG only. XTG or ATG with a cartridge, forget about it !
simmo3801 said:As a newcomer to DE shaving I was amazed at my first shave last week - WTG, ATG which resulted in almost a BBS. I niavely thought this was what I was supposed to be aiming for with a DE. Not surprisingly after 2 further days of this my neck was a mess. I have now sat down and reread most of the instructional posts on here. I have spent a few minutes today mapping my face, amazed that what I thought was WTG from my jawline to top of neck is actually ATG! I am waiting 2 days for my neck to calm down before shaving again tomorrow but will not be trying for anywhere near as close!
I think this thread is an excellent reminder for all us newbies that BBS is not necessary every time.
cheese_dave said:Too flamin' right. I used to get a week out of my cartridges... until I found...sonny said:ps. is there anyone who's cartridge only gave them a few shaves? I can only get 3-4 shaves out of a sensor excel, and that's supposed to be sharper than most cartdiges.
** RAZORPIT!!!!!! **
Still the best tool in a cartridge shaver's armoury, bar none. Well, apart from a decent brush and cream/soap. Razorpit quadrupled the life of my cartridges. BTW I'm not in anyway associated with the people who manufacture or market Razorpit, I just think it's one of those all too rare products that does exactly what it says it will do, like Head and Shoulders shampoo.
And it was writing about Razorpit on another forum that got me a recommendation to try DE shaving... and here I am, not looking back.