Concentrate on keeping the angle and lightness of pressure with your hand and move your head to make the stroke.
I found Astras to be unusable in my DE89, very tuggy and wouldn't cut for me.
I found Astras to be unusable in my DE89, very tuggy and wouldn't cut for me.
I can only compare them with the Feather and Derby blades that I've used previously. I think I may have 'settled' too soon initially.
What do you have best success with in your DE89?
Good point - and reminds of another factor. If you haven't reduced enough hair with your WTG pass your XTG/ATG might be tugging resulting in a cut. Try adding a second WTG pass before XTG and see if that helps.
If so, increase your prep. Things to try:
1) Wash well with a glycerine soap to remove the protein coating on the hairs in combination with the following:
2) Hot flannel or towel
3) Soak with Proraso preshave and lift with a hot towel/ flannel
Or
Use lather as a presoak - lather, leave to soak, lift with hot towel, flannel or hot shower
Then proceed as normal.
Aim is to soften enough to remove more hair in the WTG pass. Personally I don't find glycerine enough on its own but as an agent to break down the proteins very good.
I'm only into my 2nd month of DE and haven't tried a lot of blades, but my favourite all-rounder are the Personna Lab Blues, though I also bought 100 Polsilvers but definitely get more nicks with them.
I bought some Polsilvers, Personna platinums, Voskhod & Rapira swedish supersteels a couple days back. Hopefully with these + the recommendations above, I'll notice a nice improvement.
Also - where did you get the Lab Blues from mate?
+1 for this sound piece of advice. Makes a world of difference to many.Sound advice regarding blades and skin stretching. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that your hairs grow in a different direction there, so what you think is WTG may not really be. Face mapping with a bit of growth in place will answer definitively
Just as an experiment to understand if it's hair length that is tripping you up.Thanks all!
I do stretch the skin and I have mapped out my hair growth. My neck hair seems like it almost grows in circles! haha
I have never tried two WTG passes before though. So that's definitely something I'll try! Would I then do XTG and ATG as normal? Or would 4 passes likely turn my face to a raspberry?
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