I think that, for those of us who shave our faces (I won’t speak of other places, but if any wish to comment on that, please feel free!), one of the least likely things to do is to change the type of razor we use. My own father used double edge bladed razors until the blades became difficult to get and then changed to disposable razors. I have been using Gillette Mach 3 razors and blades for donkey’s years, probably since long before I got here.
So, changing razors, especially with a stash of blades in the cabinet, is a real wrench. But, I think I shall have to do it.
Two weeks ago I bought a King of Shaves Azor. Note that the company has cunningly registered the domain name “shave.com”. I would bet that Gillette and Schick (do they still exist, Schick??) would have given their eyeteeth to have registered that name.
The first few times I used this razor I cut the bejeezus out of my face. The way the blade meets your skin requires a bit subtler shaving technique than I had otherwise used. Much applying of styptic pencil later, I discovered how to shave with this blade. First, do not use gel or shaving cream, use a shaving gel that does not foam up but lubricates your face. Second, be very smooth in pulling the razor around your curves. That way you won’t be pulling your skin into the blades and slicing it up.
I’m sold. It’s just as good two weeks after starting to use it as it was at the beginning. No case or stand is needed as you can just put the razor into the cartridge carrier.
I won’t know whether it’s available in the US, but those of us who are here can get a good, economical, close shave from it.
If you’re thinking of getting rid of the stash in your cabinet, don’t throw them out! I use Mach 3 (on my neck and upper cheeks) and, you’re right, changing razors is one of the least likely things I’ll do anytime soon.
“I really like this new razor. the first time I used it I cut the bejeezuz out of my face, and needed a styptic pencil a lot”
sorry, I’m going nowhere NEAR anything that comes with that kind of “recommendation”
i can only use electric shavers. I feel “too smooth” with a razor such as that.
is there such a thing as too smooth?
Well, all I can say is that when I figured out how to shave differently with it, the cuts stopped. It’s part of the learning process.
No, there is no such thing as “too smooth”, whether it be cheeks, neck, or elsewhere…
Oh, well, that’s a good thing. I’ve got loads of blades (I buy a stash every time I go to the US) and was wondering what to do with them.
Let me go through the three blades that came with the razor and ensure that the slashing of my throat that happened with the first razor was just down to needed changes in how I shave.
not true! I shaved my back and chest for a halloween costume once and afterward I was so smooth that I could “feel” my clothes.
I was gonna die everytime I moved.
NEVER AGAIN!
Well, to each his own, as the lady said when she kissed her cow. I have shaved and clipped my chest and back hair at various times and I find it feels OK. I have so much of it that it takes quite a bit of time so I don’t do it often. The guys in my gym were more interested in me when I did it, tho. Not that I needed that…