How to Shave with a Straight Razor | How-To Series 

First time I ever attempted a straight razor shave, I came out looking like I was in a knife fight. This was a huge help.

Bruh this guys Lather is perfection Jesus!!? I can’t be the only one thinking that 😂

As a former barber, even to me, you're good at classical shaving. I still use a regular razor. Like you.. I'm going to try a classic razor now. Let's be confident!!

I never really had a dad to teach me how to shave with a straight razor. So big help, thank you

I'm 17, I shaved my first beard with straight razor Your video helped me a lot

Great video. Love the tip about not shaving the whole face at one time starting out. I think that's an important tip that people sometimes miss.

What helped me to learn the proper holds and how to feel where the blade was on my face was to use a butter knife. Use the spine side of a butter knife and slide that along your face as if it was a straight razor. Do this until you are able to maintain a 30 degree angle across the different parts of your face and neck. Learn to feel where the end of the blade is, this will keep you from slicing your ear when you are using the razor. Learn to hold the "razor" (butter knife) with a delicate but still in control grip that uses just your finger tips. Once you think you've got it, lather up and practice some more with the butter knife; this time learning how to stretch your skin and how much you can shave before you have to wipe lather off your "razor". Best wishes from Phoenix, AZ.

This should be taught in schools to reduce waste and to really stick it to the shaving companies.

After 20 years of DE I would like to start a new adventure with straight and this video gave me the right boost. I want try … step by step I hope I can do it Very helpful video Best from Italy friend

First time i tried using a straight i listened to some bad advice on another video on how to angle the blade. Now i know to keep the spine close to the face!

I just got my first straight razor and I'm excited to try it out. I won't be doing my whole face because I've had a beard and mustache most of my adult life and this will just be for the neck and a little cheek work. Thanks for the well done video.

My adventures with shaving...started preeeetty young, When I was a kid I had a toy shaving kit that had a plastic double edge safety razor..this was back in the 90's btw. My grandpa taught me how to shave using that but he moved on to cartridge razors and later on when I actually needed to start shaving I did too. Then one day I decided to try the ol' DE razor again and pulled out my great grandpa's adjustable slim one from Gillette that he had way back in the day. Never went back to cartridges after that and stopped using canned shaving cream that has propellant. Then 3 years ago I got my first hot towel straight razor shave...hard as hell to find a place that does it where I live and there are only 3 of them. I enjoyed the shave so much that even though I had decided to grow a beard again after the major lockdowns calmed down in my state I bought a straight razor with replaceable blades to keep everything lined up and neat...been using one ever since. Though I DID make a big mistake not long ago and got a little careless...now I have a vertical scar on my face the length of a DE razor blade from a bad angel, it's not deep enough to need stitches but it's gonna take awhile to fade if it ever does...I'll likely be in my late 40's before it fades to the point it's hard to see without the right light...overall though? I have had LESS cuts and nicks with the straight edge than I had with the safety razor lol, and nobody taught me how to shave with one...I learned by watching ASMR shaving videos and picked up techniques from professional barbers in those vids to get the general idea....rest was all trial and error...staring with a DE safety razor did help though as I had experience with a single blade rather than the multi ones favored by cartridges.

Some great tips Thomas!! Nicely done and here’s to a great week!

Thanks for a pretty simple to follow video. I’m not ready for a SR just yet but I will keep all this in mind.

Just bought my razor and strop, and watch this video. I am ready to start. Thank you Thomas.

Excellent advice Thomas. Thanks.

After a lifetime of shaving with a safety razor, my son showed me his open razor, and I decided to give it a try. Thanks for the " No nonsense" video. Now shaving is no longer an irritating chore. It's an adventure every time! Thanks for the simple instructions!:

Very nice easy to follow instructions. I have tried a few times with my straights and will try again following your steps. Thanks

I did exactly how you did and it worked, thank you so much

Thanks for the guidance! I think I'll take the plunge now! ❤️🙌

Good job of teaching. Thank You!

Excellent tutorial 👏

My goodness! I did everything wrong! I used it one time and was carved up worse than a Christmas ham! It was horrible! I thought it was just good ole common sense. There is obviously a technique. My straight razor is sitting in the far back corner of my drawer. Once and a while I get a glimpse of it and am overcome with a sense of abject terror! Now however after watching your video I think I'm gonna give it another shot. I will take your advice and just tackle my cheeks. I think that was excellent advice. At this point, I don't feel I need it anywhere close to my juggler! Lol. Thank you for the informative video. I really enjoyed and learned a lot from it.

Very good lesson !

Awesome video

First time I went straight for the neck against the grain. Lol. Didn't come out as bad as I thought. Turns out as long as you go in there with confidence n the right angle you're good.

Nicely done ✅

Ого, паралельне тримання леза справді працює! Щойно на собі перевірив. Дякую дуже!

I’m on day 3 of old school straight razoring…thanks for the great advice

Great step by step I’m a beginning shaver and I would prefer to have a cleaner shave razor bumps are such a bother and I have very sensitive skin

Great tutorial. I just got my first straight razor as a birthday gift from my partner a couple of minutes ago. I like that you recommend using it on your cheeks only until you're 100% comfy with holding it correctly. That's such sane advice. Before you start your shave should you do the.hot towel thing? And what's the correct way to look after your blade? Do you just rinse and dry it off? How often are you meant to sharpen it? And how do you sharpen it? Do I need to buy a strop?

1:51 This comment brought out my sophomoric sense of humor 😉 in all seriousness this was a great how to video. I have watched hundreds of these shaving videos and learned a few new techniques today. The Adam’s Apple trick will be used on my next shave. Thank you.

Great, thanks.

This WILL BE very scary for me, but I WILL try.

Thank you very much! Francesco (from Europe)

Nice video bro 👌

Nice thanks for sharing

Hi, thank you for the vid, it was very helpful. I had a couple of questions. I like the idea of using a straight edge with disposable blades, are they better/worse than a proper straight? Also, I’ve watched a couple of vids on this and everyone just shaves down, does direction of the grain matter? Especially around the Adam’s Apple because I want to use the razor for lining up. Thank you for your help!!

I came in here to say something cheeky but couldn't think of anything!

Did my first shavette shave today. Costed about 15$ on Amazon with 100 blades. I got less cuts on my face then when using my safety razor. Got an amazing cut but then I started to get frustrated when I got to the upper chin above the Adams apple onto the chin, under the lip, and the mustache was very difficult to get does just felt like I couldn't figure out how to cut it properly. I ended up giving up on the mustache and grabbing my safety razor for the mustache

Wish I watched this first. I first bought a straight last week and used it that evening under the impression since I’ve been using safety razors for a few years this should be the same idea….. wrong. I came out looking like I was attacked by a mountain lion, i had cuts all over my face and neck, worst razor burn I could ever recall and an army of red bumps. After I wanted to never do it again but I want to give it a shot again

Good job

Swallowing the adam'a apple was the trick i was looking for. Thanks for that.

What a lather!

Thank you bro❤

Thank you bro love from India 🇮🇳😊

whats the model of that straight razor your using? thanks

"I am not clipping my Adam's apple" _The Razor Company

I have a very sharp jawline and getting that section around the jaw bone where your neck meets your cheek is near impossible and I always end up cutting myself because it's like trying to shave a 90 degree slope lol. But one tip I heard and works for frequent shavers is to use hair conditioner instead of shaving foam or gel, if your face hair isn't long and just stubbly it can help a lot.

watched this in my geology lesson thanks!

Thank you

Thanks I have a lot of trouble getting my mustache area for some reason the blade skips a lot, it’s a new razor but probably not a good one. I supplement it with a safety razor which is 10 times easier to shave with. Could it be my technique or likely a dull blade? I’m also getting a closer shave with the safety razor on my cheeks as well

I wish straight razors never faded out of style.

Good video. But why you made just only one pass from north to south?? And what about the second from douth to north??))

What kind of razor is he using in the video? It looks like a curly maple handle. Looks good!

I just started to use shavettes. boy first try.nicked myself . then started practicing angles without a blade, I hope to learn the angles with the shavette then move to the straight razor. I can't get it all in one pass. Easier to do with the grain. rather than against. I am practicing that too.

After 70 years on the planet Earth - among these 8 with a DE-razor in my hand every morning - I simply must try it. Tomorrow morning I shall follow your wise advice about just shaving the cheeks. By the way, have you seen the movie 'There Will Be Blood'? ;-)

Can shave cream can be replaced with regular soap bar?

Well Iv been using a straight cut throat razor for a couple of months now and I go from south to North as it's alot smoother after Iv tried north to south and it doesn't seem as smooth

Grest tips. But you did change hand for the left side ?

this guy is just seth rogan but he likes shaving

Here for the crunch sound. 😂

What razor is this?

Wow, wow, wow! What a depurated technique! #respect 🙌🏻 As a woman, I choose to remove ALL my facial peach fuzz, redesign my hairline shape, sharp my brows and physically exfoliate my skin (aka dermaplaning) with a razor. It' s become kinda popular lately with the internet but done with shitty scratchy plastic disposable mini kamisori against the growing direction🤦🏻‍♀️😣. NOTHING compares to a freshly snapped Merkur Super Platinum. Well, yes, the face expressions and comments of other women when I tell them that my bright smooth skin is the result of just two skincare products and 25 years of weekly shaving😆🤣🤣🤣.

How often do you have to shave if you go with the grain like this video?

How long does a straight razor last?

Good video, I don't see the difference pass wise vs a cartridge, it's about the same. I thought it would delete all hair on one pass.

I hate shaving everyday. But if I don't my razor fills up with hair after only a few inches then stops working. It can't rinse all the hair out and just stops working. My thought is a straight razor won't have that issue.

4:16 tragus. Learned that in anatomy.

What would be the reasons for shaving against the grain? Closer shave? Just preference?

so you switch hands? right hand right cheek? left hand left cheek?

im new to this , i just tried a shavette for the first time and i cut my face open and my skin was hurting due to scraping , i must have done something wrong , is a straight razor better than a shavette

What are the benefits of using a straight razor as opposed to a saftey razor

my right side looks clean... My left side came out of the uk

What is the diferrence between straight razor and a shavette ? Can please anyone explain it ?

It is way better than nasty multi blade razors?

I carry one with me at all times

Думал уже, Гарик Харламов видео о бритье начал снимать 😂.

I now am like scar face. I wish I had washed this. Mind you people think I look like a hitman

That would be bad news bears lol 80s baby

How LONG, would you estimate, it would take to get comfortable/decent with a straight razor? 🤔💈

Adam's-apple-retraction and cheek-puffing were new to me. Approaches to upper lip are still challenging; wouldn't mind seeing more on that.

I have now tried it. Having almost cut my right ear off a la Van Gogh during the first minute I decided to throw the shavette and all the blades in the metal bin. Otherwise I'd never live to be 71. I stick to my Henson safety razor.

2 fingers in the front and 2 in the back 🖖😆😆😆

You made me very nervous for you, but you didn't get cut so good job. HA

ive just tried 10 times to "hold my swallow" and i cant! how did you do that! lol

Why people using straight razor when safety razors are available in the market?

great video but remember to use proper mouse handling, your wrist is red!

I wonder if John tester can use a straight razor? Lol

i been shaving with an 85° this whole time 😐

09:12 for newer guys and WHAT ? did he say gals ? LOL

2 in the pink....1 in the stink!

Loving the use of both guys and gals in this! Come through gender neutral shaving! A good shave with a straight was something I truly missed after transitioning but I'm going to get back into it just for the luxury of it. Thank you, @thomastheshaver

Nice to see someone who knows what they are doing, especially about holding the razor perpendicular to skin. Annoys the f*** out of me how in the movies they hold it perpendicular just because it looks cool. Sure way to cut yourself

Uh how can someone who has already shaved so a how to shave ...

Go straight to the point man, too long...

What a horrendous tool. I honestly can’t imagine why anyone would want to use this. What’s next, blood sucking leeches when you have a headache? 🤦‍♂️

Dude 3 minutes have gone by get on with it.

I shave with a Merkur double edge safety razor.