How To Use Your Double Edge Safety Razor 

Indeed! Short and to the point. Exactly how an instructional video should be.

So why did you watch the 90-minute tutorial on shaving a bikini line?

plus this model was hotter.

Haha I was just scrolling through like 14 minutes fuck that let's see what we got in the 2 to 5 minute range.

I just came from the 17:28 one, and it was waaay better than this one. Cant believe I watched the whole thing but glad I did

same , its much better

I still get 1 to 2 razor bumps

I was disappointed with my 80 bucks electric shaver and just said F and bought a safety razor with 10 blades for 10 bucks. Looking forward to a good shave for once

@@yipperdeyip Just be careful, do all the steps in the video and make it a little ritual. I messed up my face more than I want to admit because I wanted to get my face shaved quickly before work or a night out.

Is it possible to shave to everyday with this? I usually shave every other day.

any tips on how to use them? I just purchased my first one

Watch the video??

Oh ya updated your progress for us did ye?

Wow, this is a unique story unto yourself. I lost burn after I dropped this style

hey, i'm not gay but $20 is $20

He is gorgeous!

I can not find beauty in a man , I find other men repulsive !

@@Nattraks You've got both feet in the grave, old man

@@estebansteverincon7117 prove it!

cuz he hot af

Is the same person tho? The voice doesn't really match the face.

It sounds like Mauro Ranallo

I think it’s Tom Ford

Sounds like infographics shows

Fr. Smooth and beautiful shave. I’d adopt and name my safety razor if I could.

It's like it's tattooed on!

Bro I'm 20 and just bought one. I have similar problems to what you described in your comment. How's it now 4 months later?

@@adamjanek3511 best thing I ever did changing to this razor dude. I have had razor burn occasionally but that has been greatly reduced, and generally only happened if I went over the area more than once/applied too much pressure. Best thing to do is follow the grain of your hair and try to only go over the area once in small strokes with this. For instance the hair on my adams apple grows upwards until I get about half way up my neck and it goes in the opposite direction. Buy yourself Grüum danne soothing shave gel I found this paired with it well and was kind to my skin. You will be a changed man after using this for a few weeks I promise! Good luck and enjoy shaving 👍

20 here and about to try mine for the first time. Strange how older hygiene products are making a resurgence when stores mainly stock the plastic multiblades

@@adamjanek3511don’t shave against the grain on your neck and try just going with the grain on your neck I can’t shave against the grain on my neck with any razor

Don’t worry you’ll get there eventually

One year later, progress update?

@@Wacharis still shaving to this day with a safety, it's certainly made my bank account happy, after the initial purchase of 100 blades a little over a year ago I think I'm just coming up on 50 used, which Is amazing. My suggestion to noobs though would be to get a proper handle, my initial nicks for the first few months were frequent because I was using a bad handle, I got an Edwin jagger a couple of months in and since then, maybe a nick a month if that, usual due to me trying to rush shaving. So all in all fantastic change, closer shaves at saved expense, it will be my method for the foreseeable future.

@@Sk3tchey I shaved for the first time ever as an 18 yo with this beauty. No razor bumps, burns or cuts, nothing. Feels real nice too. Just go easy with it and remember to enjoy it. Lathers and brushes will help your experience, trust me. This thing makes shaving a luxury, not a nuisance.

Glad you like it! Yes, you really need to take it slow and pay attention to the angle that the blade is in on your skin

2 year later update since the 1 year later is already there lol

Its not a lot smoother, its softer, water softens hair.

I do three passes and follow each pass with a vigorous routine for those passes. For the first I just follow my hair growth with the need of beard reduction; second I do certain passes I learned on RU-vid; third I just go against grain very gently.

running an alum block over your face after shaving will cool your skin and prevent irritation.

Washing my face with ice cold water and regular soap worked wonders for me. No burns, no bumps, no ingrown hairs, not even a pimple, which have been a problem for me. Weird, considering the general advice is the exact opposite of this. Just sharing.

Yah sure you wanna stick to this statement..lol

so do i, It’s permanent even when i have a complete shave it’s as if my skin itself has been colored by the hair underneath it. It’s so frustrating

Well he only did one pass with the grain. You can do 3 if you want a really close shave. Wtg, across the grain, and against the grain. Never got ingrown hairs from that.

@@andreja9425 Laser hair removal

@@Wacharis the only way! I'll do it i hate growing beard

That can be caused by electric shaving before, during a certain period of time

Glad you found it useful :)

customer?

One that's not made in China

I picked one up at the Dollar Tree

Yeah but I’d prefer to collect them anyways like Pokémon cards because they’re so good looking

Estate sales and antique stores are great places to find the genuine metal razors from the 50’s - 60’s

this comment is a hidden gem

Liking simply because of tradition

A towel or your fingers will work, but definitely invest in a brush.

I shave daily, and I only use the best blades (feather, Shark, and Williamson) for 4 to 6 shaves otherwise they start to tug.

+Lemuel Rubio i think what he means is that you are supposed to lather up the cream in general. The man in the video uses a slightly damp (it actually looks bone dry) brush and dips it in cream and then lightly swirls it onto his dry face. Major no no. He shouldve had a wet face and a wet brush and worked the cream into his face so that it built up a creamy and dense lather. His lather looked like dry toothpaste

Jacob Lahr exactly! This video is poorly done and should NEVER be taken as a tutorial video as the demonstration by the guy in video was done in the wrong manner

Glad I read these comments as I was wondering about the lather. Thanks in advance of my first safety razor shave!

You don't have to lather in a bowl. Get the brush a bit wet and you can use your face to lather the cream.

all you need is a rockwell 6S!

1MinuteFlipDoc I know! A lot of my Shaving buddies have either that or the 6C! I am very well likely to hop on the bandwagon!

I've used a Hydro 5 for almost a decade now, too stubborn to switch to anything else even though the blades are expensive and seem to clog easily. I finally tried this razor out today (with a fair bit of stubble grown in) and it seemed to do the trick decently enough. Only time will tell if I really like it, but it seems fairly intuitive. I used it with regular aerosol shaving cream but am open to trying out some possible better suited alternatives.

@@kylegusek I've made the switch. Using a Edwin Jagger DE89 now with Astra SP blades. Much much better shave, smooth, easy and not a single cut or bump. Just picked up a fairly cheap boar brush and stainless steel bowl and I use Prorosa soap/cream and find they do the job for a fairly cheap price. They are far from the best but beat out all your supermarket stuff by a mile. I actually enjoy shaving now, where as before with disposable razors, even the so called best of the best just didn't cut it or in fact did... but me... lol. Also once you get your set up and find products you like the overall cost becomes almost nothing. 100 pack of blades for $15 and soap that you can find online for $10 and that will last you a while. Ends up being about 80% cheaper at least for me. Sorry to babble on but it changed my life so now I want to help others.

This type of shaving is much more rewarding and is much easier on you, your wallet, and your environment. That said, practice makes perfect.

But it’s time intensive. If you have the time, great. If not, it will make you late for work.

Its not the razor, but the blades. You probably used the blades that the razor came with, they are usually low quality blades. Use a feather blade, they are the sharpest blades on the market. They will effortlessly glide through the toughest of facial hair.

Lol why r u saying the opposite?😂 Safety razors give u a better and close shave as compared to cartridge razors.

Because the cheap safety razor I bought doesn't give ss close a shave ss cartridge razors, duh. Pretty self-explanatory.

@@JW-vg9ex u don't know how to shave😂

Honestly, it is WAY easier to cut yourself or irritate your skin with a disposable razor. When he says you will remove the top layer of your skin, its not what you think it means. Razor burn is caused primarily from the razor blade putting too much friction on the skin and scraping off the thin epidermal layer of skin.

I ran across this video and thought I'd give you some advice. I had BAAAD razor bumps years ago due to shaving incorrectly and with disposable blades. Until you "train" your beard, shave downward once with the grain, and then once across the grain and you will see a great improvement with your face. I normally shave every other day. I use Proraso Green, a Badger brush, and Personna blades. I shave one time downward over my entire face, once upward, and then a "clean up" pass across the grain to get any hairs I might have missed. You should never and I repeat NEVER shave with Mach 3's, or any razor with 4 or 5 blades! Each blade cuts the hair closer and closer. So if you do 2 passes with a Mach 3, it's like shaving your face 6 times. Sure it feels nice and smooth but the hairs are shaved beneath your skin. And if you have curly hair, that's a recipe for razor bumps like you've never seen! Doing 2 passes with a DE razor, the hairs are cut extremely close but not beneath your skin. The hairs don't have a chance to grow back into your face and you minimize your chances of getting razor bumps. Hope this helped my brother.

@@DRock6906 Big thanks to you, brother.

Yeah... HE SAID THAT 1:28

samton roach Yeah I get a closer shave with a Gillette Mach 3 even going with the grain so this is bullshit

@@opencase9903 but your Mach 3 costs 10 times the price to use, and using a safety razor requires multiple passes, and causes far less razor burn and irritation

Open Case everyone’s facial hair follicles are different, maybe for the actor it’s more prominent regardless of how smooth it is. Plus you shave against the grain if you want a smoother shave, which they said in the video. I don’t recommend Gillette either, it a horrible company and you are wasting a lot of money on their disposable razors.

@@enricod2061 i agree about them being a horrible company, but i still use a Gillette aristocrat made in 1948, before companies pushed political agendas on consumers

Honeslty do whats best for you, if you must shave a lot then I recommend using whichever is easier for you. If you don’t have the time to be good with the safety razor save yourself the pain and go with the other types of razors

I’m 18 yo and I used it for my first ever shave. Very smooth and very comfortable. I didn’t feel the blade. I also didn’t get no bumps, cuts, burns, or anything. You must be going too fast or you’re using the wrong lather / setup.

The key with a safety razor is not pressing against the skin like you do with a cartridge razor since a safety razor is heavier you let the weight of the razor do the work

Not sure if this is too late of a response but there's a few things that could help with cuts. first, make sure you use a pre-shave oil or a slick tube shaving cream as a base. Safety razors require a lot of lubricant to glide effortlessly. this is why traditional shaving creams applied with a brush are popular; they have a high fat content and provide a slick medium to run a razors over. if you don't want to go through the trouble of a brush and shave soap, then apply a layer of tube shaving cream followed by whatever you normally use. don't apply any pressure to your razor. Use a sharp blade, make sure it sits in the razor straight with the same blade exposure on both sides, and shave with the grain of your beard using short strokes. Rinse your face off, reapply your creams and shave perpendicular to your hair growth. for me this is from the ears towards the nose on both sides. rinse, reapply creams and shave against the grain if you want a super close shave. Avoid going against the grain on your neck if you're prone to irritation there. end with a rinse, alum block, and an aftershave without alcohol. you're good. keep it up.

@@Dwaynerade Thanks for the response. It's been almost a year now and I've really gotten the hang of it. It was just beginner's growing pains haha. I was using Williams shave soap for a long time but it started to irritate my skin so I switched to modern shave gel and have found that it works better with my face, surprisingly. I've gotten that angle figured out and barely get any cuts at all anymore. Usually just a knick or two, which one little poke with a steptic pen and they're taken care of.

@@rickyiglesias5384 Awesome! Good to hear. I'm glad you've figured out a technique that works. Keep it up!

A small dab of Neosporin should do the trick.

LMAO

It's called NAIR, works great

***** No, its actually good for the skin as it causes less ingrown hairs and skin irritation to the skin...but you have to do it properly...lots of videos here to take a look at for wetshaving.

It’s not about how many blades it’s about how sharp the blade is using multiple blades on your face is really bad for your skin

He didn't slice his head off.

he grins and bears it

Dmitry Volkov he had fun shaving and did a good job u must live a stale life my dude

Because he’s beautiful

Because he’s an actor and they told him to smile

Like you, I was also wondering whether shaving one's noggin with this tackle was less likely to result in a smooth head than a visit to A&E. Still a bit hesitant.

Ouh

how sad is your life that you become a shaving snob

@@adamergin956 I've been shaving upwards for 20 years idiot and never had a problem with ingrown hairs.

@@riner9 what's with the cuss words, was i rude to you in the discourse? You must have a neckline like a double pepperoni pizza. Ask any established barber of repute: there are 6 directional sections on the neckline alone, 6 on the cheeks and chin, 2 on the lip. Everyone's grain is different, but there are generic patterns that might be applicable to an individual. Just because you do it one way, doesn't make it gospel. Stupid twat.

@@adamergin956 plenty of people's grain grows upwards on their necks. Many people shave up and many shave down. Your opinions are not facts