Beginner How to Wet Shave with a Double Edge (DE) Safety Razor
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Hello everyone! Looking to get started wet shaving or to learn a few techniques to improve your shaving experience, this video is for you! Special Thanks to Mantic59 for your dedication to wet shaving education!
#wetshaving #shaving #safetyrazor #doubleedgerazor #shavelikeyourgrandpa #razoremporium
Matt demonstrates several double edged techniques you need to know for your smoothest wet shave yet :)
1. Gillette Slide
2. Skin Stretching
3. Grain Mapping
4. J Hook (Thank you Mantic59!)
5. Bullfrog
6. Blade Buffing
Please Comment Below and let us know your favorite Double Edged technique!
Found a wealth of helpful information in this video. After nearly 50 years of twin edge cartridge shaving, your videos convinced me to try safety razor shaving, starting with the Parker semi-slant. What an amazing difference! After only a couple tries, I'm getting the smoothest shaves of my life. Thank you, Matt, for all the informative videos. Please keep 'em coming!!
I did my first safety razor shave tonight and I did a decent job. It's a new thing to learn that takes practice. I have lots of practice ahead of me. It is an art. Thanks for this tutorial! It really helped!
Scott- thank you that was exactly my intention behind it! Thank you!!
Good to have the basic principles in mind from the start, with the individual needing time to find what their particular needs will be, towards that perfect shave!
Looking good, Matt, as usual! Good to see a short video that explains in working detail many of the concepts and actions taken to achieve a good DE shave. While I've used these techniques [and others] I'll see questions often as to what this or that means, or asking for how-tos. I was using a few before anyone gave them 'official' names simply because during decades of wet shaving I've tried change-ups, especially on my chin with thin/tight/curved areas being problematic and my neck being both sensitive and one side growing in crop-circle patterns. This video sums it up nicely, in just over 10 minutes too. Excellent!
Awesome vid i have just started useing a double edge razor and I love it and I stared useing proraso shaveing soap and I really like that as well
I guess it's something that I learned when I was in the military. Any stubble is unacceptable. I have to shave against the grain. If I don't, I look as if I need to shave within a matter of just a few hours. Way before that so called, "5 O'clock", shadow is supposed to appear. I can use the sharpest blade around like a "Feather" and I still need to re-lather and go back against the grain. Avoiding excessive pressure is a must to avoid razor burn, though, especially in the neck region. I guess being of Southern European descent doesn't help matters much, either. Thanks for taking the time to make this video. All of the best.
when i was in the air force the made me shave twice a day..and being italian american, I have that thick dark stubble.
Good video. A couple of these techniques could possibly improve my shaves, and a couple of others I already use, or use techniques that are similar. You are helping me keep an open mind after being in somewhat of a rut, as some of my techniques work well, and others need improving.
Awesome Matt ! Thank you !
Very good video. I'll be sharing this to my DE newbie friends.
Thanks for the lesson and tips. Looking forward to stopping paying thru the nose for Gillete mach lll
Nice video Matt! Good tips and explanations.... btw, I got my package of RR tripleX and RE/HTGAM shaving sticks last week and everything has been great!
Thanks,
Joe
Hi, great video! I've just started using a safety razor, though it still tugs at my skin even with a brand new blade. Any advice? Thanks.
Hi Matt. I’m tall (6’7”) and slim like you. I have big trouble around my Adams apple. I see that I’m not stretching my skin enough. I believe I’m using too much pressure. I carry a large beard but I keep it sharp and I shave above and below. Thanks for the video.
I have a mole under my chin . Sometimes I cut it . ( I am still learning ) now I use the cartridge razer over that spot . What do you think I should do ? Try to learn to go over it with the safety razer ? Thanks .
It looks like I got into a knife fight
I'm going to try that bull frog technique next time I shave. Being a larger gentleman I find it harder to stretch that skin and that just might be the ticket. Also you forgot to mention even blade exposure on both side of the razor.
Agreed! Getting the blade even on both sides is something that needs to be mentioned. Also, how tight to tighten your razor needs to be mentioned!
I usually find tht when i shave after 48 to 50 hours.....shave is comfortable.....but if i try daily with my parker 95r.....theres a rough feeling after shave...i prep using steam and hot water...any suggestions as to how i can improve
I can never get bbs under the jowls, I will try the bullfrog.
first stop: take off your tee shirt
Great video! He has probably done it, but I will say I wasn't shaving until I have whacked my goatie...that is the hardest part to get BBS and a challenge whereas my cheek area while think and coarse, was much easier compared to the upper lip and chin.
As the old straight razor or DE´s from my great grand father and grandfathers and my dad are lost or thrown out since grandfathers incl my dad switched to electric....i couldn´t get it for free the DE i did however found a cheap Wilkinson sword classic
Great video Matt. You're like the Bob Ross (famous paint-by-numbers guy) of wet shaving.
I did one pass but face feels like sandpaper maybe I need to try 2 passes. First time DE shaver I had one tiny tiny knick so I'm proud
Watching this while being a passenger. I was trying holding my phone so still. I might stumble or move him accidentally and hurt him. LOL
New drinking game. Take a drink every time he says lather. 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
Im new at this DE shaving thing so far its been real bad i dont know what im doing wrong but you got one nick me after shaving i look like hellraiser took out his pins nicks and cuts mostly on the neck area also i cant get to lather either soap or cream im very frustrated please help i dont want to give up and go back to cartridge i suffer from bumps and lots of skin irritation
Same u fix it ?
Hi Matt - 👋 I have a vintage DE Gillette razor and I bought the beginner pack of blades. I was advised by other women that they work great for them but I'm having trouble with getting a close shave. I think I might need a higher quality lather. Can you advise on any that are in a less masculine or neutral scent ? Or do you think maybe they're not ideal for body hair?
I appreciate any advice you can give !
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Would you say that males born in the q9e0's, 1940's 0r 1950's were a bit more knowledgeable in the use of safety razor?
That was a wonderful presentation, thank you! Could you please let me know whether engraving my name on a chrome finish brass razor( like the ones manufactured by Parker) with an engraving pen as available on Amazon, harm the razor in any manner? Thanks and regards, Dr. Basu( India)
If you penetrate the chrome finish, you will likely get chrome peeling and flaking off in the surrounding area. And the brass will corrode over time. Bad idea.
@@RazorEmporium I guessed as much. Thank you so much for your prompt reply. ❤️
Didn't know Will Wheaton had a shaving channel
I was expecting a 25 question test at the end😀
What does he mean by “pre-shave rountine of some type”? Pre-shaving with different razor or just the wash your face is the pre-shave.
I know this was four years ago, but it's worth saying. Pre-shave routine basically just means washing your face, filling your sink with warm water, and the like.
Enjoyability
Ah, if only my beard hair wasn't evil, it takes 3 passes to get mostly smooth and I've blunted 3 feather blades significantly with just doing the first downwards pass. At least I've found how to avoid most shaving zits and the blind zits that plagued me in my cartridge razor days with moisturising.
Wow! So little shave cream, so much lather.
You remind me of Switek from Miami Vice.
How FAR we’ve come, “Obi Wan.”
How far we’ve come. 😔🙏🏼☺️
You ever use shave oil?
Eh they always just clog up my razor with adding little more slickness than a good pre shave soap
Is that a Gillette Slide? It should be a horizontal blade shaving at an angle, no?
Likely
You remind me of a poor man's Adam Scott. In a good way.
He reminds me of Wil Wheaton from The Big Bang Theory
Nice
You missed a big spot in the centre of your face
"most of the quadrant of my upper neck"...lol, that just sounds overly scientific for a shaving instructional video...no disrespect intended, thanks for the vid!
I followed the instructions in this video and ended up loosing more blood than the last time I donated to the Red Cross.
😂 if that's the case then you're not being gentle enough & it's normal to get cut a few times while learning plus some of these techniques should be reserved until your proficient with the down stroke. 🤘🏼
I only do 1 pass as a second I start to feel a bit of razor burn
What blades or cream/soap do you use? Using a cheap or bad brand blade with ruin your face. And definitely check out preshaves if you haven’t
A tutorial that does the first step off camera
This was long ago.....
lol mushels,
Why the he@&&& would you tell a beginner to do a j hook? Good way to need stitches.
🤷♂️ not always
How long have you been gay? Scooping your soap to create lather....really?!