Thursday... pleasant - SOTD

Once again I reached for the Fat Boy, having had such a good shave with it yesterday.

My prep, if I haven't mentioned in an earlier post, has become wetting my face and applying a thick layer of the Proraso Pre/Post shaving cream before getting into the shower. I try to let it sit on my beard for as long as possible and will sometimes brush my teeth after applying it, but before getting into the shower. Once I get out of the shower, I don't dry my face with the towel and then wet it some more after I finish drying my body off. I then put more Proraso cream on, but much more diluted than before getting in the shower. I let that sit on my beard while I make my lather, then I slap the lather over the cream on my face. While this is sitting on there, I start to get all my shaving gear out and ready... so hopefully it sits on my face about two minutes.

Starting my shave, I really like the Fat Boy! This time, like last time, I tried to make sure I was using proper blade angle... almost faulting on the side of the blade not even touching my face. However, I feel like the adjustment of the blade set at 2 is not aggressive enough, and I fear this is making me apply more pressure than I should. I did not adjust the blade this time, but next time I may set it to 3 and see if I feel okay with almost no pressure. With this said, the shave was wonderful again... in fact, it was so wonderful that I (being as impatient as I am) decided I could try against the grain in some areas. I may have gotten just a tad over zealous trying this so close to my last incident, but all in all it went VERY well!! Honestly, I had several weepers in one area, but nothing like I've had in the past from using the Vision with the Merkur blade and not even trying to go ATG!! So, in my book, this shave was a total success!

I am thinking, for the time being, the Fat Boy is my go to razor and the only thing I'm going to use for a while. I may adjust the blade to 3 to see what effect that has, but I want to get some solid shaves under my belt before trying more blades in this razor. So far, I am very pleased with the Personna. I see a lot of people saying that they can get them at Walmart, but I don't think my local Walmart carries them. :-( We'll see. Besides... there may be much better blades out there for me once my technique is solid. ;-)

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I forgot to mention my equipment list. It was essentially identical to Wednesday's list with the addition of the Alum Block for the weepers, but the Proraso Post-shave application still went very well. I think the key was thoroughly rinsing my face after the alum and making sure my beard area was very wet before applying only a small amount of the Proraso cream.