Hey guys! Just started two about a week ago.

As I said above, I just started wet shaving with a DE razor about a week ago. I signed up for the Wet Shave Club monthly subscription. Is anyone else doing this? For $20 I got a DE razor(3 piece), 2 different five packs of blades, 3 different sample size soap pucks, and a brush. I thought it was a fantastic deal to give wet shaving a try!

The first week has been a little trial and error, but that was expected. I don't think I will ever go back to the cartridge style razors.

A little about me, I'm 27 and currently in the army national guard. Trying to get some of my buddies into it as well, I have gotten one to switch over already.

Anyways, just wanted to say hello to the group. Seems like there is plenty of good information in here and lots of good people!

 

Welcome rk923! Thank you for serving and do be an evangelist for DE shaving. We need more in our cult!

 

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Here is the advice I received when I started with a DE and so I freely give it to new users. The most important things in shaving are, your skin and technique. All other things fall in line behind those two things and to support them. Since the skin is a given fixed item, the next major item is technique. It is called THE 30 DAY RULE.

THE 30 DAY RULE is as follows: Find a razor, then a blade that will not cause issues with your skin (that may take a few different blades in a sampler pack to find a suitable choice or it maybe the first out of the gate) and select a soap or cream that is easy to generate good lather. Once you find those, and it may take a couple of weeks to find this combination, order a quantity of that blade, enough for 30 days, and then spend 30 days using nothing else until you build up your technique. (Note that only one brand blade is used for 30 days after each blade in the sampler pack is tested to make the decision on the blade brand to use for 30 days.) The 30 day clock starts when you have the right blade for you.

After 30 days, change one and only one variable and work for another week then change another after another week. At that point you should be able to make better decisions because your technique is now in place.

This will help you to avoid buying too much gear and stuff too soon without having the technique down to enjoy it all.

Cheers.



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Welcome and nice to have you on-board. Never heard of the wet shave club, but just looked them up and from the pics it looks like you get a VDH boar brush and a Weishi TTO. Not a bad start for $20.00 but trust me you'll be upgrading soon and starting a whole collection of razors, brushes, etc. That's just the nature of the beast

Edit: just realized your post said 3 piece so definitely not a TTO as I thought it appeared to be in their pic

 

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Welcome to the group, I am also new here but I can tell you there are a lot of helpful members here that have acquired a wealth of knowledge and freely share it with us newbies and that my friend is priceless !!

 

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Welcome, nice to have you here.

I'm a guardsman too, what is your MOS?

 

15P, Aviation Operations Specialist. Working in getting my packet together to go warrant and get into flight school flying rotary wing. What is your MOS? What state?

 

Hey and welcome. I hope you enjoy it here, I know I do =)

 

13D- Field Artillery Fire Direction Control. TX but I enlisted in IL. Good luck at WOC school, I ETS next year.

 

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