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I've been there and tried that. Watched some YouTube vids, got a nice handle and a variety pack of blades.
Safety razor shaving is a completely different beast. And to be honest, it's far from safe. You have to be very careful and take your time to avoid nicks. Even then, there are no guarantees. You can get pretty good at it, but you cannot just speed through it. You must respect the blade as a worthy enemy of your neck.
I went back to disposable cartridges. I sharpen them with a leather strop when they become dull. I typically get about a month per cartridge now. Not as cheap as blade shaving, but with deals I find here, it is well worth it to use disposable cartridges. Stropping also has saved me from having to trash defective new cartridges, like those someone mentioned getting. It can happen.
Once my blades dull/tug, I strop. I usually get a couple or three shaves between stropping. I shave WTG (with the grain) first pass, then ATG (against the grain). Some also throw in a sideways pass between those. I stopped bothering with that. I sometimes use a diagonal AGT pass if I want to get a super close shave, though. Necks are tricky to safely make a sideways (horizontal) pass, even with cartridges. Cheeks are never an issue with any type or direction of shaving for me.
Before I got the strop, I used a swatch cut from some old denim jeans. Got that tip here years ago. That was cheaper, but I prefer the results of a dedicated leather strop. And before you laugh, it has been shown on YouTube that denim works to improve the sharpness.
I prefer 3-blade cartridges. They do not clog up, unlike most 4-blade (or more) cartridges. Those are harder to rinse out/unclog.
I preheat my face, neck, and cartridge with hot water before shaving and reheat the blade while rinsing, after each section.
One thing I can never go back to is electric shavers. They never get close enough for me. I was damaging my shirt collars. Never having a smooth enough shave got expensive when my job required wearing a tie.
-Guy w very thick coarse beard hair.
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I've had the exact same experience. Amazon can be inconsistent in quality of Gillette Fusion blades. Not sure what's going on. Might be fakes. I have just resorted to paying a bit more money at Costco to not worry about it.
Check carefully. It's often replaced with fake AliExpress ones to the point I only buy in store. Tired of returning multiple times hoping to get an authentic
They last 3 shaves before they pull all my hair out, and I don't have thick facial hair at all.
Might just drop the coin on a costco mega pack.
I think it's more likely that the quality has decreased from Gillette over the years than people are receiving fakes when Sold by/Shipped by Amazon. But I dunno.
I went on Badger&Blade and Reddit and tried different techniques, prep, etc. I still have that stuff and can get an okay shave with a lot of time, but I always have either a very irritated neck or it's simply not a very close shave. I may still buy a Merkur or something one day as I'm always willing to give something else a shot, but multiblade cartridges just work for me, with almost any kind of shaving cream - the great soaps and creams were the best thing to come out of that exploration, IMO.
So I appreciate the people saying you can save money with DE blades, because it WILL work for SOME people, but for many it's just not a good experience. Shaving seems like the ultimate YMMV to me.
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The decline in quality is probably a type of "shrinkflation" on gillete's part. They want the razors to last for a shorter period of time because they are cheaper to make and you have to buy more frequently.
https://thecounterfeitr
Amazon has had a problem for DECADES with fake razor blades. I bought from them once and never again.
Or, you could, you know, run it under hot water in between strokes.
Not as convenient. If you have the money, it saves time and water
Works great if you have no hair
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