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[–]Jesus-Christ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The Nivea cream is total crap and burns the living hell out of my skin, it's an Edwin Jagger razor but I've only used it a handful of times. I ended up just growing the beard so all of my safety razor stuff is kind of redundant now. I love Arko too, especially the smell of it. The brush was the last thing I had bought, it started to split after only a few uses. It's only synthetic, nothing fancy. My fave blades are the feather blades, Astras irritate my skin too much for some reason. I have bitch skin unfortunately. Runs in the family.

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Even with a beard right now I still use my safety razor for keeping my neck trimmed. It can also remove a full beard pretty easily without trimming it first, which is neat.

I have bitch skin unfortunately

That's why I use a safety razor, everything else irritates my face, even electric razors.

[–]Jesus-Christ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I just use an electric trimmer for my neck line, if my beard was shorter I'd probably continue to use a safety razor but I never liked to use it when it came to lining the beard up because it always felt clunky, and the edwin jagger is actually fairly small. I preferred to use a straight razor for lining up but I stopped doing it a while ago. Yah I've shaved a full beard using a safety razor before. I could never get the hang of shaving against the grain on my neck though. Do you line the cheek lines as well? I used to do that too but now I just keep a natural cheek line.

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Yeah I trim my cheek line, my hair there is light.