How To Give Yourself An Old Fashioned Barber Shave

So, today, I'll be showing you how to do an old-fashioned barber shave. So, today, we're going to need a straight razor, a shaving brush, shaving foam and a bowl to mix it in. So I have my customer here and he's sitting in this chair, I've reclined it so as to give a nice angle.

So when I push up here, there is plenty to be nice and taut. So I have plenty of angles to work with. So, now, I'm going to put a hot towel on and this is just going to open the pores and really soften the bristles as well.

If you're shaving at home, you probably won't need to do this. The best time to shave is generally when you come out of a shower. So, hot towels going on.

Now, I'm just putting some of the shaving cream in a bowl just so I can use the brush. So, I've just put some shaving cream into the bowl, so now obviously, I'm just going to use a brush to lather it up, and to apply it on to the customer's face. So, after I've initially put it on, I'm putting round circular movements which will again raise the hairs away from the skin, and really make this a lot, lot thicker.

So, I'm just going to turn the customers head to the side. I'm going to pull up with my thumb to get a nice tension on the skin. I'm taking, trying to take nice long strokes.

Really stretch the skin as well. Stretching the skin is very, very, very important when you're shaving. So, now that I've done the cheek, I'm going to pull the skin again and come in side angles and I've reversed the blade, changed the angle of the blade, still, still at thirty degrees, and push along towards his chin.

Again, so I'm coming underneath. Stretching the skin always, it's important throughout the shave that you don't press too heavy. The blade is sharp, so a nice light touch is applied.

So I'm not pushing the blade, I'm letting the blade do most of the work here. So I'm picking the nose up from here, and gently just shaving down, very carefully for this bit here. So, again, stretching the skin, just so I can just pull it across, so I can complete the front of his chin.

Over here, we have to work, cut with, even though this is moving slightly against the grain. So I'll be holding his chin as tightly as I can and moving the blade upwards. Everyone has different kinds of lips and some of this won't work.

Position for everybody. You may have to stretch this way, pull this way, or work at slightly different angles. So, from the chin here, I'm using the blade, instead of forehand, I'm changing it to backhand, and moving the blade down towards his neck.

So, for the last piece, I will be stretching the skin again. The customer's hair grows up as with a lot of men, so the hair growth has gone upwards, so I'll be shaving upwards, just along with the hair growth. So I'm shaving with the grain all the time with this customer.

So I'm stretching the skin from the bottom with my one finger holding the bottom of the neck, and one finger holding the top. And again, as I've said before, very light strokes, especially around the neck. So, now, we've completed the shave, I'll be putting just a little bit of the moisturizer and cooling lotion, this is a two in one, just for any sensitive skin and to really moisturize the skin after you shave.

And that is how you give yourself an old fashioned barber shave. .