Museums have started making their collections available online. And as I was browsing digitalmuseum.no – a common digital platform for a lot of Norwegian museums – I ran across a nice and simple wedge razor. Always a sucker for shaving oddities, I poked around a bit more.
Continue readingRazor: Mergress “Bling”
Blade: Perma-sharp Super Stainless
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Pereira Sample
Aftershave: Proraso Liquid Cream After Shave
Additional Care: Alum Block & Barbossa Organic Sandalwood Beard Oil
The more things change, the more they stay the same… like bad ties, razors are a recurring suggested ideal gift for the man or father in your life. So it is today, so it was in 1959, and so it was in war torn 1941.
Continue readingRazor: Mergress “Bling”
Blade: Perma-sharp Super Stainless
Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Pereira Shavery Orange Blossom w/ activated charcoal
Aftershave: Proraso Wood and Spice
Additional Care: Alum Block
As the sharp eyed reader probably have noticed, Gifts&Care were selling a solidarity advent calendar this year to raise money and awareness for the ongoing volcanic eruption at La Palma.
Luckily – and none too soon – that the La Palma volcano eruption was declared over on the 25th December 2021. There is still a need to support the people of La Palma – while no lives have been lost as far as I know, more than thirteen hundred houses have been destroyed in addition to churches, schools, clinics and other infrastructure have been destroyed and needs rebuilding.
Since the start of the month I’ve shared the daily prices and surprises in the calendar I gotten with you. And now it is time to look at the whole pile all at once!
Continue readingGifts&Care are selling a solidarity advent calendar this year to raise money and awareness for the ongoing just ended volcanic eruption at La Palma. Let’s see what is in the twenty-fifth bag!
Gifts&Care are selling a solidarity advent calendar this year to raise money and awareness for the ongoing volcanic eruption at La Palma. Let’s see what is in the twenty-fourth bag!
Continue readingNorwegians, being a sensible people, have the big Yuletime celebration on Christmas Eve. So before I eat myself into a food coma and opens presents with my family, allow me to wish you all the very best for the midwinter holiday – or midsummer, for those south of the equator – with this Australian 1959 Gillette Christmas commercial:
Continue readingRazor: Tatara Masamune
Blade: Shark Super Chrome
Brush: Vie-Long #12705B
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Colonia
Aftershave: Proraso Wood and Spice
Additional Care: Alum Block & Oak SOS Beard Oil
Gifts&Care are selling a solidarity advent calendar this year to raise money and awareness for the ongoing volcanic eruption at La Palma. Let’s see what is in the twenty-third bag!
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