Razor: Schick Type B2
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Vie-Long #12705B
Pre-Shave: Prep Original
Lather: Pereira Experimental Sample
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Shave of the day 15th September 2023
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Monthly Archives: September 2023
It is possible!
I bought a small tube of O Way Softening Shaving Cream in the before-time, in the long, long ago… well, before the pandemic at least.
Summer of twenty seventeen, to be exact.
Which is, when you come down to it, about six years ago.
Continue readingShave of the day 13th September 2023
Razor: Schick Type B2
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Vie-Long #14033
Pre-Shave: Prep Original
Lather: Pereira Experimental Sample
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Spherical razor
Who says a razor blade have to be flat? What if it was a segment of a sphere, with four or more cutting edges? The blade would in effect be a self contained spherical razor.
I mean, there is a couple of glaring problems with the idea, but even so. It isn’t the first all edge and no point razor we’ve looked at.
Continue readingShave of the day 11th September 2023
Razor: Schick Type B2
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Vie-Long #13051M
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Pereira Shaving Soap Powder
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Been a while since I last used Pereira’s powder soap, so I figured why not on a misty Monday?
Shave of the day 8th September 2023
Razor: Schick Type B2
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Wilkinson Sword Badger
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Cold River Soap Works Olfactory Hue
Aftershave: Saponificio Varesino Tundra Artica
Additional Care: Alum Block
Another fine Friday shave with an Holy Grail razor.
A magical adventure for your face!
I find that playing around with AI – and large language models in particular – can be fun. And as long as you know to take everything they generate with a trainload or ten of salt, they can be useful too. Like when I asked ChatGPT to explain traditional wetshaving to me as if I was five years old… and was told that traditional wetshaving was a magical adventure for my face.
Continue readingShave of the day 6th September 2023
Razor: Schick Type B2
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Omega #10048
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Proraso Menthol & Eucalyptus
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A mild midweek shave with the Holy Grail.
Barbers – a 1959 informative movie
If attractive people are the leaders of society, then barbers and beauticians are the molders of leaders.
This film shows the jobs of a hairstylist, a barber and a beautician and the transformation of an entire family. The father takes his son to the barber shop at the same time that the mother takes the daughter to the beauty salon. Also shown are women receiving manicures and facials.
Continue readingShave of the day 4th September 2023
Razor: Schick Type B2
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Pre-Shave: O Way Softening Shaving Cream
Lather: Mike’s Natural Soaps Peppermint & Rosemary
Aftershave: Myrsol Aqua Balsamica
Additional Care: Alum Block
It is time for one of the Holy Grail razor again. Makes a Monday shave even better!