Shave of the day 29th November 2024

  • Razor: Ever Ready 1914
  • Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless
  • Brush: Vie-Long #13051M
  • Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
  • Lather: CRSW Glide Morning Ghost
  • Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
  • Additional Care: Alum Block

Are disposable razors bad for the environment?

A repost for the enjoyment of new readers.

A little while ago I stumbled over an article asking the question: “How bad are disposable razors for the environment?

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Shave of the day 27th November 2024

  • Razor: Ever Ready 1914
  • Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless
  • Brush: Omega #10048
  • Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
  • Lather: CRSW Glide Morning Ghost
  • Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
  • Additional Care: Alum Block

Selecting the Shaving Outfit – 1905 vs 2024

A repost for the enjoyment of new readers.

The public domain book “Shaving made Easy” have a short chapter on selecting your shaving outfit. This is the original text and my annotations and comments:

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Shave of the day 25th November 2024

  • Razor: Ever Ready 1914
  • Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless
  • Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
  • Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
  • Lather: CRSW Glide Morning Ghost
  • Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
  • Additional Care: Alum Block

Shave of the day 22nd November 2024

  • Razor: GEM 1912
  • Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless
  • Brush: Brush Experimental Alpha
  • Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
  • Lather: CRSW Glide Morning Ghost
  • Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
  • Additional Care: Alum Block

Walled gardens, and how they apply to shaving

A repost from five years ago for the enjoyment of new readers

A lot of modern shave gear can be seen as part of a walled garden; a term most often used around computers that describe a closed platform where a single entity (provider) has control over applications, content, and media, and restricts convenient access to non-approved applications or content.

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Shave of the day 20th November 2024

  • Razor: GEM 1912
  • Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless
  • Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn
  • Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
  • Lather: CRSW Glide Morning Ghost
  • Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
  • Additional Care: Alum Block
SOTD 2024 11 20

Just a short PSA

I realised I haven’t been on Twitter in a long time, since it has been turning into a cesspool after it was bought and renamed.

So I decided to ditch it completely, deactivating my account.

This is how Twitter feels to me now (AI generated image, feel free to use)

After all, Reddit, Tumblr, Mastedon, Lemmy, and Bluesky ought to be enough – in addition to my blog, of course

The Village Barber

Possible a little out of the ordinary for this blog, but it made me smile when I found it.

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