- 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
Monthly Archives: November 2024
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?”
Continue readingShave 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:
Continue readingShave 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.
Continue readingShave 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
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.
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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