Who knew shaving was such a tricky operation in the days before the safety razors?
Made in 1905 and directed by Segundo de Chomón – whom the internet tells me was a pioneering Spanish film director, cinematographer and screenwriter.
Razor: Schick Type A
Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Pre-Shave: Prep Original
Lather: GzD Shavestick
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A wonderful Wednesday shave, with a magazine repeating razor, the first LE brush from The ‘Nook, and the remains of a Turkish shavestick pressed into a puck.
Razor: Schick Type A Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Flying Mango
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Another week and another shave, this time with the first model Schick.
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
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 readingWho 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 readingRazor: 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?
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.
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 readingRazor: 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.