I had to improvise that night and use one of my mom's unused makeup brushes to lather the soap. Then I remembered I forgot to order a shaving brush. I remember coming home from school and being excited like a kid on Christmas because my packages had arrived and I was finally about to have my first wet shave.
Months later I ordered a bottle of Aqua Velva and a tub of Proraso shaving soap. For a while I used my Van der hagen and a can of shaving cream. I ended up buying it because it brought back the memories of me watching those youtubers.
Well one day I was out shopping at my local "Kroger" grocery store, and I came across the "Van Der Hagen" safety razor. after a while of watching those youtubers, I was persuaded into the desire of wetshaving, but I always put it on the back burner. at the time I never knew the name for a safety razor, so for a long time I called it a "metal razor" fast forward some years later I ran into youtube channels such as "kensurfs" "Kevyshaves" "Paul H Films" and others.
that razor happened to be a 50s Gillette bluetip. I remember watching some video on youtube yeaars ago, ( I don't remember the name of the video) but I distinctively remember it was some guy who looked like he was a teenager in that video talking about a safety razor he had that was previously his grandfather's. I bought a safety razor, blades, a brush, and never looked back. Not only that, but double-edge blades were dirt cheap online, and the razors were only $35. Good fooking grief! Talk about sticker shock! Then I remembered the posts about traditional wetshaving.ĭoing a little research, and looking in the Art of Shaving store, revealed that safety razors were every bit as cool looking as the fancy Gillette handle. What the hey, it was $150! Then I looked at the price of the Fusion cartridges, something like $25 for five. It was a Gillette special edition, and I went back to buy it a few days later.
KEN SURFS SHAVE VIDEO WINDOWS
This time, however, I noticed an uber-cool looking cartridge razor in the windows display. Other than noting it was quite upscale looking, I never really given it a second thought before. Holy freakin' cow! What an amazing eye opener.Īt about the same time, I walked by an Art of Shaving store in a local mall. When I asked a nearby clerk how well KMF worked, he said "It gives the slickest shaves ever." Trying it with the new cartridges gave shaves that were absolutely baby bottom smooth every single time. Canned gel was getting expensive, and I was looking for a less pricey alternative. About a week later, I noticed Kiss My Face shaving cream at the local Whole Foods. These cartridges gave much better shaves than any cartridge I had ever used. Several months later, I read another thread on the same topic.įast forward a year to 2007, I bought some store brand Trac II cartridges from Longs Drugs. I didn't give it a second thought at the time. I read a post extolling traditional wetshaving in the "off topic" sub-forum on a fountain pen forum. My discovery of traditional wetshaving was completely by accident.
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